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- ** Copyright notice **
- ** **
- ** (c) 2003-2006 RSSOwl Development Team **
- ** http://www.rssowl.org/ **
- ** **
- ** All rights reserved **
- ** **
- ** This program and the accompanying materials are made available under **
- ** the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this **
- ** distribution, and is available at: **
- ** http://www.rssowl.org/legal/epl-v10.html **
- ** **
- ** A copy is found in the file epl-v10.html and important notices to the **
- ** license from the team is found in the textfile LICENSE.txt distributed **
- ** in this package. **
- ** **
- ** This copyright notice MUST APPEAR in all copies of the file! **
- ** **
- ** Contributors: **
- ** RSSOwl - initial API and implementation (bpasero@rssowl.org) **
- ** **
- ** ********************************************************************** */
-
- Welcome to RSSOwl Version 1.2.1 (Windows Release)
- -------------------------------------------------
-
- Thanks for choosing RSSOwl! See below, to read why you made a good download :o)
-
- RSSOwl is a free RSS / RDF / Atom newsreader written in Java using SWT as 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.
-
- RSSOwl is also free, fast, cross-platform, and unobtrusive. It's easy to install, easy
- to use, and easy to move.
-
- Why "Owl"? The owl is a traditional symbol of wisdom, and a quiet, efficient hunter.
- You'll find RSSOwl's "big eyes" a big help when scanning the Web's vast array of RSS
- resources.
-
- Top Features why you should use RSSOwl:
-
- o High performance and native Look and Feel that uses the operation-system GUI theme
-
- o Great platform support: Use RSSOwl on Windows, Linux (32 and 64 Bit), Mac and Solaris
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- o Import / Export newsfeeds with OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language)
-
- o Generate PDF / RTF / HTML documents from any news including aggregations
-
- o Use drag and drop to manage your favorites in unlimited nested categories
-
- o Powerfull Newsfeed searchengine working with keywords
-
- o Powerfull searchengine to discover newsfeeds on any website
-
- o Integrated Newsfeed validator
-
- o Newsfeeds are automatically stored in an archive to read them while being offline
-
- o Minimize RSSOwl to system tray and get informed when new news are available
-
- o Perform a fulltext-search with result-highlight on favorites and categories
-
- o AmphetaRate integration to rate news and receive recommendations (content-based with Bayes / user-based with ACF-Nearest-Neighbor Algorithm)
-
- o RSSOwl is highly customizable (set Fonts, Hotkeys, Language, customize Toolbar)
-
- o Display news in the internal browser (IE, Mozilla and Safari supported)
-
- o More than two-hundred sample feeds in 33 categories already included
-
- o RSSOwl is translated into 31 languages including English, Russian, Chinese, German and much more
-
- o Big Tutorial and FAQ to help you manage your new newsreader
-
-
- General Features:
-
- - Full support for RSS & RDF versions 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom versions 0.3 & 1.0
- - also supporting OPML Format 1.0
- - Import Blogrolls and synchronize them
- - 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 subscriptions and share them with other people
- - Open the link to the news in an internal browser tab
- - Support for the feed:// Protocol while using the internal Browser
- - Save newsfeeds to read them while being offline
- - Mail NewsTip to friends
- - Blog news viewed in RSSOwl with your favorite blogging tool
- - Integrated newsfeed validator
- - Print news
- - Minimize application to tray
- - All settings are saved and reloaded after startup
- - Huge list of sample Newsfeeds pre-saved
- - Update-check to get informed when a new version is released
-
- Usability Features:
-
- - RSSOwl remembers read news even after restart
- - Let RSSOwl open certain newsfeeds on startup automatically
- - Toolbar including common actions like "Next unread news" and "Mark All Read"
- - Quicksearch to easily search a feed while typing
- - Select a Scope for your search, e.g. search all News for MP3-Podcasts
- - Popup Blocker for the internal Browser
- - 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
- - Drop Links from other applications into RSSOwl to create new Favorites
- - Quick-Filter in preferences allows to quickly search for an option
-
- Customization Features:
-
- - Customize the Toolbar to fit your needs
- - 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
-
- Management Features:
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- - 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 Features:
-
- - Import / Export favorite newsfeeds using OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language)
- - Import / Export your settings in RSSOwl to use them on another computer
-
- Connection Features:
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- - Switch between Offline- and Online-Mode
- - Connection through Proxy Server supported
- - Disable use of proxy-server for certain favorites
- - Support for Base, Digest and NTLM protected feeds
- - display HTTPS secure newsfeeds
- - Support for gzip-compressed Newsfeeds
-
- Internationalization Features:
-
- - Supported 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, Serbian, Croatian, Slovak
-
- Get in contact with the RSSOwl development team:
-
- Visit our homepage for latest product news, a growing FAQ, and other helpful information:
- http://www.rssowl.org
-
- Visit our forum for bugreports, feature requests, development or general dicussion:
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=86683
-
- Latest file releases can be downloaded from the RSSOwl project area on SourceForge:
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86683
-
- Join our public mailing list
- http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/rssowl-users
-
- Join the IRC
- #rssowl on irc.freenode.net
-
- Contact the main developer and project admin
- bpasero@rssowl.org
-
- Interested to translate RSSOwl to new languages? Feel free to contact us!
