RSSOwl |
RSSOwl is a free software Cross-platform open source news aggregator for RSS (protocol) and Atom (standard) News feeds. It is written in Java programming language using Standard Widget Toolkit as fast, native graphic library. RSS ( Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary ) is a document specification that gives users the power to collect and organize Web-based news and information in a more efficient manner. Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or aggregators . RSSOwl is such an application. It lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more.
= History =
RSSOwl began as small project on SourceForge end of July 2003. After more than 18 months of development, RSSOwl 1.0 was released on December 19, 2004.
= Features =
== Highlights ==
*Generate PDF / RTF / HTML documents from any news including aggregations *Powerful Newsfeed searchengine working with keywords *Integrated Newsfeed validator *Perform a fulltext-search with result-highlight on favorites and categories
== General ==
*Full support for RSS & RDF versions 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 *also supporting Atom Syndication Format version 0.3 *High performance and native Look and Feel that uses the operation-system GUI theme *Display RSS / RDF / Atom newsfeeds in a comfortable tabfolder *Read news either in the internal browser or a Rich Text window *Aggregate news of an entire category to one newstab *Store newsfeeds in Blogrolls and share them with other people *Mail NewsTip to friends *Blog news viewed in RSSOwl with your favorite blogging tool *Minimize application to tray *Huge list of sample Newsfeeds pre-saved
== Usability ==
*RSSOwl remembers read news even after restart *Let RSSOwl open certain newsfeeds on startup automatically *Hotkeys assigned to most common actions *Easy navigation in news and opened tabs *Context-menus assigned to most components *Drag and drop to manage favorites
== Customization ==
*Change fonts *Update assigned hotkeys *Change internal window sizes *Change colors *Choose between two window-layouts: 2-column and 3-column arrangement *Set your favorite browser to use with RSSOwl *and a lot of more settings
== Management ==
*Save favorite newsfeeds in categories *Select an auto-update-interval for your favorites *Erroneous favorites are marked *View properties of a selected favorite
== Import / Export ==
*Import / Export favorite newsfeeds using OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) *Import / Export your settings in RSSOwl to use them on another computer.
== Connection ==
*Connection through Proxy Server supported *Disable use of proxy-server for certain favorites *Authentification via BASE64, Digest and NTLM *Display HTTPS secure newsfeeds
== Internationalization ==
*RSSOwl is translated into 27 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Galician, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Swedish, Polish, Korean, Bengali, Norwegian, Finnish, Chinese Traditional, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovenian, Turkish, Hungarian, Thai
= See also =
= External links =
*[http://www.rssowl.org RSSOwl.org] *[http://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl RSSOwl project page at SourceForge] *[http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2005-01.php SourceForge Project of the Month January 2005] *[http://freshmeat.net/projects/rssowl RSSOwl project page at Freshmeat]|
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