RSSOwl

RSSOwl

RSSOwl Logo
Screenshot of RSSOwl
Developer(s)	Benjamin Pasero
Initial release	19, 2004 (2004-12-19)
Stable release	2.1.2 / 14, 2011 (2011-08-14)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Eclipse
Type	News aggregator
License	Eclipse Public License
Website	rssowl.org

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.

In addition to its full text searches, saved searches, notifications and filters, RSSOwl v2.1 synchronizes with Google Reader.

历史

RSSOwl 开始于 2003年7月在 SourceForge 上的一个小项目。

Version 1.0

RSSOwl 1.0 was released on December 19, 2004. 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 and noteworthy new features include Google Reader synchronization support and new layouts.

特性

支持的格式

• 全支持 RSS & RDF versions 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0
• 支持Atom Syndication Format version 1.0
• 从任何聚合文件中创建 PDF / RTF / HTML 文档

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 Google Reader synchronization
• 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.

See also

• Comparison of feed aggregators

External links

• RSSOwl.org
• Template:SourceForge
• Template:Freshmeat