-
- System Requirements
- -------------------
-
- Java 2 Runtime Environment 1.4.x or higher
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Unpack the *.zip-File in a directory of your choice.
- See INSTALL.txt for more detailed help!
-
- Start
- -----
-
- Windows
- -------
- Just doubleclick the rssowl.jar or execute "rssowl.exe".
-
- Accepted parameters of rssowl.exe are:
-
- o -vm <Path to Java Home Directory>
- -> Specifies the VM to use for RSSOwl
-
- o -profile <Path to existing Directory>
- -> Will create the profile that contains all settings and feeds in the given dir
-
- o -url <URL>
- -> Will load the URL as newsfeed inside RSSOwl
-
- o -showSplash <'true' or 'false'>
- -> Will hide the Splashscreen in case 'false' is supplied
-
-
- COMPILING THE SOURCECODE:
- -------------------------
- There is a build.xml in the src directory. If you have installed ANT (http://ant.apache.org) go to the src directory und run "ant".
-
- CREDITS:
- --------
-
- RSSOwl development team:
-
- Benjamin Pasero (Developer / Project Admin and Manager)
- Kay Patzwald (RPM Packager)
- Tobias Eichert (Web Designer)
-
- Special thanks to:
-
- Jesse Ross (RSSOwl Artwork)
- Garry Forbes (Doc Writer / Tutorial)
- Christophe Dumez Translator (I18N)
- Geon Goo (I18N)
- Marcelo B. (I18N)
- Merlin Ran (I18N)
- Tonny Bredsgaard (I18N)
- Jose Dominguez (I18N)
- Claudio Fontana (I18N)
- Joris Kluivers (I18N)
- Jacaranda Bill (I18N)
- Sergey Rozenblat (I18N)
- Ruben (I18N)
- Marcelo Fenoll Ramal Tradutor (I18N)
- Valeri Damianov (I18N)
- Eivind Syverts (I18N)
- Takashi Komatsubara (I18N)
- Ryszard Sierotnik (I18N)
- Omi Azad (I18N)
- Patrik Johansson (I18N)
- Jerry Giant (I18N)
- Samu Reinikainen (I18N)
- Alexandr (I18N)
- Lukas Petrovicky (I18N)
- Jure Zemlji─ì (I18N)
- Engin Erenturk (I18N)
- Toon Geens (I18N)
- Alan Cheng (I18N)
- Balázs (I18N)
- Christian Hochhold (I18N)
- Patipat Susumpow (I18N)
- Aleksandar Urošević (I18N)
- Vlado Jasaň (I18N)
- Neven Zitek (I18N)
- Konstantin Zadorozhny (Very Good Ideas)
- John Tey
- Mark Woodman
- Dane W. Smith
- Andre Weinand (Getting it right on the Mac :-) )
-
- Make a donation:
- ----------------
- RSSOwl is free software and you may use it without paying for it.
- If you like the tool, and want to contribute, a donation is possible
- via paypal, following this URL:
- http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=86683
-
- Thanks!