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JetBrains the makers of everybody's favorite (?) Java IDE - IntelliJ IDEA - have released a RSS/ATOM and Newsgroup reader. Omea Reader is built on Dot Net technology though.

Omea Reader has a nice looking UI. The newsgroups, bookmarks and feeds are available in separate tabs. All Resources tab show all of this in a single view. This is a nice feature.

The organization features are given high importance in Omea Reader. There is a view showing unread items. There are time based views like Today, This Week... Now you can mark last months unread feeds as read. Then there are categories. These are like search folders in Outlook 2003. You can add custom rules to it and a category can hold items of feeds or newsgroup posts.

All the feeds and newsgroup posts are indexed. The search results appear as categories and is remembered by Omea Reader.

RSS Bandit is my current reader. It supports RSS/Atom and news groups support is coming soon. It is also a Dot Net application. But the categorization features are a bit more limited in RSS Bandit. RSS Bandit is less resource hungry. Sometimes Omea Reader takes up more than 150MB. But it was when I imported my 200+ feeds in. Hopefully it is not so high on daily usage.

Omea Reader is free for a limited time. Omea Reader has a bigger brother called Omea Pro. The pro version has tight Outlook integration. So it has tabs for mails, contacts and to-do list. Pro can also index Word, HTML, PDF and plain text files on the file system and can be searched.