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RSS Menu - 1.0b

systemwide menu for RSS/Atom feeds

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All Time:	(4.1)
Version 1.0b:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.0b
Release Date:	2005-02-12
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 1.0b):	387
Downloads (all versions):	31,372

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Product Description:

RSS Menu is a very simple application that allows you to read any RSS or Atom feeds found on various websites. The application lives on the menubar and is available system wide, no need to switch applications back and forth.

Everytime a feed has new articles, you'll be notified.

Please note that because RSS Menu uses the same parsing engine as Safari Menu, you can easily import your Safari Menu RSS feeds into RSS Menu. To do this, quit RSS Menu first. Then locate the folder Application Support inside the Library folder of your home folder. Inside this folder create a folder called RSS Menu if it doesn't exist (RSS Menu creates this folder when it is launched for the first time). Move or copy the file RSS sites.plist from the Safari Menu folder into the RSS Menu folder. Relaunch RSS Menu and you're done.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0b:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(3.0)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Is it my imagination or has the latest Java update done something? - Version: 1.11.6, 12/4/2009 06:37PM PST

summerstormpictures

I know I'm reaching here but for some odd reason, since the Java update (Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1) yesterday, RSS Menu seems to suddenly not be updating articles properly. Either that or nobody is doing anything on the Internet. It works initially, then after a bit, just seems to stop.

I don't think this is my imagination.

Anyone else?

This is hands-down one of the most absolutely useful little applications for the Mac. It frees up so much idle time looking around or using some more complicated RSS aggregator.

This application eats a lot of RAM - Version: 1.11.6, 2/26/2009 01:46AM PST

AJJX

Seriously, the RAM issue on this application needs to be fixed. It's inexcusable that this much RAM would be used for such a simple task. I agree with the other users that this is a good application, but too much RAM is being sacrificed from other processes for this thing.

FIX THE MEMORY ISSUE! - Version: 1.11.6, 1/21/2009 02:37PM PST

guy132

This is a great app, in fact, the only RSS application I've found that meets my needs, a simple RSS reader for the menubar that displays a count of unread articles. Simple demands, but no other app out there seems to meet them.

This app is great, *except* IT EATS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RAM for no reason at all. Seriously, I have about 20 feeds and it regularly uses 100-150 MB of memory. I have no idea why this would happen, RSS feeds are TEXT for christsake. How could TEXT take up this much memory? It can't, so there's something very wrong here, this should otherwise by a very lightweight simple application.

Please fix the memory issue!