Features
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- Rich Client Experience
- Once you enter the ‘Lounge, you may quickly forget that you’re using a web application. No page refreshes - just load it up and use it like you would your favorite desktop application.
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Whether you use multiple computers or want to quickly read your feeds at an internet cafe or a friend’s house, FeedLounge always comes back just where you left it.
- New Items Just Show Up
- While you’re reading your feeds in the ‘Lounge, new items in your feeds get pushed to your browser.
- Full Keyboard Control
- Part of that rich client experience is full keyboard navigation. Use the arrow keys, the space bar, keyboard shortcuts for tagging and flagging, expanding feed tags, changing views, and more!
- Powerful Reading Views
- Choose between a 3 pane interface, a 3 column view or the “river of news” view - FeedLounge makes it easy for you to read in the view you want.
- Cross-browser Support
- FeedLounge works great in Firefox, Safari and IE - use whichever one you like.
- Auto-Discovery of Feeds
- Enter the URL of the web site you want to subscribe to, and we’ll go look for the feed for you.
- Personalization
- Set your own names for your feeds and choose different colors for your tags.
- Scripts and Bookmarklets
- There is already a growing collection of Greasemonkey scripts and bookmarklets for FeedLounge - create your own to customize your experience.
- Browser-Style History
- View your reading history by day, just like you do in your web browser. You even get a back and forward button so you can quickly move through your feed items.
- Feed Validation And Error Reporting
- Broken feeds aren’t good for anyone. We let you know if a feed is broken so you can let the feed owner know.
- Tag Your Feeds
- Instead of using traditional folders, FeedLounge allows you to tag your feeds and read by feed tag. No more choosing between ‘News’, ‘Tech’ and ‘Blog’ - with tagging you can put one feed in all three views.
- Flag and Tag Feed Items
- As you read, flag items to find them again easily. Flagging not enough? You can make FeedLounge your personal information library by adding tags to items so you can keep them organized.
- TagThru™ to del.icio.us
- When tagging an item in FeedLounge, we can automatically tag it for you in del.icio.us as well.
- Import OPML with Auto-Tagging
- Bring your feed list with your to FeedLounge. Our OPML import will even create tags for you from any category information in your OPML file.
- Export Your Feeds
- Need a copy of your feed list? No problem, we even include your tags.
- Search and Tag Feeds
- Easily subscribe to “search” feeds from Google, Yahoo!, Feedster, IceRocket and “tag” feeds from sites like Flickr and del.icio.us.
- Private Feeds
- Don’t want to share a feed with the rest of the world, check the Private box and FeedLounge will keep your secrets safe.
- 401 Authentication
- Have feeds that require 401 authentication? No problem, just enter your username and password. Plus, we know that you don’t want to share any information from password protected feeds and mark them Private for you.
- Forgiving RSS, Atom And RDF Support
- FeedLounge uses the excellent Universal Feed Parser to handle just about anything you throw at it.