Thunderbird email client, updated to v3.11

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.11 (Windows, Open Source) is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser.

Changes:

• Several fixes to improve stability and security.
• Several fixes to the user interface.

If you didn’t know yet, you can access your Google Calendar using Thunderbird.

Mozilla Thunderbird site [alt download]

Thunderbird Email Client, updated to v3.1

Thunderbird 3.1 (alt DL) is a great email client that gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

Changes:

• Faster Search Results - Message indexing is faster and provides users with faster search results.
• Quick Filter Toolbar - New Quick Filter Toolbar lets you filter against search terms, tags, starred messages, address book contacts, new emails, and attachments.
• New Migration Assistant - The new Migration Assistant gives Thunderbird 2 users a way to choose the new features in Thunderbird 3.1 or to keep their current features and settings.
• Saved Files Manager - New Saved Files Manager displays all the files you downloaded from your email to your computer.
• Mail Account Setup Wizard - Hundreds of ISP settings have been added to make setting up Thunderbird easier.
• Improvements to Stability, Memory, and Password Handling

If you need an email client for your Windows desktop, this is the one I highly suggest.

FeedDemon Desktop News Reader, updated to 3.1.0.30

FeedDemon 3.1.0.30 (Windows, Freeware, 3.6MB) [alt DL] is a great way to view and manage your RSS feeds from your desktop. The easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to stay informed with the latest news and information.

Changes:

• Added: After you subscribe to a feed, FeedDemon now request the most recent 100 articles in that feed (regardless of date)
• Added: t.co and twt.tl added to short URL preview
• Changed: When using Options > Passwords to edit the login for a feed, FeedDemon now detects when you have multiple feeds in the same domain with the same login as the feed being edited, and if so prompts whether to change all their logins to match
• Changed: Content filter feed selection dialog can now be resized
• Changed: Per-feed prefetch options have been removed
• Changed: "Like" icon changed to "Thumbs Up" icon
• Changed: Search keyword is now automatically selected in "Search Subscriptions" dialog
• Fixed: SharePoint feeds fail to update due to bad ETags
• Fixed: Watches ignore items in "People I Follow"
• Fixed: Print and Print Preview dialogs fall behind main window when printing a FeedDemon newspaper
• Fixed: Feed, folder and item titles that begin with a number aren't sorted numerically when sorting by title

IceRocket Tags: feeddemon rss news reader

Feed Demon updated to 3.1.0.12 – Free News Reader for your Desktop

Feed Demon 3.1.0.12 (Windows, Freeware, 3.6MB) [alt DL] is a great way to view and manage your RSS feeds from your desktop. The easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to stay informed with the latest news and information.

Changes:

• Added:"Like" icon added to recommended articles
• Added:Facebook and Instapaper added to "Send To" menu
• Added:This month/last month added to subscription search
• Fixed:Performance loss when marking multiple items read
• Fixed:Future-dated posts appear in "Popular in My Subscriptions"
• Fixed:Feed list temporarily shows incorrect unread count after purging if the number of items to keep is less than the number of new items received

IceRocket Tags: feed demon, news reader, windows freeware

Feed Demon updated to v3.1.0.8 – Free News Reader for your Desktop

Feed Demon 3.1.0.8 (Windows, Freeware, 3.6MB) [alt DL] is a great way to view and manage your RSS feeds from your desktop. The easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to stay informed with the latest news and information. You can completely customize the way feeds are organized and displayed. Set up custom news watches based on keywords or use the powerful search to find articles. You can even download podcasts and audio files and have them show up on your portable audio device.



Changes:

• Added: "Shared by people I follow" displays articles shared by the people you follow in Google Reader
• Added: Content filters (Tools > Manage Content Filters) can be applied to individual feeds to automatically mark incoming items as read
• Added: New "Translate item" newspaper icon translates the item into your language. Items in synched feeds are translated inline, whereas items in non-synched feeds browse to Google Translate for the translation
• Added: Further synchronization optimizations, including significantly faster synching of shared items
• Added: Feed preview now uses a fixed header and enables toggling between full posts, summaries and headlines
• Added: "Choose newspaper icons" added to newspaper - enables quickly choosing which icons to show under each item
• Added: "Like" icon added to newspaper for synched feeds (what is this?). Note that this doesn't appear by default - you must enable it using the new "choose newspaper icons" gear icon.
• Added: "Remember my login" added to synchronization options (disable to require FeedDemon to ask for your login every time it starts)
• Added: Short url preview now supports goo.gl, youtu.be, fb.me, flic.kr, ow.ly and clicky.me
• Added: Print and print preview from the embedded browser now handle the active newspaper by expanding collapsed descriptions, hiding FeedDemon icons, etc.
• Added: "Send To" menu now includes Twitter
• Added: HTTP error report now enables re-checking a feed's status
• Changed: Search results now always use the default "Surfer" newspaper style
• Changed: Options-related items moved to submenu of Tools menu, import/export-related items moved to submenu of File menu
• Changed: When the newspaper is grouped by title, items are now sorted by date rather than by title (so newer items come first)
• Fixed: Unresponsiveness while updating feeds due to auto-purging of older items
• Fixed: Focused post not highlighted in newspaper when using silver theme
• Fixed: Incorrect sizing of embedded browser after display resolution or multi-monitor settings changed
• Fixed: Enclosure URL doesn't appear in status bar when mousing over enclosure icon
• Fixed: Application fails to correctly minimize to the tray after clicking a mouse button that has been assigned to the "minimize" action
• Fixed: Incorrect startup screen position on single-monitor system when taskbar docked to left
• Fixed: Items in disabled feeds still get added during resync
• Fixed: Unsharing a single item (ie: deleting it from your shared items) fails to sync
• Fixed: Duplicate YouTube videos may appear in "Popular in My Subscriptions" if they use different formats
• Fixed: Feeds with invalid/expired certificates silently fail to update
• Fixed: Tags assigned to posts in un-synched feeds may be lost after converting the feeds to sync
• Fixed: Twitter avatars display even when "optimize for low bandwidth" is enabled
• Fixed: Cleanup wizard enables choosing to cleanup watches even when none exist
• Fixed: Printing a FeedDemon newspaper crops the last line of text from each page
• Fixed: Timeout errors with non-synched feeds that use temporary redirects to a different host name
• Fixed: Connection reset errors with non-secure feeds that redirect to secure URL
• Fixed: Reading all unread items in a feed doesn't remove it from the desktop alert when the desktop alert is "pinned" (so that it's always showing)
• Fixed: Summaries shown in newspaper may be very short for articles with several long hyperlinks in the first few sentences

