RSS-Reader

Description

This dashboard widget allows you to display news feeds in your dashboard. It supports both RSS and Atom feeds. You can have multiple readers open which display different feeds. The widget can automatically reload your feeds.

Requires Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or higher.

Download

Version 0.3.2 (23.12.06)

Download (132 KB)

Older releases

• Version 0.3.1 (13.10.06): Download (132 KB)
• Version 0.3 (08.10.06): Download (132 KB)
• Version 0.2 (23.06.06): Download (156 KB)
• Version 0.1 (30.11.05): Download (82 KB)
• Source code of the plugin (64 KB) used in version 0.1 and 0.2. Note that I was in a hurry when I wrote this...

Screenshots

Changelog

Version 0.3.2

• Fixed problems with heise.de's atom feed

Version 0.3.1

• Fixed problems with feeds that aren't ISO-8859-1 encoded

Version 0.3

• Replaced the widget plugin with Magpie RSS
• Using feedfinder to automatically find the feed
• The height of the entries is now customizable

Version 0.2

• Universal Binary
• Reloads the feed automatically
• Supports scrolling using the mouse scroller and keyboard arrows (Thanks to Nicolas Weber for implementing this)
• Some minor changes

Version 0.1

• Initial release

Installation

If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.