Er bestaan diverse programma's om RSS-feeds te kunnen lezen. Snarfer is misschien een niet zo bekende, maar daarom zeker geen mindere. Nog niet zo lang geleden is versie 0.8.3 uitgekomen en de download kan hier worden gevonden. Het programma is gratis in gebruik en heeft het .NET Framework nodig om zijn werk te kunnen doen. Ook Tweakers.net heeft enkele feeds voor je in de aanbieding, zodat je altijd op de hoogte bent van de laatste nieuwsberichten en meukartikelen. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
Minor Features:Technical Improvements:
- Added an option to close to the system tray instead of exiting (on by default).
- The font and font size used in the message view can now be set from the Options dialog.
- Added the ability to close tabs with the middle mouse button.
- Added more search options to the Craigslist and eBay plugins.
- Authors with email addresses or web pages are now displayed as clickable links in the message view.
- Added the ability to launch a custom browser application (with a registry entry).
- Added a keyboard shortcut for viewing the original article (Enter).
Bug Fixes:
- Relative URIs in RSS link elements are now supported.
- Updated the Craigslist city list.
- Improved RSS author field parsing.
- List and tree controls now use the Windows Vista look-and-feel.
- Added support for European and Australian time zones in RSS dates.
- Improved SGML support in the HTML parser.
- Added support for iTunes and Yahoo! media extensions in RSS feeds.
- Importing OPML files from GreatNews has been improved.
- Message styles now take effect immediately once installed.
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- International character sets weren't decoding properly on Windows Vista.
- The default browser wasn't correctly detected on Windows Vista.
- Ctrl-clicking a link didn't work when links were set to open in a new window by default.
- Duplicate detection for feeds didn't take authentication details into account.
- Unread counts on disabled feeds were not displayed in grey as they should have been.
- Restoring Snarfer from the system tray would cause it to unmaximize.
- Google blog search and MSN search weren't sorting by date.
- Resuming from sleep or hibernate now automatically refreshes feeds if necessary.
- Authenticated web pages would just fail instead of asking for a password.
- Web pages with Java applications didn't work.
- Pages with javascript would fail if a previously viewed page had a javascript error.
- The repair dialog wasn't fully localized.