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I am looking for an RSS reader that I can run minimized in my notifications task bar and that will post a notification whenever there is an update to one of the feeds.

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  • I just use Google Reader with either browser or Rainmeter plugins for this, but probably not exactly what you're after...
    – Shinrai
    Commented Feb 8, 2011 at 17:30
  • Yeah, I'm specifically looking for integration with windows notifications.
    – mwolfe02
    Commented Feb 8, 2011 at 17:33

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rssowl

The Notifier is a small popup that displays the headlines of incoming news even when RSSOwl is minimized. You can mark news entries as sticky from the Notifier to remember reading the full content of the entry at a later time.

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    Perfect! It does everything I needed and then some.
    – mwolfe02
    Commented Feb 8, 2011 at 19:17
  • From it's Github page: «RSSOwl is unmaintained and has several known vulnerabilities. Please do not use it any more.» github.com/rssowl/RSSOwl There are active forks, though.
    – vctls
    Commented Jan 15, 2020 at 12:55
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Feed Notifier

Feed Notifier is a Windows application that resides in the system tray and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds. By default, the pop-ups look like this…

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  • rssowl is a resource hog. I'll have to take a look at this. Thanks (+1).
    – mwolfe02
    Commented May 9, 2011 at 21:32
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    FWIW, I developed Feed Notifier. Let me know if you have any feedback.
    – FogleBird
    Commented May 9, 2011 at 23:01

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