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| RSS Guard
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| =========
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| Welcome to RSS Guard website. You can find here basic information.
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| RSS Guard is simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using Qt framework which supports online feed synchronization.
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| # ***ALL USERS WHO UPDATED TO 3.2.0+ -> fill [this survey](http://goo.gl/forms/ASWg4TFxlS).***
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| 
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| Core features are:
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| * **support for online feed synchronization via plugins**,
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|     * Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0),
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|     * ownCloud News (from RSS Guard 3.1.0).
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| * multiplatformity,
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| * multiple data backend support.
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|     * SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
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|     * MySQL.
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| 
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| See below for more information about features and other RSS Guard aspects.
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| 
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| - - -
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| Contacts
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| --------
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| * [author's e-mail](mailto:rotter.martinos@gmail.com),
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| * [IRC channel at freenode](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#rssguard) (My nick is #skunkos, I am not available on IRC all day long.).
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| 
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| - - -
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| Donate
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| You can [support RSS Guard with tiny amounts of money via PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=XMWPLPK893VH4).
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| [](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=XMWPLPK893VH4)
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| 
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| People who donated:
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| * Zdenek S. (Sweden)
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| * Eloi Garibaldi B.
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| * Jacob S.
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| I say "thank you" for all your support, donators.
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| Feeds & Videos
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| * [video channel at YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-75mFFA3wujyMyea6W1qJEV_ulh6433j),
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| * [RSS channel at Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/rssguard/msgs/rss_v2_0.xml?num=50),
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| * [RSS channel at BitBucket](https://bitbucket.org/skunkos/rssguard/rss),
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| * [screenshots](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8XNkQ-jUoBYdVRSNm1kQ3BUMzQ&usp=sharing).
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| Thanks to
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| * **Elbert Pol** - huge contrubutions, including translating and testing in OS/2 environment.
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| * **Asen Anastassov** - testing, providing great feedback.
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| * **eson** - rock-solid translation into Sweden language.
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| 
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| Downloads
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| ---------
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| ### Windows
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| * [all downloads](https://bitbucket.org/skunkos/rssguard/downloads).
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| * alternative downloads
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| [](http://www.instalki.pl/programy/download/Windows/czytniki_RSS/RSS_Guard.html)
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| ### Linux
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| * [stable releases (based on Qt 5)](https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Askunkos%3Arssguard&package=rssguard-qt5),
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| * [development releases (based on Qt 5)](https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Askunkos%3Arssguard&package=rssguard-qt5-git),
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| + alternative downloads:
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|     * Archlinux AUR packages - [stable-qt5](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rssguard/).
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|     
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| Note that packages from OBS are not meant to be used in production. Rely on "official" packages for you Linux distro made by your Linux distro maintainers.
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|     
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| ### Mac OS X
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| # I am looking for someone technically able to compile RSS Guard for Mac OS X. It supports Mac OS X, but I don't have Mac to compile it. Write me an e-mail if you want to become RSS Guard maintainer for Mac OS X.
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| Features
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| --------
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| RSS Guard is simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. RSS Guard is developed on top of the [Qt library](http://qt-project.org/) and it supports these operating systems:
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| * Windows XP and newer,
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| * GNU/Linux,
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| * Mac OS X,
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| * xBSD (possibly),
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| * Android (possibly),
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| * other platforms supported by Qt.
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| 
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| RSS Guard is written in C++. It is pretty fast even with tons of messages loaded. The core features are:
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| 
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| * **support for online feed synchronization via plugins**,
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|     * Tiny Tiny RSS (from RSS Guard 3.0.0),
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|     * ownCloud News (from RSS Guard 3.1.0).
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| * multiplatformity,
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| * support for all feed formats,
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| * simplicity,
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| * import/export of feeds to/from OPML 2.0,
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| * downloader with own tab and support for up to 6 parallel downloads,
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| * message filter with regular expressions,
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| * feed metadata fetching including icons,
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| * no crazy dependencies,
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| * small memory footprint,
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| * small installation package,
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| * ability to cleanup internal message database with various options,
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| * enhanced feed auto-updating with separate time intervals,
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| * multiple data backend support,
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|     * SQLite (in-memory DBs too),
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|     * MySQL.
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| * is able to specify target database by its name (MySQL backend),
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| * “portable” mode support with clever auto-detection,
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| * feed categorization,
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| * drap-n-drop for feed list,
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| * automatic checking for updates,
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| * full support of podcasts (both RSS & ATOM),
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| * ability to backup/restore database or settings,
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| * fully-featured recycle bin,
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| * can be fully controlled via keyboard,
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| * feed authentication (Digest-MD5, BASIC, NTLM-2),
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| * handles tons of messages & feeds,
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| * sweet look & feel,
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| * fully adjustable toolbars (changeable buttons and style),
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| * ability to check for updates on all platforms + self-updating on Windows,
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| * hideable main menu, toolbars and list headers,
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| * KFeanza-based default icon theme + ability to create your own icon themes,
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| * fully skinnable user interface + ability to create your own skins,
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| * “newspaper” view,
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| * plenty of skins,
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| * support for "feed://" URI scheme,
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| * ability to hide list of feeds/categories,
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| * open-source development model based on GNU GPL license, version 3,
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| * tabbed interface,
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| * desktop integration via tray icon,
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| * localizations to some languages,
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| * Qt library is the only dependency,
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| * open-source development model and friendly author waiting for your feedback,
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| * no ads, no hidden costs.
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| Philosophy
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| RSS Guard tends to be independent software. It's free, it's open-source. RSS Guard accepts donations but only to SUPPORT its development. |