Feed Support
- RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0
- ATOM 0.3, ATOM 1.0
- Podcast support
- Update your feeds on a scheduled basis
Subscription
- Wizard based subscriptioninterface
- Preview a feed before subscribing
- Categorize feeds based on similar subjects
- Associate images with certain feeds
- Subscribe directly from the embedded Web browser with RSS autodiscovery
- Drag and drop RSS links directly from your Web browser directly to NewsSeeker
- Supports feed: and newsseeker: URL protocols for links directly within your favorite web browser software
Embedded Web Browser
- Embedded Web browser to view news articles directly in NewsSeeker
- Automatically detects news feeds associated to a Web page and allows you to subscribe
- Generate and print a news feed summary in a newspaper view
Searching
- Search your feeds based on keywords
- Save your searches as Smart Feeds to quickly view all articles based on keywords
- Find new RSS and ATOM feeds to subscribe to directly from NewsSeeker using NewsSeeker RSS Search, Windows Live, Google, Ask and more
- Display all articles with associated files, all unread articles and flagged articles
Tools
- Create a custom RSS feed based on searches, categories, views in NewsSeeker and save them to your computer or upload them via FTP directly to your website
- Import and export your feed list to the Windows RSS Platform
- Import and export your feed list in RSS, OPML and CSV formats
- Download files associated with a news article
- Drag and drop support for moving categories
- Publish news excerpts directly to your Wordpress or Google Blogger weblog
- Unread news headline counts are shown next to a feed, you'll be able to quickly see which feeds have unread headlines.
Podcasts
- Download Podcasts to a directory of your choice, this could be your media player
- Listen to Podcasts directly from within NewsSeeker with Windows Media Player support
Interface
- NewsSeeker uses a ribbon interface inspired by Office 2007 and NewsSeeker is an Official Office 2007 UI Licensee
Take a look at just some of the features NewsSeeker has to offer with these screnshots.
Navigation down the left handside, news headlines in the middle top and an embedded web browser at the bottom
NewsSeeker contains an embedded web browser complete with automatic feed detection
On the left of the main window is the navigation. Feeds can be categorised into folders, and you can also create smart feeds and an alphabetical listing
When you select an option from the navigation pane the headline viewer will automatically update to show you the latest headlines from that listing. Simply click on the headline to see the story associated with it
These are special types of categories that allow you to view headlines based on keywords, whether they have files associated with them, like Podcasts, unread, flagged, etc
The Feed Subscription Wizard makes adding new RSS or Atom feeds simple.
Subscribe to a new feed through feed:// protocol, subscribing manually, through Firefox or by using the embedded Web browser. The subscription wizard contains a live preview of the feed before actually subscribing
Based on that used in the Office 2007 range, and licensed from Microsoft, NewsSeeker contains a ribbon toolbar for ease of access to all the major functions
Download and view files associated with headlines (enclosures or Podcasts)
Check for new headlines all at once, on a scheduled basis or individually
The NewsSeeker Application Menu gives access to the most important commands such as subscribing or preferences
Import from and Export to the Windows RSS Platform that comes with Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007 Windows Vista
Import from and export in RSS, OPML and CSV formats
Automatically keep NewsSeeker up to date
Automatically get informed of new headlines even if NewsSeeker is running in the background
Choose which headlines to include in an update all
Create your own RSS feed based on the currently displayed headlines. Save it to a file, copy it to the clipboard or even upload it to your website by FTP
Highly customisable through the options dialog, available from the Application menu
View headlines in a newspaper format
You can publish any entry to your Wordpress or Google Blogger weblog directly from NewsSeeker.
Built in feed search using NewsSeeker's own web site, powered by Windows Live search
NewsSeeker is by default associated to the feed: protocol in your web browser
NewsSeeker allows drag and drop re-categorising of feeds. Also drag and drop an rss feed url from your browser to NewsSeeker and it will subscribe to it.
