RSSOwl - A Java RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader - May the owl be with you 2007-02-26T12:50:40+01:00 Nominate RSSOwl for Community Choice Awards at SourceForge! 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]]> bpasero Help wanted: Design the new website for RSSOwl 2.0 http://www.rssowl.org/node/230 2008-05-07T09:12:24+02:00 2008-05-07T09:17:18+02:00 Job I just posted over at SourceForge. It's all about creating the next generation of rssowl.org for RSSOwl 2.0. If you are interested, please contact me directly.]]> bpasero Work on Milestone 9 has started http://www.rssowl.org/node/229 2008-05-03T22:05:14+02:00 2008-05-03T22:12:44+02:00 nightlies if you can not wait until the final release.

As you can see from our roadmap, the top items for milestone 9 are
  • Scalability of the feed view
  • News Filter
The former should make it possible to display even thousands of news at once, without noticable slowdown. Think about showing the contents of a folder instantly as soon as you select it.

News Filter should will be fun. You will be able to define search-conditions and bind them to a certain action. E.g. showing the notifier, whenever a certain condition is true, or automatically labeling a news based on a condition.

Stay tuned for more info on the progress of M9!]]> bpasero RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 8a released http://www.rssowl.org/node/228 2008-04-26T20:47:43+02:00 2008-04-26T20:48:59+02:00 issues from milestone 8. We recommend to upgrade to this new version.]]> bpasero RSSOwl 2.0 M8a now available http://www.rssowl.org/node/227 2008-03-09T20:54:43+01:00 2008-04-26T20:57:50+02:00 download. This release comes with some very cool features:
  • Copy or Move News into Bins
  • Create Keyword Subscriptions (e.g. del.icio.us)
  • Undo/Redo now available for most operations
  • Display all feeds of a folder at once
  • Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
  • 100 bugs fixed
Download for: Windows | Linux | Linux 64Bit | Mac

A flash demo showing the new features in action is available as well. If you have used previous versions of RSSOwl 2.0, make sure to read the notes on how to update to milestone 8a.

For more information on RSSOwl 2.0, please visit boreal.rssowl.org.]]> bpasero RSSOwl 2.0 M8 RC1 available for testing http://www.rssowl.org/node/226 2008-02-28T21:35:51+01:00 2008-03-09T21:21:40+01:00 report any issues back to us. To help you make the decision to play around with M8 RC1, here is a list of some of the cool new features:
  • Copy or Move News into Bins
  • Create Keyword Subscriptions (e.g. del.icio.us)
  • Undo/Redo now available for most operations
  • Display all feeds of a folder at once
  • Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
  • More than 80 bugs fixed
Update: Thanks for testing, M8 is now available!.]]> bpasero RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 7 released! http://www.rssowl.org/node/220 2007-12-19T13:49:17+01:00 2008-02-28T21:38:47+01:00 download. This release comes with some very cool features:
  • Manage Labels
  • Clean Up Wizard for Feeds and News
  • New Location-Condition for searches
  • Preview of search results with highlight
  • Overhauled notifier showing excerpt of news
  • More than 100 bugs and features fixed
Download for: Windows | Linux | Linux 64Bit | Mac

A flash demo showing the new features in action is available as well. If you have used previous versions of RSSOwl 2.0, make sure to read the notes on how to update to milestone 7.

For more information on RSSOwl 2.0, please visit boreal.rssowl.org.]]> bpasero How to use Mozilla as Browser in RSSOwl? http://www.rssowl.org/node/219 2007-12-05T17:06:20+01:00 2007-12-05T17:09:01+01:00
  • Download XULRunner
  • Execute "xulrunner --register-global" from the command line
    • That's it. From now on, RSSOwl will use XULRunner instead of the Internet Explorer. Ben]]>     bpasero     RSSOwl 1.2.4 released http://www.rssowl.org/node/218 2007-11-26T15:26:40+01:00 2007-11-28T22:39:11+01:00 use Mozilla as embedded Browser on Windows and some improvements to the embedded Browser on Mac OS X. See the changelog for a complete list of changes.

