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Radio UserLand 8.0

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Radio UserLand

Radio UserLand

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Radio UserLand is great for blogging hence and forth (and reading RSS feeds in between), but as a news reader Radio UserLand is actually rather pathetic — except for its RSS to mail gateway.

Pros

  • Radio UserLand makes posting about news convenient
  • Can send aggregated news via email
  • Auto-deletes old news

Cons

  • Radio UserLand has no way of organizing news
  • No searching, flagging and archiving
  • Inflexible update schedule

Description

  • Radio UserLand aggregates RSS feeds hourly and displays them via a web interface.
  • Lets you post to your Radio UserLand blog instantly, quoting a news item.
  • News can be read per channel or as one big page in Radio UserLand.
  • Additionally, Radio UserLand can send new items in an email.
  • Radio UserLand can automatically delete old news.
  • Radio UserLand supports Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and Mac OS 7.5.5 - X.

Guide Review - Radio UserLand 8.0

Radio UserLand is a great tool for blogging, and for this purpose it also includes a RSS aggregator. That the newsreader's purpose is blogging is clear: apart from posting on a news item the other thing you can do is deleting it. There's no way to archive, organize or just flag an item for getting back to it later.

As an RSS feed reader, Radio UserLand is rather pathetic... if it was not for a setting hidden in the preferences that can prove quite useful. Radio UserLand can pick the latest news and mail them to any email address as they are fetched. Unfortunately, it packs all items in one message instead of mailing them individually.

Still, if you're looking for an RSS to mail gateway, Radio UserLand can do the job (and let you blog).

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