HWiNFO 5.22

* Added: New icons for share, watches and tags, and improvements to several other icons (hat tip to Dare Obasanjo for letting me use his share icon)
* Added: c.oy.ly added to short URL support
* Changed: "Flags" have been renamed "Stars" for consistency with Google Reader
* Changed: Holding CTRL when clicking a hyperlink now always opens it in a background tab, regardless of the "Open new tabs in the background" setting
* Fixed: "Quick Tag" menu not wide enough to fit bolded tags
* Fixed: FeedDemon not showing items read in Google Reader or another copy of FeedDemon
* Fixed: Inaccurate synching of pre-existing tags/stars, or tags/stars added outside of FeedDemon

* Added: Significantly more efficient synching with Google Reader (note that because
of this change, "Resync Now" should be required far less often)
* Fixed: Slow performance when marking items as read by holding down arrow in the
news item list
* Fixed: Dinosaur report excludes feeds that were recently converted to sync with
Google Reader
* Fixed: FeedDemon fails to ask whether to try purchasing via the web when the
ordering wizard fails
* Fixed: FeedDemon fails to display the subscription wizard when clicking a link that
uses the feed:// protocol
* Fixed: Enclosure icon missing from Outlook newspaper style

* Added: Ability to purchase a serial number to turn off the ads (Help | Purchase)
* Added: More improvements to Google Reader synchronization
* Added: "Show item descriptions" has been added back to the toolbar above the news item list
* Added: Conversion from non-sync to Google Reader sync now enables choosing which folders to sync
* Added: Synchronization options now enables choosing which folders to sync
* Changed: "Subscribe to comments" icon has returned to the newspaper (non-synched feeds only)
* Fixed: Slow performance when using the news item list to delete or mark read/unread a large number of items
* Fixed: FeedDemon should warn about adding an authenticated feed to Google Reader
* Fixed: FeedDemon doesn't delete the ".journal" file when you compact the database
* Fixed: Single-key newspaper shortcuts get incorrectly assigned after customizing them
* Fixed: Tags added to shared items don't appear in Google Reader
* Fixed: Updating a single synched feed marks it as read
* Fixed: Older posts in synched feeds incorrectly marked as read
* Fixed: FeedDemon shouldn't enable changing the URL of a synched feed
* Fixed: Incorrect context menu for shared items
* Fixed: Google login error dialog doesn't differentiate between a bad login and a more general connection error

* Added: Conversion to Google Reader is now done in a separate thread
* Added: Tray icon tooltip now includes unread count
* Added: Subscription report now includes a reminder to compact FeedDemon's database when it's highly fragmented
* Added: Reworked Folder Properties to more closely match Feed Properties, added "Enable," "Exclude from all watches" and "Collect attention data" checkboxes
* Added: Subscription Home now includes link to HTTP error report if any HTTP errors exit
* Added: Behavior of spacebar in the newspaper can now be customized (Tools | Keyboard Shortcuts | Newspaper)

* Changed: "Quick Tag" menu has been redesigned - suggested tags are shown in blue, existing tags are bolded
* Changed: Resync moved to first tab in synchronization options, "Advanced" tab renamed to "Account," "Disable synchronization" renamed to "Remove account"
* Changed: HTTP error report now skips disabled feeds
* Changed: Newspaper debug setting no longer saved between sessions (defaults to off)

* Fixed: FeedStation fails to clean up old temporary files
* Fixed: Crash at startup in some environments
* Fixed: Folder properties doesn't enable entering more than two digits in the update frequency setting
* Fixed: FeedStation fails to follow more than two redirects, causing problems with feeds like those from Scientific American whose enclosure URLs redirect more than twice
* Fixed: Synchronization options dialog doesn't save changes to settings before performing resync
* Fixed: "Rerun watch" doesn't skip feeds excluded from all watches
* Fixed: "Check My Podcasts Now" shouldn't appear on FeedStation's tray icon menu
* Fixed: "Add Subscription" sometimes fails with valid feeds if the previous feed was invalid

