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Internet Explorer 7 Feeds Plus

Add aggregation and notification capabilities to the default Windows Feeds features

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

26th of January 2007, 08:31 GMT

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Feeds Plus is an add-on designed for Internet Explorer 7 by the IEL RSS team over at Microsoft. Feeds Plus adds aggregation and notification capabilities to the default Windows Feeds
features. The add-on aims to streamline the feeds reading experience in IE7.

"Feeds Plus, running in the background, can combine multiple feeds into a single, river of news-style feed. All the user has to do is turn on Feeds Plus' aggregator, and every folder of feeds will sprout an aggregate feed at the top," revealed Chrix Finne a former intern Program Manager on the IE RSS Team.

Feeds Plus enables users to gather all the news feed into a single folder and access them via the News' aggregate feed. The add-on also permits users to search aggregate feeds in a manner similar to any other feed. "Read/unread information is synced between the aggregate feed and its children. If multiple feeds use Simple List Extensions (SLE) then the corresponding aggregate feed will as well - this is cool because you can combine multiple different feeds, and use SLE to sort by price across all of them," added Finne.

Additionally, Feeds Plus displays pop-up feed notification messages. In this aspect, Feeds Plus builds on top of the Windows Feed Download Engine which is designed to run in the background. With Feeds Plus users will be able to select the most important feeds and receive notification when new items are available.

"Feeds Plus is an unsupported IE7 add-on (meaning that it's not supported by Microsoft technical support or by the IE development team). One important note is that it does not have accessibility support in this release. Don't use it if you're uncomfortable using unsupported software," advised Finne.

Feeds Plus 1.0.0.0 was tested by Softpedia as being 100% Free and is available for download here.


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