The Bottom Line
PixelNews is, alas, no longer maintained.
Pros
- PixelNews displays RSS feeds in a highly flexible and custom-fit manner
- You can sort and read feeds in channels in PixelNews and save searches as smart folders
- PixelNews includes a vast database of available feeds and incorporates a web browser, too
Cons
- PixelNews does not find conversations and relationships between blog posts
- You cannot flag or label items in PixelNews, and Podcasts could be supported better
- PixelNews's smart folders could be more flexible and do not offer self-learning
Description
- PixelNews lets you organize and read RSS and Atom feeds.
- You can sort your news feeds in channels, reading entire channels or individual feeds in PixelNews.
- PixelNews lets you search across feeds fast, and search criteria can be saved to smart folders.
- To find interesting feeds, you can browse or search PixelNews's database of available sites.
- PixelNews includes a browsing component that plays rich content (Podcasts), too.
- You can save posts for later using PixelNews's bookmarks.
- PixelNews supports Mac OS X 10.3+.
Guide Review - PixelNews 1.0 - RSS News Reader
PixelNews's name is rather a hint that every pixel of PixelNews has been filled with a button or menu to choose from. You can arrange your RSS feeds in folders or smart folders (that search for keywords only, unfortunately); you can read all news or just news from the past hour; you can browse all feeds in a folder or just one; you can choose to see the full content, or just links — and you can follow these links using PixelNews's built-in browser.
With all this organizing talent, PixelNews lets you search your feeds pretty fast, of course, and you can search a big assortment of feeds ready for subscription as well.
Unfortunately, PixelNews is not as flexible and powerful when it comes to treating individual news items. You can "save" them to a bookmark system that mimics your browser's, which seems a bit pointless and cannot make up for a flexible system of flags and labels.
Neither does PixelNews establish relationships between blog posts, and you cannot blog directly from PixelNews either. While PixelNews can download and play rich media enclosed in feeds via the internal browser, true Podcast support with downloads happening in the background this is not. Per-feed update intervals might be nice, too.