* Added: Google Reader sync is now more efficient, reliable and bandwidth-friendly
* Added: Synchronization options dialog now enables switching to a different Google Reader account
* Added: Application event log - select "Export event log" from the File menu for a human-readable XML version (useful primarily for support/debugging)
* Added: Tools | Options | Passwords now enables adding a login to a feed that didn't previously have one
* Changed: When using spacebar to navigate posts in the newspaper, FeedDemon now scrolls the page instead of moving to the next post if the selected post extends beyond the page
* Fixed: News item list doesn't reload search results
* Fixed: "Column does not exist" error after upgrading from an old beta version
* Fixed: Feeds added to root folder show up under "[My Feeds]" in Google Reader
* Fixed: After converting to Google Reader sync, auto-download of enclosures re-occurs with previously downloaded enclosures
* Fixed: Progress dialog "flashes" on screen and then quickly disappears after synching downloaded podcasts
* Fixed: Crash when running panic filter
* Fixed: Synchronization sometimes fails to detect when there are no unread posts in Google Reader

* Rewritten: Retrieval of synched feeds has been completely rewritten. Note that due to this change, the first feed update after FeedDemon starts may be noticeably slower than in previous builds, but subsequent updates will be much faster.
* Added: "Quick Tag" menu added next to tag icon in newspaper - enables quickly adding/removing a tag
* Added: Hitting spacebar in the newspaper now moves to the next post
* Added: FAQ added to FeedDemon's online help
* Added: Improved synching of flagged items that existed prior to converting to Google Reader
* Added: wp.me added to ShortUrl support
* Added: Prefetch options now enable skipping items older than a specific number of days (the default is five)
* Added: Converting a folder to/from Google Reader sync now shows a progress dialog
* Added: Converting a folder to Google Reader now attempts to sync pre-existing flags
* Changed: When updating synched feeds, FeedDemon now requests more items from high-traffic feeds
* Changed: Resync no longer marks synched feeds as read before unread posts have been retrieved from Google Reader
* Removed: Automatic prefetch is no longer available
* Fixed: Deleting or renaming a tag doesn't sync with Google Reader
* Fixed: "Outland" newspaper style missing author and source
* Fixed: FeedDemon fails to record the "gr:original-id" of items in synched feeds
* Fixed: Clippings export uses cryptic title
* Fixed: Dragging a tag onto a browser tab causes the subscription dialog to appear
* Fixed: FeedDemon fails to ask whether to stop working offline when synched feeds are moved
* Fixed: Reappearance of unread/flagged items deleted from synched feeds
* Fixed: Flags in shared items fail to sync
* Fixed: Tags deleted from all items in Google Reader aren't removed from FeedDemon
* Fixed: Database locking error on startup
* Fixed: Items incorrectly grouped as "Older" in newspaper
* Fixed: Images appear in expanded items even when "optimize for slow connections" is enabled
* Fixed: Synchronization update frequency not always honored
* Fixed: FeedDemon waits several minutes before updating feeds after converting to Google Reader

* Removed: NewsGator synchronization is no longer available (here's why)
* Added: At startup, FeedDemon now provides the ability to convert your NewsGator subscriptions to Google Reader
* Added: "Create Google Account" hyperlink added to Google Account dialog
* Added: "Execute Feed Database SQL" added to Debug menu (useful for support reasons - I don't recommend using this yourself)
* Added: "Export Clippings" added to clippings context menu (exports clippings as RSS)
* Added: Twitpic URLs in Twitter feeds now show an image icon
* Changed: Converting your NewsGator subscriptions to Google Reader subscriptions has been rewritten
* Changed: "Resynchronize" has been completely rewritten to address a number of problems customers have been reporting (it's also much faster now)
* Changed: Google Reader only considers the 10 most recent items from the past 30 days to be unread when subscribing to a feed. This is now reflected in FeedDemon after an existing feed is synched with Google Reader.
* Changed: Clippings are now deprecated. Existing clippings folders are still supported, but clippings won't be available to new users. The main reason for this change is that the new tagging features provide similar functionality.
* Fixed: "Source" column lost after re-running watch
* Fixed: <small> tags in description result in unreadable text
* Fixed: Conversion to Google Reader fails to check whether FeedDemon is working offline
* Fixed: "Update Shared Items" and "Update Synchronized Tags" don't first sync recent changes with Google Reader
* Fixed: Authenticated feeds in NewsGator aren't moved to a non-synched folder when converting (must happen since Google Reader doesn't support authenticated feeds)
* Fixed: FeedDemon's help doesn't reflect changes in the new version

