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Description

Monotony Monotony is a very simple feed reader. It does exactly one job: You subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds, Monotony checks for news every minute. News are displayed on the desktop as notifications, featuring the headline and a summary (if there's one). To read a news item in your default web browser, just click on the notification. Features Monotony is a simple backend to bring your favourite rss and atom news feeds to your desktop. It doesn't have a frontend but presents new feed entries by showing tiny little desktop notifications. There is nothing else. No Google Reader sync, no frontend, no possibility to customize it. Monotony runs as a menubar app or, if you choose, invisible in the background. That's all. Monotony has been designed to blend with Growl, the desktop notification system. Monotony will work without Growl being installed but the notifications are much more beautiful and much more configurable if Growl (version 1.3 or later) is running. How does it work? Subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds by entering a feed URL or a website URL. In the latter case, Monotony will look for feeds on that website. If there are several feeds available, Monotony will present them to you for selection. Monotony will refresh subscribed feeds every sixty seconds, presenting all new entries by showing desktop notifications. Customize the display of these notifications by using Growl. Monotony works very well with Growl. Monotony will not record any new feed entries if it isn't running at that time. Monotony is running in a Sandbox and doesn't have access to your file sytem. Monotony is future-proof and will also run on OS X Mountain Lion, where the new Notification Center will be supported as an alternative way to show notifications. Requirements Monotony requires OS X 10.7.4. Monotony will work without Growl being installed but it is much more beautiful if you have Growl (version 1.3 or later). Learn even more Do you want some background information on Monotony? Read the development blog. Support If you need support, experience trouble with Monotony or would like to see additional features implemented, please consult our Support Page on Google+ or follow us on Twitter. Changelog July 20, 2012: Monotony 1.0.1 released, brings fixes for some issues related to detection and display of feed icons. June 28, 2012: Monotony 1.0 released!