NewzCrawl - allows you to add uses freely available RSS feeds to display news, weather, financial information, e-mail stocks and whatever interests you in a customizable toolbar on your desktop. RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites so that a short summary of the content is displayed in a tickertape fashion on your own desktop. Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

Cross-Desktop - With Cross-Desktop you can manage Bookmarks, read RSS-feeds, treat ZIP archives as regular directories, and edit text files. The Web application integrates a functionally complete e-mail client and a URL download feature for file transfer based on a URL. Installs on any Web space allowing to run personally installed CGI scripts. Works with a standard browser on nearly any platform. It's simply your personal information manager (PIM). Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server, Perl, LWP-Module

With the Active Web Reader Customizer you can now distribute your own RSS reader that includes your feeds and Web pages. The user then simply downloads your custom RSS reader, preloaded with your RSS feeds, increasing your Web site visibility. A customized setup of Active Web Reader is ideal for Web sites who want to frequently provide news, product updates, and content summaries directly to establish trust and reputation with existing and potential customers. It is also useful for organizations as they can customize the setup with feeds and web pages before installation, so that settings don't have to be configured individually on every PC. Version 1.22 includes a new customizer development wizard, adds OPML support, and features better feed validation