Fabulous RSS Reader QuiteRSS 0.14 released
If you are a Ghacks regular you know that I prefer desktop programs over their mobile counterparts or web services any time of the day.
When it comes to RSS, I have been using the desktop RSS reader QuiteRSS for some time now and could not be happier with it. While it does not offer anything fancy, like feed synchronization or mobile apps to complement it, it is exactly what I want an RSS reader to be.
It is fast, lightweight, puts the feed titles in center and front. In short, ideal for the consumption of a lot of feeds throughout the day.
QuiteRSS 0.14 has just been released, bringing along several new features and improvements that warrant a news post here on the site.
Note: You should not be discouraged by the version of the application. While 0.14 may seem low in times where companies like to inflate versions, it is one of the stablest programs I have encountered in recent time.
You can check for updates from within the program if you like. Just click on Help > Check for Updates to do so. You should see the following notification.
If you click install, the update will be downloaded automatically and QuiteRSS updated. If you prefer the website, visit QuiteRSS.org and download the update manually from there.
Here is a selection of the important changes in this version of the RSS reader. You get a full list of changes on the website of the program, or when you check for the update in the application itself.
- The performance of the program has been improved. While I can't notice any big performance gains on my system, you may see some on yours depending on the speed of the hard drive the application has been installed on.
- The program's feed filter is now case-sensitive. This is great to distinguish Windows from windows for example.
- You can now display broken feeds by selecting Feeds > Filter Feeds > Show not working feeds.
- A default zoom level for pages can now be set under Options > Browser.
- User filters support conditions for categories now.
- Support for uTorrent authorization feeds added.
- Additional color settings and shortcuts have been added.
- Several application crash fixes.
The update introduces several interesting features to a great program. If you are using filters, you get several new options to play with. The default zoom level on the other hand can be interesting for users who prefer the news articles to be displayed in larger font sizes all the time.
Tip: You can download a portable version of the feed reader from the developer website, and the source code as well if you like. The program is also available for OS/2 and several Linux distributions.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.