FYI … (OPEN THREAD)

My right shoulder’s been bothering me all day, which is why I’m not writing my standard lengthy posts 😉 I feel an annoying twinge everytime I type. I think I must have slept on it wrong because I don’t remember bumping into anything that caused me pain.

Completely different topic: Anyone out there have any recommendations on a web-based (not Outlook-based) RSS feed reader that is super customizable? I’m using Newsgator right now, and I don’t feel like it’s got enough options, like the ability to limit the number of posts it will hold in its “memory.” Sometimes it’s days before I can get to reading Newsgator and when I get there there is like 8,000 posts to sift through.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance – and please feel free to use this as an open thread.

Friday Update – 10:23 AM: The shoulder’s better today, but it seems to be a slow news day so far so not much to write about. Just updated the Hot Headlines with some fresh links, and am still scanning the headlines from the news and blogs …

13 Responses to "FYI … (OPEN THREAD)"

steveegg says:

March 12, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Ouch! Get some epsom salts and soak.

Give me a moment or two to see if I can figure out how to get NewsGator to do what you want it to. Of course, I can’t guarantee success. I’ve been a tech FAIL today; I lost admin access to my main blog for a while while trying to integrate a headline blog to the test one in hopes of doing the same to the main one.
Sister Toldjah says:

March 12, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Sounds like your day was a little like mine, Steve!

Thanks for checking into Newsgator – I have tried to figure out how to limit the number of posts held but I could not find anywhere to make that happen.
steveegg says:

March 12, 2009 at 8:43 pm

While there isn’t a specific way to ignore “older” items online like FeedDemon’s “panic button”, there is a way to mark all the items in either a particular feed or in an entire folder as “read” – right-click on the feed/folder, and then click on the “mark all as read”.

Of course, if you are using FeedDemon and it’s synched to NewsGator Online, using FeedDemon’s “panic button” (which can mark all items, all items older than 24 hours, all items older than 48 hours, or all items older than 5 days as read) will also mark them read on the Online version.
Sister Toldjah says:

March 12, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Hmmm. I remember when I had Feed Demon (this was a while back) and synched it with Newsgator that Newsgator was still not limiting the number of posts. Maybe they’ve upgraded or whatever and have changed that? I’ll check into it.

Thanks 🙂
Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

March 12, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Probably won’t meet your needs, but I’ve found Google Reader to be very nice.

Regarding the shoulder, ow. 🙁
I’ve had that, usually from sleeping too much on my side. If it’s the same kind of inflammation pain, I’ve found Tylenol or generic acetaminophen to be effective.
steveegg says:

March 12, 2009 at 9:16 pm

The panic button isn’t an automatic thing, but it will pop up in FeedDemon if you hit a certain number of unread posts (I believe the default is 1,000; mine is set at 3,000 because that’s just over what I get on a daily basis).
Great White Rat says:

March 12, 2009 at 10:22 pm

It’s old (no updates in since August 2006) but SharpReader still works well for me, and you CAN limit the number of posts per feed. There’s a MaxItemsPerFeed property you can set at the top level, and you can override that for any individual feed or category.

Of course, I don’t know if there are any bells and whistles on NewsGator that you need that aren’t in SharpReader, but the screen shots I saw on the NewsGator web site look at lot like what I see on my prehistoric software. 🙂
steveegg says:

March 12, 2009 at 10:35 pm

Two problems with SharpReader:

– It’s not web-based (which is what ST wants)
– It started to not update feeds on me, and that was about the time I hit 200 feeds.
Great White Rat says:

March 12, 2009 at 10:57 pm

That’s good to know, Steve.

I’ve never had the update failure problem, and I maintain about that many feeds myself. Maybe I need to stress it a little more. 🙂

As for the the architecture, I’m less concerned with that than the results, and it does read the RSS feeds well. If the architecture IS important, then that’s a good reason to disqualify it.
steveegg says:

March 13, 2009 at 9:14 am

It could’ve been 250 that was the unmagic number. In any case, I’m up to about 370 now (don’t ask how I keep up; I don’t).
steveegg says:

March 13, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Good to hear the shoulder’s better.
forest hunter says:

March 14, 2009 at 6:07 am

What ever the facts are it’s always a tough call when I read things like this. My ex-wife pulled ours out of Christian school after our divorce was final, but we didn’t rely on governmental interference to sort it out.
Lorica says:

March 14, 2009 at 10:45 am

Forest Hunter, along with the “problem” of religious teaching, is the fact that these kids were testing 2 years above public education, and we cannot just have that. That would be just abit to uppity in that judge’s view. – Lorica

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