RSSOwl

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RSSOwl
Developer(s) Benjamin Pasero
Initial releaseDecember 19, 2004;19 years ago (2004-12-19)
Final release
2.2.1 [1] [2] [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 30 December 2013
Repository
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Eclipse
Type News aggregator
License EPL-1.0
Website rssowl.org

RSSOwl is a discontinued news aggregator for RSS and Atom news feeds. It is written in Java and 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. [4] Released under the EPL-1.0 license, RSSOwl is free software.

Contents

In addition to its full text searches, saved searches, notifications and filters, [5] RSSOwl v2.1 synchronized with the now discontinued Google Reader. [6] [7]

History

RSSOwl began as small project on SourceForge at the end of July 2003. [8] The first public version was 0.3a.

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 quick search in news feeds. [9] Version 1.2 improved toolbar customization and added support for Atom 1.0 News feeds. [10] Versions 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 added universal binary support for the Mac as well as drag and drop for tabs and a built-in feed validator. [11] [12] RSSOwl was the SourceForge Project of the Month for January 2005. [13]

Version 2.0

RSSOwl 2.0 was announced on March 7, 2007, at EclipseCon 2007. [14] Version 2.0 was rebuilt on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and used db4o for database storage and Lucene for text searching. [15] 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. [16] [17] 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. [18] Version 2.1, released July 15, 2011, added Google Reader synchronization support and new layouts. [6] [7]

Forks

RSSOwl is no longer maintained [19] by its original developer. However, a maintained fork of it is available, known as RSSOwlnix.

Features

Format support

Organization

Security

Import and Export

Other

Internationalization

RSSOwl has been translated into many languages, including 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

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References

  1. ↑ "RSS Owl | RSS / RDF / Atom Feed Reader Files".
  2. ↑ "Release 2.2.1". 11 November 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "RSSOwl 2.2.1 is available". 30 December 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  4. ↑ "Five Best Google Reader Alternatives that're also Free". Narga. 22 April 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Martin Brinkmann (17 August 2011), "How To Setup News Filters In RSS Reader RSSOwl", Ghacks Technology News (published August 17, 2011), retrieved August 22, 2011, quite a few [features] helped me optimize my work flow.
  6. 1 2 RSSOwl 2.1 Changelog , retrieved August 22, 2011
  7. 1 2 Martin Brinkmann (15 July 2011), "RSS Feed Reader RSSOwl Updated", Ghacks Technology News (published July 15, 2011), retrieved August 22, 2011
  8. ↑ First RSSOwl version 0.3a, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl/files/rssowl%20classic%201.0%20(do%20not%20use)/0.3a/
  9. ↑ RSSOwl 1.1 released Archived 2010-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ RSSOwl 1.2 released Archived 2011-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ RSSOwl 1.2.1 released Archived 2010-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ RSSOwl 1.2.2 released Archived 2010-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ SourceForge.net: Project of the Month
  14. ↑ EclipseCon 2007: Preview of RSSOwl 2.0
  15. ↑ Announcing RSSOwl 2.0 Archived 2011-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 6 Archived 2011-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 7 Archived 2010-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 9 Archived 2010-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ "rssowl/RSSOwl". GitHub. Retrieved 11 October 2018. RSSOwl is unmaintained and has several known vulnerabilities. Please do not use it any more
  20. ↑ "RSSOwl Newsreader Updates to 2.0, Adds Feed Importing, Search Features". LifeHacker. 2 January 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  21. ↑ "RSSOwl – Powerful News Feed Reader For Your Desktop". MakeUseOf. 17 March 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
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