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interesting... - Version: 0.93.1, 10/13/2005 12:09PM PST
grikdog
My experience with Amphetadesk is two-fold: The first time I tried to install it, it wanted to download a truckload of perl modules from CPAN and I killed the install. Who has time for "some assembly required" installation, especially on a Mac? The second time I tried, I'd spent most of a morning (weeks later) trying to install a Perl script to convert an rss feed into html -- an effort which eventually failed for much the same reason as effort 1, above. Within moments after giving up yet in in disgust, I found a no-nonsense script called rubric at RubyForge that meets my rss2html needs exactly. But as a side effect of all this foofarah, I discovered I'd installed sufficient Perl modules to run Amphetadesk. Which is interesting. Yes, it works. No, it doesn't display enough of the content actually available in standard RSS 2.0 (not counting Userland extensions) newsfeeds. And it's not that configurable. And it exposes an advanced user settings interface for you to dork around with proxy settings and other geeks-only stuff. But it does make a limited, rather nice display of a valid RSS in your web browser. That's kind of cool, especially for a pre version 1.0 app. So, bottom line -- damnation with faint praise. Most people will be better off with NetNewsWire Lite, also free, but this has a few geek-level uses and some ways to get even more interesting as the future unfolds.
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- Version: 0.93.1, 12/20/2004 06:49AM PST
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.
Incidentally this is VERY CLOSE to what I'd want, yet VERY FAR since you can't change things, how it displays, what kind of information it shows, and so on. Bummer.
Incidentally this is VERY CLOSE to what I'd want, yet VERY FAR since you can't change things, how it displays, what kind of information it shows, and so on. Bummer.
Weird. First time… - Version: 0.93.1, 11/10/2002 06:41PM PST
youcanrunnaked
my setup failed to recognize a sourceforge link. My apologies . . . this works. Now to drive it around the block a few times . . . .