Access an assistant and reader toolset for RSS feeds in your system. Manage selected news sources, receive instant updates about the state of your blog or gallery subscriptions, manage podcasts, and view multimedia content. Store the received articles and manage them with an included SQLite database.
Vienna was designed to make sorting through your online information easier. On a daily basis you are hit with posts on your Facebook wall, all those tweets that you ought to read through, and all the online news feeds that keep you posted on the latest trends. Vienna is made to be your central location with its simplistic interface for all of those posts and news.
Many people will find this program very useful in their life, especially those who have at least two accounts on various social networking websites, Facebook and Twitter for example. Wouldn't it be cool to have all of your new tweets and posts delivered to one centralized location? Well, your answer is Vienna. All of your posts, news, tweets are organized into categories, and all you have to do is click through their tittles and read what your peeps are saying. It's like reading a newspaper by its headlines. If a headline catches your eye, you can go on and read the full article inside.
It wasn't enough for the developers just to create a centralized interface for all the social networking websites and RSS feeds: they took this whole thing to the next level with giving you an option to share a news item or a feed with your Facebook friends or Followers on Twitter.
Overall, the idea is great. Rather than opening a page after page and checking what's new, you know what's new in your social life by just opening this program. You can quickly read what is interesting and move on doing something else. The program is free, and the developers are working hard to include more features. Since it is free, you won't lose much by trying it out.
v2.5 [Apr 25, 2010]
User Interface refresh: Removed the grey headers, made the vertical divider easier to grab and made filtering more discoverable.
Added support for plugins.
Added support for search engine plugins and the ability to do web-searches from the toolbar.
Added support for blog editor plugins.
Added support for sharing plugins that work like bookmarklets for social websites.
Added support for script plugins.
Added Share With Facebook button.
Added Share With Evernote button.
Added Share With Twitter button with automatic URL shortening via bit.ly.
Added user contributed “Share with Delicious” plugin to the core distribution. Thanks to forum user czanderna.
Update to the current version of Sparkle, which prevents auto-updating to a version of Vienna which will not run on the user’s system.
Fix bug where deleting a feed in Unified view mode would cause Vienna to stop working correctly.
Fix bug where changing the article font size would crash Vienna.
Fix bug that caused zombiefied update spinners (thanks to Curtis Faith).
Fix bug that caused the reading position to be lost upon refresh (thanks to Curtis Faith).
