Nowadays, a lot of websites offer newsfeeds you can subscribe to. This application will notify you of new items in such feeds through balloons above your system tray.
Version 2.1.0 (stable)
Release date: 5 July 2011
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 2.6 MB free disk space
- Automatic update system is now compatible with User Account Control (UAC)
- Feeds and feed items now have tooltips containing their summary/description
- Cookies are now blocked by default
- Do-Not-Track standard (DNT) is now implemented
- Item Cookie settings has been added to the Tools menu
- Just imported feeds now have a different icon
- Fixed bug: caching information was stored after temporary redirects
- Fixed bug: line breaking in message boxes was not always correct
Version 2.0.3 (stable)
Release date: 2 April 2011
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 2.6 MB free disk space
- Security bug fix: a local attacker could elevate his rights by forging an update
Version 2.0.2 (stable)
Release date: 31 March 2011
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 2.6 MB free disk space
- Fixed bug: update kept asking to be applied when it already had been applied
Version 2.0.1 (stable)
Release date: 30 March 2011
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 2.6 MB free disk space
- Fixed bug: text did not fit in dialog boxes on Windows Vista/7
- Fixed bug: the Sound effects menu option opened the wrong tab on Windows Vista/7
- Fixed bug: in the Dutch version, the cancel button of the Ignore myself dialog window now says Annuleren instead of Cancel
- The Sound effects and Internet options menu options have new, clearer names
Version 2.0.0 (stable)
Release date: 19 February 2011
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 2.6 MB free disk space
- Feed autodiscovery
- Option to filter your own items
- Support for namespaces and relative links in the XML parser
- Better HTML-to-text conversion
- Support for other favicon image formats
- Usage of original link instead of tracking link in FeedBurner feeds
- Mechanism for automatic updates
- Lower CPU usage if offline
- Better handling of item history
- Better feed error handling
- Improved about dialog
- Several stability improvements
Version 1.2.0 (stable)
Release date: 14 January 2010
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 2.2 MB free disk space
- Feed items edited or deleted on server are now also edited or deleted in item history
- On subscription, items without timestamps are no longer added to item history
- Item history is now refreshed after marking an item read
- Added possibility to choose a different web browser than the default
- Added item Internet options to Extra menu
- Added support for RSS elements indicating the author
- Feed author is now used if an item has no author
- HTTP headers Last-Modified, ETag and HTTP status code 304 implemented
- HTTP status code 503 no longer shows an error
- Relative redirects from HTTP 1.0 are now supported
- Installer enhanced in several ways
- Fixed bug: buffer overflow on some balloon error messages
- Fixed bug: uninitialised variable could cause error on empty feeds
- Fixed bug: clicking on system tray icon could not work correctly
- Fixed bug: HTTP status code 406 implemented
- Fixed bug: Atom feeds older than version 0.3 were treated as 1.0
- Fixed bug: added application/rdf+xml to request headers and replaced image/bmp with image/x-ms-bmp
- Fixed bug: exported OPML did not declare blijbol namespace
Version 1.1.0 (stable)
Release date: 20 July 2009
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 1.8 MB free disk space
- Added subscription support from within browsers
- Added left mouse menu with unread feeds
- Added maximize and minimize buttons
- Made window resizable
- Fixed incorrect behaviour when Windows shuts down
- Configuration is now saved on change
- Added bitmap format support for icons
- Increased height of subscribe dialog
- Improved item date detection
- Added warning when unsubscribing Blijbol
Version 1.0.2 (stable)
Release date: 31 May 2009
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7, 1.8 MB free disk space
- Critical bug fixed: if server reported 200 OK with an invalid feed, aggregator started attacking server
- Removed dependency on msvcr90.dll
Version 1.0.1 (stable)
Release date: 27 May 2009
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7
- Solved bug in balloon link
- Technically improved subscription mechanism
- Improved unreachable feed error handling
- New system tray menu option "Mark all as read" added
Version 1.0.0 (stable)
Release date: 22 May 2009
Language: Both English and Dutch
System requirements: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7
A stable version of this product has been released.
The project was announced at 22 May 2009.
Created by Jeroen van der Gun with Visual C++. Installer created with Inno Setup.