You don't tear newspaper into pieces to read them. Why should reading rss news articles be any different? GreatNews is optimized for full page reading, so you can scan through rss articles quickly. Combined with functions like "Open Next Unread Channel", you don't need to waste any time to find where all the unread articles are.

GreatNews is extremely fast. Even with hundreds of rss feed subscriptions, GreatNews's response is always instantaneous. You can opt to show news from all channels on the same page. And you have full control over how many articles can be displayed at once. GreatNews takes care of pagination for you.

Fed up with flashing ads and banners? Want a clean and simple layout? GreatNews offers several built-in display styles for you to choose, ranging from Newspaper which carters to natural reading habit, to Brief which offers quick reads to those in a hurry, to Firefox Sage for Sage lovers.

Use labels to organize your articles. With just a single click, all items with the same label can be listed as if they are under the same folder. You can also use labelsto customize article exports.

Here are some key features of "GreatNews":

· Support all major feed formats, including RSS 0.9x, 1.0(rdf), 2.0, Atom 0.30 and 1.0. Support popular extensionslike dublin core, content:encoding etc.
· Integrated internet browser, with popup blocking. Working closely with default browser like Firefox.
· With Import/Export wizard, you can import/export all channel subscriptions in a single step.
· Export rss articles to rss 2.0 format. You can also customize the export by selecting channel/group/label, and/or applying filters.
· Bloglines.com integration
· Read everywhere at Bloglines.com, but read twice as fast at your desk.
· Full text search with keyword highlights.
· 100% Unicode support. Displays international languages on the same page. Use any languages anywhere in GreatNews, including Search, Label and News watch.
· "Channel Organizer" helps organize channel subscriptions in one place. Use "Find Channel" to locate your subscriptions quickly.
· Support HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding to reduce bandwidth consumption.


What's New in This Release:

· Links in reading pane now show focus when clicked on.
· Tray icon now reflects new items arrived after last read
· Email This feature no longer displays a dummy recipient.
· Added "Google Blog Search" to search channels
· Search channels are now user configurable.
· After upgrade to this build, greatnews.ini will have a new section [SearchChannelDefinition]. I didn't write a UI but it should be easy to figure out how to modify it.
· Fixed a compatibility issue with Maxthon that urls with space were not handled correctly.
· Add a channel level option that will notify new item arrivals in popup windows.
· Fixed the issue that reading pane shows scripting error message when popups are blocked
· Fixed a bug that GreatNews incorrectly treat gif/image enclosure as Podcasting
· Try to fix the error that GreatNews might crash when quitting or Windows shutting down.
· I couldn't reproduce the problem myself. But I made some changes to the place most likely causing the crash.
· Added Blog This feature to support publishing directly from within GreatNews. · Support following blog publish tools: WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger, Drupal and generic types
· Added ENTER key handling in News List
· ENTER = Open web in reading pane
· CTRL + ENTER = Open web in new tab
· SHIFT + ENTER = Open web in external browser
· Fixed the bug that broke Add Favorite and Manage Favorite menu commands.
· Fixed the bug that GreatNews can't use Maxthon or Sleipniras default browser.
· Added Italian language pack.
· CTRL+Click to open a link on new tab.
· For notebook users with no mouse wheel
· Scrolling mouse wheel while holding the right mouse button to turn pages in reading pane. Try this one, it's quite convenient
· Added support to extra mouse buttons
· These buttons should turn pages in reading pane. But I don't have this kind of mouse to test.
· Added item features(Email This, +Del.icio.us, +Furl) to news list right click menu
· Added the option to disable tabbed browsing
· Tools->Options->Usability
· Fixed the bug that Email This doesn't work with Outlook Express