RSSOwl – RSS, RDF, Atom Newsreader
What is RSSOwl?
Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or “aggregators.” RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl 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. It’s easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It’s platform-independent.
What is RSS?
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.
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 sources.
Top Features why you should use RSSOwl:
- High performance and native Look and Feel that uses the operation-system GUI theme
- Great platform support: Use RSSOwl on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris
- Import/Export newsfeeds with OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language)
- Generate PDF/RTF/HTML documents from any news
- Use drag and drop to manage your favorites in unlimited nested categories
- Loaded newsfeeds are automatically stored in an archive to read them while being offline
- Powerfull, integrated Newsfeed searchengine
- Perform a fulltext-search with result-syntaxhighlight
- AmphetaRate integration to rate news and receive recommendations
- RSSOwl is highly customizable (set Fonts, Hotkeys, Language,…)
- Display news in the internal browser
- Big Tutorial and FAQ to help you manage your new newsreader
Supported Languages: 26 (English, Russian, Chinese, German and much more). RSSOwl comes with a huge list of sample favorites. RSSOwl runs on Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Linux (GTK2), Mac OS X and Solaris.