RSS Guard 5.1.2

RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. It's free, it's open-source. RSS Guard currently supports Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian. RSS Guard will never depend on other services - this includes online news aggregators like Feedly, The Old Reader and others.

RSS Guard is developed on top of the Qt library and it supports these operating systems:

• Windows
• GNU/Linux
• OS/2 (eComStation)
• Mac OS X
• xBSD (possibly)
• Android (possibly)
• other platforms supported by Qt

The core features of RSS Guard are:

• support for online feed synchronization via plugins,
• Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0).
• multiplatform,
• support for all feed formats,
• simplicity,
• import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0,
• downloader with own tab and support for up to 6 parallel downloads,
• message filter with regular expressions,
• feed metadata fetching including icons,
• simple Adblock functionality,
• customized popup notifications,
• Google-based auto-completion for internal web browser location bar,
• ability to cleanup internal message database with various options,
• enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
• multiple data backend support,
• SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
• MySQL.
• is able to specify target database by its name (MySQL backend),
• “portable” mode support with clever auto-detection,
• feed categorization,
• drap-n-drop for feed list,
• automatic checking for updates,
• ability to discover existing feeds on websites,
• full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
• ability to backup/restore database or settings,
• fully-featured recycle bin,
• printing of messages and any web pages,
• can be fully controlled via keyboard,
• feed authentication (Digest-MD5, BASIC, NTLM-2),
• handles tons of messages & feeds,
• sweet look & feel,
• fully adjustable toolbars (changeable buttons and style),
• ability to check for updates on all platforms + self-updating on Windows,
• hideable main menu, toolbars and list headers,
• KFeanza-based default icon theme + ability to create your own icon themes,
• fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
• “newspaper” view,
• plenty of skins,
• support for "feed://" URI scheme,
• ability to hide list of feeds/categories,
• open-source development model based on GNU GPL license, version 3,
• tabbed interface,
• integrated web browser with adjustable behavior + external browser support,
• internal web browser mouse gestures support,
• desktop integration via tray icon,
• localizations to some languages,
• Qt library is the only dependency,
• open-source development model and friendly author waiting for your feedback,
• no ads, no hidden costs.

RSS Guard 5.1.2 changelog:

Added:

• Show URL of loaded website in status bar. (#2097)
• Article extractor now can be called with existing article HTML and thus can run Readability algorithm directly on the existing article data instead of downloading full source web page. (#2252)
• Auto-fetching articles can now be limited to times when a network connection is active. (#2211)
• Feed retrieval can now be skipped while Windows Game Mode is active. (#1230)
• Text-based article viewer can now load remote article images when external resources are enabled, cache them, and show the same article without images when external resources are disabled. (08a2127, 561f5b4, 7a179c4)
• Text-based article viewer can now display directly opened image files. (4c78196)
• Text-based article viewer can now show directly opened JSON files in readable form and render directly opened Markdown files.
• Updated Japanese translation. (#2262)

Fixed:

• Initial state of "web attributes" is properly set in WebEngine builds. (#2227)
• Fix some cases where link does not load in internal browser when clicked.
• Article filter action "Filter articles like this" now uses the article that was actually right-clicked after testing a filter. (#2139)
• Image attachments in articles now respect the configured height limit in both text-based and WebEngine-based viewers. (#2254, 8f4abac, bc247ad)
• Image context menu actions in the text-based viewer can again detect the image under the cursor, copy its URL, copy the image and save it. (c3902db)
• Relative links opened from the internal browser are now resolved against the currently loaded page before opening. (4c78196)
• Directly opened non-HTML text content is now displayed as text instead of being treated as HTML. (4c78196)

Download: RSS Guard 5.1.2 (64-bit) | Portable | ~ 100.0 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems | Screenshot

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