Friday, October 06, 2006

GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 374) - Read All Your RSS Feeds in a Glimpse

gn picGreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 374) [Windows, Freeware, 900KB] is a free RSS news feed reader that features fast reading, news highlighting, and the ability to save & organize articles.

Recent changes:

  • Added: Plugin to use Microsoft LiveWriter with GreatNews BlogThis.
  • Added: "Work Offline" command added to tray popup menu
  • Added: Enabled XP theme in embedded browser
  • Added: Unlabel All command to Label context menu
  • Added: Treat all GreatNews generated pages as in Internet zone to reduce security risk.
  • Added: Several accessibility enhancements F6 sets focus to feed tree. F9 sets focus to news list. SHIFT+F10 and Application key to bring up context menu.
  • Added: New option to use a Label or Watch as GreatNews home page Tools->Options->General
  • Added: CTRL+DblClick in news list to open webpage in new tab. SHIFT+DblClick to open in new window
  • Added: 48*48, 64*64 GreatNews icons
  • Added: hidden option "MaxFeedSizeInK" to change maximum feed size. Default is 1000KB.
  • Fixed: a bug in handling Tim Bray's atom 1.0 feed.
  • Fixed: GreatNews doesn't set article status to unread when content was updated
  • Fixed: GreatNews treats FeedBurner modified article urls as rss feeds
  • Fixed: GreatNews reports "The page cannot be displayed" if a website has malformed links
  • Tentative Fix: compatibility issue with http://hosted.ap.org's feed, which generates new guid for existing items everytime.
  • Tentative Fix: Read item showing up as unread if its title has escaped characters.
  • Changed: feed detection is now using the standard RSS icon Ver 1.0 (Build 372)
  • Updated: Polish language pack
  • Updated: Turkish Language language pack
  • Updated: Traditional Chinese language pack

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