RSS Guard 4.5.1

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 4.5.1 changelog:

Added

• Completely new, custom "toast" notifications:
• Configurable position on screen.
• Can be displayed on secondary screens.
• Automatically adopts look of currently active RSS Guard skin.
• Can be close via close corner button or via Esc keyboard button.
• When hovered with mouse, notification stays shown, when not hovered, it is automatically hidden after 15 seconds.
• Displays list of newly fetched articles and offers some basic actions like marking as read, showing in article list or in web browser.
• These notifications do not need "tray icon" to be activated.
• Can be tweaked in Notifications section of settings.
• pdb debugging file is now distributed with RSS Guard on Windows.
• NPM packages updated to latest versions.

Fixed

• AppData file now does not contain pre> tags.
• HTTP redirection cycles are now solved.
• Web cache is now stored in correct directory on Linux. (#1098)
• Fixed behavior of Google-based phrase suggestion in web browser navigation text box.
• Many different features of RSS Guard got minor fixes, some parts of source code were refactored. Particularly, one nasty "semi-bug" was fixed which influenced speed of article switching in article list. It should now be faster. Much faster.
• Article counting for "regex queries" is now disabled because this was very performance-hungry even with small number of regex queries, sadly.
• Translations of some languages are now more complete.
• Some unused source code was removed.
• Some unused deps were removed.

Download: RSS Guard 4.5.1 (64-bit) | 91.4 MB (Open Source)
Link: RSS Guard Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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