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Good News

Good News is a news feed reader plugin for Trillian with RSS 0.9x/1/2 and Atom support. Together with Trilly Tunes you can even listen to your favorite podcasts.

Free Download

Stable Release v1.1.6 (1.2 MB)October 8th 2009
Stable Release + Extra Encodings v1.1.6 (1.9 MB)October 8th 2009

If you are going to use feeds which contain e.g. Hebrew or far east characters, download the "Extra Encodings" edition.

You may need to download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) from microsoft.com.

Please note that you need to purchase Trillian Pro in order to run plugins. Trillian Basic does not support plugins.

Good News is and will stay free software! Nevertheless, if you like Good News, please consider a small donation. Thanks!

Feature List

  • RSS 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0 feeds
  • ATOM 0.3 and 1.0 feeds
  • News alerts
  • You can import your feeds from the old CS News plugin
  • Feed Groups
  • Feed Item Filter
  • Merge multiple feeds to appear as one
  • Enabling/Disabling Feeds
  • Sorting via Drag&Drop
  • Podcast support (you can send podcast episodes directly to Trilly Tunes or download them)
  • Podcast auto-download (Podcatching)
  • OPML Export/Import
  • HTTPS (SSL and TLS) and HTTP authentication support
  • Feed logo image support
  • "Extra Encodings" edition supports over 130 character encodings through libiconv

Screenshots

Good News Screenshot

Good News Screenshot

Last edited by Ingmar on Thursday, October 8th 2009 14:26:44 CEST