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Shrook 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.

Shrook profile

A stand alone feed reader for Mac OS with Web based synchronization and distributed feed checking service.

Free 30 day trial and Shrook online service at time of writing.

Shrook feature summary
Home page: http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/
Feed URL: http://www.fondantfancies.com/blog/atom1/
Platform: Mac
Vendor: Private
OPML import: No, cannot load feed lists from other programs.
OPML export: No, cannot save feed lists for other programs.
Auto-discovery: No, cannot find feeds on Web pages.
Web feed search: Yes, can search for feeds on the Web.
Local feed search: No, cannot search feeds on your computer.
News filters: Yes, can collect news items on chosen topics.
Watch lists: Yes, can highlight items that match key words.
Synchronization: Yes, can manage subscriptions from multiple computers.
Podcasts: Yes, can play audio and video feeds.

Shrook 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, Shrook is identified by the following code names.

Shrook/134p
Shrook/200p
Shrook/201p
Shrook/206p
Shrook/212t
Shrook/51
Shrook/51 (Distributed; +http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/distfaq.php)
Shrook/58
Shrook/60
Shrook/73
Shrook/76p
Shrook/76p (Distributed; +http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/distfaq.php)
  

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