infoscape is a free and useful software that unveils a very different way to read you favourite feeds: no more Outlook-like screens or repetitive web interfaces…it brings the headlines directly to your desktop through an eye-candy and non-intrusive side panel which appears with…well, you name it: news, mail notifications, finances, weather...
Here are some key features of "infoscape":
· Ability to enable/disable channel polling on-the-fly.
· Proxy configuration support.
· Channel import/export via OPML.
· Zeitgeist generation from fetched contents (ain't it cool?).
· Headline linked content management (links, images, podcasts).
· Add Online help.
· Move "Run at startup" option from installer to application code.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· "Run at startup" option added to installer.
· Program activity is now stopped when workstation is locked.
· "Reset internal state" option added.
· Major memory usage tweaks.
· Post-buffering for last ten displayed news added.
· HTML cleanup now much more efficent in memory usage.
· Internal state (displayed headlines) is now persistent between different sessions.
· Bugfix: Some urls with extra info (parameters) were correctly accessed.
· New channel options: "repeat headlines" and "polling interval".
· Bugfix: AtomFeed 0.3 item links were not correctly retrieved.
· Headline hashing method improved.
· Bugfix: AtomFeed 0.3 item titles were not correctly retrieved.
· Attention over desktop panel is detected in a faster and preciser way.
· Side knob added to desktop panel.
· New desktop panel gfx.