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I want to use SPB Insight, but there are many RSS readers on the net.
Wich one is the most useable?
Tested Insight, but I can't create a channel to read xda-developers forum.
Anyone can help me?
Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=287827 ...
http://modernnomads.info/wiki/index....ge=RSS+readers
NewsCopier
MaximumSoft NewsCopier is a freeware RSS reader. Features include:
* hiding of read articles,
* Cleartype support,
* allows feeds to be stored on your memory card,
* support for a wide variety of RSS-feed formats: RSS 1.0 (including RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92), RSS 2.0 and Atom
* Automatic (periodic) updates of feeds
The basic user-interface is quite similar to Illium's NewsBreak, but it lacks advanced features like alerting on keywords and loggin into protected feeds.
Ok thanks, I've tried several, but I still don't know how to add the xda-developers forum to my channel list.
I would like to add some topics(or the whole forum) to the list, so when I sync it, the program downloads that topic, or just the new posts.
Anyone knows how can I do it?
Cheers,
Not sure if you can do that ... I havent seen a RSS symbol for either the forum or thread ... However I know that this can be done on other forums like HoFo ..
Maybe someone else knows how to do this ..
dont forget Egress, thats my favourite. you can even sync the entire web page from the news feed. Also choose to download pictures as part of the feed or choose which pictures to get and does podcasts.
Is there a free application that I can install for news articles on my Wizard?
What I have in mind is similar to RSS readers. I would connect the phone to my computer vis USB. The phone would grab all the news articles that i am interested from the internet. Whenever I have time, I would just pull up those news articles on the phone and read them.
NewsCopier v1.1
It's freeware that lets you download RSS and Atom feeds and read them off-line. Learned about it from a thread here, but I've never used it myself.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-newscopier-v1-1.html
If that doesn't get the job done for you, you might want to drop 20 bucks on Spb's "Insight." It's what I use.
You can create your own custom XML templates for it, so you're not limited to RSS or Atom feeds. You can pull down just about anything you want from any web site, if you can figure out how to parse it.
Careful though. It's addictive.
[damn i forgot name of good freeware soft sorry.).
upd, here it is:
pRSSreader
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/
i need a "offline browser", which downloads whole news pages to read that afterwards offline with ie mobile.
the sunnysoft world off-line is what i looking for
http://www.sunnysoft.com/software.php?idarticle=98
but, this tool is not working properly. i test this software with following url
http://heise-online.mobi/
he downloads only the first page, but not the content of each link.
however, if someone use a other software, please report this here.
note: i prefer freeware, but i ready to use/pay for a commercial software.
komser said:
i need a "offline browser", which downloads whole news pages to read that afterwards offline with ie mobile.
the sunnysoft world off-line is what i looking for
http://www.sunnysoft.com/software.php?idarticle=98
but, this tool is not working properly. i test this software with following url
http://heise-online.mobi/
he downloads only the first page, but not the content of each link.
however, if someone use a other software, please report this here.
note: i prefer freeware, but i ready to use/pay for a commercial software.
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Hmmmm... Check your settings on WOL, that site should work. If for some reason it doesn't, you can try Avantgo. Also, pages with RSS feeds can use SPB Insight.
First of all, you'd be better off posting a general question like this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398571
instead of opening a new tread...
As for the browser - use Opera Mini (freeware). In case you don't know it - it's not really a WM5 program but a java midlet but with proper java VM (like jbed) it's probably the fastest browser available for this platform (and saves your bandwidth thanks to server-side content compression).
It can save pages for offline viewing: the option to do this in menu/tools/save page. Saved pages can be accessed from browser's start page.
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Sorry, didn't notice that you want the link targets saved as well. Opera mini saves only the page you're viewing but doesn't save linked pages. I haven't heard of any WM software that could do that.
I think the easiest way would be to download pages to the PC and transfer them to your device afterwards.
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Have you tried avantgo?
Hello to everybody. I would like to know if there are some free RSS software better than the RSS Hub included in our HD2.
And, just to know, is it possible in RSS Hub to delete and not to flag as read a RSS header?Bevause I see that in this way a lot of old info remain inside the program...
Thank a lot to everybody as usual...
Diamantes said:
Hello to everybody. I would like to know if there are some free RSS software better than the RSS Hub included in our HD2.
And, just to know, is it possible in RSS Hub to delete and not to flag as read a RSS header?Bevause I see that in this way a lot of old info remain inside the program...
Thank a lot to everybody as usual...
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SBSH GoNews is pretty good. Nice interface.
SPB News2.0 is also nice... seems to download more full feeds for some reason (even though this shouldn't be the case). I type the same URL into GoNews and I get just headlines and excerpt with a link to the webpage. Somehow I get the whole txt on SPB News (on certain feeds)... It also takes a little longer to update
Both are paid apps and support photos and icons... are you prepared to pay or looking for free stuff?
Thanks a lot for the quick reply.
Yes, I am "prepared" to pay, but if you have a good free alternative, please let me know of course!!
That's interesting.
I purchased Illium Newsbreak ages ago and loved it's simplicity and capability. That is what is bundled with the HD2 ...
Maybe I don't use enough RSS to know what's needed but it was excellent for the feeds and podcasts I subscribed to.
I've tried pretty much every RSS reader there is and BY FAR the best one out there is Yomomedia (google it for link). Set it up on your desktop, feeds come through on your device. Best of all- its free! The best and most-used app on my HD2....
liamski said:
I've tried pretty much every RSS reader there is and BY FAR the best one out there is Yomomedia (google it for link). Set it up on your desktop, feeds come through on your device. Best of all- its free! The best and most-used app on my HD2....
