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FeedMe! v1.0 Beta by MuseumPods

Freeware

Trying to figure out how to make podcasts?  MuseumPods introduces FeedMe! v1.0 Beta "the opposite of complicated."  Our FREE RSS/Podcast maker automatically generates the RSS Feed necessary to make podcasts.  Just fill in the blanks and upload your files and your podcast is generated - fully iTunes compatible.  The easiest way to make a podcast on the internet.  Give it a try!   Sign-up for a free FeedMe! account

A Cloud Over Danville

eBook

An ominous cloud loomed over Danville, not a cloud created by the coke ovens, but a cloud of complex origin, a cloud that would not leave.  Go back in time to World War I and read or listen to a story of romance, hardship and history.  Included is soft cover version and as a bonus you get all 27 chapters in MP3 audio on CD you can download and listen to the author narrate the entire novel (Windows version 98, 2000, XP, Vista). In 1917, Frank Papalio was a young second-generation Italian struggling to keep the coke embers lit and his cabin warm while barely making a living working for a company that produced coke by burning coal in fiery dome brick ovens near a smoke-shrouded hamlet nestled along the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Follow Frank's adventures as he encounters a seemingly endless procession of obstacles he and his sweetheart, Maria, overcome while pursuing their dream of escaping Danville. Some mild adult content Listen to Chapter one Welcome to Danville Listen to Chapter two Steel Blue Eyes

Snap

Freeware

Maybe not podcast related freeware but we use Snap Shots on MuseumPods and wanted to give them a "plug"  A great product worthy of a look.   The next generation of everything. Snap Shots™ intelligently brings users the right content, at the right place, at the right time, in a convenient shot. Snap Shots enhance links with visual previews of the destination site, including summaries of Wikipedia and IMDb, YouTube videos, stock charts and more. For website users, it’s an enhanced way to surf because links are no longer blind, but a source of information.For website owners, it’s a more engaging way to write and edit by using links as illustrations rather than as diversions Visit Snap Website User rating rate it!

Software Garden

Freeware

User rating rate it! The Software Garden is a FREE program, ListGarden provides a simple tool for podcasters to create and maintain podcast RSS feeds. It also can create a companion HTML page with a human-readable list of shows and links for downloading them for listeners who don't use podcatching software. Software Garden is a great tool for museums to start generating podcasts.  You don't need to be an expert to start making podcasts with Software Garden!

Juice

Freeware

User rating rate it! If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere. Some of the great features: Juice is free - supports more than 15 languages - supports multiple media players - software licensed under the GPL (open source)

Fresh Ram

Shareware

User rating rate it!   Fresh RAM is a great little product.  We use it at MuseumPods to get back needed RAM.  It really does work.  You should try the free trail period and we think you will agree for the inexpensive price it is a wonderful tool.

RSS Feeder

Freeware

User rating rate it! RssReader is a program to read RSS and Atom news feeds. RssReader collect news in the background at user configurable intervals and warn with a little popup in the system tray that there is a new message arrived. You can click the news headline to see a short description of the news and click or open the original news web page in an RssReader browser or default browser window. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for syndicating news. Many news and web log sites support RSS by adding these pictograms as or to their web pages.

iTunes

Freeware

User rating rate it! iTunes is a FREE media software package from Apple.  iTunes really set the "Benchmark" when it comes to podcasting software.  iTunes is the software that allows you to subscribe and listen to podcasts.  You can download iTunes on your PC and start listening to your favorite museum podcast.  Simply copy the podcast RSS Feed into the "podcast subscription" section in iTunes and you will become a "Podcast Guru" before you know it...

Awasu

Freeware

User rating rate it! If you're looking for something to read your favorite blogs and news channels with, Awasu is far and away one of your best choices. It comes with: a modern and fully customizable user interface. individually configurable channels. different ways to let you know when new stuff arrives. quick access to your favorite channels. feed archiving and an advanced search engine.

