Console RSS news reader

I was looking for one today, and only found these three: Raggle – written in Ruby, last version dates 2004, feeds-articles-content layout common to graphical aggregators. Snownews – a simple list layout. Newsbeuter – very much like mutt in layout. All three support some sort of filtering/grouping; and importing/exporting OPML. Here’s the memory usage: PID [...]

Atom to RSS converter

Here’s one that worked for me.

RSSOwl2 M7 on FreeBSD

I managed to run it from the Eclipse IDE, after installing the java/eclipse-devel port (had to use the -devel, since I needed version 3.3.1.1 at least, as specified on the RSSOwl project page). Then it’s pretty straightforward, just follow the instructions. I am yet to find out how to build a stand-alone version. Eclipse RCP [...]

RSSOwl 1.2.4: use Firefox instead of Mozilla on both FreeBSD and Windows

Setting “Use external Browser” allows using the default browser on Windows, but on FreeBSD, it’ll use Mozilla. Yes, that old one. You could set the “path to external browser” to fix FreeBSD, but it’ll then break Windows. The escape from this narrow dilemma, after some simple analysis, must come not from RSSOwl, but from one [...]

Nope, think again

Of course, Newsfox had to freak out on Windows. Switched to RSSOwl version 1. Now that’s supported on both platforms. I’ve slept 4 hours last night, and it wasn’t the healthiest sleep. Getting up at 7 or so tomorrow to be at an environment-preservation event. P.S. Nah, I didn’t go. Instead, I’ve finished the portable [...]

Feed aggregation: NewsFox plugin

After struggling a while to launch a working RSSOwl 2.0 on my FreeBSD, I was reminded that there’s a whole bunch of browser plug-in readers. I’m using Firefox, and have only checked Sage that far (and a long time ago), so I decided to give it a try again. As you could expect, Sage was [...]