IE7 RSS Add-On
IE7 has a plug-in called ‘Feeds Plus’ that, according to the IE folks, “…makes your feed reading experience easy and efficient.” Here is the dislaimer, “This add on was developed by members of the IE RSS team at Microsoft. Note that Feeds Plus is not an official product and hence is not supported by Microsoft.”
Here’s what a screen looks like:
The point is that you can group your feeds into folders and then read them all by just opening the folder you want. The developers call this a ‘combined view’.
What you need to install this is IE7 and Windows XP / 2003 / Vista. So, Vista isn’t a requirement.
I just installed IE7 (but I believe it will take more than this to get me to switch from FireFox) and will be checking this to see if I like it better than other aggregators I’m trying. So far, I like Netvibes. Yes, I know it’s a ’start page’ but if that’s what you like, why not? I would venture to say that most people don’t know the difference. It’s a matter of what you like.
I’d like to know if any of you are plainning to try this or if you are already using it, what do you think?
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1 opinion for IE7 RSS Add-On
Toomas Toots
Jan 29, 2007 at 9:53 am
I have not tried this feature out in IE but I’m using it in Feedreader already five years for now. I quite rarely open up my folders to explore individual feeds. It’s because at least in my case it’s not important if I read “news about gadgets” from engadget or techeblog. This also gives me possibility to group duplicate news (feature in Feedreader) in different feeds.
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