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BottomFeeder reference

This page is part of a classified guide to news feed readers, including stand alone desktop feed readers. Each profile contains summary details of the feed reader, features, Web links and news feeds.

BottomFeeder profile

Multi-pane feed reader with 'newspaper' views written in the Smalltalk programming language. Also has plugins for blog posting.

Open source software.

BottomFeeder feature summary
Home page: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/
Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux
Vendor: Private
OPML import: Yes, can load feed lists from other programs.
OPML export: Yes, can save feed lists for other programs.
Auto-discovery: No, cannot find feeds on Web pages.
Web feed search: No, cannot search for feeds on the Web.
Local feed search: No, cannot search feeds on your computer.
News filters: No, cannot collect news items on chosen topics.
Watch lists: No, cannot highlight items that match key words.
Synchronization: Yes, can manage subscriptions from multiple computers.
Podcasts: No, cannot play audio and video feeds.

BottomFeeder identifiers

The Web Feed Generator provides customers with server logs to check demand for their news feeds. Each feed reader has its own code name or identifier that is reported in the server logs and shows which program was used to check a feed. To help make sense of these feed metrics, BottomFeeder is identified by the following code names.

BottomFeeder/3.3
BottomFeeder/3.3 (beta)
BottomFeeder/3.4
BottomFeeder/3.5
BottomFeeder/3.6
  

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