BlogExpress

Freeware

User rating rate it! BlogExpress is a full-featured .NET application for content syndication (as also called a news aggregator or a blog reader). BlogExpress supports all RSS versions. It can read contents from any Weblogs (a.k.a., blog) and any Websites that provide XML files for content syndication (generally, a file with .rss, .rdf, or .xml extension). BlogExpress is so easy to use. It is carefully designed for high usability. Information readability is one of our primary goals for building this application. Proudly, the result comes out such that you can grab information displayed in BlogExpress faster than other leading content syndication applications in the market.

wTicker

Freeware

User rating rate it! wTicker is an advanced feed aggregator, that comes loaded with many unique features. Besides RSS Feeds, it also supports to gather information from Usenet, Email or even local eventlogs. While loaded with features, this is most certainly a software for more advanced users - the documentation is sparse, and we found it very difficult to figure out the features and concept of the program, which involve custom SQL queries and dozens of configuration options. Using the program as basic RSS feed reader is fairly straightforward though, and includes an optional desktop ticker, as well as keyword alerts, article tags and integrated browser display. Making use of the more advanced feature will require some time and patience.

CITA RSS Aggregator

Freeware

User rating rate it! CITA RSS Aggregator is a RSS feed reader.   It can be used to integrated weather updates for selected cities from the WeatherChannel and be used as an RSS Builder to create RSS feeds.

KlipFolio

Freeware

User rating rate it! Always up-to-date. New information flows in so you don't have to go looking for it. More than just news. KlipFolio displays weather, stocks, photos, lists and more. Easily add and remove content. Get more Klips to add new content and services. Built-in RSS support. Monitor as many RSS feeds as you want with the integrated Feed Viewer. Skinnable. Download skins, change colours, adjust fonts and tweak KlipFolio's size. Small interface. Klips are tiny, so they stay out of your way until you need them. Totally customizable. Set your Klips to get what you want--no more, no less. Multi-language. Full unicode support, in Klips and KlipFolio's interface. Built-in alerts. Set alerts for keywords and new articles and be notified when they appear. Developer-friendly. Klips are easy to build, distribute and use. And KlipFolio's development tools are built right in.

BlogBridge

Freeware

User rating rate it! So you are a real info-junkie - you need to scan through much more information than others. You probably are subscribing to hundreds of information feeds - blogs, data feeds, news feeds, etc. Feeling a bit overwhelmed? Welcome to BlogBridge - the Blog and feed aggregation solution specifically designed for people like you. We will help you organize and sort through vast amounts of information, and we will let you discover stuff that would otherwise be hard to find. Click here to read how we do it!

Newzie

Freeware

User rating rate it! Newzie is a news aggregator, which can be used to monitor RSS and ATOM formatted feeds, as well as normal webpages. It periodically checks your subscriptions and automatically retrieves new content. It then notifies you and presents those updates. While keeping you up-to-date with latest news, Newzie also saves your time by making things automated and easy-to-reach.

Doppler

Freeware

User rating rate it! Doppler is a podcast aggregator. It’s a tool to subscribe to RSS feeds which supply downloadable files. Doppler will go out and fetch the files enclosed in the RSS feed and will automatically add them to your preferred media player. And it does this in a very smooth unattended manner. It’s simple! Really.

SharpReader

Freeware

User rating rate it! Main features Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc. Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion. SharpReader detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments (for feeds supporting the <wfw:commentrss> standard). Group subscribed feeds into custom categories. Feed settings like refresh-rate and purge timeout can be set per feed or per category. Category-wide settings apply to all feeds in that category that are still set to "Default" for the setting in question. Dialog-less way of subscribing to new feeds - just drag a link from your browser into SharpReader, or enter the url into the address-bar at the top. Feedster integration to easily search weblogs and newssites for specific terms, and even subscribe to such a search to be notified of new results. Support for proxy-servers and proxy authentication. Reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding. Minimizes to the system-tray. Systray popup when new items arrive (can be disabled on a per-feed or per-category basis through the properties pane). Easy keyboard navigation to go the next or previous unread item. Import and export your subscriptions using OPML. Filter items. International Character-set support. HTTP Authentication support.

