Welcome to NovoBot

Novobot is the most convenient smart headline viewer and news ticker for popular news feed formats (RSS/RDF/XML).

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Novobot can dramatically improve your web browsing experience. You build a queue from the available sites, start the queue and do your work. Novobot will load each site from the queue and extract headlines together with sub-headings and links. When the queue processing is complete (or during the processing) you can browse through the retrieved headlines and surf to the content of interest with your default browser. No more wandering over the entire Web in the pursuit of interesting stuff—it's all here, in your Novobot window.


Different

Novobot differs from other available headline viewers in its ability to process not only syndicated XML (RSS, RDF) content, but almost any web page (HTML) that has headlines and links clearly defined in any of its parts. Other differences include visibility of all headlines in the same window, for easy browsing, user-selectable fonts, History feature to hide read headlines, semitransparent news ticker, and more.

Better workflow

Novobot provides a better way of working with all the news you get from the Internet. Here is how.

1. Launch Novobot as you start your work
2. Start the queue and forget about it
3. As you have your break, read all the news Novobot gathered in its window as you would read a newsletter.

Novobot does not require you to choose and select your feeds to read new messages, as many other aggregators do. No more excessive clicking around just to read the news. Novobot displays articles in a single window for convenient scrolling through them.


Tickers

A unique Novobot feature is ticker windows for efficient news reporting while keeping out of your way as you do other tasks.

This scrolling miniticker stays on top of other windows and keeps you informed about incoming news. Once you hover your mouse over a scrolling headline, it becomes "hot" and the scrolling stops. When you click, the link changes colour to reflect its "visited" state and is opened in your default web browser.

Another kind of ticker cycles headlines in a small topmost window, providing you not only with headings but telling you more, so that in many cases you could save a browser visit to the linked article.

Tray Icon         

A tray icon animates during headline retrieval and notifies you of any new headlines by displaying a red dot.

Easy channel addition

Many useful news channels are supplied out-of-the-box with Novobot, and many more can be added using the new New Channel dialog. You enter a feed link (URL), and Novobot figures out the rest, getting the feed, determining its format, creating a new channel as a Novobot file and adding it to your queue. The most popular feed formats are supported, including RDF and RSS, with support for more formats on the way.

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  • Download trial version (self-installing executable file, 2.6 MB)
  • Upgrades are free unless noted otherwise
  • Registered customers of the previous versions need to contact Proggle for a free upgrade

New features at a glance

  • Support for RSS 2.0 feeds
  • Easy addition of new feeds
  • Better support for international feeds
  • Many channels fixed, non-working channels removed
  • New easier registration system
  • HTML help
  • Overall stability improved

System requirements

  • A Pentium II class PC
  • Windows 95 + Internet Explorer 4+, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4 SP 6 + Internet Explorer 4+, Windows 2000, Windows XP or newer operating system
  • 6 MB of free disk space
  • Internet connection

Features

  • XML/RDF/RSS and HTML news feed support
  • Single-pane interface
  • Queued news channel retrieval
  • History to display unread headlines only
  • Ticker with scrolling headlines
  • Session persistence—downloaded headlines and window positions are saved between runs
  • User-configurable fonts for headline list and tickers
  • Animated tray icon that notifies about new articles
  • HTTP proxy support for corporate users
  • Source window for easy creation of the most sophisticated channels
  • Logging feature for easier troubleshooting
  • Context-sensitive online help system
  • Bubble help feature for user interface elements
  • Installation and uninstallation services provided by Installer/GD

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