BottomFeeder 4.3 review

BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client for RSS and Atom feeds, written in VisualWorks Smalltalk

License: Artistic License File size: 0K Developer: David Murphy

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BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client for RSS and Atom feeds, written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. BottomFeeder runs on x86 Linux (also FreeBSD), PowerPC linux, Sparc Linux, Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Mac OS8/9, Mac OS X, AIX, SGI Irix, Compaq UNIX, HP-UX, and Solaris.

Here are some key features of "BottomFeeder":
Full support for CSS, including user defined CSS
View news in 3 pane or 2 pane modes
Subscribe to any RSS or Atom format in use
View items in a summary Newspaper View
Synchronize 2 or more BottomFeeders via HTTP or file import
Subscribe to feeds or feedlists
Supports HTTPS, HTTP Authentication, and HTTP Digest Authentication
Plugins for blogging, IRC, and MSN Messenger contacts
Easy to update or upgrade from within BottomFeeder
Save as many or as few feed items for as long as you want
Import or Export in common OPML format
Binary compatible on every platform. No need to recompile

What's New in This Release:
Update to comparison code: a long standing bug that resulted in bogus "new" items has been fixed
Initial 4.2 release could not be updated; fixed
Initial 4.2 release did not update the update url; fixed
Rounded up a number of other minor bugs since 4.2