Hand/RSS Reader

sUnShInE · 09-27-2003, 03:55 PM

Very exciting new release:

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.

Alexander Turcic · 09-28-2003, 04:57 AM

Yup let's not forget to mention that we also have a RSS feed active

More about it here:

http://www.turcic.com/forums/showthr...=1967#post1967

gvtexas · 09-28-2003, 08:28 AM

Quote:

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

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.

sUnShInE · 09-28-2003, 05:20 PM

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!

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

gvtexas · 09-28-2003, 08:44 PM

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

sUnShInE · 09-29-2003, 11:38 AM

Oh cool!

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

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

gvtexas · 09-29-2003, 11:44 AM

Quote:

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

sUnShInE · 09-29-2003, 05:10 PM

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

TadW · 10-30-2003, 10:24 AM

sUnShInE · 10-30-2003, 12:23 PM

Zowie! Thanks TadW

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?

09-27-2003, 03:55 PM	#1
sUnShInE Drama Queen Posts: 784 Karma: 11712 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T\|T3	Hand/RSS Reader Very exciting new release: 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.

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09-28-2003, 04:57 AM	#2
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Yup let's not forget to mention that we also have a RSS feed active More about it here: http://www.turcic.com/forums/showthr...=1967#post1967

09-28-2003, 05:20 PM	#4
sUnShInE Drama Queen Posts: 784 Karma: 11712 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T\|T3	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! Alexander: Of course! That's exactly what I was thinking immediately: What a great way to pick up turcic.com to go!

09-28-2003, 08:44 PM	#5
gvtexas Addict Posts: 346 Karma: 7797 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Texas Device: Sony Clie TH55	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

09-29-2003, 11:38 AM	#6
sUnShInE Drama Queen Posts: 784 Karma: 11712 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T\|T3	Oh cool! Another great developer who responds to user feedback. Me likey! (thinking to self) So is there an updated version I should go d/l?

09-29-2003, 05:10 PM	#8
sUnShInE Drama Queen Posts: 784 Karma: 11712 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T\|T3	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

10-30-2003, 10:24 AM	#9
TadW Uebermensch Posts: 2,583 Karma: 1094606 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	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/syndicat...age/rss091.xml BBC Tech News http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/fee...ogy/rss091.xml BBC UK News http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/fee.../uk/rss091.xml BBC World News http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/fee...rld/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...r.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/Rss...adlineNews.xml Google Technology News http://radio.weblogs.com/0104308/Rss...nologyNews.xml Google US Headlines http://radio.weblogs.com/0104308/Rss...ogleUSNews.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...?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...ortal/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

10-30-2003, 12:23 PM	#10
sUnShInE Drama Queen Posts: 784 Karma: 11712 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: United States Device: Palm Tungsten T\|T3	Zowie! Thanks TadW 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?

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