RSSOwl 1.1 final has just been released. I’ve become a fan of this RSS/RDF/Atom reader for a number of reasons, and now I have a few more:

• A ToolBar that contains most common actions like “Goto next unread News” or “Mark All Read”
• The new Quicksearch allows to search inside a Newsfeed while typing
• Import Blogrolls from popular services like Bloglines and synchronize the list of Newsfeeds
• Popup Blocker for the Internal Browser
• Usage of Apache’s HttpClient allows to access Newsfeeds that are protected with Basic or Digest authentification
• A lot of Usability and Interface Improvements
• A lot of Bugfixes including Performance and Memory-Consumption Tuning

I was hopeful this release would support NTLM-authenticated feeds, but this functionality has been delayed. I’ve been trading emails with the lead developer, and he’s planning on making NTLM a priority in the 1.1.1 release.

Anyway, one of the neat features in RSSOwl is the “Discover Newsfeeds on a Website.” Rather than mess around with finding RSS chicklets on a blog page (or worse yet, cracking open the HTML to look for <link rel=”alternate” … />), this dialog will do the work for you. Press the “Import” button, and the selected feeds will drop right into RSSOwl. Nice.

Also see: The official announcement.

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