/* ********************************************************************** ** ** Copyright notice ** ** ** ** (c) 2003-2008 RSSOwl Development Team ** ** http://www.rssowl.

org/ ** ** ** ** All rights reserved ** ** ** ** This program and the accompanying materials are made available under ** ** the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this ** ** distribution, and is available at: ** ** http://www.rssowl.org/legal/epl-v10.html ** ** ** ** A copy is found in the file epl-v10.html and important notices to the ** ** license from the team is found in the textfile LICENSE.txt distributed ** ** in this package. ** ** ** ** This copyright notice MUST APPEAR in all copies of the file! ** ** ** ** Contributors: ** ** RSSOwl - initial API and implementation (bpasero@rssowl.org) ** ** ** ** ********************************************************************** */ Welcome to RSSOwl Version 1.2.4 (Windows Release) ------------------------------------------------Thanks for choosing RSSOwl! See below, to read why you made a good download :o) RSSOwl is a free RSS / RDF / Atom newsreader written in Java using SWT as graphi c library. RSS ("Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary") is a document specifica tion that gives users the power to collect and organize Web-based news and informatio n in a more efficient manner. Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators". RSSOwl is such an application. It lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenien t, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewi ng and sharing, and much more. RSSOwl is also free, fast, cross-platform, and unobtrusive. It's easy to install , easy to use, and easy to move. Why "Owl"? The owl is a traditional symbol of wisdom, and a quiet, efficient hun ter. You'll find RSSOwl's "big eyes" a big help when scanning the Web's vast array of RSS resources. Top Features why you should use RSSOwl: o High performance and native Look and Feel that uses the operation-system G UI theme

o Great platform support: Use RSSOwl on Windows, Linux (32 and 64 Bit), Mac and Solaris o Import / Export newsfeeds with OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) o Generate PDF / RTF / HTML documents from any news including aggregations o Use drag and drop to manage your favorites in unlimited nested categories o Powerfull Newsfeed searchengine working with keywords o Powerfull searchengine to discover newsfeeds on any website o Integrated Newsfeed validator o Newsfeeds are automatically stored in an archive to read them while being offline e s o Minimize RSSOwl to system tray and get informed when new news are availabl o Perform a fulltext-search with result-highlight on favorites and categorie

o RSSOwl is highly customizable (set Fonts, Hotkeys, Language, customize Too lbar) o Display news in the internal browser (IE, Mozilla and Safari supported) o More than two-hundred sample feeds in 33 categories already included o RSSOwl is translated into 31 languages including English, Russian, Chinese , German and much more o Big Tutorial and FAQ to help you manage your new newsreader General Features: - Full support for RSS & RDF versions 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 and A tom versions 0.3 & 1.0 - also supporting OPML Format 1.0 - Import Blogrolls and synchronize them - Display RSS / RDF / Atom newsfeeds in a comfortable tabfolder - Read news either in the internal browser or a Rich Text window - Aggregate news of an entire category to one newstab - Store newsfeeds in subscriptions and share them with other peo ple - Open the link to the news in an internal browser tab - Support for the feed:// Protocol while using the internal Brow ser - Save newsfeeds to read them while being offline - Mail NewsTip to friends - Blog news viewed in RSSOwl with your favorite blogging tool - Integrated newsfeed validator - Print news - Minimize application to tray - All settings are saved and reloaded after startup - Huge list of sample Newsfeeds pre-saved

- Update-check to get informed when a new version is released Usability Features: - RSSOwl remembers read news even after restart - Let RSSOwl open certain newsfeeds on startup automatically - Toolbar including common actions like "Next unread news" and " - Quicksearch to easily search a feed while typing - Select a Scope for your search, e.g. search all News for MP3-P Popup Blocker for the internal Browser Hotkeys assigned to most common actions Easy navigation in news and opened tabs Context-menus assigned to most components Drag and drop to manage favorites Drop Links from other applications into RSSOwl to create new F

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Customization Features: Customize the Toolbar to fit your needs Change fonts Update assigned hotkeys Change internal window sizes Change colors Choose between two window-layouts: 2-column and 3-column arran

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- Set your favorite browser to use with RSSOwl Management Features: Save favorite newsfeeds in categories Select an auto-update-interval for your favorites Erroneous favorites are marked View properties of a selected favorite

Import / Export Features: - Import / Export favorite newsfeeds using OPML (Outline Process or Markup Language) - Import / Export your settings in RSSOwl to use them on another computer Connection Features: Switch between Offline- and Online-Mode Connection through Proxy Server supported Disable use of proxy-server for certain favorites Support for Base, Digest and NTLM protected feeds display HTTPS secure newsfeeds Support for gzip-compressed Newsfeeds

Internationalization Features: - Supported Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Galici an, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Japanese, Chin

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Swedish, Polish, Korean, Bengali, Norwegian, Finnish, Chinese Traditional, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovenian, Turkish, Hungarian, Thai, Serbian, Croatian, Slovak, Armenian Get in contact with the RSSOwl development team: Visit our homepage for latest product news, a growing FAQ, and other hel pful information: http://www.rssowl.org Visit our forum for bugreports, feature requests, development or general dicussion: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=86683 Latest file releases can be downloaded from the RSSOwl project area on S ourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86683 Join our public mailing list http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/rssowl-users Join the IRC #rssowl on irc.freenode.net Contact the main developer and project admin bpasero@rssowl.org Interested to translate RSSOwl to new languages? Feel free to contact us! System Requirements ------------------Java 2 Runtime Environment 1.4.x or higher Installation -----------Unpack the *.zip-File in a directory of your choice. See INSTALL.txt for more detailed help! Start ----Windows ------Just doubleclick the rssowl.jar or execute "rssowl.exe". Accepted parameters of rssowl.exe are: o -vm <Path to Java Home Directory> -> Specifies the VM to use for RSSOwl o -profile <Path to existing Directory> -> Will create the profile that contains all settings and feeds in the given dir o -url <URL> -> Will load the URL as newsfeed inside RSSOwl

o -showSplash <'true' or 'false'> -> Will hide the Splashscreen in case 'false' is supplied COMPILING THE SOURCECODE: ------------------------There is a build.xml in the src directory. If you have installed ANT (http://ant .apache.org) go to the src directory und run "ant". CREDITS: -------RSSOwl development team: Benjamin Pasero Kay Patzwald Tobias Eichert Special thanks to: Jesse Ross Garry Forbes Christophe Dumez Translator Geon Goo Marcelo B. Merlin Ran Tonny Bredsgaard Jose Dominguez Claudio Fontana Joris Kluivers Jacaranda Bill Sergey Rozenblat Ruben Marcelo Fenoll Ramal Tradutor Valeri Damianov Eivind Syverts Takashi Komatsubara Ryszard Sierotnik Omi Azad Patrik Johansson Jerry Giant Samu Reinikainen Alexandr Lukas Petrovicky Jure Zemlji Engin Erenturk Toon Geens Alan Cheng Balzs Christian Hochhold Patipat Susumpow Aleksandar Uroevi Vlado Jasa Neven Zitek Vardan Movsisyan Konstantin Zadorozhny John Tey Mark Woodman Dane W. Smith Andre Weinand (RSSOwl Artwork) (Doc Writer / Tutorial) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (I18N) (Very Good Ideas) (Developer / Project Admin and Manager) (RPM Packager) (Web Designer)

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Make a donation: ---------------RSSOwl is free software and you may use it without paying for it. If you like the tool, and want to contribute, a donation is possible via paypal, following this URL: http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=86683 Thanks!