Very exciting new release:


Hand/RSS (http://www.standalone.com/palmos/hand_rss/) for Palm OS® v.1.0
Price: $14.95


RSS News feeds are the newest way to download and read news stories on a variety of subjects, from all over the internet. Handheld Headlines/RSS for Palm OS allows you to download these news feeds, either via a HotSync or using a direct internet connection on your Palm Power Handheld, and then read them later! Use it to keep updated with the latest news, sports and financial updates as well as read your favorite websites!

Hand/RSS for Palm OS includes a variety of news feeds including:

* BBC News
* Boing Boing
* CNet News
* Fark.com
* MSNBC
* Salon.com
* SlashDot
* The Register
* Wired
* and many more!

Additionally, you can add any new feeds quickly and easily! For a searchable list of RSS feeds to add, visit Syndic8.

Add your fave blogs! Add your fave news reads! Add...whatever comes in xml format. :D

Yup let's not forget to mention that we also have a RSS feed active :) More about it here:

http://www.turcic.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1967#post1967

Originally posted by sUnShInE
Add your fave blogs! Add your fave news reads! Add...whatever comes in xml format. :D

That is very cool indeed! But unfortunately a lot of blogs' RSS feeds only deliver a few lines per article (yours & mine for a couple of examples!), requiring the user to click through to read the whole article. Never considered this an issue, since I think most RSS readers are desktop/laptop based.

But if this activity gets popular, may have to overhaul the xml code to make the full article display.

Gary: I was thinking exactly that as I was running the demo version of the app yesterday. As a 'custom' channel, I tried one of the Yahoo! News RSS feeds, which only came out as edited. This is fine if you have online access, where you can point and click to receive the whole post; but not helpful to those of use who will download via the conduit. All it does at that point is tease and frustrate.

Another note: this is obviously the first version of the software, and the developers need to work out some "issues" (formating comes to mind, as does content tweaks -- some of the subscriptions that they give you to try out don't work...Salon was one of them, ClieSource was another.).

I'm fairly convinced that this is the start to a great foray in this area -- and much needed & welcome by heavy content-readers like us! :D


Alexander: Of *course*! That's exactly what I was thinking immediately: What a great way to pick up turcic.com to go! ;)

Exactly, Lynn.

I tried it today and it flat didn't work on my Clie (would do everything except display the newsfeeds!). I emailed the developer (Ben) and to my surprise he answered within about 15 minutes! After a volley of emails and me sending him the parsed file, he modified the .dll and sent me an update, and it worked fine.

He seems extremely responsive, and appreciative of the feedback (so if anyone's using it, please send in comments/suggestions).

For a PDA with a 'net connection, it's a nice setup. For those of us without it who rely on syncing, it's not as nice, but still usable if the feeds one pulls are those that have complete contents.

I also put in a suggestion for them to develop a usenet reader (there really isn't a decent alternative out there), and he expressed a lot of interest in this if and after the Hand/RSS is successful.

Cheers,
Gary

Oh cool!

Another great developer who responds to user feedback. Me likey! :D

(thinking to self) So is there an updated version I should go d/l?

Originally posted by sUnShInE
(thinking to self) So is there an updated version I should go d/l?

No, none posted. If you can see your feeds, then you're fine. Don't know if the problem I had was unique or warranted an update release.

I have worked with this developer before on Super Names, the only address thingie out there that will handle multiple databases. Mine kept crashing, and he kept sending me updated versions to try (and this was when I was evaluating the software and hadn't even bought it yet), so yeah, these guys are pretty atypical.

Cheers,
Gary

Actually, I noticed on their site that just the prc was listed as 9/28 and the app was released on 9/26....

I did hafta hard reset twice today in the midst of writing a huge presentation (grrr). I'm not convinced that this was def the culprit though.

Thanks for the intel :)

Maybe that helps too...

Sites with lists of feeds:

http://subhonker6.userland.com/rcsPublic/rssHotlist
http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/finding_more.html
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/servicelist.rss
http://myrss.com/
http://www.syndic8.com

Individual feeds:

AbsoluteGames
http://files.gameaholic.com/agfa.rdf

BBC
http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/front_page/rss091.xml

BBC Tech News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/technology/rss091.xml

BBC UK News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/uk/rss091.xml

BBC World News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/world/rss091.xml

Betanews
http://www.betanews.com/mnn.php3

Beyond Unreal
http://www.beyondunreal.com/content/news.rdf

BSDToday
http://www.bsdtoday.com/backend/bt.rdf

Camelot Herald
http://www.camelotherald.com/xml/news.rss

CNN World News
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/96/696.xml

DeviantART News
http://www.deviantart.com/backend/news/

DeviantART Deviations
http://www.deviantart.com/backend/deviations/

En-World
http://www.enworld.cyberstreet.com/news/backend.php

ESPN Basketball
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/51/1851.xml

Fark.com
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/17/1717.xml

Fokzine (Dutch)
http://madcat.student.utwente.nl/rss/parser.php?site=fok

Fox News
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/67/3167.xml

FreshMeat
http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm.rdf

Gamersdot.org
http://gamersdot.org/gamersdot.rdf

Games Spot PC
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/54/3554.xml

Google News Headlines
http://radio.weblogs.com/0104308/RssDistillerChannels/GoogleHeadlineNews.xml

Google Technology News
http://radio.weblogs.com/0104308/RssDistillerChannels/GoogleTechnologyNews.xml

Google US Headlines
http://radio.weblogs.com/0104308/RssDistillerChannels/GoogleUSNews.xml

[H]ard|OCP
http://www.hardocp.com/hardocp.rdf

HotWired
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/meta/headlines.rdf

IGN - GameCube
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/37/1437.xml

IGN - N64
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/00/1200.xml

IGN - PSX
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/01/1201.xml

IGN - XBox
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/05/1205.xml

King of the Server
http://www.planetunreal.com/kots/kotsnews.xml

Linux.com
http://linux.com/linuxcom.rss

LinuxNewbie
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/news.cdf

LinuxPower
http://linuxpower.org/linuxpower.rdf

Morons.org
http://web.morons.org/morons.rss

MTV News
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/92/1792.xml

New Debian packages
http://polydistortion.net/urls/new-debian-packages.rss

NewsForge
http://www.newsforge.com/newsforge.rdf

The Onion
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/47/2447.xml

PBS Online
http://cgi.pbs.org/cgi-registry/featuresrdf.pl

PHP News Feed
http://www.php.net/news.rss

The Player2Player Network
http://www.player2player.net/backend.php

Pop-Music News
http://www.pop-music.com/backend.php

Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/feed/RDF/salon_use.rdf

ShackNews.com
http://www.shacknews.com/headlines.rdf

SlashDot
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf

Techdirt
http://www.techdirt.com/techdirt_rss.xml

Tweakers (Dutch)
http://madcat.student.utwente.nl/rss/parser.php?site=tweakers

Warp2Search.net
http://www.warp2search.net/backend.php

Wired
http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf

Yahoo News
http://www.codingtheweb.com/projects/newslog/portal/11_3.xml

Yahoo News Headline Search
http://mywritingworld.manilasites.com/xml/rss.xml

Yahoo News Most e-mailed content
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/51/3151.xml

Zowie! Thanks TadW :D

I've been reading some of the Yahoo! news content via their site: http://news.yahoo.com/rss/

Do these Yahoo! feeds have any more/better content?