pRSSreader

pRSSreader is an application for reading RDF and RSS feeds on PocketPC.

Features

Small
pRSSreader is very small application. It takes about 500 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 (see registry tweaks for more options).
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 - see more (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 to get online content optimized for PDA screens - see FAQ how to set the optimizer up. You can also define custom rules to get online content prepared for PDAs by a content provider (from 1.3.2).
Offline Mode
Use offline mode to prevent pRSSreader to connect to the Internet and show only cached content (from 1.3.4).

Latest News

  • pRSSreader 1.3.4 was released on September 22, 2007. More details in ChangeLog.
  • pRSSreader 1.3.3 was released on March 4, 2007. More details in ChangeLog.
  • Brazilan Portuguese localization for pRSSreader is now available (November 4, 2006). Thanks to Bruno Fontes.
  • Italian localization for pRSSreader is now available (September 25, 2006). Thanks to Diego.
  • Polish localization for pRSSreader is now available (September 17, 2006). Thanks to Marek Wirowski.
  • pRSSreader 1.3.2 was released on August 3, 2006. More details in ChangeLog.
  • pRSSreader 1.3.1 was released on May 22, 2006. More details in ChangeLog.
  • There was an error in installation files that caused pRSSreader not to run on PPC2002. If you have PPC2002 device and have troubles with starting pRSSreader, download it again and everything should be ok.
  • pRSSreader 1.3.0 was released on April 21, 2006. More details in ChangeLog.
  • pRSSreader 1.2.0 was released on December 21, 2005. More details in ChangeLog.

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Other Information

Announcement mailing-list

The official mailing list prssr-ml@freelists.org for announcements of new releases.

  • To subscribe to the mailing list send e-mail to prssr-ml-request@freelists.org with "subscribe" in the Subject.
  • To unsubscribe send e-mail to prssr-ml-request@freelists.org with "unsubscribe" in the Subject.

You can also use the web interface to subscribe or unsubscribe.

Please, do not use the announcement mailing list for discussions. Thank you.

Development mailing-list

There is also development mailing list prssr-devel-ml@freelists.org for beta testers, reporting bugs and other things related with development. If you want to help me with the development of pRSSreader, especially with beta testing, subscribe to this mailing list.

DO NOT EXPECT USER SUPPORT HERE.

  • To subscribe to the mailing list send e-mail to prssr-devel-ml-request@freelists.org with "subscribe" in the Subject.
  • To unsubscribe send e-mail to prssr-devel-ml-request@freelists.org with "unsubscribe" in the Subject.

You can also use the web interface to subscribe or unsubscribe.

The mailing list archive is viewable online and fully searchable.

Latest version: 1.3.4
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