2/22/2005 8:27

You Software recently issued a press release inviting Microsoft Outlook users to participate in a public preview program for You Subscribe: RSS, a new RSS news reader utility.

For those of you who aren't familiar with how RSS feeds work, they are essentially mini "news briefs" from blogs, web sites, etc. A tool like You Subscribe: RSS brings these little news briefs directly into your Microsoft Outlook folders. And yes, you get to pick and choose which feeds you want. The system automatically creates a new folder for each feed.

In case you're wondering about the more technical side of things...according to the press release, "You Subscribe: RSS uses an efficient software engine that works in the background to gather, process, organize and store RSS feeds whether Outlook is online, offline or completely closed. With background processing news feeds are instantly pulled into Outlook. There is no waiting for feeds to load every time you launch Outlook. The engine keeps track of RSS subscription preferences and data and keeps RSS accounts synchronized and up to date. It takes care of the business logic of downloading subscription files and updating an RSS feed database."

The best part is that it's free. It only took me about 2 minutes to install and so far, it's been pretty useful. Of course, it IS an early release and it looks like they are issuing updates on a weekly basis. Hopefully, that won't turn into an issue.

If you're interested in checking it out, you can download it here.

Posted by at February 22, 2005 8:27 AM

Comments

Scott Niesen email - yousoftware.typepad.com/yousubscribe/

Thanks Janet.

Don't worry. Even we can't keep up with weekly updates. We posting updates when we have significant new features. Look a new version that supports search and podcasting coming right up. This new version will include an auto-update feature that should take the pain out of updating.

You can keep up with new features and bug fixes here:

yousoftware.typepad.com/yousubscribe/

Scott Niesen email - yousoftware.typepad.com/yousubscribe/

Doh! I mean thanks Tara.

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