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Thanks for that! I will check it out now! Cheers
Yomomedia is quite cool indeed... not as simple to use though
DOes anyone know of World news feeds that have most of the txt included? I would rather read more than just the headlines...
yes, I tried Yomomedia, but it's not so instinctive and immediate. Maybe at the end RRS Hub it's the best choice...simple and effective even if I don't if it's possible to cancel the rss avoiding an increasingly amount of database. By far I see I can only flag "unread"...
Check out my new tweak for rss hub in post 3 of hints and tips thread.
GoNew Touch is the best
SBSH GoNews Touch - because of
1. catergory support : essential when you have a huge number of subscribe feeds...
2. Google Reader sync: i can just subscribe to Rss from my browser and let goNews pick it up in the mobile where i do the reading...
It seams like everybody has theri own favorite. I have been using Egress for a long time now and it satisfies all my needs, even on the HD2
//Awi
try smartrss touch google reader edition...
direct sync with google reader..
but I think it doesn't have offline capability though...
but it does make up in the UI... excellent and fluid iPhone like...
and its $9.99 only...
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Hi bro.
I have tried some software that you recommended to me. So I give you my opinion about them...
-Egress: good, with some small bug but nothing serious. You can delete item and customize a lot of things. The GUI is not so cool but friendly and easy. If you long click on the feed a popup menù with some options appears. No thumbnails download. The software is not updated since 2008 and it's a pity.
-Yomomedia:nice graphics for main page but few options and not intuitive for settings. If you long click on the feed nothing happens, for example a menù to choose options.
-Gonews Touch: good features, easy, nice GUI, you can see also the thumbnails of the feeds, BUT a big issue also discussed on their internal forum: for a quite big numbers of devices (amongst them HD2) the downloading of feeds is VERY VERY slow (and when I say slow, believe me, up to 5-6 times RSS Hub for instance) and this is a major issue. The developer recognized that it could be a problem inside its core and he's working on a fix but after 3 weeks nothing. So not recommended at the moment. It's a pity because it would be a good software for us.
-RSS Hub in-built: unfortunately Iliumsoft has apparently stopped the developing of this program 2 years ago and even if it is good and simple, it is too simple in my opinion. I mean that a refresh for GUI and options should be done, and not making it heavier or slower of course...
These are naturally my personal opinions I wanted to share with you: I know that everyone has his/her preferred software but effectively each one of them lacks in something and I hope that developers could start again their work on those softwares because even if RSS is not the main reason to buy a HD2, a good one can make the difference in customer experience.
bye bye
Tried most of them and apart from Egress they all freeze and certain points (usually on BGR) so I have stuck with Egress for the last couple of years and am very pleased with it.
(I also loved AvantGo - such a shame they've stopped supporting it.)
You did not mention SPB News. It is fast and complete exept no categories which I can live with. It allows you to import OPML so it is easy when migrating from another RSS reader. Try it.
Yes, not tried SPB news. I am gonna try today and will update my post...
I just use google reader on my PC, and m.google reader on my HD2.
No offline option and cannot sort mobile to show oldest first.
I use BeyondPod (http://www.beyondpod.mobi/) though mainly for downloading podcasts rather than reading news though it can do this - also has a pretty useful built in scheduler for updates, along with built in player which remembers position, and deletes your podcast once you've listened to it.
Set mine to update at 6am each day and I have a new set of podcasts to listen to on the train into work.
Beyond Pod scheduler problems
Hi!
Guru Meditation, is the scheduler of Beyond Pod working fine for you? In my HD2, the download task is just turning the screen off!
About RSS software in general... I only use RSS in my phone to download and listen a few podcasts. I gave RSS Hub a try, but it seems to overwrite old podcasts with the new ones. As I wanted to preserve the old podcasts until I listened them, I moved back to Beyond Pod. Besides my problem with the scheduler, I do recomend Beyond Pod for listening podcasts.
Hi all, I know you can get some rss feeders that purport to download the entire article so you can read it all even offline, but I have not as yet found out how to get either Newsbreak (which I am not sure if it does) or SPB News (which does but I cant figure it out) to do this... can anyone please help me with easy to follow instructions so I can get the full article to read off line etc... thanks in advance...
Spb News can, sort of...
I am using Spb News on my HD2. It is not (and by far) the best RSS reader out there but for a selected number of feeds, there are indeed "templates" which will fetch you the full articles instead of what would otherwise just look like a worthless bunch of tweets. Here is a short extract of the developer's documentation:
Templates in Spb Insight project are intended to download and parse web documents of different kind, mostly news sites. Since different web sites have very different page formatting, a template needs to be created for every site. A template contains information about the site and code to help parse content, clean it up from menus, advertisements and so on.
The template language was created with easiness, popularity and conformity to internet standards in mind. Wide-spread internet language Jscript (a.k.a. ECMAScript) was chosen as the basic language, wrapped with XML to enable metadata processing, such as channel names etc.
One template can contain definitions for multiple channels, as there are usually several channels on one site that has the same formatting and the parsing code for them should be shared.
Despite the recent release of the renamed v2.0 (from Insight to News) bringing next to nothing new, Spb has seemingly moved their resources away from this product so that the "channels" are no longer kept up-to-date. It is now essentially a matter of trial&error to find out those feeds from the online catalogue that still can return you the full articles, or, you program yourself a template. A third option is to use one of the user-contributed templates directly from the forum.
Good luck and happy news reading!
Z.
Thanks for the info, I was hoping there would be an easy (ier) solution as I am not that savvy with technamolology...
I will have a look and see if I cant figure it all out... cheers.