Hey all,
Does anyone have any recommendations for an offline news reader of some sort?
The RSS hub that's included on the diamond only seems to be able to download headlines. When I click the link for a full article, it opens up the link in opera and requires a data connection of some sort. It'd be great to have something that downloads the headlines and the articles as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You could use outlook 2007 and sync the RSS feeds through Outlook 2007 folder and your Touch Diamond? i.e then you have the feeds already downloaded onto your Diamond. You can then have it so it only syncs the last 3 days etc? That is the way I would do it.....
Good Luck,
Will
Thanks, Will. Unfortunately, that seems to do the same thing as RSS Hub. i.e. it'll only download the headline plus a little blurb. Is there anyway to make it download the linked article as well?
When you add the RSS feed i.e right click RSS feed folder and see document attached . add the RSS feed, press add, press advanced, in the download section, highlight what you want. i.e "automatically download enclosures" etc. Click Yes. I have uploaded screen shots.... I hope this helps....
Will
Will, that's brilliant!! Thanks for taking the time to explain the procedure. It works a treat =D
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I know there are few free RSS readers and a few pay ones (SPB etc..) but has anyone found one that intrgrates into the HTC homescreen rather than a today plugin?
Like changing the media tab to an rss feeder?
very good one
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/
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hehe. Thanks.
I tried seraching for it but RSS is too short and when you put in reader it comes up with bunch of crap.
drdingo21 said:
found one that intrgrates into the HTC homescreen rather than a today plugin?
Like changing the media tab to an rss feeder?
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Ummm, you seem to be under the impression that the HTC Home is quite changeable. Its not. So, there will be no answer to your question. No one has figured out how to change a tab to a compeltely different functionality. you are stuck with the basic 6 functions, and what they point to (Main/Clock, Contacts, Launcher, Music, Weather, Profiles).
If you are just looking for a good RSS reader, you should Google search against XDA and you'd find this:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=r...rum.xda-developers.com&as_rights=&safe=images
HTC Home is made by HTC, if something like this were ever going to be done in HTC Home, HTC would have to take care of it.
On a side note, i use Newsgator Go! for Windows Mobile for reading RSS on my mobile device. It syncs with Newsgators Online service, which my desktop client Feed Demon also syncs with, meaning i can read between work, home & the bus rides and keep my read items, etc. in sync.
Just found this one also on the Microsoft site. Its free,and I haven't tried it since I already purchased Newsbreak. but looks decent...
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/domore/viigo.mspx
There's also http://www.google.com/reader
(available in an optimized mobile version too)
I deleted an RSS download app off my Kaiser, and accidently said yes to deleting all channels so now when I install a new RSS reader it has no channels. Is there anywhere I can download them from as it would take hours to go to each site and copy in the links.
i used to use pRSSreader and it gave me a lot of problems then was recommended RSS Hub and its been working really well for me. It also has a built in search that allows u to just add feeds from the search without having to go online and copying and poasting links.
Will try it, thanks.
Will this or any other you know of allow it to be displayed on the home screen?
There's a today screen add-on here (just a few registry edits) that allows it to be added to your Today screen. Search RSS Hub today.
Actually - here it is. Bottom link in post #4. Pretty sure it's the one with the today plugin included.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=347806
Thanks for that, I have found another now which I installed (although not free) called Newsbreak
martuk said:
Thanks for that, I have found another now which I installed (although not free) called Newsbreak
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well i didnt know if u wanted to pay or not .. someone cheap like me doesnt so i suggested rss hub lol
Hi hi
I'm quite new with this RSS stuff and was wondering if there're software (preferably freeware) out there that would automatically download subscribed RSS feeds INCLUDING the full content (linked) by the feeds. Basically, I don't want to manually click on the link to get the full content.
Ideally this is what I need:
1. Sync & charge my kaiser at night.
2. At 7am morning (while Kaiser is connected with ActiveSync & Internet),automatically download latest RSS feeds.
3. When I leave home, I'd have my Kaiser loaded with current news.
4. In the train, I would open the RSS reader, and see all the headlines, when I click on the headlines.. I get full content of the news (ie. not just the header/summary) opened through Opera/PIE.
Any helps/comments/suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Personally I use SPB insight, does exactly what you want, downloads the full content and not just a header, spb insight apparently works with special channels, for the full news, so I don't know if your channels would be included, tho all the major ones do.
I use "RSS Hub" - do a search here for it and you will find it. It is free and does what you want.
eskostar said:
Personally I use SPB insight, does exactly what you want, downloads the full content and not just a header, spb insight apparently works with special channels, for the full news, so I don't know if your channels would be included, tho all the major ones do.
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I've tried it, but as you said, it doesn't download the full news (for the channel that I'm intrested in - NZ Herald), just title, summary, & links.
jrd said:
I use "RSS Hub" - do a search here for it and you will find it. It is free and does what you want.
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Have tried this as well, again, it only downloads title, header, & link.. not the full content (what's behind the link) from the source.
Have you tried Egress? I have used it for a very long time. I tried others but always came back to egress. It can be found at www.garishkernels.com. I think you can have it download the full article, but have not investigated the feature.
the issue is probably not with the reader itself, but with the feeds. Most news agencies will only publish the header in the feed because they want the advertising money.
