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Yes, it is. If you don't like google reader then this is not for you

I already had an extensive list there, and now can read from either my laptop or my phone with full sync. I find it a godsend.

FYI - The issue with the progress bar refresh has been fixed, and it works like a charm now.

hi guys,

two quick questions... (1) suheilunneen said earlier that the browser can work in portrait mode... really?... how do you get this?...

[EDIT: got it... ctrl+shft+o... so i have just one question left:]

and (2) i've tried to get feed circuit but it just won't download... (and yes i've got the right repositories installed) any particular reason for this?...

Thx... =)

i have a problem with the build-in rss widget. i found out its the main battery killer that caused my phone to last about 7-8 per day. i don't usemobile internet here in vancouver because it is ridculously expensive, and i use wifi mostly.

it doesn't matter how long i set rss to update, even 2 or 4 hrs. once it hit that 4th hr, it'll try to connect it self and if i didn't catch it by unlocking the phone and stop it from connecting, it will keep trying until my battery dies. if i was sleeping in the middle of the night, i have to wake up every 4 hrs to turn stop it? i can turn off auto update but that pretty much defeats the point of having a widget. i think the build in rss is too aggressive. i wish i worked like build-in forca weather widget, it works passively in the background and only tries to update when it knows u r connected to the internet.

After seeing the Ovi App Wizard and the resulting Symbian apps it spits out, I think whoever is making RSS readers needs to take a look at that simple layout with images and try to learn from that.
http://www.oviappwizard.com/web_nokia/signIn.jsp

Is it just me, or do all of the readers look terrible in the face of the competition on every other platform? I don't know why, but I hope its not a limitation of the OS.

Just make something that has all of the feeds in a list with each site's icon or a default symbol if they don't make one available, and a symbol that appears lit when there are unread feeds available on the far right in a column, possibly superimposed with a small number for the number of unread posts in the feed. When you select a feed, it should go to a screen just like those made by the Ovi App Wizard, with image support and proper formatting. There should also be a mechanism to browse to the full story page in a browser.

It should have kinetic scrolling, and if it automatically sorted and put unread feeds at the top, it'd be a homerun. A homescreen widget of some sort couldn't help either.

Just saying...

Does anyone know of a RSS reader that searches based on keywords so you can add feeds that way? I know some can import an opml file or something but I tend to use a subset of my Google feeds and then add and delete feeds as I research topics...

I'm okay with Perl/Python/Ruby as long as there aren't too many dependencies.

Thanks,

Terry

The RSS reader grr does almost all you said chrisexaport, tough you need to have your feeds in Google Reader...

Shows you the sites/feeds you got (no icon tough) and to the right shows you your unread items left (numeric way).

The formating is pretty nice depending on the feeds ofcourse and you got an "Open in Browser" option so you can check.

Here's some SS's for you to check it out if you hadn't before.

http://yfrog.com/jqscreenshot2010051101484p

http://yfrog.com/0xscreenshot2010051101490p

http://yfrog.com/59screenshot2010051101491p

http://yfrog.com/0oscreenshot2010051101492p

I've been using it since i got my N900 a awhile back and it's definitly the best, but i already had my Google Reader feeds all setup so I only searched for something that could get from there...

One thing I like about the in built RSS reader is that the heading and full body of each RSS entry are displayed. This is good for sites like Engadget where there is a good amount of content in the RSS feed - you can just scroll through the entire thing without clicking anything.

None of the other RSS apps seem to have this feature, even Google Reader.

does anyone know any good RSS feeds?

i found this one recently, i find it interesting because i used to buy their magazine, and the videos play on the n900 (almost) perfectly:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ef=online-news

Terry,

Have you considered Yahoo Pipes to create a dynamic feed? This might accomplish the task, and then you could subscribe to the feed in the RSS reader of your choice.

Yahoo Pipes instructions here:

http://arstechnica.com/web/guides/20...-rss-feeds.ars