hob said:
I find the best way to deal with effete geek ass' is to ignore them totally. I wouldn't have bothered sending all that garbage back to him, you're not gonna change his mind from being a total idiot...
Anyhoo, umm... what I don't get is WHY spend so much time developing a product for which there will be NO market in 4 months time... vs a product that there must be SOME demand for...
Seriously - unless I've been highly mislead, does NewsFireRSS do exactly what TigerRSS will do, but less well? I like using RSS to get my news feeds from this site, bbc, engadget etc. but to get to the core story you still have to go to an HTML site... which means safari!
Hob
not necessarily. Some sites (like mine for example) provide the ENTIRE contents of the story in the RSS feed. No need to goto my website at all (no big deal it saves me bandwidth actually since i have no advertisements on it). Some sites DO only give a brief summary or the first paragraph, which is disappointing but oh well.
Safari's RSS reader is similar but is VERY limited, you can't save items, you can't organize them how you'd like, etc. There's a lot.
I have a few plans for mine, such as the ability to save items you would like, and then using Spotlight those saved items will be searchable within Spotlight. With the option to include all items currently held within the application (though the problem is they might be out of date if you haven't grabbed the most recent items from the feeds so, disabled by default). the ability to "tag" items like you would on "flickr" or "del.icio.us" and then sort by those tags into "smart groups" .. so you could filter items based on tag and saved items... and have groups that contain any info on "apple" or "ipod" or what have you, so if you're looking for all items related to apple or their products it wouldl be easy to find. rating of saved items is also a possibility.
I sent all these ideas to the NewsFire developer and he never responded.. if you see them in a new release.. i wouldn't doubt that he got those ideas from me.. i asked for saving ability similar to the Scrapbook feature found in Shrook and he seems to have finally added the ability to "keep an item indefinitely" by hitting "Command+L"
either way, once my tests are completed this week, i will try to throw together the XML parsing end of the app for atom and RSS .91, 1.0 and 2.0 next week.. then it's just a matter of throwing a simple app together to test it and finally start actually developing the interface ... if you have other ideas, feel free to let me know.. or "improvements" i'm more than happy to listen to them... just a reminder, if the app ever does get popular i will charge a fee of some kind but it will be less than newsfire.. so $15 tops.. probably $10 .. it's a simple application and shouldn't require $20 a pop from users to read information that is readily available within a website.. :-/ in their free browser.
EDIT: I am really looking for ideas about features for RSS feeds that are filled with the replies to a thread on a message board.. what features would you guys like? I know the forums here don't support them.. though i really wish they did.. but some new boards do support rss feeds for threads on message boards.. so i'm looking to add to this to make this more fun.. ideas are welcome here.
