OSDir: Bitten By the aKregator | Linux Today

OSDir: Bitten By the aKregator

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 17, 2005

[ Thanks to Steve for
this link. ]

“Recently a new addition was made to the code that will become
KDE 3.4. The application known as aKregator was imported. aKregator
is a feed reader for KDE that supports RSS/RDF and Atom feeds. Many
news sites offer this technology as a means to access the headlines
and brief story summaries without loading the full content of the
pages. OSDir, for instance, is one of those sites. Since I like to
follow many different news sites, this saves me plenty of time as
the headlines are all packaged together in an easy-to- navigate
format and if I want to read more, it’s as easy as clicking on a
link. Let’s see how aKregator works.

“There are two ways to use aKregator. One is as a stand-alone
application, and the other is embedded in Kontact

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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