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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. Honest question - please hear me out. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is an honest question and not an attempt to troll or bait. (Posted AC because I fear gettting moded to hell)

    What can an RSS/Atom reader do for me?

    I have no problem browsing my favorite sites once or twice a day, and enjoy doing so. What am I missing out on?

  2. This or bloglines? by l0rd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've just recently discovered bloglines after using firefox & sage to keep up with my many RSS feeds.

    Can anyone enlighten me as to if (and if so why) one should be using this instead of bloglines? This is not bashing, I'm just interested into what people use and why.

  3. Re:Why a whole seperate program? by jacoplane · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To answer my own question, I guess privacy issues could play a role here. If I am subscribing to controversial feeds, I might not want some big corporation to know about that. Still, I think I'd rather run some sort of server-based system on my own box than run this application. Does anyone know if such a system exists?

  4. Interesting icon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone else find the icon quite similar to another popular icon?