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DESCRIPTION

Vienna is a freeware and open source RSS/Atom newsreader with article storage and management via an SQLite database, written in Objective-C and Cocoa for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are free and available for download.

A summary of some of its features:

  • Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts.
  • Simple and intuitive user interface with customisable toolbar.
  • Built-in tabbed browser.
  • Global search of all retrieved articles.
  • Automatic detection of newsfeeds on web pages.
  • Smart folders for organising related feed articles.
  • Custom article display styles.
  • Three separate reading layouts.
  • Blogging integration.
  • Support for downloading enclosures in articles
  • Filter the displayed articles.
  • Manual reordering of the subscription list.
  • Full AppleScript support.
  • Localised into several languages.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.3.0.2300 preview release:
  • WARNING: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther USERS SHOULD NOT DOWNLOAD THIS! IT WON'T RUN.
  • Dropped Mac OS X 10.3 Panther support. Vienna 2.3 needs 10.4 or greater to launch.
  • Add folder ordering option (manually or by name).
  • Improvement to Send Link for multiple links and escaped characters. (Patch from Anmol Khirbat).
  • Change standard product URLs to the new www.vienna-rss.org web site.
  • Bug fix: Truncated Headings in LA Times Feeds
  • Bug fix: Unescaped HTML in titles.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect document URL shown after downloads.
  • Bug fix: Option-clicking the close tab widget closed the main Articles tab.
  • Add Kaku http://ppmweb.lolipop.jp/apps/kaku to the list of supported blog editors.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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SCREENSHOT

Developer:Steve Palmer
Downloads:50,094
  - Version d/l:1,935
Internet:Newsreaders
License:Free
Date:01 Jun 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Feb 3 2008
*****

WEBMOTIVA  The best by far. www.curitiba2014.com  (Version 2.2.2.2212)

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Dec 16 2007

JOSHEWAH  I like this app a lot. I wish that flash and audio/video wouldn't reload every time I switched tabs though. If I am checking out a song from a blog in a tab and go back to read feeds while it plays it cuts it off and starts downloading again when I go back to it.  (Version 2.2.2.2211b)

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Dec 2 2007
****.

IVANOVITCH  A timely update: it was unusable with Remote Buddy open at the same time (made Vienna uncontrollable, oddly). Further, the display bugs introduced with Leopard now appear to be ironed out. No more truncated scrollbars or icons.

What's missing:

Still no icon to indicate that a headline has been opened in external browser: only option is to display read/unread and to manually flag item.

Also difficult to re-sort headlines by date (up or down) without doubling size of pane used for headlines (I use condensed layout to emulate previously purchased RSS readers).

Apart from this, it works remarkably well, and the price is brilliant value. Like others, I bought other readers but grew disappointed with the direction of development and features. I'm now happily stuck with Vienna.  (Version 2.2.1.2210)

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Nov 21 2007

TINGTING  Needs more toolbar button options like "mark all read" "refresh" just a single feed. And not a drop down menu like it has where you get carpal tunnel click-scroll-click. One click. otherwise cool, I hope it grows in the right direction.  (Version 2.2.0)

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