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Latest Version: Feed Notifier 2.3 (7 MB)

Source Code

Feed Notifier source code is provided under a BSD license.  Software patches from the community are welcome and may be integrated in future releases.

Changes in v2.3

  • Sound notifications when pop-ups appear (optional).
  • Support for multiple displays (choose on which monitor pop-ups appear).
  • Support for using the mousewheel and keyboard to navigate through pop-up items.
  • Complete removal of IE ActiveX plugin (and thus HTML themes) for performance/bug-fix reasons.
  • Fix for “No handler found for image type.” bug that occurred with malformed favicons.
  • Fix for “The URL entered does not appear to be a valid RSS/Atom feed.” when the feed being added was actually valid but empty (no entries).
  • Fix for never polling when multiple network adapters exist and not all where connected to the internet.

Changes in v2.2

  • Advanced keyword filtering to improve quality of pop-ups shown.
  • Auto-detection of authenticated feeds, username/password entry dialog.
  • Multi-threaded feed polling for significantly improved performance.
  • Fix for user idle time bug.
  • Fixes for handling malformed feeds.

Changes in v2.1

  • Better performance due to switch from ActiveX control to pure Python pop-ups.
  • Software automatically checks for new versions to download and install.
  • Better cross-platform support, in preparation for a Linux release.

Changes in v2.0

  • Improved look and feel with support for themes.
  • “Update Feeds” option to check all feeds on demand.
  • Configurable pop-up size.
  • Enable/Disable individual feeds without deleting them entirely.
  • “Run at Startup” option in the installer.
  • Item age displayed in pop-up, e.g. “5 minutes ago”
  • Item author displayed in pop-up.
  • Navigation controls displayed in pop-up, replacing the awkward pop-up stacking in v1.0.
  • “Auto-play” option can be turned off to prevent popups from disappearing automatically.
  • Pop-ups can be displayed in the center of the screen.
  • System tray icon changes when the app is checking feeds.
  • Automatically computes a good polling interval when adding a new feed.
  • Shows the favicon for the feed when available.
  • Number of items shown in pop-up, e.g. “4 of 12″
  • Ability to edit feeds and configure feed titles and links.
  • Proxy server support.
  • Many more user preferences.

Installers for older versions.