Feed Notifier is an application for Windows and Mac OS X that resides in the system tray or status bar and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds.
Feed Notifier is for you if you want a news aggregator that focuses on real-time feed notifications and leaves out all the other stuff that comes with most news readers.
Main Features
* Supports all common RSS and Atom web feed protocols.
* Clean look and feel, doesn’t get in your way.
* Configurable polling interval for each feed.
* Configurable popup duration.
* Configurable popup size, position and transparency.
* Configurable popup border size and color.
* Popups do not steal keyboard or mouse focus from other applications.
* Popups show item age and author.
* Navigation controls in popups to view next/previous items.
* Advanced keyword filtering options.
* Supports launching from Firefox and other browsers via feed:// protocol.
* Supports enabling/disabling individual feeds.
* Deactivates when user is idle to save bandwidth and processing time.
* Supports authenticated feeds that require a username and password.
* Supports using a proxy server.
* Displays favicon for feeds when available.
* Multi-threaded feed polling.