Web2RSS Proxy allows gathering news from web sites that do not provide RSS feeds of their own.
Web2RSS Proxy collects the required information from the selected page of the site and creates an RSS feed from it.
Web2RSS Proxy allows for flexible customizations of the channel being created, thanks to its abilities of analyzing the source page.
You will be able to browse the the created RSS channels in your favorite RSS reader.

EasyDeskTicker displays RSS news feeds or custom messages as a flicker-free ticker bar on the desktop.

Radical new concept in information management, intelligently displays news and information from ANY source. It also does Stocks and Shares prices. It includes many features that mean you can just concentrate on your work and it will get all the news and information that you require, it works in a completely non-intrusive manner. It Includes a fully integrated powerful RSS Feed Reading program.

YeahReader is a free program for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts.

The program provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow you to quickly write messages to your LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress or Delicious blog, OPML support, and more.

RSSOwl is a free RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Supported OS are Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. Some features are export of news to PDF, Import / Export with OPML and the full text-search with syntax highlight. For easy execution, a .exe is provided on Windows, a shell-script on Linux / Solaris and the Mac version is deployed in an application bundle. RSSOwl comes with a huge list of sample favorites.