Feed Notifier is a Windows application that resides in the system tray and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds.
Feed Notifier is for you if you want a news aggregator that focuses on real-time feed notifications and leaves out all the other stuff that comes with most news readers.
Main Features
Supports all common RSS and Atom web feed protocols.
Clean look and feel with user selectable themes.
Configurable polling interval for each feed.
Configurable popup duration.
Configurable popup size and position.
Configurable popup transparency.
Popups do not steal keyboard or mouse focus from other applications.
Popups show item age and author.
Navigation controls in popups to view next/previous items.
Advanced keyword filtering options.
Supports launching from Firefox and other browsers via feed:// protocol.
Supports enabling/disabling individual feeds.
Deactivates when user is idle to save bandwidth and processing time.
Supports authenticated feeds that require a username and password.