?Technology Preview 3 - Released

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2694

We have made available our third (and most likely final) Technology Preview release. We plan on our next release to be a Beta release.

We have added several new features to this release. Here are the changes:

Changes Since Technology Preview 2
- Fixed problem with Item Title allowing pasting of different fonts into the field
- Added icons to menus
- Added time pickers to Pub Dates
- Added resizing options to image editor
- Horizontal scrollbars added to Feeds and Items list boxes
- Added menu hotkeys
- Added rotate options to image editor
- Added flip options to image editor
- Added crop options to image editor
- Added spell checking options to preferences screen
- Added Smart Date options in preferences
- Enabled Smart Date buttons on Feed and Items screens
- Added vertical scroll bars to feed and item description fields
- Fixed problem with item pub date getting error when going to time picker
- Added drop-down lists for language, skip days, and skip hours fields
- Fixed problem where no feeds are selected if the only feed in the list has bad XML
- Added attribute fields for feed items: category, cloud, textinput
- Added attribute fields for items: category, guid, source, enclosure
- Added support for reading RSS versions .91, .92, .93, .94 (2.0 is native format)
- Added real basic support for opening Atom 0.3 feeds (still needs work)
- Added option to disable skins
- Added option to only display feed filenames (without path) in feed listbox

If you don't already have the download link (all the old links should download the new version), please email

As always we welcome and truly appreciate any and all feedback.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2694

There has been a couple of reports of the installer 'hanging' at the 'checking for previously installed components' screen. Turns out that it isn't actually 'hung', but is taking a few minutes to get past it. Please be patient. The next release will resolve the problem.

Thanks