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Jyte 1.9 - RSS News Feed Reader

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Jyte - RSS News Feed Reader

Jyte - RSS News Feed Reader

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Jyte is a remarkably simple and at the same time very functional and flexible RSS feed reader. It lacks bells, whistles and ways to group and organize news items, but you can set up search folders naturally, and synchronizing multiple Jyte installations is easy. Jyte is no longer available.

Pros

  • Jyte makes it easy to synchronize multiple installations
  • You can access individual feeds or have Jyte search for your terms across the web
  • Jyte lets you "keep" articles for later access

Cons

  • You can't organize searches and news items in Jyte
  • Jyte doesn't display relationships between blog posts
  • Jyte lacks HTML rendering for news items

Description

  • Jyte aggregates news from RSS and Atom feeds.
  • You can subscribe to individual feeds as well as to searches in Jyte.
  • Searches automatically display matching items from all the web's (known) feeds.
  • The Jyte new feed wizard also suggests feeds for your keywords.
  • Individual feeds can be grouped in "Topics" in Jyte.
  • Jyte lets you save individual items to find them again later andk keep them from expiring.
  • You can save the state of Jyte and retrieve it from a central server with any Jyte installation.
  • Jyte supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP and Mac OS X 10.3.

Guide Review - Jyte 1.9 - RSS News Feed Reader

If you want to get news updates from a site, you typically subscribe to its feed. Of course, you can do that in Jyte, you can do it in particularly easy way, too. If you enter search terms in the "Search Assistant", Jyte will probably suggest the site you are looking for — along with a few other relevant feeds. But Jyte can do something else with the search terms, too, and it is something really smart.

You can subscribe to a search instead of an individual feed. Jyte then aggregates matching news from feeds found around the web automatically. Local search might still be useful, though, and it would be great if searches were more flexible and more precise, allowing you to specify a set feeds to search (through an OPML file), for example.

Jyte's interface is bare and functional, but it has another trick up its sleeve: with a simple menu command, you can save Jyte's state. Later, you can retrieve the state — the folder setup, saved articles — from any Jyte on any computer, solving the synchronization problem easily.

Still, a bit more comfort would be really nice to have in Jyte. With all the search functionality, Jyte could render blog post relations, for example, it would be nice if feeds and searches could be grouped, and HTML rendering in the news item display wouldn't hurt either.

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