RSS Captor

RSS Captor is an application designed to help you centralize all your online news feeds in one place and read them from there.

It’s a surprisingly light software solution that is capable of many things. It allows you to add news feeds with a custom, title, newspaper style and filter. You can set the time interval in which they are checked and even play a specific sound when a new article is published.

In case your reading habits extend beyond the predefined business, news, software, sports and technology categories, you can add new ones at any time. This enables you to sort your feeds by even the most uncommon categories.

The news feeds are displayed in an easy to access list in the main window of the application. Alongside them, you can see the total number of articles and how many are unread. Clicking on a source opens up two sections. One that displays the titles for all the articles and one that contains the articles themselves. A bit of a bother with RSS Captor is that, for some reason, when you click to open the article in a new browser window, it tells you that you don’t have one installed, namely Firefox, even if you actually do. The same applies when you want to add a comment to the article.

RSS Captor also allows you to color code articles by their importance or any other criteria you think of. Moreover, you can add them to newsbins for safekeeping so you can share them when the time is right. If by any chance you memorize a section of an article but can’t recall its source, the application provides a search function that can locate words and expressions in all the RSS feeds or just the ones you select.

In closing, RSS Captor is a nice reader that can certainly keep you up-to-date with all your news feeds.