I’ve created a small but useful application that resides in the system tray and polls RSS/Atom web feeds for new content. When new items are found, the app displays a popup notification with the title, description and link for the item. If interested, you can click on the link and open the page in your default browser. If not, you can just ignore the popup and it will go away in 10 seconds or you can click on it and it will go away immediately.
Feed Notifier is not a full-blown RSS reader application and it doesn’t aim to be. Its primary purpose is real-time notification of new content. Nothing more, nothing less.
I added a full page about Feed Notifier on my site here:
http://www.michaelfogleman.com/feed-notifier/
Finally, here’s a screenshot. Download the installer and let me know what you think!
Sample pop-up notification. You can also see the application's icon in the system tray.
Timur I. Alhimenkov wrote:
Good work! Thank you!
I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my site?
Of course, I will add backlink?
Sincerely, Your Reader
Link | January 27th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Garret wrote:
This app is great. But is it possible edit the time when the popup goes away? For example i need about 5 seconds… Thanks!!!
Link | February 5th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Phil wrote:
Remind only shows the last message.. has no way to show last message for each feed in the list.. would be a nice feature plus making the title wrap on long lings so can read it in full.
cheers
Link | February 6th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Michael wrote:
Hint: Left-clicking the icon in the tray does the same thing as “Remind”. And you can click it multiple times to bring up more and more items in the history.
Link | February 6th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Leo Hart wrote:
This is exactly the type of functionality I’m looking for. Is there a way to configure the feed checking time? I’d like to have it check for new items every 5 minutes or so.
Link | February 6th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Leo Hart wrote:
Nevermind. Dumb question!
Link | February 6th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Ben wrote:
Any chance this will support RDF? It is the perfect solution for our helpdesk updates but our helpdesk does RDF feeds.
Link | March 6th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Michael wrote:
Have you tried it? I’m not sure, but it might work out of the box. If not, do you have a sample feed for me?
Link | March 6th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Ben wrote:
You are right. It was an issue with the feed, not your app. Thanks!
Link | March 12th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Michael wrote:
So it’s working now? If so, awesome!
Link | March 12th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Richard Clarke wrote:
Michael,
Thanks, this is great work!
This is ideal for a project I am working on at the moment.
One request, would it be possible to add a ‘run at start-up’ option for this application?
Thanks again.
Rich
Link | March 24th, 2009 at 8:54 am
ika wrote:
thanks, this is such a great application. i need this rss notifier especially for reading all newest gossips.. hoho
Link | August 11th, 2009 at 4:56 am
peter wrote:
this is awesome..Peter, Slovakia
Link | August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Szabolcs wrote:
Very good application, but could you set the minimum polling interval to 1 min please?
Thx
Link | October 12th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Rob L wrote:
Thanks, perfect – just what I was looking for. Works like a charm!
Link | November 10th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Bob Denny wrote:
This is exactly what I was looking for, a lightweight notifier! Thank you so much.
Richard Clarke – to get it to start on boot, make a shortcut to notifier.exe in the Startup Folder (in your start menu).
Link | December 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am