If anyone has recomendations for news feeds that are full text I would be really interested.
I personally use Newsbreak, I have tried RSS Hub and Egress, but neither worked as well with all of the podcasts I download. Specifically with Buzz out loud these two would have to actually access the article to download, whereas newsbreak automatically downloads all podcasts I grab.
Otherwise Ive only really found blogs that give full text, I do wish CNNm etc would switch to full text feeds.
Cheers
Matt
Hi Guys
Is there an app/browser that allows us to
1) Schedule a daily login into a website
1) download defined levels of the site and save the pages onto the sd card.
3) view the offline pages in a mobile layout
I'm trying to read a newspaper page that I've subscribed to offline on my phone.
I've tried opera mini but it only saves the page i am viewing and does not dig down several layers ahead. Defeats the purpose, as if i can see it, i'll just read it.
Thanks
i would like to know for something like that
Quadriple that.
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bullyfrog said:
Hi Guys
Is there an app/browser that allows us to
1) Schedule a daily login into a website
1) download defined levels of the site and save the pages onto the sd card.
3) view the offline pages in a mobile layout
I'm trying to read a newspaper page that I've subscribed to offline on my phone.
I've tried opera mini but it only saves the page i am viewing and does not dig down several layers ahead. Defeats the purpose, as if i can see it, i'll just read it.
Thanks
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I'm guessing this newspaper doesn't have an RSS feed? Cause that would be too easy...
If the paper has an RSS feed, then you could use Newsrob to automatically download the feed and download all the pages as well.
+100000 on that.
There is plenty of applications for regular Windows, but so far no luck finding one for windows Mobile.
Thx
Hi. Does any body know how to transfer an ms excel file from my desktop to HD7.
Officially, I believe it's via skydrive, but I've not quite got the hang of it yet. Your best bet is probably to email it to yourself, to be honest!
I also thought skydrive would be the key, but having been into the Office App a few times I can't figure out where the files would be. All I can see is the option for Sharepoint.
Any info on viewing skydrive office files on wp7 would be appreciated.
Email is the only option at the moment, unless your company uses sharepoint. I think I read somewhere that Skydrive support was being added in a future update.
OneNote does sync very well over skydrive though.
I'm sure I read somewhere that you could get the files from skydrive.live.com via the browser on the phone, but I have no signal here to test. Anyone want to have a go?
Just tested, and actually it does work! Very well infact. Skydrive has quite a nice mobile site. You see a preview of the spreadsheet in the browser and a button to download it to edit on the phone.
I never realised you could download anything from the browser like that!
Check out the Office section page of Paul Thurrott's excellent Windows Phone 7 review:
http://www.winsupersite.com/mobile/wp7_05.asp
I'm hoping improvements will be included in the update early next year.
It would appear that you can download spreadsheets but not word docs from skydrive, still a nice feature! I have set my skdrive mobile page as a tile for ease of access
I can get word docs too. Although they do get squashed up on the phone.
is there a mobile version of the skydrive site as i get the full pledged web page and when I'm out and about might be best to get a simpler one.
Do you have your IE settings to 'desktop version'?
you should use the following:
Settings -> Applications -> Internet Explorer -> 'Mobile Version'.
adamwebb28 said:
Email is the only option at the moment, unless your company uses sharepoint. I think I read somewhere that Skydrive support was being added in a future update.
OneNote does sync very well over skydrive though.
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SkyDrive will be integrated into the Office hub a la Sharepoint in the coming updates.
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Do you have your IE settings to 'desktop version'?
you should use the following:
Settings -> Applications -> Internet Explorer -> 'Mobile Version'.
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As soon as i posted i realized i had desktop version turned on, though it would be good if there was an address to go to the mobile page even with it turned on like say www.m.live.skydrive.com or something.
Don't know if I'm right but I thought files could be synced with the zune software? (dont have my win 7 phone in the us yet)
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Sky drive works but the issue with using sky drive is that when you download and save a file on you mobile phone, you cannot manage or place them into different folders. Is there any folder option for managing our documents ?
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Don't know if I'm right but I thought files could be synced with the zune software? (dont have my win 7 phone in the us yet)
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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Nope. The only files Zune can sync would be its own library. Music, videos, podcasts, etc. But no files, pdfs, etc. Essentially, if you can't add it to Zune now (and Zune currently only handles media), there is no way for you to get it on the phone.
That being said, the Windows Phone 7 browser can handle downloading of files, including ZIPs, PDFs, Office documents, etc. So either e-mail yourself a file, or download it through SkyDrive (or another online storage system) through the browser.
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Sky drive works but the issue with using sky drive is that when you download and save a file on you mobile phone, you cannot manage or place them into different folders. Is there any folder option for managing our documents ?
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Also, not possible at this point in time. They just show up in your Office hub as a list of files. No way to organize them... yet.
Windows Live help download Office Files to WP7
I used Windows Live Office . . .
Sign in to your http://www.windowslive.com using your email (Hotmail) you get 25GB storage at Skydrive.
From your WP7 Internet Explorer login to windows live and download Officer Documents one by one . . .
Troublesome, but that's what I did
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