RSSOwl 1.2.2 review
DownloadRSSOwl is a GUI desktop client (using SWT as fast graphic libary) that reads the RSS format from a URL or a local file.
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RSSOwl is a GUI desktop client (using SWT as fast graphic libary) that reads the RSS format from a URL or a local file.
It is divided into 4 areas: RSS Management includes quickview of an RSS feed, adding new RSS favorites to a category, adding new categories, deleting an RSS feed or a category, and fulltext searching with result highlights. RSS Favorites shows all the saved favorites in the different categories in a tree.
RSS TabFolder displays the title and description of the RSS feed plus a list of the newsheaders from the feed; it opens a new tab whenever a new RSS feed is opened. RSS NewsItem displays the selected news from the list of newsheaders from the TabFolder; the link to the news can be clicked to open it in the browser.
RSSOwl supports languages are German and English.
What's New:
The RSSOwl development team is happy to announce a fresh new version of RSSOwl.
After four months of work, version 1.2.2 is now available for download. This version comes with some enhancements, a lot of bugfixes and improved security from the embedded browser on windows.
The integrated Feed-Validator was removed due to lacking support for RDF and Atom formats. The new Validator allows to enter the URL of the Newsfeed and will forward to the well-known W3C Feed-Validator that supports all major formats and namespaces.
The Feed-Search is now recognizing a lot more results as valid Feeds with fixing a Bug in the URL-processing. Special thanks to Milan Simonovic for reporting this issue.
Settings are now backup'ed and restored in case a previous shutdown failed to store them correctly. This should fix issues, where all settings were lost.
The SWT library was updated to the most recent Version 3.2.
Thanks to Vardan Movsisyan for providing a translation to Armenian.
Requirements:
Java 1.4 or later.
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