/* ********************************************************************** ** ** Copyright notice ** ** ** ** (c) 2003-2005 RSSOwl Development Team ** ** http://www.rssowl.org/ ** ** ** ** All rights reserved ** ** ** ** This program and the accompanying materials are made available under ** ** the terms of the Common Public License v1.0 which accompanies this ** ** distribution, and is available at: ** ** http://www.rssowl.org/legal/cpl-v10.html ** ** ** ** A copy is found in the file cpl-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 1.1.3 (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, Mac and Solaris 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,...) o Display news in the internal browser (IE, Mozilla and Safari supported) o More than hundred sample feeds in 33 categories already included o RSSOwl is translated into 27 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 - also supporting Atom Syndication Format version 0.3 and OPML 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 - 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 Customization Features: - 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: - 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: - 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 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 -> Specifies the VM to use for RSSOwl o -profile -> Will create the profile that contains all settings and feeds in the given dir o -url -> Will load the URL as newsfeed inside RSSOwl 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) Garry Forbes (Doc Writer / Tutorial) Christophe Dumez Translator (I18N) Geon Goo (I18N) Marcelo B. (I18N) Merlin Ran (I18N) Tobias Eichert (Web Designer) Kay Patzwald (Packager) Special thanks to: Jesse Ross (RSSOwl Artwork) 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 Zemljič (I18N) Engin Erenturk (I18N) Toon Geens (I18N) Alan Cheng (I18N) Balázs (I18N) Christian Hochhold (I18N) Patipat Susumpow (I18N) Konstantin Zadorozhny (Very Good Ideas) John Tey Mark Woodman 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!