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RSSOwl 1.2 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-rss-is-wrong-i-don't-wanna-be-right dept.

Benjamin Pasero over at RSSOwl.org wrote to tell us that they have released version 1.2 for their RSS/RDF/Atom newsfeed viewer. It looks like a lot of work has gone into this version. Some of the new features are; a fully customizable toolbar with new elements like 'History', new search scopes allow for more detailed searches, a new 'Linked Mode' to update selection in your favorites automatically, support for Atom 1.0 format, and quite a few others.

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  1. Where am I ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Freshmeat ??

  2. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pardon my French, but who the fuck cares? Why do I need to read about RSSOwl on Slashdot? I can understand reading about a new release of KDE or Gnome or the kernel or something, but a NEWS reader?

    Yawn.

    1. Re:Why? by Phwoar · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, I mean, after all, this isn't a news site.

  3. Is it any faster by wormeyman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problems i've had with a lot of rss readers is that they're SLOW because they use an xml database (opml file) the reader i use uses sql-lite or someother sql database for it's storage and while that causes problems when you shutdown the process without exiting properly it makes for an extermely fast rss reader.

  4. Is there any advantage over a web service? by peeping_Thomist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been using Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/ for about a year, and find it does a great job of aggregating rss, xml, atom and other kinds of feeds. I can move from machine to machine without a problem.

    Would there be any advantage in switching to something like rssowl or liferea?

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  5. Why is this on slashdot? by 55555+Manbabies! · · Score: 3, Insightful

    RSS is nice, but this software product is not really anything special or unique.

  6. RSS-OWL - Web Ontologies? by viksit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, am I the *only* on on /. who even thought about the semantic web and the Web Ontology language (OWL) when this post was announced? I for one assumed this had something to do with RSS and OWL - in my opinion, a name with double entendre.. Vik

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