An RSS/Atom aggregator (also known as an RSS Reader) for your desktop written with the .NET Framework. RSS Bandit has a pocket full of news, and a few tricks to display them. Not only can you organize feeds in folders, RSS Bandit also detects relations between individual posts and threads them logically.

* Synchronizing Feeds with Google Reader and NewsGator Online
This feature is one I'm sure will be appreciated by peoples who like reading their feeds from multiple computers but still want a desktop-based feed reader for a variety of reasons (e.g. reading feeds from a corporate intranet while roaming your feeds from the public Web). With this feature you can have multiple feed lists which are synchronized from a Web-based feed reader such as Google Reader or NewsGator Online while still keeping some feeds local. All you need to do is go to File->Syncronize Feeds and follow the steps as shown in the screen shots below

* Downloading and Managing Pending Podcasts
Podcasts and other enclosures can either be downloaded automatically based on your settings or downloaded manually via right-clicking on an item. Below is a screenshot showing how to manually download a podcast that is attached to a blog post.

* Changing the Font Size on the Reading Pane
As many of our users know, RSS Bandit uses Internet Explorer as it's embedded Web browser. Somewhere along the line in the switch to Internet Explorer 7 from Internet Explorer 6 we lost the ability to change the size of the font in the embedded Web browser by using the [Ctrl] and [+] or [-] keys in intermediate releases.

RSS Bandit Features:
1. RSS Bandit now translated to the following languages; English, French, German, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Serbian and Polish. If the language configured on your machine is one of these then all text should appear in your target language
2. Atom 1.0 Support, all the various RSS feed formats
3. Users can specify a public NNTP server such as news.microsoft.com and subscribe to newsgroups on that server. Users can also respond to newsgroup posts as well as create new posts. Permalinks in a newsgroup post point to the post on Google Groups.
4. Users can synchronize the state of their subscribed feeds (read/unread posts, new/deleted feeds, etc) between RSS Bandit and their account on Newsgator Online. This allows the best of both worlds where one can use both a rich desktop client (RSS Bandit) and a web-based RSS reader (Newsgator Online) without having to worry about marking things as read in both places.
5. Instances of RSS Bandit can be synchronized using WebDAV, FTP or a file share. The data is transfered in a ZIP file containing information about the current state of search folders, flagged items, replied items, subscribed feeds and read/unread messages. This is extremely useful for people who use RSS Bandit on different computers like from home and work or from school and home.
6. Support for creating nested categories of feeds.
7. Ability to configure how long news items are displayed, independent of when they appeared in a subscribed feed. This is particularly useful when subscribed to news sites that change all the items in their feed on a daily basis. One could then configure RSS Bandit to hold on to news items for a week, a month, a year or more even though those items only appeared in the feed for a single day.
8. Single-click automatic discovery of RSS feeds for a particular website using Mark Pilgrims Ultra-liberal RSS autodiscovery algorithm.
9. Ability to post comments to weblogs that support the CommentAPI such as any weblog based on dasBlog or .TEXT
10. Ability to view comments posted in response to news items on sites that support the wfw:commentRss element such as any weblog based on dasBlog or .TEXT.
11. Support for tabbed browsing using embedded Web browser.
12. Support for proxy servers.
13. Uses GZip encoding and HTTP conditional GET to reduce bandwidth utilized when downloading feeds.
14. Support for password protected feeds using SSL & HTTP Authentication.
15. Look of news items displayed in the feed pane can be customized using XSLT.
16. Integrated toolbar for searching Google, Feedster and MSN.
17. Ability to flag items for followup.
18. Ability to track related news items and displaying them in a threaded view akin to a mail or news reader.
19. Creates a hierarchy of "Virtual Feeds" containing information about errors encountered while downloading RSS feeds, comments posted to weblogs from RSS Bandit and items flagged for follow up.
20. Automatic updating of feed location when an HTTP 301 (Moved Permanently) sent by the web server.
21. Ability to drag links into RSS Bandits tree view to subscribe to a feed. Comes in handy, since one can drag & drop the popular white-on-orange XML buttons directly into RSS Bandit to subscribe to a websites RSS feed.
22. The ability to upload blogroll to your dasBlog weblog.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this rss reader software.