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Wildgrape NewsDesk - 1.1

RSS reader for news sources and weblogs

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.1
Release Date:	2003-08-10
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	4,141
Downloads (all versions):	4,843
Price:	null

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Product Description:

Wildgrape NewsDesk is a simple, convenient, and fast RSS news and weblog reader for Microsoft Windows. NewsDesk retrieves headlines and weblog entries automatically and has lightning-fast keyword and age filters.

NewsDesk brings the web's latest headlines to your desktop. When you need to catch up on the latest in business, politics, technology, entertainment, and weblogs, NewsDesk is ready. Just subscribe to channels that interest you, and within seconds you get the latest headlines updated hourly (some channels are updated every fifteen minutes). Supports RSS-enabled weblogs and web sites.

Reads RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0
Preliminary support for RSS 2.0
HTTP ETag and If-Modified-Since optimizations
Easily handles thousands of channels (RSS feeds)
Outlook-style UI is familiar and easy to use
Imports and exports Open Content Syndication (OCS) and Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) channel directories
Lightning-fast keyword and age filters
Very responsive user interface

Operating System Requirements:

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

Windows XP
Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows 98

Additional Requirements:

Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0

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Another bloated pig of a program. - Version: 1.1, 12/4/2003 01:24PM PST

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cbellers2

I am sitting here looking at the insane memory footprint of this program.

NewsDeskUI.exe 30,856K
NewsDesk.exe 10,928K

I cant think of a single reason on the face of the earth why a simple RSS client should consume in excess of 40 megs of RAM.

This is yet another simple rehash of what apparently is some Microsoft RSS toolkit. Uninspired. Bloated.