![]() ![]() To me, it just seemed like a bunch of people simply recording shows of specific interest into MP3 files for people to download and listen to. So I started looking into this Podcast phenomenon and at first couldn’t really understand what the big deal was. As is always the case, when Matt starts preaching about something, I start listening, since many times, he’s onto something. My good friend Matt introduced me to Podcasts a few months ago, telling me how they had totally changed his listening habits, to the point where he had stopped listening to regular radio except for the occasional traffic report now and then. Until then, I remain faithful to Bloglines. “Preferences” allow to change fonts, languages, colors, hotkeys and a lot more.Īll in all, RSSOwl 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. Place RSSOwl into the system tray on minimization.Simply enter the website containing links to newsfeeds into the feed-discovery and RSSOwl will show all the newsfeeds it has found.The integrated newsfeed-search engine allows to search for newsfeeds by keyword.A lot of search-options make RSSOwl a powerful application to search inside a newsfeed or an entire category.Choose between a 2-column and a 3-column layout. ![]() Export the content into one of the formats PDF, RTF or HTML.Built-in internal browser to read news that contain HTML.Bookmark your favorite newsfeeds in nested categories.Import your favorite newsfeeds using the OPML format.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. It’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. First off, it’s Open Source and as such is freely available. Now, if I needed to install an RSS reader, RSSOwl () is definitely the client I would use. Whenever I can avoid installing another client on any of my computers is a blessing. My RSS reader of choice is currently Bloglines it meets all my needs, is always accessible from any computer/browser I’m using at any point in time, and all the RSS data and fetching processes is conducted by the Bloglines servers.
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