Omea Pro Goes Free

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Omea has always been my favorite RSS reader, for its abundance of features. Now that the pro version of it is absolutely free, there is no reason not to try it out. Along with RSS, it also works with Outlook to import your contacts into its built in address book. To send and receive mail you can use the built in mail client as well. You can take notes within the program, and give it certain flags. You can even manage all your news groups using the supported NNTP protocol.

I'm going to focus on the RSS reader part of it, because it's the part I'm most familiar with. In an RSS reader the main features I'm looking for is auto updating feeds, and an alert box to tell you when the feed has been updated. Omea has both of those features. You can customize the time each individual feed is updated, and if it alerts you or not. There are multiple views to choose from when reading the feed as well, including a newspaper view. Managing feeds is easily done, because you can sort them by day, week, and month It tells you which feed is un-read, and which is read. You can them make different flags to sort them even further.

If you're looking for a professional RSS reader and more, Omea is defiantly for you. If you don't want any of the un-needed features and just want a clean interface with no extra features, check out the RSS reader I made, QuickRSS. It's a dead project, but you can pick up coding it if you'd like. I'll update the project if you add anything.

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