RSS Guard 4.2.2

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 4.2.2 changelog:

Added

• Feedly now supports intelligent synchronization algorithm, resulting in much faster sync.
• Feedly now decodes feed titles from HTML to plain text.
• New CLI "-w" option to force "nowebengine" behavior even in standard "webengine" RSS Guard builds.
• Article viewers are greatly refactored and internally use sane C++ interface - this allows this piece of RSS Guard to be expanded better in the future.
• "nowebengine" text-based article viewer now can display images. (#583)
• "nowebengine" text-based article viewer now can act as VERY SIMPLE web browser. It displays webpages in a simpler text-like fashion, it can follow hyperlinks, context menu offers more actions like downloading of links etc.
• Gmail plugin now has better e-mail viewer which also allows to "Forward" e-mails. It will be extended in the future even more. Also, e-mails are now sent in "HTML" mode.
• Data can be optionally exported to OPML 2.0 without icons. (#685)
• Added button into tray icon context menu to allow show/hide of main RSS Guard window. (#679)
• Article list filtering button is now greatly enhanced. Go to "Settings -> User interface -> Toolbars -> Toolbar for article list" and add "Article list filter" button to the toolbar.

Fixed

• If article does not provide sane date/time, replace with current date. This particularly concerned Gmail plugin.
• Added some missing icons, some icons changed.
• Some UI strings updated, translations updated too.
• "Licenses" page in "About" dialog was redesigned.
• Other minor fixes.

Download: RSS Guard 4.2.2 (64-bit) | Portable | ~70 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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