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RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and 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.
History
RSSOwl began as small project on SourceForge at the end of July 2003. RSSOwl 1.0 was released on December 19 2004. RSSOwl was the SourceForge Project of the Month for January 2005. (http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2005-01.php)
Features
* Generate PDF / RTF / HTML documents from any news including aggregations
* Powerful Newsfeed search engine working with keywords
* Integrated Newsfeed validator
* Perform a fulltext-search with result-highlight on favorites and categories
* Full support for RSS & RDF versions 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0
* Support for Atom Syndication Format version 1.0
* Read news either in the internal browser or a Rich Text window
* Aggregate news of an entire category to one newstab
* Store newsfeeds in Blogrolls and share them with other people
* Mail NewsTip to friends
* Blog news viewed in RSSOwl with your favorite blogging tool
* Huge list of sample Newsfeeds pre-saved
* Save favorite newsfeeds in categories
* Select an auto-update-interval for your favorites
* Erroneous favorites are marked
* View properties of a selected favorite
* Authentification 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.
Internationalization
RSSOwl is translated into many 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 (Cyrillic), and Serbian (Latin).
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