2008-05-14T23:58:31+02:00 http://www.rssowl.org/node/249 2009-05-28T20:04:26+02:00 2009-05-28T20:06:23+02:00
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News Filter - apply actions on news automatically

New quick way of assigning Labels to News

Support for Phrase Searches

Improved Notifier

Multi Tabbed Browsing

Improved and secured embedded browser

Secure credentials with a master password

Automatically detect proxy settings (Windows)

a total of 107 bugs fixed

Download for: Windows | Linux | Linux 64Bit | Mac

A flash demo showing the new features in action is available as well.

For more information on RSSOwl 2.0, please visit boreal.rssowl.org.

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/245 2009-01-17T23:54:55+01:00 2009-01-18T00:00:29+01:00
Here is a list of noteworthy features I added the past days:

• Play a Sound on incoming news
• Re-Order Labels
• New color picker for Labels

Stay tuned!

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/243 2008-11-20T20:40:03+01:00 2008-11-20T21:56:35+01:00

As you can see, three sets (Home, Work, Vacation) have been created by using the Manage Bookmark-Sets action from the bookmarks view. Each set contains a list of bookmarks. You can switch between sets using the two yellow arrows in the toolbar of the view. Navigating between sets will make the list of subscriptions reduce to only those that are part of the selected set. You can move bookmarks to other sets either by opening the Properties of the bookmark and changing its location, or dragging it into another set inside the opened Manage Bookmark-Sets dialog.

Sets can also be useful if you have some bookmarks that you want to keep, but remove from your active set of subscriptions. Simply move them to another set. Once you changed your mind, you can move those bookmarks back to your active set.

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/242 2008-11-13T11:55:16+01:00 2008-11-13T12:00:27+01:00 Bug 943 will be famous for having so many duplicates. In short, it will make the user experience of the embedded browser much better on Windows. Most importantly, beginning with M9, JavaScript will be disabled by default (you can enable it again in preferences if necessary). This should make it much easier to use RSSOwl in areas, where IE is not allowed due to security concerns. Note that you can always switch over to using Mozilla inside RSSOwl, even on Windows.

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/241 2008-11-10T10:39:42+01:00 2008-11-10T10:48:32+01:00

To enable tabbed browsing in RSSOwl, open preferences and find the Miscellaneous section. Enable Show multiple tabs side by side and decide on the maximum of tabs to show below. This option greatly reduces the clutter of opened tabs by limiting the maximum number of tabs that will show at the same time. That's it. From now on you can have multiple feeds and websites open at the same time!

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/240 2008-11-06T21:49:13+01:00 2008-11-06T21:54:04+01:00 54 bugs and comes with 11 noteworthy new features. Stay tuned for more info on the preview!

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We think this is a great way of staying in touch with areas of your interest. You should give it a try!

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/238 2008-10-17T19:59:41+02:00 2008-10-17T20:06:46+02:00 Java Quick Starter included. According to Sun, this features improves the cold startup time of Java applications (e.g. after a system boot).

I gave it a try and was able to speed up the startup time by 30%. Note that the quick starter is not running in case your notebook is running on battery power. Also note that as far as I know, this service is only provided on Windows XP.

Grab the update from here.

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The notifier feature in RSSOwl is capable of informing you as soon as news are downloaded. It can easily be enabled from the "Notifier" entry in preferences. Enabling this feature will show notifications for any downloaded news from all of your subscriptions.

Now, consider you only want to be notified about news that match a specific search (e.g. all news that contain a certain word or where the author is a specific person). Simply create this search as "Saved Search" with the desired conditions and set the Notifier to only show notifications for this search in preferences.

As soon as News Filters are implemented, this feature will even be easier to use.
Stay tuned for milestone 9!

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/235 2008-10-09T09:34:51+02:00 2008-10-09T09:39:26+02:00 news filters. The concept is already known to many mail clients and will allow you to let RSSOwl perform certain actions automatically on news that match a search criteria. Think about these useful actions:

• Automatically assign Tags
• Move or Copy news to bins
• Set a news to sticky
• and more

I will post progress on this feature over the next weeks. Our current plan is to release Milestone 9 somewhat end of November.

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/234 2008-09-18T23:01:03+02:00 2008-10-07T09:35:45+02:00 nightly build. Usually, these builds are stable enough to be used everyday. For the future, we will have a look at supporting phrase searches. This will allow for even more powerful search conditions where one can search for word phrases instead of just single words. Stay tuned for more to come in the near future! Update: Phrase search is now implemented and will be part of the upcoming M9 release!

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/233 2008-09-18T20:12:20+02:00 2008-09-18T21:13:53+02:00 Excelsior just posted the results of their new Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 2. With Excelsior JET it is possible to compile a Java application to native code. RSSOwl was chosen to be one of the demo RCP applications that are compiled natively. You can read more about it here. They also offer a download, but keep in mind that we have not yet fully tested the native version of RSSOwl. Also, it appears that the installation is limited in time until 6.5 final is released. Thanks to Excelsior for choosing RSSOwl as application to show the capabilities of JET!

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/232 2008-08-13T21:17:13+02:00 2008-08-13T21:24:55+02:00 Milestone 8a has been out in the wild for a while now and I wanted to give a quick update on what nightly versions of Milestone 9 are already providing as new features and bugfixes:

• Secure credentials with a master password
• Automatic proxy detection
• Support for Firefox 3 and XULRunner 1.9
• 27 bugfixes and features so far

In case you have troubles running RSSOwl 2.0 M8a on Linux, make sure to give the nightly a try! We do the best to keep the nightlies stable and usable. As usual when using nightlies, make sure to backup your profile folder. See the FAQ for more details.

Read the full article]]> bpasero http://www.rssowl.org/node/231 2008-05-14T23:55:03+02:00 2008-05-14T23:58:31+02:00 Community Choice Awards are now open for nominations. If you like RSSOwl and want us to be part of this competition, please nominate RSSOwl.

Thanks, Ben

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