This is a RSS Checker.
You can register any feeds (RSS, Atom) you like, and also set the check interval.
To register a feed, enter the feed URL and click the three-arrow-button below. Don't forget to click the three-arrow-button when you update something, too. If you don't enter the title, it will be set from the feed. Language setting supported: English, French, Japanese (but you can add feeds in any language)
Version 1.01: Added the close button and Changed the config button. Version 1.10: Normal URLs (pages including feed link) is now acceptable. Version 1.11: Centering widget when it is downloaded. Change the reload icon. Version 1.20: Added the scroll option and mark read all/reset. Version 1.21: Added the click option.
@ csternberg, since it's the name of the widget, it's right to be displayed. But I agree that perhaps it's too big Maybe a smaller label or at least some nice logo.
I love it. Much better then the default RSS-Feed-retriever in Opera. Two things: 1.Why in the options menu each and every label is marked with "undefined" ? O_O Is it only by me so? 2. I've noticed that to open the user-defined number of RSS-news' lines, you have to click once, but in order to get a full view of all RSS-news you have to click one more time to expand the RSS-board. Then in order to close the board so that all news hide, you have to click twice if you're in the second mode (full view). It'll be better and faster if you work on this. Make the menu more comfortable Like one button for full view and one button for user-defined number of rss-lines so that one can open and close full view with only one click. Hope you understand what I mean ^^
EDIT: A minimised form of the widget will be nice too. Also when the widget is at the bottom of the screen and you open the news, it opens them always downward and in this case you can't see them. A nice fix will be to make it detect remaining space and height
Does this work with the stablke version of 9.5? All the labels bar URl come up as undefined and i can't subscribe to anything.
Opera's feed reader seems to work but not this widget. i just want the topic headings so if this is a problem for me can anyone suggest anything that does a similar job to this widget?
I really like this widget, and enjoy it more than Opera's built in feed updater by far, but have one queston.
By a couple of my feeds, it displays (could not get) after the feed's title and before the amount of updates it has. It doesn't seem to affect anything, though, as those feeds still show updates just as they normally would.
Is this just a graphical glitch or am I not understanding something? ~jake2k3
Very nice widget and very useful (!) as the Opera-internal RSS reader gets slow and stuffed with feed content over time. However in RSS Checker I miss the short description beyond the title that some RSS feeds contain - maybe a feature for the next major version?
It's a very good idea, but it's extremely annoying when each item disappears when you click on it once. In order to get it back, you then have to go into settings and restore all the items. Could you make it keep all the items there even after you've clicked on them?
What I'd really like to see would be a generic RSS checker that allows a ticker-style view. Any chance of you adding "feed ticker" functionality to this? Other than a ticker, I have no need for an RSS checker Widget when Opera has a feed reader built in.
Excellent widget and design! If it had a couple of more things it would be perfect for me (I hope I haven't just missed these somewhere
1) A button to 'mark all as read' instead of manually clicking each x. 2) A button to reset all the cleared items - if you accidentally remove an item and want to get it back. At the moment I have to delete the feed from the configuration and readd it. 3) A scrollbar (maybe only in the expanded view? and maybe a visible icon in the compact view to indicate there are too many to be shown?)
After typing that I thought all that stuff might clutter up the widget a bit - i dunno... depends on what you want to do with it I guess
Actually, I have a lot of news subscriptions and when expanded the widget takes more space in vertical direction than my screen can fit. Can you make some sort of a scroll bar to scroll through the news sources rather than make the widget so big?
I think that it because the widget's height (1000) is larger than your screen... It happen on my notebook, too. My solution: if you use Windows XP, Right-Click on the Taskbar and change the status of 'Lock the Taskbar'. Does it appear?
Hmm, I don't know if it is just me, but whenever I download the widget, it becomes invisible. I do not see anything appearing and yet Opera asks me if I want to keep it or not. Any suggestions?
By NylyanAranel , # Mar 1, 2009 9:44:10 PM
I love it. Much better then the default RSS-Feed-retriever in Opera.
Two things:
1.Why in the options menu each and every label is marked with "undefined" ? O_O Is it only by me so?
2. I've noticed that to open the user-defined number of RSS-news' lines, you have to click once, but in order to get a full view of all RSS-news you have to click one more time to expand the RSS-board. Then in order to close the board so that all news hide, you have to click twice if you're in the second mode (full view). It'll be better and faster if you work on this. Make the menu more comfortable
EDIT: A minimised form of the widget will be nice too. Also when the widget is at the bottom of the screen and you open the news, it opens them always downward and in this case you can't see them. A nice fix will be to make it detect remaining space and height
By rbaleksandar , # Feb 27, 2009 10:16:37 AM
By csternberg , # Nov 23, 2008 4:48:02 PM
By kabat1 , # Sep 6, 2008 11:27:06 AM
By malade , # Sep 4, 2008 1:37:34 PM
Opera's feed reader seems to work but not this widget. i just want the topic headings so if this is a problem for me can anyone suggest anything that does a similar job to this widget?
By rich_c1982@hotmail.com , # Jul 2, 2008 11:15:50 AM
Could the RSSChecker get a little bit more place for the topics = wider?!!
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What mean this topic ??
I hope you know what I mean.
By h-dieter , # Mar 25, 2008 8:16:33 PM
By a couple of my feeds, it displays (could not get) after the feed's title and before the amount of updates it has. It doesn't seem to affect anything, though, as those feeds still show updates just as they normally would.
Is this just a graphical glitch or am I not understanding something?
~jake2k3
By jake2k3 , # Jan 31, 2008 4:05:16 AM
By BurninLeo , # Jan 16, 2008 7:58:21 AM
By gorcq , # Oct 29, 2007 5:25:35 AM
By fritzophrenic , # Sep 26, 2007 6:39:16 PM
By Nexus009 , # Jul 4, 2007 10:52:54 PM
By Chianti , # Jun 6, 2007 8:12:39 AM
By ran.orchid , # Jan 28, 2007 5:22:04 PM
1) A button to 'mark all as read' instead of manually clicking each x.
2) A button to reset all the cleared items - if you accidentally remove an item and want to get it back. At the moment I have to delete the feed from the configuration and readd it.
3) A scrollbar (maybe only in the expanded view? and maybe a visible icon in the compact view to indicate there are too many to be shown?)
After typing that I thought all that stuff might clutter up the widget a bit - i dunno... depends on what you want to do with it I guess
By TheFlyingPengwyn , # Dec 22, 2006 6:15:39 AM
The widget will be placed in the center of the screen when you download it.
By ran.orchid , # Nov 3, 2006 6:57:27 PM
By AleksOD , # Nov 2, 2006 8:03:26 AM
By AleksOD , # Nov 2, 2006 7:53:05 AM
It happen on my notebook, too.
My solution: if you use Windows XP, Right-Click on the Taskbar and change the status of 'Lock the Taskbar'.
Does it appear?
By ran.orchid , # Oct 31, 2006 7:41:17 AM
By AleksOD , # Oct 31, 2006 6:13:38 AM