September 15, 2005
Very cool desktop tool!
I was trying to find an RSS reader that I could use on my desktop so that I wouldn't have to open a web browser and log in to My Yahoo! just to see updates to my favorite syndicated sites. I was hoping to find something that sits in my tool tray or is a little application that checks the feeds at preset intervals and shows me the summaries. However, I wanted to avoid a bloated application that sucks up system resources and slows everything down.
What I found exceeded my wildest expectations! The free utility KlipFolio from Serence is a very small, lightweight, yet powerful utility that sits on my desktop where I can get to it easily. I can make it as unobtrusive as I want by shrinking down the "klip" windows and making them transparent then when I want to see more details, I just mouse over the title bar of the klip, which expands. If I want even more details, then I can mouse over an item within the klip window, which then pops open another window. Once I move the mouse off the klips, everything closes up again. Extremely nice, very clean, very simple!!
It's even nicer than a plain RSS reader as the klips are not limited to just RSS feeds. The one I showed was a local weather klip; there are a large number of klips that can be downloaded from the KlipFarm. And they provide a nice developer kit, which ensures that more and more klips are going to be available.
I am very impressed, and very glad I found this little utility.
Posted by Michael at September 15, 2005 04:30 PM | Technical
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Hi Mike,
We're glad you liked KlipFolio. We have another release coming in a few weeks (Beta C) that will have even more UI enhancements.
Unike a lot of other desktop widgets, we try to keep the design of KlipFolio as small and simple as possible for users.
Cheers,... Fred (member of the Serence team)
Posted by: Fred at September 18, 2005 10:01 AM
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