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By: RSS Owl: a new feedreader « Top Daily Digest Reading

RSS Owl: a new feedreader « Top Daily Digest Reading — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:25:06 +0000

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By: I R A Darth Aggie

I R A Darth Aggie — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:15:41 +0000

Mojoski is right. You need to update link to the .org. The .com guy is a cybercamper. No, no, the .com guy is far worse than that. It's Sedo, the same yahoos who are trying to ~~steal~~ ~~barrow~~obtain Patterico's site. Do you have java installed? Yes, that would be a problem. After that, it's a simple matter of unzip'ing and then running the ./RSSOwl executable. Or just adding a launcher. Curiously, it fails to quit when I "File->Quit" or hit the X box. I have to kill it manually. It also doesn't seem to pass on material to my browser for further reading. Given that I've got Sage (v1.4.2) running in Iceweasel to my satisfaction, I'm not going to lose much sleep over my inability to get RSSOwl running.

By: DaveC

DaveC — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:02:40 +0000

Yes, this is another geek post. Deal with it.

after reading this I KNEW it had to be from Ed..

By: LimeyGeek

LimeyGeek — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:30:02 +0000

RSSOwl is apparently built on the Eclipse platform and has an SWT dependency which is not standard across linux platforms.

A minor gotcha, and easily fixed, but an amateurish schoolboy error of judgement.

By: Ortzinator

Ortzinator — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:53:57 +0000

I would have to be really impressed to switch from Google Reader. In fact, an offline reader is pretty much out of the question.

By: CommentGuy

CommentGuy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:19 +0000

I use google reader as only a backup to Omea…the negative with omea is they have stopped development due to more pressing development issues and it is now GPL open source.

Omea has plenty of flexibility if you learn the rules functions and the filter process. Also you can split out into user defined workspaces to virtualize your projects focus.

Google and other online readers for me just have too much delay built into them.

I poll 400 plus RSS feeds in Omea each 15 minutes and it handles the job fine.

Most browser based or add on readers would choke on that kind of feed demand.

Omea also word indexes every word of every post as it gets them making searching the entire history lightning fast

I pull in about 2200 posts a day in Omea and it only has a corruption problem for me if an improper shutdown of the entire computer occurs and the rebuild takes a long time for me due to the size of the data base and it re indexes every word in the database from scratch.

I have multiple online readers I use and carry about 1800 feeds on them but don’t even attempt to keep current on reading them and only use the search function to mine the info I want from their data base.

My highest priority 100 feeds or so I keep as a tree structured set of live bookmarks in FireFox and still do the saving of those in Omea.

But if you actually dig into omea the rules functions and other feature of the reader are almost as flexible as a programing language interface..the power is there you just have to learn how to flex it beyond they major capability it has right out of the box.

By: thuja

thuja — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:23:44 +0000

Ed,

I love the occasional geek post! Please keep doing them.

I didn’t know about RSSOwl. It looks really cool!

By: raz0r

raz0r — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:04:07 +0000

Serr8d on October 26, 2008 at 2:22 PM

Have a look at http://delicious.com

By: Dusk Eagle

Dusk Eagle — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:24:33 +0000

Ed, as long as you have Java installed, you should be able to just unzip the package and double-click the executable file RSSOwl. I tried that just now on my Kubuntu 8.0.4 KDE 3.5.9 Linux machine and it worked just fine.

By: chrissv

chrissv — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:20:06 +0000

I am a google reader fan. But I have a problem with sites like hotair and michellemalkin.com – they don’t provide full text in the feeds. What good is seeing a blog post from hotair in google reader if I have to click through to open it up in a different window anyway… :-(

Other sites (like newsbusters and stop the ACLU) do it just fine with full text feeds.

By: Dr. Dog

Dr. Dog — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:27:37 +0000

why do you need another reader besides what’s in microsoft outlook?

lorien1973
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Why do you need outlook if you are running Linux?

By: ganeshpuri89

ganeshpuri89 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:05:35 +0000

Google Reader all the way, Ed. Searchability within feeds is unsurpassed. And after an item is marked read a feed is still searchable. Even after deleting items they are still searchable. Also, Google Reader shared and starred items can be fed to FriendFeed.com .

http://friendfeed.com/ganeshpuri89

By: azmanam

azmanam — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:46:02 +0000

Thunderbird has a built-in RSS reader. I love it. Email and blogs in one place.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics

you’ll probably need Thunderbrowse

http://thunderbrowse.com/

By: Serr8d

Serr8d — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:22:14 +0000

I’m sold on my g00gle Reader, for all my RSS work. It’s the portability I like, from my desktop to laptop to office to sister-in-law’s. It’s fairly fast, allows me to order sites by importance, and ‘star’ a favorite post. Not so much good for searching, but I have a decent memory, and can usually find something I’m looking for.

What I could use is a bookmarks organizer for Firefox. I use the Foxmarks synchronizer add-on, but it’s no good for search-and-rescue missions.

Someone has a good bookmark organizer? I’ll pay.. )

By: ex-Democrat

ex-Democrat — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:14:02 +0000

I despise the LGF geek posts … much different than HA geek threads.

Charles’ stuff is like watching someone wipe himself. Too much info that only the wipee cares about.

Let’s roll.

By: Afterimage

Afterimage — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:21:10 +0000

I like FeedDemon better than RSS Owl.

By: unclesmrgol

unclesmrgol — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:14:38 +0000

Oops. You probably know this, but it’s

sudo apt-get install

where is one of the things I mentioned.

By: Cool new program | Political Byline

Cool new program | Political Byline — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:03:32 +0000

[...] Captain Ed over at Hotair.com reported that there is a nice RSS reader out called RSSOwl. Now, most RSS readers that I have tried, I’ve ended up tossing, usually because the idiot that designed usually did not have people like me in mind. Well, it seems someone out there had bloggers like me in mind. [...]

By: Limerick

Limerick — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:52:10 +0000

Mcguyver on October 26, 2008 at 12:13 PM

Ok, tried that, editor on, no workie. Fat finger words have not been banished.

By: Limerick

Limerick — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:44:37 +0000

Mcguyver on October 26, 2008 at 12:13 PM

Ok, tried that but no go. Editor is on but fat finger words are still fat finger words. (I do appreciate the tip, BTW)

By: Limerick

Limerick — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:34:00 +0000

Mcguyver on October 26, 2008 at 12:13 PM

The Taming of the Shrew! (but the peep will think I’ve been Borged by a Dkos-bot)

By: Kim Hartveld

Kim Hartveld — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:33:46 +0000

Google Reader all the way

Ludwig on October 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM

Of all the readers I tried, Google Reader was probably the worst, as I found it impossible to unsubscribe from feeds I was no longer interested in.
I’m sticking with Bloglines and Newsgator.

By: Kim Hartveld

Kim Hartveld — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:18:28 +0000

I lovez the geek postz.
Keep ‘m coming.

By: Mcguyver

Mcguyver — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:13:41 +0000

traditionalist (dag-burn-stupid-keyboard-gremlins-anyway)

Limerick on October 26, 2008 at 12:05 PM

Lime, go into the HotAir word press dashboard where you would edit your account name and turn on the visual editor. Then all your misspelled words will be redlined…. and Bawny Frank will approve. :)

By: Mcguyver

Mcguyver — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:07:38 +0000

Ed, being a traditionalist I say fix it the way your forefathers would have fixed it. Use a hammer.

Limerick on October 26, 2008 at 12:05 PM

And as Obama would say: “Don’t use a sledge hammer when only a tack hammer is needed.”