Christian Cantrell, an Adobe employee and editor of WatchReport just sent me a link to his latest project. It’s called Apprise Reader and it’s basically a feed reader with two very compelling features: direct forwarding of stories to Twitter or AIM.
On the surface, Apprise Reader hits all the right buttons: Adobe Air, Twitter, AIM, RSS. It is, at its core, a feed reader with a dead simple interface. It accepts standard OPML files to import feeds and runs natively on Windows and OS X - Linux support is coming soon.
I was just thinking in my head, a client that could send updates to Twitter so I could get them on my cell would be great. Then I realized I already have too much to do already. Should of never have got that unlimited texting account.
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I’m loving that Adobe’s evangelists finally make finished products (even tho beta).
Air has a lot of potential but still hasn’t had its break-through. Go Cantrell.
They’ve gotta improve usability tho, still feels like an alien app in OS X.
looks pretty cool except that it crashes every single time it starts to load my feeds …does it not like feeds with embedded images maybe? I don’t know what else could be the problem with my feeds.
xxdesmus, would you be willing to upload a copy of your feeds file to the Google Groups page, so that I can try to recreate this bug? You can do so by following the links in the post or by going to http://groups.google.com/group.....ader/files
-Dan
I’ll upload it now.
It’s uploaded under “Files” –> “feeds.xml”
What a great idea! Too bad it crashed my macbook pro installing.
Hey, Newsgator! Are you watching??? First reader that does all this and doesn’t make me install Adobe Anything will have my devoted attention.
Wow. If FeedDemon had the ability to post things to Twitter while also having a few other features I have in mind, it would be even more than a killer app than it is already.
What you will notice is this:
1) a lot of feeds “touch” the modification date often without real updates so that you get false notifications. I notice that Techcrunch does this, and other blogs do this, from time to time. You’ll enjoy having this on the cell phone, I bet.
2) A lot of times, the comments to the new blog postings are more interesting than the blog entry itself. And I want to get notified when comments are entered. There are very few blogs that would do this.
So… nice idea. But I am not sure how it will feel to get notifications that are false, and not get notifications of things you want, on your phone.
On Windows XP it crashes when I highlight text and right-click to attempt to copy.
It works fine with me on XP .. no crashes while doing that ..
Do you know a rss reader wich allows to load the entire web page in the lower frame instead of just displaying the rss résumé ? web or air based.
Apprise can do this. Just click on the site tab and you can read the actual web page rather than just the summary. NetNewsWire does this, as well.
Christian
ahah ! thank you, i should have get a closer look on this aprise, that’s exactly what i was looking for
A question about Air…
Has Adobe ever said the development environment/SDK is going to stay free?
I just a little concerned everyone will develop products using it and Adobe will suddenly force you to buy a big buck “studio” package to continue using it.
I don’t think we’ve ever signed a sworn statement or anything, but it would be very shocking if we (or anyone else in the software industry) decided to start charging for something that they decided to give away for free. We put a lot of thought into the decision to give something away, so when we do it, me mean it.
You can develop for AIR without paying anything. AIR is free, the SDK is free, and the Flex SDK is free (Flex is even open source — not just free). I don’t see us changing that. We will (and do) sell other tools that can make developing AIR applications easier, but they are optional.
Christian
Still waiting for AIR’s Linux support.. I keep hearing that it is coming soon, but apart from the 1.0 alpha some months ago I haven’t seen any progress report in a while.. By the looks of it Linux will always sit behind the Windows/Mac versions..
You can do this with Google Reader if you have FF and the TReader greasemonkey script (http://crazybob.org/2007/09/treader-twitter-directly-from-google.html)
I really love services with Twitter integrations. So obsessed with Twitter lately. It’s the best among its counterparts!
it’s just a simple rss reader.