IceRocket Tags: feed demon, news reader, rss, windows freeware

Thunderbird Updated to 3.0.1 – Open Source Email Client

Thunderbird 3.0.1 (Windows, Open Source, 8.6MB) [alt DL] is a great email client from the same people who brought you the Firefox browser. It gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.

Changes:

• Several fixes to improve stability and security
• Several fixes to the user interface and attachment handling.

IceRocket Tags: thunderbird, windows open source

Thingamablog 1.1b6 - Blog App and RSS Reader

Thingamablog 1.1b6 (Windows, Open Source, 3.97MB) [download via SnapFiles] is a cross-platform, blogging application and RSS feed reader. It allows you to easily publish your own weblog without the need for any HTML knowledge. Unlike most other blog tools, it does not require the use of any third party services, but publishes the blog directly to the FTP server or network location that you specify.

The interface provides a neatly organized overview of your blogs and a word processor like interface to create new entries. You can chose from several professional template designs, and all you have to do is click a button and your blog will go online. In addition, the program also allows you to keep track of your favorites XML/RSS feeds with the integrated feed reader interface. It can also generate a RSS compatible version of your own blog and import entries from RSS/Atom feeds.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Improved WYSIWYG editing
• Added ability to post via email

Technorati Tags: thingamablog, blog, editor, rss, reader, windows, freeware, open source

GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 383) - Full Featured News Feed Reader

GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 383) (Windows, Freeware, 1.29MB ZIP version) is a free RSS news feed reader that features fast reading, news highlighting, and the ability to save & organize articles. Absolutely no adware/spyware, and doesn't need .NET or Java runtime.

Changes:

• Added: 3-column display mode for wide screen user
  View->Reading Pane
• Added: Hidden flag to allow multiple GreatNews running at the same time.
• Updated: Japanese Language Pack
• Changed: Upgrade database engine to latest version (again)
• Fixed: Updated articles were not saved. Only counters were updated.

Technorati : feed, freeware, greatnews, news, reader, rss, windows

GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 379) - Read Your News Feeds in a Glimpse

GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 379) (Windows, Freeware, 1.25MB) is a free RSS news feed reader that features fast reading, news highlighting, and the ability to save & organize articles. Absolutely no adware/spyware, and doesn't need .NET or Java runtime.

Recent changes:

• Changed: Upgraded GreatNews codebase to use VS2005. All libraries were upgraded to their latest versions. Several stability issues were solved.
• Fixed: Some correction to English language pack
• Fixed: GreatNews cannot track comments on Atom1.0 feed.
• Added: Vietnamese language pack

Technorati : atom, feed, freeware, greatnews, news, reader, rss, windows

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

GreatNews 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

Technorati : Feed, Freeware, GreatNews, RSS, Reader, Software, Windows

SharpReader 0.9.7.0 - Freeware RSS/Atom Aggregator

SharpReader 0.9.7.0 (Windows, Freeware, 800KB) [dl via Filehippo] is an RSS/Atom Aggregator with lots of features.

Recent changes:

• Run internal browser in restricted security zone in order to make IE responsible for blocking restricted content, instead of just doing so by parsing and stripping tags.
• Allow embedded CSS styles in item descriptions (was previously disabled because of javascript exploits that are now caught because of the security zone).
• Support both as well as as there was some confusion as to the proper capitalization of this element.
• Fixed linebreak handling for some feeds.
• Improved handling of relative urls in atom feeds.
• Now displaying enclosure links at the bottom of the item description.
• Fixed installer to no longer complain if only .NET 2.0 is installed.

Technorati: SharpReader, RSS, Atom, Feed, Reader, Windows, Software, Freeware, Utility

BitsCast for Windows XP/2003 0.10.0 - RSS Reader / Podcast Player with P2P

BitsCast for Windows XP/2003 0.10.0 (Windows, Freeware, 2.42MB) [via FileForum] is a RSS news reader/database and an audio/video podcast receiver/player supporting all Microsoft Media PlaysForSure mp3 devices, as well as iPod; includes BitTorrent plugin to process RSS+BT attachment.

Recent changes:

• Major bug fix for memory corruption in BitTorrent client implementation
• Better and persistant news list sorting algorithm
• Updated BitTorrent client library to version 0.10.0 release
• Better compatibility for opml import (e.g., OPML 1.0 file generated by RSS Bandit)
• Better support for BitTorrent+RSS attachment (with non-standard RSS feed format)
• Hotfix for program launching errors as seen on some Windows XP/2000

Technorati: BitsCast, RSS, Feed, Podcast, Windows, Software, Freeware, Utility