Reading Roars!

I have been toying with new Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 recently. One of the things I like best about it is that it supports RSS (Really Simple Syndication), a way of having news from sites such as this one conveniently delivered to you, pretty useful if you like your news from more than one source.

With Outlook 2007, to my surprise, adding a news feed is really straightforward. I did it with Reading Roars! in 3 steps - click on RSS Feeds, right-click and Add a New RSS Feed, then lastly “enter the location of the feed you want to add”. And that’s it.

Then the fun begins. Articles are added to Outlook in the form of email, and labelled with author name, article title and publication date. As email, you can flag it, or drag it into your To-Do Bar.

You can also configure Outlook so that full article content is downloaded as an attachment to RSS messages.

Changing times, eh.