* Added: "Disable synchronization" added to Google Reader synchronization options - permanently disables sync between FeedDemon and Google Reader without affecting your Google Reader subscriptions
* Added: "Send anonymous usage data" added to General page in Options (anonymously sends URLs of read/flagged/emailed posts and URLs of added/deleted feeds to NewsGator). This is basically the same as the attention data reporting in previous versions, except that it can be disabled for all feeds instead of just on a per-feed basis.
* Changed: Improved performance when copying or deleting from the news item list
* Changed: "Rerun watch" is significantly faster
* Changed: FeedDemon no longer automatically creates a backup of the feed database - instead, the subscription report reminds to create a backup every two weeks
* Fixed: Accelerators missing from install
* Fixed: Range error editing various numeric settings when current locale uses a thousands separator other than a comma
* Fixed: "File in use" error when rapidly switching between "All Unread Items" and "All Flagged Items"
* Fixed: "Resynchronize" is unreliable
* Fixed: HTTP 404 when updating synched Google Reader feeds containing spaces in their URLs
* Fixed: If FeedDemon detects at startup that an existing instance is already running and is hung, the second instance continues to execute after choosing not to kill first instance
* Fixed: Cleanup Wizard "don't remind me" link appears to do nothing
* Fixed: Google Reader sync options doesn't enforce limit of 500 new items to retrieve per feed
* Fixed: "Database is locked" error at startup

* Added: Bing search definition
* Fixed: Older tagged/starred posts aren't retrieved when synching with Google Reader
* Fixed: "Find Feeds" inoperable when synching with Google Reader
* Fixed: Outlook used when emailing posts even when Windows Mail set as the default email client
* Fixed: "New items received" message appears offscreen when newspaper is scrolled
* Fixed: "SQLite Error 5 - database is locked" error at startup or after running cleanup wizard
* Fixed: "Update all" icon remains as hourglass following connection failure
* Fixed: Newspaper shortcut for "Next item (automatically move to next feed)" doesn't correctly navigate folders
* Fixed: Misaligned highlight in "Photo Strip" newspaper style
* Fixed: "Access denied" error downloading FDXSL/FDLANG/FDSRCH files from within FeedDemon when not logged into Windows as an admin
* Fixed: "Error saving file" dialog blocks FeedDemon until dialog is dismissed
* Fixed: Slow performance using J/K to navigate newspaper

* Added: "Express Setup" added to install - quickly installs FeedDemon using default location and program group
* Added: Performance improvements to subscription search, cleanup wizard and panic button
* Added: "E" single-key newspaper shortcut to email active item
* Added: Option to automatically start FeedDemon when Windows starts
* Changed: "Filters & Watches" renamed to simply "Watches"
* Changed: FeedStation no longer prompts for "MyPodcasts" login at startup
* Changed: "Open in external browser" single-key newspaper shortcut changed from "E" to "X"
* Changed: "Popular in My Subscriptions" fills in the blanks using the most recent posts across all your feeds
* Fixed: Prefetch has been rewritten to resolve sporadic exceptions that occured in previous versions (esp. when IE8 installed)
* Fixed: Posts starred in Google Reader don't get flagged in FeedDemon
* Fixed: New posts tagged in Google Reader don't get tagged in FeedDemon
* Fixed: "Mark all read" missing from Google Reader Shared Items context menu
* Fixed: Can't login to Google Reader if password contains non-alphanumeric characters
* Fixed: Incorrect date grouping in news item list
* Fixed: "Browser Home" icon on new tab page fails when IE8 is installed
* Fixed: Clicking close button on browser tab changes the active tab
* Fixed: Disabled feeds still updated when synched with Google Reader
* Fixed: Resizing columns in FeedStations sometimes leaves blank area on left

