RSSOwl - A Java RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader - May the owl be with you

Help wanted: Design the new website for RSSOwl 2.0

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:12:24 +0200

Looking for a cool opportunity to show your skills as web designer? Take a look at the 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.

Work on Milestone 9 has started

Sat, 03 May 2008 22:05:14 +0200

One of the first steps in this new milestone is to move on to using Eclipse 3.4. Some of the cool benefits doing so is the ability to automatically retrieve proxy settings from the operating system (including proxy scripts that are popular in companies). Check out our 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!

RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 8a released

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:47:43 +0200

This release fixes a number of issues from milestone 8. We recommend to upgrade to this new version.

RSSOwl 2.0 M8a now available

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:54:43 +0100

We are happy to announce that the next milestone of RSSOwl 2.0 is now available for 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.

RSSOwl 2.0 M8 RC1 available for testing

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:35:51 +0100

Milestone 8 is around the corner with great new features and we want to make sure to provide a stable release. That's why we ask for your help in giving this release candidate a try and to 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!.

RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 7 released!

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:49:17 +0100

We are happy to announce that the next milestone of RSSOwl 2.0 is now available for 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.

How to use Mozilla as Browser in RSSOwl?

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:06:20 +0100

Both RSSOwl 1.x and 2.x support Mozilla (XULRunner) as embedded browser on windows. Follow these steps to make it happen:

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

RSSOwl 1.2.4 released

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:26:40 +0100

The RSSOwl Team is happy to announce that RSSOwl 1.2.4 is now available for download. Among minor new features and a couple of bugfixes, this release comes with better support for Windows Vista, the ability to 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

See what's hot in upcoming RSSOwl 2.0 M7

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:43:53 +0200

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...

RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 6 is out!

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:19:06 +0200

We are happy to announce that the next milestone of RSSOwl 2.0 is now available for 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.

RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 5a is released

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:18:34 +0200

This release addresses some bugs in the previous version as well as providing support for connections through a proxy server. The full list of changes is available from here and downloads are available from boreal.rssowl.org.

Ben

Flash demo of RSSOwl 2.0 M5 now available

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:19:49 +0100

I am back from the EclipseCon (it was just great) and finally had enough time to upload the flash demo. You can watch it from boreal.rssowl.org. Make sure to turn audio volume on!

Ben

RSSOwl 2.0 Milestone 5 now available for download

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:09:40 +0100

We are happy to announce the availability of 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

Announcing RSSOwl 2.0

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:35:20 +0100

A lot of users might have already heard me speaking about the 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.

EclipseCon 2007

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:33:01 +0100

I am attending the EclipseCon next week in Santa Clara. If you can make it there, here is my list of recommended tracks.

On Tuesday you will find me in the exhibition hall at the booths of the opensource pavillion where I will demo RSSOwl and answer questions about upcoming RSSOwl 2.0.

Wednesday begins with a short talk about What's new in SWT 3.3. Later on that day I am giving a 40 minute demo of RSSOwl 2.0.

And on Thursday I am talking about The new JFace ColumnViewer API in Eclipse 3.3. Directly afterwards I am joining a panel about Usability and User Interface Best Practices in Eclipse.

That will be an exciting week :-)