Another question answered by the Twittersphere – if you know of any other examples let me know:
paulbradshaw: Anyone know of an RSS reader that gives you an audio alert when a feed updates with a new item?
about 6 hours ago
brunns: NetNewsWire does its alerts via Growl, and you can configure that to play sounds.
about 6 hours ago
sboneham: not a good one, and it almost pains me to suggest it, but how about MS Outlook 2007?
about 5 hours ago
FerroGate: Was just thinking about that as a feature for GReader. You subscribe to so much that you need a hint when good stuff is there.
about 5 hours ago
petelewis: akregator can do that I think – and should run on Windows and Mac as well as linux these days…
about 5 hours ago
bounder: did you get an answer about the RSS bleep? There’s a mac GReader notifier available on the web somewhere
about 4 hours ago
Instine: I recently made one with Google’s Ajax Feed API and Talklets that acually reads the new post let me know if you’re interested
about 3 hours ago
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