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Product Description:
SlashDock is a simple Mac OS X dock-based application that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on slashdot. Updates are obtained every 30 minutes, if new articles are available, the dock icon will flash with an image representing the article 'topic'. Selecting an article from the dockling menu will take you directly to that article in your preferred web browser. Supports many RSS, RDF and XML document formats. Now also includes access to ebay & usenet.
What's new in this version:
- Update to ROME version 0.8
- Add option to filter each site's headlines using a Regular Expression. For example, you might want to filter the DealsOnTheWeb.com feed so that you only see LCDs, Digital Cameras and Powerbooks using the following (Java) regular expression:
.*(lcd|digital camera|powerbook).* - Fixed bug which caused some 'Application Not Responding' problems.
- Add Help menu with additional link to the Community Forums.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2.8, 10.3.x, 10.4.x
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Not bad, just not outstanding either 
- Version: 2.5, 1/23/2006 11:53AM PST
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chrisdisregard
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- Not bad, just not outstanding either (1 replies)
Great except for: - Version: 2.4, 2/3/2005 12:55PM PST
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manicman
It never works when I try to add my own site... anyway, This Dockling ONLY baby is so clean that I just keep coming back for more, I just wish a few more of the available sites listed their articles titles in the code, however that works, as oppose to just that parenthetical "update) or something.
Anyway, this app is beautiful, get if you don't got it already, haven't found anything better as far as convenience.
Anyway, this app is beautiful, get if you don't got it already, haven't found anything better as far as convenience.
Comment on RSS - Version: 2.4, 12/20/2004 06:50AM PST
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peterpayne
One note to makers of RSS feed readers. There exists a real need for a way to host one's RSS streams in a minimalist HTML format so that people can read their feeds on a cellular phone, which naturally can't handle lots of extravagant graphics but could display the contents of RSS feeds with graphics easily. Services like Bloglines, which let you surf your feeds online from any computer, still require logins and other things that a cell phone couldn't handle. So how about adding support for this with an RSS reader -- it could have options for creation of a view-anywhere HTML display that could be surfed from any machine via web sharing, or uploaded to an FTP site at regular intervals? Viewing one's RSS feeds on a cell phone is a "killer app" that has been ignored totally so far, as long as I can tell.
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Drawbacks:
- Forces the use of some fairly terrible icons
- New/Updated notification didn't seem to work. It would show an article new one minute, not new the next, and then new again a while later.
- Adding/Organizing the feed list was a little tedious, but still workable.
Overall it seems to be one of the few simple dock/menu readers that'll work on Tiger and it does a decent job. It just wasn't outstanding enough for me to bother to try and fix.