Email of the day
I got an amazing email from Frédérique et Hervé Sainct earlier today, who I'm just going to have to call Herv, because after his email, we're tight like that:
I see, in the follow-up of the (excellent) RSS roundtable, from which indeed I started my own walk in RSSland, you raise the question of which app to use. I recently assembled a quick list of what I found available (on mac), and I posted it on comp.sys.mac.apps. I expected more comments than what I got (specially, I'd have appreciated comments on my criteria, I think quite a couple are missing or poorly expressed)... FWIW, I paste my list hereunder.
The above would have already pushed me well into shiny-happy-day territory for a variety of reasons, and I've get a lot like those whenever a chat goes up. Herve's mail was still just a piece of mail to go into the happy file for those nights when I'm sitting there with the revolver next to the bottle.
However, Herve then proceeds to hit me with his list of forty separate ways to access RSS on the Mac, all with a bunch of feature breakdowns, and then broken out into three categories:
- RSS apps
- Web browsers with RSS capabilities
- "Docklings, menus, and tickers"
I didn't even know about a few of these, and about the only thing he left out were web based services. Feel free to help him fill in some missing info (I.E., the guy behind NewsFire also did Acquisition, a Cocoa P2P app), and I'm assuming he could probably use some help formatting it: it looks pretty rough.
At the very least, give it a look through and if you find yourself smiling, give the guy some love. A+ for effort, Herv.
I wish I was able to post all the great feedback I get from the blog. Or hell, even just ring a bell when the latest donor donates to the Bandwidth & Beverage Fund™ (there'll be a donor page up at some point). In the last few days I've gotten a lot of them with suggestions about the feeds and such, which have been really helpful. I'll reply shortly and am very appreciative.
Posted by drunkenbatmanNovember 12, 2004, at 03:51 PM
Comments (8)
Posted by: Morn at November 12, 2004 05:19 PM
I cannot help but point out that they missed at least one program, which I am using right now to aggregate DrunkenBlog on the Mac.
And it also does the cron job thing.
Posted by: at November 12, 2004 05:19 PM
I cannot help but point out that they missed at least one program, which I am using right now to aggregate DrunkenBlog on the Mac.
And it also does the cron job thing.
Posted by: Morn at November 12, 2004 05:20 PM
P.S. The "Preview" and "Post" buttons should be a little farther apart, IMHO.
Posted by: Mindflayer at November 12, 2004 06:21 PM
Yeah, dude, WTF is my donator linkage?
You also should comment on Audion being free. Panic threw in the towel.
Posted by: Derik at November 12, 2004 06:52 PM
That list is pretty good.
HOWEVER, it is WRONG about NetNewsWire lacking import/export abilities. It supports OPML in and out.
I wouldn't be surprised to discover other sections are wrong.
Posted by: Azark at November 12, 2004 10:21 PM
I tried NewsFire for a week, but I'm back to NetNewsWire.
NewsFire is pretty but lacks to many things NNW have.
Plus, the dev is too strange for me: You can't register to the forum (wtf?) and he doesn't answer emails.
Posted by: Cap'n Hector at November 13, 2004 02:20 AM
Give me Safari RSS any day. Clean, easy, and theme-able. :-D
The one RSS aggregator that I never see is Feed-on-Feeds (http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/). Why not run your own server side personal RSS aggregator with OS X capability of running PHP and MySQL. This way you can set up a crontab to update every hour and not miss anything... even on days that you go on vacation or just need to recover from a heavy night of drinking. Now you could definitely go on a "DrunkenBlog rant" speculating the necessity of this feature. Would you look at all 1000+ stories after returning from your vacation?
- MusOX