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May 27, 2005GreatNews is made by some Chinese. Chinese are making some very good free and handy software, including Maxthon, Flashget……
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Maxthon是中国人做的？？？
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Comment by Amilon — May 27, 2005 @ 11:12 am
Cool,man, here is some tips about greatnews that I wanna to share with you.
You can configure greatnews to use firefox by option–>usability. Tick box before ‘open rss link in external default browser’.
As in your case, firefox is your default one.
You can also use it as outlook style by ticking view–>news list.
After that, once you click on a special feed, you will see all the news you received are displayed in a pane one by one as every single email item looklike.
The bloglines api only allows user to synchronize with all the unread news. It pretty much works like outlook express synchronizing with hotmail. Once you download all your email, hotmail server will assume you read all your emails. Once you download all the news items from bloglines server, bloglines will assume you read all of them. But Greatnews still can choose to leave all the news items unread in bloglines even after greatnews downloads them all not like netnewswire and feeddemon which mark all as read upon download.
Until bloglines provide a better synchronisation api, greatnews can do nothing about it.
Newsgator offer a real-time synchronisation api. But sadly it’s not free. It’s like hotmail to outlook, you need to pay a subscription fee to use it.
1. It synchronizes with bloglins. Folder hierarchy is synchronized between Bloglines and Greatnews as well. you feel really comfortable to organize your feeds. You know how it sucks for feeddemon to synchronize with bloglines. Cause feeddemon only imports opml from bloglines without Folder hierarchy at all. So it’s a very hard for me to find a specfic feed and to organize those feeds. In all the desktop news clients, Greatnews’s synchronization with bloglines leaves rest news aggregators in dust. It’s like use outlook express to receive hotmail. Once you receive all the news from bloglines server in greatnews, all the news will be flagged read on bloglines online edition.If you love bloglines, you feel at home.
2. It’s extremely small. It only takes 800kb or so to install. You can even install it on a usb flash drive or even a floppy disk. So you take it everywhere to connect to Pc to use it. How cool is that?! It’s like you have yourself own mini newsgator server which can gurantee you won’t read the same news twice.
3. It runs with only a tiny memory and cpu engaged. So you won’t even notice it when it updates news in the background.
Above all it’s free.
Home free at RSS,man!
Comment by newsfree — July 18, 2005 @ 9:51 pm