NewsDesk 0.9 is now available
Major new features in this release: - Preloaded with 58 popular news and weblog channels!
- Add channels from NewsIsFree with the Add Channel Wizard! (requires a free trial NewsIsFree account)
- Import channels from OCS and OPML channel directories with the Add Channel Wizard
- Search the entire NewsIsFree channel directory by category, language, or keyword (requires a free trial NewsIsFree account)
- Tutorials!
Other new features: - The channel now shows the number of unread headlines in the tree view.
- You can use proxy servers that require authentication.
- You can use the odd and truly rare proxy server that requires HTTP 1.0.
- When you know the URL of a channel, it's even easier to add that channel to NewsDesk (see File | New Channel).
- Subscribe/Unsubscribe have become less important, and may be removed in a future release. Their only purpose in this release is to enable/disable automatic update for individual channels.
Bugs fixed in this release: - NewsDesk now reads all RSS flavors (0.9x, 1.0, and 2.0)
- OPML and OCS export now correctly set the appropriate file extension on the export file.
- NewsDesk is much more conservative when getting new headlines. There was a bug that caused NewsDesk to update channels every 5 minutes (or whatever you set your update interval to) after it passed it's scheduled update time.
- NewsDesk normalizes export file names.
- NewsMenu shows, but does not try to open RSS headlines that have no link.
- NewsDesk now reads channels with FOAF elements, though it does not take advantage of FOAF elements.
[NewsDesk Updates]
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