Researching Opera Blog

I touched on RSS News Aggregators in my last post, but wanted to spotlight a few that I wish to recommend. RSS News Aggregators are able to deliver the information down to your computer, so that you can keep track of which blogs and forums are being updated. Therefore you won't have to visit each one everyday. Also, if you are really lazy, you can even read the entire post in them. The Opera 8.51 browser has a feeds menu to keep track of the feeds you belong to. You can click on the RSS link to subscribe.

I know there are several stand alone RSS News Aggregators on Windows, and I remember Microsoft saying that RSS will be built into the next version, Vista.

On Mac OS X, I am currently trying out Newsfire, but I know there are many others as well.

Lastly Widgets are all the rage.
For Mac OS X Tiger, I recommend the News Reader 1.1 widget (pictured above).
For Windows or older version of Mac OS X, I recommend Konfabulator and the Combarss widget
(Note: To run Konfabulator, you must have Windows 2000 or XP).