fogleman / Feednotifier

Feed Notifier is a Windows application that resides in the system tray and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds.

Feed Notifier is for you if you want a news aggregator that focuses on real-time feed notifications and leaves out all the other stuff that comes with most news readers.

• Supports all common RSS and Atom web feed protocols.
• Clean look and feel, doesn’t get in your way.
• Configurable polling interval for each feed.
• Configurable popup duration.
• Configurable popup size, position and transparency.
• Configurable popup border size and color.
• Popups do not steal keyboard or mouse focus from other applications.
• Popups show item age and author.
• Navigation controls in popups to view next/previous items.
• Advanced keyword filtering options.
• Supports launching from Firefox and other browsers via feed:// protocol.
• Supports enabling/disabling individual feeds.
• Deactivates when user is idle to save bandwidth and processing time.
• Supports authenticated feeds that require a username and password.
• Supports using a proxy server.
• Displays favicon for feeds when available.
• Multi-threaded feed polling.