HoverNews

Freeware

User rating rate it! HoverNews is a small news grabbing application created to interface with custom backend files, RSS and RDF feeds as well as parsing the HTML of any website. HoverNews will scroll the headlines from your favorite website so that you can be kept updated with a variety of news. Some of the websites that HoverNews works with are DeviantART, CNN, ABCNews, Slashdot, kuro5hin and more. The program supports skins.

FeedExpress

Freeware

User rating rate it! Version 0.0.1.247 released (01/31-2003) FeedExpress is a freeware and OpenSource (LGPL license) RSS feed reader. FeedExpress basically lets you subscribe to several RSS/RDF sources, known as Subscriptions in FeedExpress, in the same way that Outlook Express lets you subscribe to several news groups. FeedExpress caches and indexes all the feeds for each RSS subscription, making it easy to overview all your feeds. FeedExpress is currently released in a beta version, which doesn't have all the features that the final version will have. Features in the current version: Supports reading RSS 0.91, 0.92, 2.0 (I believe some call this version 1), RDF and RadioLands version 2.0. RSS Reader support is plugable, so if FeedExpress doesn't support a given format, it will be quite easy to create your own reader. More on this to follow soon... The basic reading, refreshing, etc. features that you would expect of a feed reader Support for adding additional information about a subscription. This information will be shown in the windows titlebar when the subcription is selected. Support for Proxy servers Optional sounds to indicate new feeds Automatic refresh of Feeds Can use the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) of the Subscriptions homepage when displaying feeds from a subscription. Searching capabilities Status tray integration, with visible indication of new feeds

RSS Feeds Toolbar for IE

Freeware

User rating rate it! RSS Feeds Toolbar for IE is an add-on for Internet Explorer, that integrates RSS feed headlines into the IE toolbar. The headlines are continuously updated at a configurable time interval and a button in the toolbar launches the full article associated with the selected feed item. The latest headline is always on top and displayed directly in the toolbar, while previous headlines can be selected from the drop menu. Not a full-featured RSS reader, but a very convenient way to keep track of several news sources from within your browser.

NewsInABox

Adware

User rating rate it! NewsInABox is a simplified RSS reader that resembles the interface of a newspaper. It can gather news from a variety of pre-configured and categorized sources, and you can also add your own RSS feeds. The interface offers 4 different layout styles. NewsInABox is designed for users that do not want to fiddle with any advanced features, it is easy to setup and requires no further configuration. (Advertisment can be removed for $9.95)

BitsCast

Freeware

User rating rate it! Main features Handles all news/podcast feeds in RDF, RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0, and ATOM 0.3/1.0. (snapshot) Support multithreading podcast download and synchronization with various MP3 player/iPod. Advanced supports for multiple channels, subscription lists, and channel/list management. Podcast audio/video browsing/preview, as well as software download. (snapshot) Keyword based news watch puts relevant information from all sources right at finger tip. BitTorrent enabled, streamlining the torrent download of large media attachment. (snapshot) Automatic password management for both cookie and http authentication. Easy RSS auto-detection from within the embedded web browser. (snapshot) Easy RSS feeds directory browsing through OPML. (snapshot) Handy download manager to control your podcast/video blog/software downloading. (snapshot) Easy email forwarding from within the embedded web browser. Powerful podcast playlist synchronization for Apple's iTunes+iPod and Microsoft's Media Player+PlayForSure device. Unicode support for subscribing to feeds in various international languages Minimizes to the system-tray with new arrival notification. Media (audio/video or software image) auto-downloader and local cache management. Podcast audio/video download management with flexible timer/scheduler. Powerful database query tool, supported by Microsoft JET engine. (snapshot)

@Podder

Freeware

User rating rate it! @Podder is an evolving podcast receiver designed especially for partially sighted listeners. aPodder.org distributes and enhances @Podder. Please join our community of developers, listeners, and supporters to realize the potential of podcasting for our audience.

HappyFish

Freeware

User rating rate it! HappyFish is an RSS reader that can also download RSS enclosures (podcasts, mp3's, videos, pics, apps, whatever) to your computer while you watch - or better still - while you play with the kids, read a book, eat sushi, ponder the meaning of life, sleep...

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