BalloonRSS - A simple RSS aggregator using balloon tooltips

Screenshot of BalloonRSS, showing an RSS item as a balloon pop-up.

Overview

BalloonRSS is a simple RSS reader that displays incoming messages as balloon tooltips in the windows task bar. The news entries themselves are linked to be read with the browser.

The messages are retrieved from a set of configurable RSS feed sites. The news entry to view next is selected by a pre-defined priority which is dynamically adapted according the user's interest, which is determined by the user's message click rate.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the license, or (at your option) any later version.

Features

retrieves RSS messages from various sources
performs priorisation of news
displays the messages in a balloon tooltip pop-up in the task bar
the messages are linked and opened within the browser as you click them
adaptation of channel priority according the user's click rate
the message frequency and viewing period is configurable
configuration via GUI or using .xml files
message history
support of HTTP authentication
support for multi-user environments
automatically check for program updates (if enabled)
application help with context specific entries
multi-language support: English, German, Portuguese
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