官方主页上列出的如下优点正是小编强烈推荐它的理由:
优点:
1. 速度超快,特别针对大量频道同步更新而设计.
2. 下载资料保存到本地,以前的新闻不会因网站更新而丢失.
3. 支持所有主流RSS协议,对国内各种非标准的中文rss feed兼容性特好.
4. 可订制关键字自动加亮
5. 可给新闻加标签 (GMail的Label)
6. 可灵活的和Bloglines.com集成
7. RSS Feed Auto Discovery (用内建浏览器时自动识别网页上的RSS feed)
8. 频道浏览统计
9. 查找功能
10. 100% Unicode内核,支持多国语言同屏显示
11. 内建浏览器,自动拦截弹出窗口
12. 绿色软件800KB,免安装,展开直接使用
最近更新:
GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 374) Released on 9/27/2006
新增： Microsoft LiveWriter 插件.
新增： 系统托盘菜单添加"离线工作"命令 (Thanks justauser)
新增： 内建浏览器支持XP风格 (Thanks rocky and coolzdp)
新增： Label菜单添加"Unlabel All" (Thanks justauser)
新增： 把所用GreatNews生成的html设为Internet zone以降低安全风险. (Thanks Nick Bradbury)
新增： 一些可用性改进 (Thanks Michael D. Lawler)
F6 sets focus to feed tree. F9 sets focus to news list.
SHIFT+F10 and Application key to bring up context menu.
新增： 新选项用来设定Label或Watch为GreatNews起始页 (Thanks wyldphyre)
Tools->Options->General
新增： 在新闻列表中CTRL+DblClick可以打开新Tab,SHIFT+DblClick打开新窗口 (Thanks cnewtonne)
新增： 48*48, 64*64 GreatNews图标 (Thanks Mercury)
新增： hidden option "MaxFeedSizeInK" to change maximum feed size. Default is 1000KB.
修改： a bug in handling Tim Bray's atom 1.0 feed. (Thanks Chewtoy)
修改： GreatNews doesn't set article status to unread when content was updated (Thanks ski)
修改： GreatNews treats FeedBurner modified article urls as rss feeds (Thanks wjf)
修改： GreatNews reports "The page cannot be displayed" if a website has malformed links (Thanks maupassant)
Tentative Fix: compatibility issue with http://hosted.ap.org's feed, which generates new guid for existing items everytime. (Thanks acrv)
Tentative Fix: Read item showing up as unread if its title has escaped characters. (Thanks Banji)
Changed: feed detection is now using the standard RSS icon Ver 1.0 (Build 372)
Updated: Polish language pack (Thanks kodijak)
Updated: Turkish Language language pack (Thanks webdr)
Updated: Traditional Chinese language pack (Thanks Nelson)
下载:GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 374)安装程序 下载:GreatNews 1.0 Beta (Build 374)绿色版