RSS Bandit remembers you
Dare says:
I just finished fixing some bugs in the synchronization code in RSS Bandit and now the feature should work as expected. All I can say is, “Wow”. I’ve just taken it for granted that I can open an instance of my mail client on different machines and get the same state but the same isn’t the case for my news aggregator. Being able to click ‘Download Feeds’ on startup and have everything I read/flagged/replied to at home or at work synced up is totally sweet.
I’d go beyond that, and say utterly essential. Now that Bloglines has gotten me used to it, I can’t imagine being able to use any aggregator that doesn’t remember what I have and haven’t seen, no matter where I saw it.
Now if only someone far more capable than me would just write a Firefox extension that will track and sync both my RSS history and my web page history, so that it will not only know that I’ve already seen an RSS item, it’ll also know that I’ve seen all the RSS items that have <link>s which point to an HTML page that I’ve seen, I’ll be in infoglut heaven.
Waiting for the trolls to show up with their cries of ”Is this vendor-specific? I’ll bet this is vendor-specific. After all, it’s from Microsoft, and they do that. Is this patented? I’ll bet this is patented. After all, it’s from Microsoft, and they do that. Hey, I have a great idea, why don’t I reinvent this feature, badly, and not credit anyone?”
5….. 4…. 3… 2.. 1.
But, of course, the trolls are dumb. [1] Was just thinking of borrowing this for my own thingy.
[1]: http://www.25hoursaday.com/draft-obasanjo-siam-01.html
”Now if only someone far more capable than me would just write a Firefox extension that will track and sync both my RSS history and my web page history, so that it will not only know that I’ve already seen an RSS item, it’ll also know that I’ve seen all the RSS items that have s which point to an HTML page that I’ve seen, I’ll be in infoglut heaven.”
–That feature I already working on :-) Hopefully it is available in the next major release…
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