## Preferences - General settings

> The General Program Settings is located in Preferences under General icon.

> Default refresh rate

> > The default time between refreshing feeds. This parameter can be set between 1 and 60 minutes, the default is 2. If there are more feeds, each of them will refresh once within the specified time. The time of each feed refresh also can be set in RSS section of Preferences.

> > You can set different refresh rate while you Macbook running on Battery power.

> Show last ... news

> > The default maximum number of headline items read and keep in memory by NewsBar. This parameter can be set between 5 and 500, the default is 50. If there are many feeds subscribed, text search speed may be a little slower. In the RSS section in Preferences this parameter can be set individually for each feed overriding this default value.

> Show items from last ... days

> > The age of oldest dated headline items which will be read and keep in memory by NewsBar. This can be set between 1 and 120 days, the default is 7. In the RSS section in Preferences this parameter can be set individually for each feed overriding this default value.

> Timestamp

> > The time displayed in headlines can be set to display the publishing time or to display the time when it was received. Some RSS feeds may have wrong timing, in this case set it to When received. The time display format matches with OS X Language settings.

> Enable RSS preview

> > Clicking headlines in the main window NewsBar will show RSS content in a popup window when this option checked. When disabled or headlines double-clicked, NewsBar will open RSS link in your default web browser.

> Sidebar

> > Folder tabs can be shown with daily or all unread counters, or can be fully disabled.

> Show feeds on sibebar as icons

> > Changes icon/text view on sidebar.

> Starred news - Delete all

> > Deletes all previously saved (Starred) headlines from NewsBar. This cannot be undone.

> Open NewsBar at login

> > Check this if you want start NewsBar when your computer starts up.

> Scroll to top after x minutes

> > If NewsBar manually scrolled down it will automatically scroll back to top after specified time.

> Default RSS App

> > Here you can set the default RSS Reader App. Check on startup will notitfy you if NewsBar is not the default RSS reader.

> iCloud sync

> > NewsBar will automatically sync feed list, starred items, read/unread statuses between all OS X ans iOS devices running latest version of NewsBar. For syncing the same iCloud account should be active on all devices and Documents & Data sync features should be checked in iCloud preferences. iCloud sync requires OS X Lion / iOS 6 or later.

> > NewsBar automatically saves RSS feed list from the last 7 days to ~/Library/Containers/com.newsbar-app/Data/Library/Application Support/NewsBar

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