RSS and Information Delivery
I have two types of feeds I'd like to subscribe to. I'll call them hot feeds and cold feeds.
Cold feeds are like Dad's Picasa Web additions and my sisters blog. They are things that I want to read even 3 days after they were published. I'd like them to behave like an e-mail inbox. Stay there until I read you.
Hot feeds on the other hand are like stock prices. I want them now while they are hot, but never again. Feeds of this style are Digg, CNet, slashdot, boing, etc... Things that I care about when they are new, but don't want to be bothered by ALL of them. Sometimes I'm in the mood to read a news story at work, sometimes I'm not. I don't want to have to sort through them like an inbox. I want them flashed up for my preview, then discarded or detailed.
I've accomodated the hot feed functionality I describe by writing todays app. It bubbles up new stories in the systray whenever one comes in. Click the bubble and get the detailed article from the website. Go to the download section now!
posted by Unknown @ 11:59 PM
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How 'bout an MD5 checksum - err - checker? Just an idea. :) It'd be nice if it was clean, i.e. you paste in the checksum, then you browse to the file you downloaded (or maybe that you want to download).
Most of the ones I've seen / tried in the past weren't so easy to use. ;) Not that I couldn't use them, just....easier not to usually.
Enjoying your work / play, and it's motivating me. I'm off to work on my C# skills for the night.
Hmmm... i just clicked on my first article after running the prog for a few hours, and Firefox spawned 14 new tabs - one for every article I had ignored!
Want to browse the code... know a fair amount of PHP/ASP, Javascript, and a little C++, but not much C#. Anyone recommend any good tutorials? The ones I've found googling have been pretty lame.
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