{"id":115,"date":"2006-01-05T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T13:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/2006\/01\/05\/rssowl-platform-independent-standalone-rss-reader\/"},"modified":"2006-02-04T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T18:35:06","slug":"rssowl-platform-independent-standalone-rss-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"RSSOwl &#8211; Platform Independent Standalone RSS Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My RSS reader of choice is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\">Bloglines<\/a>; it meets all my needs, is always accessible from any computer\/browser I&#8217;m using at any point in time, and all the RSS data and fetching processes is conducted by the Bloglines servers. Whenever I can avoid installing another client on any of my computers is a blessing.<br \/>\nNow, if I needed to install an RSS reader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rssowl.org\">RSSOwl<\/a> (http:\/\/www.rssowl.org) is definitely the client I would use. First off, it&#8217;s Open Source and as such is freely available. It&#8217;s available for many system architectures I use, such as Linux, Mac OSX, Windows and Solaris, with an emphasis to keep the same look and feel across all of these. The one negative point I have is that being a Java application, it depends on having a properly installed working copy of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on the computer you intend to install it on.<br \/>\nRSSOwl has a long list of features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Import<\/strong> your favorite newsfeeds using the OPML format.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bookmark your favorite newsfeeds<\/strong> in nested categories.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Import Blogrolls<\/strong> into RSSOwl.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Built-in<\/strong> internal <strong>browser<\/strong> to read news that contain HTML.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Export<\/strong> the content into one of the formats <strong>PDF<\/strong>, <strong>RTF<\/strong> or <strong>HTML<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose between a <strong>2-column<\/strong> and a <strong>3-column<\/strong> layout.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of <strong>search-options<\/strong> make RSSOwl a powerful application to search inside a newsfeed or an entire category.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>integrated newsfeed-search engine<\/strong> allows to search for newsfeeds by keyword.<\/li>\n<li>Simply enter the website containing links to newsfeeds into the <strong>feed-discovery<\/strong> and RSSOwl will show all the newsfeeds it has found.<\/li>\n<li>Place RSSOwl into the <strong>system tray<\/strong> on minimization.<\/li>\n<li>RSSOwl is highly customizable. <strong>&#8220;Preferences&#8221;<\/strong> allow to change fonts, languages, colors, hotkeys and a lot more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rssowl.org\">RSSOwl<\/a> is the feature-rich reader that will definitely become my stand-alone reader of choice, when the need\/time for such a thing comes around in my case. Until then, I remain faithful to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\">Bloglines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My RSS reader of choice is currently Bloglines; it meets all my needs, is always accessible from any computer\/browser I&#8217;m using at any point in time, and all the RSS data and fetching processes is conducted by the Bloglines servers. Whenever I can avoid installing another client on any of my computers is a blessing. 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