Feed Circuit v0.7.7-1
Downloads: 13837
Votes: 34
Free & Open Source license
Votes: 34
Free & Open Source license
FeedCircuit grabs rss and atom feeds and convert them to html for offline reading in tablet's browser. It may also cache web pages referenced by feeds and adapt them for tablet's screen size.
Updated 2010-05-24 12:20 UTC
| Author | George Kibardin |
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Changes in version 0.7.7-1
- Major cache handling improvement so that trash must not accumulate anymore.
- All downloads are are now async so it is simpler to kill stalled download.
- Proper handlig of feed urls and titles enclosed by CDATA

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jon wright have a point about the parsing. That is, if said feed is set to do nothing with content, it may be more effective to just grab it and wait with the parsing until all feeds are downloaded. Still, there is that one can read a parsed feed while others are downloading in the background.
i'm impressed about this app. just great, it works and is simple! awesome. thanks!
Two main things prevent me from using this application 1) it has problems parsing the same feeds that the built-in Maemo RSS reader has trouble parsing; 2) it's too slow.
The usage scenario I have in mind is where I'm staying somewhere without wifi and on my way to breakfast/lunch I stop by a wifi point to grab some news to read later. This app will take well over five minutes to fetch 10 feeds on a good connection because 1) it doesn't use gzip 2) it takes forever parsing a downloaded feed before moving on to downloading the next one. It should use gzip and it should download first; parse later.
Great program, and the responsiveness from the author has been terrific.
I should give a million stars for this application, great work George for constant improvements in FC. You took offline news reading to a different level. I am sure all other news readers will be extinct soon. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for adding extra buttons, George! (Told ya so)
Tip for others: check out www.instapaper.com and subscribe to queue up stuff to read later. The fit with this program is great!
Great work George! I think you are the best 'listening' developer I have seen around. I rate FC as the fastest developing application, I want to see it winning best application award (Neato Award or any other):)
Thanks a lot George for this update, I look forward to other features as well, the repository etc. Keep up the great work!
Great implementation with tons of features. Could use some more GUI features like more buttons on the toolbar, but with the responsiveness of the developer this will likely be forthcoming in a release or two, so I won't hold back a star for that!
i completely agree,George is so quick in response that i admire. May i suggest one more possible feature update? if you can integrate this with desktop rss widget to show news on desktop , then it 300% replaces the rss feed reader. all the best!
i completely agree,George is so quick in response that i admire. May i suggest one more possible feature update? if you can integrate this with desktop rss widget to show news on desktop , then it 300% replaces the rss feed reader. all the best!
This is an INCREDIBLE program. Indispensible for tablet owners who are also RSS hounds. Author has been amazingly responsive to questions and suggestions. This project once again proves that the maemo community has no rival.
Well done!
Hi, Thanks a lot for a wonderful application. It is a great work!
Would help more if: 1. It has an internal viewer 2. There is option to select individual news results to save for later use (right now it loads all news under a single feed into the web browser) 3. Ability to select individual feeds with check boxes to update. Ctrl click selection doesnt allow individual contiguous feeds.
Thanks a lot for wonderful application again. You made me to uninstall claws mail and feedelity and I almost stopped using the RSS feeder that comes with N810.
Keep up the good work!
Would be great to have an option on where to store the cache. SD card instead of internal flash.
EXCELLENT program, it really "just works". I've been doing this job for years with various tools (AvantGo, Plucker) and never found something as simple. It's really worth a look.
Does not work. Package install either fails due to unavailable package in Package Manager, or when attempted to be installed from the website, fails due to corrupted package.
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