Portable Abilon

The Internet gave birth to social media, which is probably the fastest way to spread news of any kind. What’s more, even news themselves migrated to this information superhighway, with tons of desktop clients like Portable Abilon which can keep you updated with the latest headlines.

Just like the name clearly states, this is the edition of Abilon that doesn’t take you through a setup process, and can even be used on other computers directly from a USB flash drive. What’s more there is no need to worry about affecting the target PC’s health status, since registries are not a dependency.

The first thing that shows up when launching the application is a prompt that gives you the possibility to select from several preset categories, such as entertainment, general news, health, misc news, rolling stone, science, software news, technology, and a few more. You can ignore them and add your own entries by adding the RSS address.

Once the connection is established, you see latest headlines popping up on screen from the tray area, with an audio alert for every new item. There’s enough space to view brief info on the subject, but you can also bring up the main menu to read the whole article, or even navigate to the specific website for media content.

The main window is well organized, and gives you the possibility to add more groups and categories, and even save items of interest under custom memories. There’s no possibility to export headlines to desktop files. However, the application comes with a built-in editor which lets you upload articles on your personal blog by simply filling in credential fields.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Portable Abilon lives up to expectations and provides a comprehensive set of tools and intuitive environment in which to manage all news sources of interest, and receive notification for every update. Various customization options are at your disposal, with an additional component to share via your personal blog.