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I’ll say it one more time: Get a news aggregator! It’s like having your own custom edited newspaper every day. I just played with a free, Windows-based RSS aggregator that actually is pretty good. It’s called SharpReader. It seems better than average and has some features that my favorite doesn’t even have. For example, you can just type in a URL to a blog or site and it will automatically scan the page for the META tag that indicates the RSS feed. That’s awesome.
To get you started, I’ve also exported my current subscription list out of NetNewsWire. You can import them into SharpReader. It works fine, but loses the groupings I’ve set up.
Enjoy!
Update: I lied… NetNewsWire does the meta tag autoscan, too. sweet!
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11:16 am | 4 comments
November 5th, 2003 at 3:41 pm
Hi Sujal,
Thanks for the kind words. For what it’s worth, it looks like NetNewsWire isn’t exporting its groupings and just saves a flat opml file. I wonder if NNW is able to import SharpReader opml files (which do contain groupings if you created them).
For what I’ve heard, NNW is supposed to be a kick-ass aggregator. Unfortunately I’ve never been able to give it a try since I don’t own a Mac. You mention #R has some features NNW doesn’t have; I’m sure it works the other way around as well - which NNW features would you most like to see added to #R?
thanks!
November 6th, 2003 at 2:10 pm
I will spend some more time with #R before I respond with any detail, Luke. But, I do have one quick suggestion. Is there any way you could have the systray icon update with the number of unread entries? I know that it’s tougher to do the dock type badge that programs have on OS X, but maybe on a mouseover of the sys tray icon I could get a number of unread items.
just a thought.
November 6th, 2003 at 2:11 pm
also, are you planning on releasing source? or is this eventually going to become commercial? Or have you released source and I’m just too obtuse to find it?
November 7th, 2003 at 12:26 am
I’ll look into adding the number of unread items to the systray hint. It won’t be in the upcoming release (which is about ready for release now) but quite possible in the one after that.
There are no plans of turning SharpReader into a commercial product (I already have a day-job and don’t need a second one;-)
I do plan on releasing the source-code at some point, but am not quite sure yet when that will be…