RSSOwl
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Template:Infobox Software 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
- 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
- RSSOwl.org (http://www.rssowl.org)
- RSSOwl project page at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl)
- SourceForge Project of the Month January 2005 (http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2005-01.php)
- RSSOwl project page at Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/projects/rssowl)