RSSOwl
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{{Infobox Software | name = RSSOwl | logo = Image:RSSOwl.png | screenshot = Image:Rssowl big.gif |
caption = Screenshot of RSSOwl | developer = Benjamin Pasero (bpasero) | latest_release_version = 1.2 | latest_release_date = November 6, 2005 | operating_system = Cross-platform | genre = News aggregator | license = CPL | website = www.rssowl.org |
}} RSSOwl is a free cross-platform open-source news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java using SWT 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.
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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
- Support for Atom Syndication Format version 1.0
- High performance and native Look and Feel that uses the operating-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 many 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, Serbian (Cyrillic), and Serbian (Latin).