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RSSOwl

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Developer(s)
  
Benjamin Pasero

Platform
  
Eclipse

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

RSSOwl

Initial release
  
December 19, 2004; 12 years ago (2004-12-19)

Stable release
  
2.2.1 (December 30, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-12-30)) [±]

Repository
  
github.com/rssowl/RSSOwl/

RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and is built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform. Released under the Eclipse Public License, RSSOwl is free software.

Contents

In addition to its full text searches, saved searches, notifications and filters, RSSOwl v2.1 synchronized with the now discontinued Google Reader.

History

RSSOwl began as small project on SourceForge at the end of July 2003.

Version 1.0

RSSOwl 1.0 was released on December 19, 2001. It was released with support for RSS and Atom News feeds. The initial release also supported exporting feeds to PDF, RTF, and HTML. This release was available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. RSSOwl 1.1 added support for toolbars and quicksearch in news feeds. Version 1.2 improved toolbar customization and added support for Atom 1.0 News feeds. Versions 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 added universal binary support for mac as well as drag and drop for tabs and a built in feed validator. RSSOwl was the SourceForge Project of the Month for January 2005.

Version 2.0

RSSOwl 2.0 was announced on March 7, 2007 at EclipseCon 2007. Version 2.0 was rebuilt on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and used db4o for database storage and Lucene for text searching. Several milestone versions were released before the final 2.0 version that added labeling of news feeds, pop-up notification of new feeds and storage of news articles in news bins. The final 2.0 version was released as milestone 9 and added support for secure password and credential storage, news filters, support for embedding Firefox 3.0 XULRunner to render news feeds, and proxy support for windows.

Version 2.1

RSSOwl 2.1 was released on July 15, 2011 with Google Reader synchronization support and new layouts.

Format Support

  • Full support for RSS & RDF versions 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0
  • Support for Atom Syndication Format version 1.0
  • Generate PDF / RTF / HTML documents from any news including aggregations

    • Organization

  • Powerful Newsfeed search engine working with keywords
  • Perform a fulltext-search with result-highlight on favorites and categories
  • Aggregate news of an entire category to one newstab
  • Save favorite newsfeeds in categories
  • Store newsfeeds in Blogrolls and share them with other people
  • Mail NewsTip to friends

    • Security

  • Authentication via BASE64, Digest and NTLM
  • Display HTTPS secure newsfeeds

    • Import / Export

  • Import / Export favorite newsfeeds using OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language)
  • Import / Export your settings in RSSOwl to use them on another computer.

    • Other

  • Support for podcast downloading using news filters
  • Integrated Newsfeed validator
  • Erroneous favorites are marked
  • Read news either in the internal browser or a Rich Text window
  • Blog news viewed in RSSOwl with your favorite blogging tool
  • Huge list of sample Newsfeeds pre-saved
  • Select an auto-update-interval for your favorites
  • View properties of a selected favorite

    • Internationalization

    RSSOwl is translated into many languages: Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

    References

    RSSOwl Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA