pRSSreader is an application for reading RDF and RSS feeds on Pocket PC.
Small and fast.
Features:
* Small
pRSSreader is very small application. It takes about 300 KB of your PDA memory.
* Formats
pRSSreader can handle many versions of feeds: RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0, RDF 1.0 and Atom 0.3.
* Site Manager
Site manager allows you to subscribe to sites you want to read. You can group your feeds into folders and you can set up feed options such as displaying on the Today screen, caching options, etc.
* Items
pRSSreader can mark feed items with three states: new, unread and read. Those states are preserved between starts of pRSSreader. You can sort the feed items or you can hide already read items.
* Sequential reading
Once you start reading, you can read from the start to the end without getting back to the main window to switch between items or even feeds.
* Customizable
pRSSreader is quite customizable. You can set up appearance of reading dialog, change font sizes, enable clear type, set the location of cache or an external browser for viewing the whole messages and many more.
* Caching
pRSSreader have quite powerful caching abilities, it can cache images included within feeds, enclosures and it can also cache online pages for offline browsing.
* Cache Manager
Use Cache Manager for maintaining your cached content. You can delete whole cache as well as single files (from 1.3.0).
* Import/Export
You can import your OPML file from the Internet or from your local file system as well. pRSSreader can also export your OPML file.
* Updates
You can update your feeds manually or you can also let pRSSreader to update your feeds automatically. Then they will be updated periodically (you can select the update interval).
* Today screen
pRSSreader has integration with Today screen. It can simply display the number of new/unread items or can cycle feed names or even items from a feed. The plugin is compatible with Pocket Breeze.
* Summary View
The summary view shows you the number of new/unread/total items in your feeds. You can also use it to switch between your feeds very quickly.
* Keywords
You can enter a list of keywords and pRSSreader will show you feed items that includes those keywords (from 1.3.0).
* Proxy Support
pRSSreader supports HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxy servers (from 1.3.0).
* HTTP Authentication
pRSSreader can access HTTP pages protected with Basic or Digest authentication (from 1.3.0).
* Localizations
pRSSreader is localized into Czech, Dutch, French and Spanish language (from 1.3.0).
* HTML Optimizer
You can use HTML optimizer (such as Skweezer) to get online content optimized for PDA screens. You can also define custom rules to get online content prepared for PDAs by a content provider (from 1.3.2).
Update Description:
v1.3.3:
- Added: Support for HTTPS.
- Added: Summary View improved.
- Added: Cut/Copy of errors in download errors dialog.
- Added: Customizable font for summary view.
- Added: Hide today plugin, if there are no new items.
- Added: Moving sites/groups in site manager.
- Added: Add site/group in context in site manager.
- Added: Registry tweak: Open online messages with html optimizer.
- Added: Registry tweak: Apply html optimizer on rewritten URLs.
- Added: Registry tweak: Run pRSSreader minimized on cradling.
- Added: Report Errors After Update (registry tweak).
- Added: Registry tweak: Download timeout.
- Added: Hide groups in summary view.
- Added: Session saving/restoring.
- Added: Preload the previous and the next site when reading in news dlg.
- Added: Progress dialogs in cache manager.
- Added: Sites and groups are equal in site list and can be mixed in any way.
- Added: Set site properties after site is added.
- Added: Displaying info about suggested update interval of a feed.
- Added: Each site has its own sort settings.
- Added: Groups show the number of unread items.
- Added: Today plugin: Cycling only feed items.
- Added: Setting options for multi-selected items.
- Added: Menu item for image downloading.
- Added: EUC-KR code page support.
- Added: Partial support for landscape mode.
- Added: Show relative times.
- Added: Device is not suspended during the update.
- Added: Button for toggling message flag on News dialog.
- Added: Relative dates in today plug-in.
- Added: Template for adding new sites.
- Added: "/minimize" command line parameter to start pRSSreader minimized.
- Added: Possibility to select which feeds will be imported.
- Added: Copy URL of multiple selected items to clipboard (on main window).
- Added: HW keys.
- Added: Customizable feed preloading.
- Fixed: When canceling Import, error message was displayed.
- Fixed: When import from the network failed, site list was disposed.
- Fixed: Skweezer merged with custom optimizer.
- Fixed: Improved date parsing of feed items.
- Fixed: 3 tries for each file when downloading.
- Fixed: Improved WM5 support.
- Fixed: Improved caching of online content.
- Fixed: Improved parsing of feed files.
- Fixed: Play lists are generated only for audio and video files.
- Fixed: Enclosures were now purged.
- Fixed: Manual download can handle multiple items instead of the only one.
- Fixed: Improved HTML entity replacing.
- Fixed: Improved feed update interval settings.
- Fixed: Today plug-in: optimizations (memory, CPU load).
- Fixed: Speed optimizations in cache manager.
- Fixed: Improved translating html files for offline browsing.
- and lots of more.
v1.3.2:
- Added: Copy Feed Item URL to clipboard.
- Added: Context menu for Site Manager (Edit, Remove, Copy Feed URL).
- Added: Summary View context menu (Mark All Read, Mark All Unread, Copy Feed URL).
- Added: Search feeds in syndic8.com RSS directory (access via XML-RPC).
- Added: Copy message text to clipboard.
- Added: Flag message.
- Added: When update finished with errors, message box displayed to notify user about that fact.
- Added: Simple URL rewriting feature.
- Added: HTML optimizer (None, Skweezer, Custom).
- Added: Option - Warn when moving to previous/next channel.
- Added: EUC-JP codepage.
- Added: Show flagged items.
- Added: Up/Down arrow moves to the previous/next message in sequential reading.
- Added: Buffered file reading/writing (higher performance in disk operations).
- Added: Minimal interval between sync events (for cradling).
- Added: Feeds are loaded in the background.
- Added: zlib for receiving content in gzipped format (needed for correct working of Skweezer).
- Fixed: Space optimalization of menus.
- Fixed: Feed titles are searched for keywords.
- Fixed: Adding a site splitted into separate dialogs (accessible via menu).
- Fixed: Follows system text settings on Today screen.
- Fixed: Update All did not work with pRSSreader running on the background.
- Fixed: Improved purging of feed item keys in registry (on start-up).
- Fixed: Improved communication between today plug-in and main app.
- Fixed: Reduced CPU load in today plug-in (IPC synchro, loading only necessary files, periodical checks replaced with FS notifications).
- Fixed: When site properties were changed (File | Properties), they were not saved.
- Fixed: Better feed items hash keys registry handling.
- Fixed: When updating, changes are displayed after caching.
- Fixed: Updating procedure refactored.
- Fixed: Major code clean-ups.
- Fixed: Cache moving is done in thread.
- Fixed: When trying to set cache/enclosure folder to program files or windows dir -> user is alerted.
- Fixed: Possibility to move the cache content or not.
- Fixed: Hangup after cradling.
- Fixed: When 'Hide read items' was active, items were displayed after restarting the pRSSreader.
- Fixed: Flag/Unflag message is enabled/disabled according to the selection (main window context menu).
- Fixed: Bad cells in the formatting table (image and 'cached' text were not aligned).
- Fixed: Crash on generating playlists.
- Fixed: When caching enclosures, there was not a countdown for remaining items.
- Fixed: When enclosure caching is finished, feed items on the main windows are refresh to reflect result of caching.
- Fixed: Copy URL did not work in CNewsDlg.
- Fixed: When creating new folder in CMoveDirDlg and tapping enter, new folder was not used in destination path.
- Fixed: Update requests are queued when updating.
- Fixed: When moving empty dir -> crash.
- Fixed: .html extension was not added for files with dot (.) in the name.
- Fixed: If site was updated and main window was not foreground window, items were not refreshed.
- Fixed: After marking items read/unread/new/flagged/unflagged selection is removed.
- Fixed: Ugly memory leak.
v1.3.1:
- Added: Add sites off-line.
- Added: Support for Big5 encoding (thanks to Jamnan Law for testing).
- Added: Site URL is editable.
- Added: Copy Feed Item URL to clipboard.
- Added: Context menu for Site Manager (Edit, Remove, Copy Feed URL).
- Added: Summary View context menu (Mark All Read, Mark All Unread, Copy Feed URL).
- Fixed: List of HTML entities extended.
- Fixed: Bug in HTML entity replacement (endless loop was there).
- Fixed: 'Feed not found' message if downloaded file is not a feed.
- Fixed: Improved error handling for disc operations.
- Fixed: Improved application exit handlers.
- Fixed: default XML encoding is UTF-8.
- Fixed: Site Settings and Site Properties merged together.
- Fixed: Improved site rename.
v1.3.0:
- Fixed: MSXML replaced with libexpat.
- Fixed: Export all settings in OPML file.
- Added: Proxy support (HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS5).
- Added: Basic and Digest HTTP authentication.
- Added: Tapping a item on Today Screen opens it in pRSSreader (in cycling mode).
- Added: Cache only new items.
- Added: Mark new as unread before update.
- Fixed: Left/right moves to previous/next new item did not work.
- Fixed: Today plugin improvements (context menu, icon displaying, GUI changes).
- Added: Localizations to French, Dutch, Czech and Spanish.
- Added: Displaying author name of the feed item (if presents).
- Fixed: Memory leak in update process.
- Fixed: Some code optimalizations.
- Added: Keywords.
- Fixed: Better support for RSS extensions (, , ).
- Added: Cache Manager.
- Added: Enclosure indication on the main window.
- Fixed: Option 'Check for new items when handheld inserted into cradle' works as it is supposed.
- Added: selectable User-Agent string.
- Added: Left/right buttons moves to the previous/next channel option.
- Added: Hide read items in Summary View.
- Added: Update from Summary View.
- Added: Open online message in main window context menu.
- Added: Color for message background.
- Fixed: Better font selection.
- Fixed: Some button moved to command bar (e.g. more WM5 friendly).
- Fixed: Hanging od PDA after soft reset, caused by Today plugin (thanks to Zdenek Pergl for testing).
- and a lot of minor bug fixes.
v1.2.0:
- Added: Categories.
- Added: Bloglines OPML file support.
- Added: Enclosures.
- Added: Automatical/manual updates.
- Added: Check new items on cradling.
- Added: Clear cache before updating.
- Added: Relative dates.
- Added: Support for Atom 0.3.
- Added: Sort indicator.
- Added: Import/export from/to local file system.
- Added: Multiple selection of items in the main window.
- Added: Summary view.
- Added: Conditional GET for feed updates.
- Added: New/Read/Unread flag for feed items.
- Added: Show times in GMT.
- Added: Today screen intergation.
- Fixed: Update process rewritten.
- Fixed: Improved icons.
- Huge amount of bugfixes.
v1.1.4:
- Open message in external browser.
- Caching online content for offline browsing.
- Caching images within feed items.
- Editing feed name.
- Hiding read items.
- Sorting items.
- Truncating long titles.
- Relative dates.
- Fixed ClearType option bug.
- Download process rewritten.
- Icons are nicer.
- Support for PPC2002 (thanks to YoLoLo).
v1.1.3:
- Fixed bugs related with OPML (importing, loading, saving).
v1.1.2:
- Added import of OPML files.
- Added customizable location of cache.
- Fixed bug that caused disappearance of added sites.
- Minor bugfixes.
- Some appearance changes.
- Some changes in Site manager (the position of the site can be changed).
v1.1.1:
- Added sequential reading of items.
- Customizable appearance.
- Minor bugfixes.
v1.1.0:
- Rewritten from WIN23API to MFC.
- Fixed serious bug with adding sites.
- Added properties of site.