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

    If you want to benefit from many new cool features, you should give RSSOwl 2 a try. Its currently in beta stadium but already fully functional. Visit boreal.rssowl.org for more details.
    Ben]]>     bpasero     See what's hot in upcoming RSSOwl 2.0 M7 http://www.rssowl.org/node/217 2007-10-01T09:43:53+02:00 2007-10-01T10:13:54+02:00 We have been very busy working on the next milestone 7 of RSSOwl 2 and made some great progress. Here is a sneak preview of four of the hottest new features. Expect M7 to be released in november. Read more...

    Clean Up

    With M7 you will be able to run the Clean-Up Wizard across your feeds. It supports a couple of operations that will help you manage your subscriptions. The screenshot shows the overview page that you can use to review and approve the operations.

    Clean Up


    Search Location

    Saved searches are now even more powerful. A new condition Location has been added that allows you to limit search results to certain folders or bookmarks.

    Search Location


    Manage Labels

    It is finally possible to manage the labels in RSSOwl. You can add new labels and modify existing ones. In addition you can now assign any number of labels to news and not just one.

    Clean Up


    Notifier per Feed

    For the notifier in RSSOwl you can now decide to only show it for certain folders or bookmarks.

    Clean Up

    ]]>     bpasero     RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 6 is out! http://www.rssowl.org/node/216 2007-06-07T23:19:06+02:00 2007-12-19T13:53:28+01:00 download. This release comes with some very cool features:
    • Live update of saved searches
    • Notification popup when receiving news
    • Faster search and relevance indicator
    Download for: Windows | Linux | Linux 64Bit | Mac

    A flash demo showing the new features in action is available as well. If you have used previous versions of RSSOwl 2.0, make sure to read the notes on how to update to milestone 6.

    For more information on RSSOwl 2.0, please visit boreal.rssowl.org.]]>     bpasero     RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 5a is released http://www.rssowl.org/node/213 2007-03-25T22:18:34+02:00 2007-03-25T22:53:17+02:00 here and downloads are available from boreal.rssowl.org.

    Ben]]>     bpasero     Flash demo of RSSOwl 2.0 M5 now available http://www.rssowl.org/node/212 2007-03-13T14:19:49+01:00 2007-03-13T14:21:47+01:00 boreal.rssowl.org. Make sure to turn audio volume on!

    Ben]]>     bpasero     RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 5 now available for download http://www.rssowl.org/node/211 2007-03-02T14:09:40+01:00 2007-03-02T14:12:46+01:00 RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 5. Keep in mind that this is a preview and not yet the final version. You will find more information and links to downloads from the new domain:

    http://boreal.rssowl.org

    Ben]]>     bpasero     Announcing RSSOwl 2.0 http://www.rssowl.org/node/210 2007-02-26T12:35:20+01:00 2007-02-26T12:50:40+01:00 next major version of RSSOwl in emails or the forum and wondered why there is no more information available here. Other people might have wondered why there hasn't been a RSSOwl 1.3 for the past year. Well, sorry for not blogging about this important news earlier, I am going to give you some details in this news!

    Actually the idea to work on a completly new RSSOwl was born back in Summer 2005. At that time it became clear to me that it was very hard to catch up with the features of other readers without redesigning everything. I teamed up with another developer (Ismael) to work on RSSOwl 2 from scratch. Our main goal is to provide a newsreader that is powerful, easy to extend and easy to use. We chose the Eclipse Rich Client Platform as framework and db4o as powerfull database to store all the news. In combination with the well-known full-text search engine Lucene, we are able to implement exciting new features.

    I will announce more details about a preview version for all to play with later this week. You will be able to either use RSSOwl 2 as standalone application, or add it as extension to your Eclipse.

    If you are attending the EclipseCon, I will be there too, giving a demo on RSSOwl 2.0 on Wednesday.]]>     bpasero