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The Bottom Line
Pros
- Attensa for Outlook integrates news freeds nicely with Outlook
- Finding and subscribing to feeds as well as searches is easy, and tagging lets you organize
- Attensa for Outlook synchronizes perfectly with the Attensa Online web-based RSS feed reader
Cons
- Attensa for Outlook does not offer a newspaper-like overview of all news
Description
- Attensa for Outlook is an RSS and Atom feed reader for Outlook.
- Feeds are downloaded to folders automatically created or individually set.
- Attensa includes a directory of feeds and imports from OPML files, NewsGator, intraVnews.
- IE and Firefox plug-ins scan sites for feeds and let you subscribe easily.
- The update interval and automatic deletion of old items can be set per feed.
- Attensa for Outlook can download enclosures (podcasts) automatically and comes with a mini player right inside Outlook, too.
- You can publish to any blog directly from Attensa and tag items (even integrating with del.icio.us).
- Synchronization with Attensa Online or the Attensa feed server lets you access your subscriptions anywhere.
- Attensa for Outlook supports Windows 2000/3/XP/Vista and Outlook 2000/2/3/7.
Guide Review - Attensa for Outlook 2.5 - Free RSS Feed Reader
Once upon a time, Attensa for Outlook was called "You Subscribe:RSS" — for a reason: finding and subscribing to RSS feeds is particularly easy in Attensa for Outlook.Not only can you browse a comprehensive list of feeds, not only can you import from other readers easily, there are also plug-ins for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox that scan sites for feeds as you visit them, and you can set up search feeds for many a search service.
Once you are subscribed, Attensa for Outlook works in a very straight forward manner. It refreshes feeds periodically and unobtrusively in the background while the update interval and the target Outlook folder can be set per feed.
If you also use the free web-based Attensa Online reader, Attensa can synchronize all subscriptions and items seamlessly. You cannot refresh a feed manually in Attensa for Outlook, though, and a way to read all news of a folder (and possibly its sub-folders) on a newspaper-like page would be nice.
Podcasts and other feed enclosures can be downloaded and added to media players automatically. Of course, Attensa's nice integration with Outlook lets you use all its searching and archiving features, but it adds a powerful trick of its own, too: you can tag articles easily and with full del.icio.us integration.
If you want more than bookmarking, Attensa lets you post to a blog as well.