* Added: Performance improvements throughout FeedDemon (basically wherever the feed database is accessed)
* Added: Author names, retweets and hyperlinks in Twitter status posts are now included in FeedDemon's prefetch
* Fixed: "Resync Now" marks items read in Google Reader
* Fixed: Check for new version fails when not synching with NewsGator
* Fixed: Invalid thumbnail images in synched Yahoo News feeds
* Fixed: Hitting J/K in quick succession focuses the wrong item in the newspaper
* Fixed: Unsynched feeds are included in the update after hitting "Resync Now"
* Fixed: Wrong # of steps show in startup wizard
* Fixed: Date algorithms follow the ISO 8601 standard and always treat Monday as the first day of the week regardless of the Windows locale

* Added: Tags added in Google Reader are now synched with FeedDemon on startup
* Fixed: FeedDemon misses some unread items when synched with Google Reader
* Fixed: Deleted feeds reappear if FeedDemon closed immediately after deleting them
* Fixed: Keyword continues to appear next to subscriptions after switching from keyword view (161560)
* Fixed: "Find Feeds" should be disabled when synched with Google Reader (161672)
* Fixed: Tools | Open FeedStation doesn't work
* Fixed: Missing program group icon for FeedStation
* Fixed: Numerous browser-related exceptions (esp. with pages containing embedded video)

# Changed: User name no longer shown in caption when synched with Google Reader
# Fixed: Synched feeds in the root folder fail to convert to Google Reader
# Fixed: Flags added when synched with NewsGator are lost after converting to Google Reader
# Fixed: Shared items not set as default after converting to Google Reader
# Fixed: Wrong context menu appears for Google Reader shared items

* Added: Synchronization with Google Reader. If you're already synching with NewsGator, you can convert to Google Reader by selecting Tools | Synchronization Options | Advanced | Convert Now. If you're new to FeedDemon, you'll be give a choice of synchronization platforms at startup. If you've been using FeedDemon without synchronization, the subscriptions report will include an "Enable synchronization" link.
* Added: "Reset feed title and homepage" button added to feed properties

* Changed: Watches and filers now appear beneath "Filters & Watches"
* Changed: ALT key no longer toggles the main menu (but you can still click any toolbar to hide it)
* Changed: Redesigned per-feed/per-folder prefetch options
* Changed: No longer creating separate program group for FeedStation icons
* Changed: FeedDemon's install is almost 30% smaller than before
* Changed: The default # of items per newspaper page is now 25 instead of 10
* Changed: Automatic backup now happens every 48 hours instead of every 24 hours
* Changed: Search results now use "surfer" style

* Fixed: Exceptions during prefetch
* Fixed: Deleting a folder containing a large number of feeds takes far too long
* Fixed: Unread count of selected feed is hard to read in unthemed subscription tree
* Fixed: Changes to a feed's home page URL are reset when the feed is updated
* Fixed: Subscriptions drawn using incorrect shell font size
* Fixed: Manual prefetch incorrectly says there are no items to prefetch
* Fixed: Vista's automatic horizontal scroll in the subscription tree scrolls too far
* Fixed: In rare cases, read items in synched feeds come back as unread if NewsGator detects them as being modified
* Fixed: Flickering in the subscription tree
* Fixed: Feed properties doesn't save changes to the feed's prefetch options
* Fixed: Custom newspaper style not reset when viewing filter
* Fixed: Ctrl+Arrow allowed as keyboard shortcut even though already handled by newspaper
* Fixed: Inaccurate progress bar during prefetch

* Fixed: Inaccurate unread counts sometimes displayed
* Fixed: Read/unread changes resulting from "Resync Now" aren't shown in subscriptions right away
* Fixed: Favorites menu uses incorrect font color
* Fixed: Can't click full width of selection in subscription tree