RssFeedEater is pre configured with some famous feeds so you can begin immediately to use it to download and organize the internet information.

The Left pane is filled with the feeds you're subscribed to and that will be downloaded automatically or when you'll press the Update All button.
The Right pane instead is divided in two. The top part shows the headlines of the feed selected in the left pane or all the unread headlines of a category (that means all the unread headlines of the feeds of the selected category). The bottom part shows the details of the selected headline sin the top pane, and its a full featured web browser (it matches the Internet Explorer version installed on the pc), so it presents a toolbar that will let you to navigate between the web pages.
Since version 1.1 RssFeedEater presents an AdBlock option that improves the readability of advertisements overloaded sites.

Left pane

	This is a category, a sort of folder that holds the various feeds
	This is a feed and it's bold because you have some unread items.
	This is a disabled feed that won't be included in any automatic or forced update
	This is a broken feed, that is a feed that couldn't be downloaded during the last check. Maybe that's a temporary matter or not. If the problem persists and you don't get any new headline from the site for some time, you'd better connect with a web browser and check if the feed address is changed or what has happened.

You can freely drag & drop your categories and your feeds to organize how you prefer of you can right click on a category or a feed to choose the available options.

The main menu voice is "Feed information" that lets you set all the feed options, if you're not satisfied with the information provided by the feed itself when you first subscribed to it.

The most important settings are:

The bottom part of the Feed Information window presents a Filters section that lets you filters the headlines showed in the feed. You could filter just the news you're interested in or you could remove the headlines that are simply advertisements (and sometime begins with something like ADV:).

The Validate feed button submit the feed to the FeedValidator site (http://www.feedvalidator.org) to let you know is the feed is well formed or not. If you encounter problems loading a valid feed in RssFeedEater, contact the author (details in the About box) so he can fix the incompatibility.

Note: Double clicking on a feed makes the Feed information window popup.

Right pane

The right top pane window show a list of the headlines downloaded from the selected Feed or, if a Category is selected, the unread headlines of the Feeds of the Category.
Each headline item is accompanied by some information like Date (when available and formatted in a known format, regrettably many feeds have dates coded in impossible ways!), Date of download (Received), Author of the post, and source (useful mainly when you're watching an entire category).

This is a simple legend of the headlines:

	This is an unread "same day" headline (arrived today)
	This is an unread headline
	This is a read headline

By clicking on each column title of the news window you can change the sort order (ascending/descending) of the headlines displayed.

Between the top and the bottom right pane there's a common web toolbar (as seen in most web browser), but with two additional buttons:

	Open the current viewed web page in the Windows' default web browser.
	Email the news or the web page you're watching to someone. You can choose to send the page as an attachment, a link or embedded in the message, and you can decide to send it from RssFeedEater or your default mail client.

The button "RSS" at the right of the web toolbar becomes active when the viewed site exposes an Rss feed. Click on the button to subscribe to the site feed.

The bottom right pane is a web browser and can display the headlines detail or the linked page. When a news is showed click on its title to show the related web page.

At the top of the pane, the following check box lets you decide if you want to allow the displayed pages to open external window of your default web browser when required, or if you want (whenever possible) that all the external links are redirected to the RssFeedEater internal web browser.
You can always force RssFeedEater to open a link in a new window by holding the shift key while clicking on the link or by selecting the Open link in a new window option from the contextual menu.

The check box let you choose to view only the unread items.

Right clicking on the web page part of the window displays a contextual menu that presents various options.

Main toolbar

At the top of the main window there's a toolbar, that lets you download new headlines (for all the feeds: Update all or just for the selected feed:Update feed), subscribe to a new feed or unsubscribe from it (deleting all the downloaded headlines).
These are less intuitive buttons:

	Present a list of web site devoted to organize the always increasing number of feeds to which you can subscribe.
	Let you import a list of feeds saved in OPML format. The file can even be a link to an online opml file. It opens an Import feeds window where you can select which feeds to import. The feeds will be imported in the currently selected category. If you uncheck the "Don't ask me to check the description for every imported feed" option, a Feed information window will pop up for every feed, asking you to confirm the information.
	This button let you simply add a blog entry (currently only if you have a Blogger account) automatically adding the text of the current displayed news.
	Delete all the downloaded headlines of the currently selected feed, freeing disk and screen space.
	Makes already read all the headlines of the currently selected feed.

The RssFeedEater main menu replicates most of the options already available in buttons or contextual menus (right click to display them), but the File menu presents two unique features:

RssFeedEater can be minimized to the system tray and will automatically show a popup message when new headlines have been downloaded or how the download of new headlines is going.

AdBlock features

The new AdBlock option, that can be activated by checking the AdBlock check box in the web toolbar, removes (after download) most of the advertisements showed in a web page or feed. This option is offered only to improve the readability of certain sites, that present pages overloaded with advertisements of every species.

Beware: Because many sites pay their bills by showing advertisements, don't always disable them and sometimes click on them to support the sites you usually read!

There are two main methods to configure the Ad Block:

• You can add new words to the list of blocked words.
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• You can check the elements of a displayed web page, and use part of the found string to hide new ads elements.
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RssFeedEater is pre configured with a list of the most used Ad words.