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features
tabbed browsing
reads RSS 1.0, 2.0, Atom, whatever
enclosure downloading
pure compiled C++, no .net poo
uses the rock-solid database engine sqlite
and the highly useful wasabi sdk
minimizes to the systray so it can continue to monitor news unobtrusively
tips
drag-and-drop RSS urls directly onto the application to subscribe (or choose Sources->Add source by URL...)
wheel-clicking on an article in the article list will open that article in a new tab
click the browse-forward button on your mouse (if it has one) on the
article list to move to the next unread article
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friday
| on hiatus
RSXE is officially on hiatus while I work on wifight. Also, I had to disable comments for now due to massive comment spamming.
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18-may-2006
thursday
| new version: 0.13!
Time for another build! Now with per-source article pruning options,
so your db doesn't just grow forever. Also the before-mentioned Snooze!
feature, so your brain can take a break.
build: RSXE v0.13 (462kb)
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13-may-2006
saturday
| new dev log
From now on I'll be posting my development talk onto BrenDevLog, my new coding/dev blog. I'll still post
releases and stuff here tho. Speaking of which, I should really post a new build. I've implemented per-source pruning of articles
and some other stuff, including a Snooze! button, which hides RSXE for 30 minutes (it still updates your feeds in the background
however) so you can get some work done, since as you know reading news via RSXE is Highly Addictive.
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17-jan-2006
tuesday
| happy new year/build
A new year deserves a new build!
Lots of little tweaks and polish, and
some performance optimizations in there too, especially when you are first
starting and you had a lot of windows open.
build: RSXE v0.12 (417kb)
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06-dec-2005
tuesday
| bit more polish
Just thought I'd wrap up the latest little changes and bugfixes into a new
build. No new major features... well actually updating of sources is faster
now.
build: RSXE v0.11 (456kb)
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29-nov-2005
tuesday
| that was a hassle
I didn't really mean to spend all day on it, but now the Penny Arcade feed
parses. Sure, I could have emailed them about it, but that doesn't exactly scale.
Things:
HTTP Redirects are NOT supposed to be relative.
Please, escape or CDATA-enclose your HTML-laden <description> field.
So I guess U-0092 (’) is some kind of extra-purty apostrophe?
Build! 0.10. Wow, 10 builds already. The smiley button now lets you tag articles. Because um tags r neet. Someday there will be a UI to access your
taggery.
build: RSXE v0.10 (455kb)
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26-nov-2005
saturday
| conditional get
The obligatory HTTP
Conditional Get functionality is now done.
Unchanged RSS feed files will now not be fetched, saving bandwidth for
everyone. Nothing the end user needs to think about, but it's a nice
under-the-hood optimization.
build: RSXE v0.09 (454kb)
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23-nov-2005
wednesday
| in the zone
I was really in the zone yesterday, and I rebuilt and streamlined the
browser creation and caching system, and made it support per-source choosing
of embedded IE or Mozilla (if you have it installed.) Now my Homestar Runner
feed can have IE for its Flash support, and everything else can render in
Mozilla. Rock. On. Ok, so there's not a UI to select that yet, but hey.
And what do you know, we have a build:
build: RSXE v0.08 (453kb)
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15-nov-2005
tuesday
| another day, another build
Ok, so it's been more like 4 days, but hey. New build! Now with basic but
serviceable OPML importing and articlelist sort options, plus more little
tweaks and whatnot. Next up on the radar is the Source options.
They are all on a haphazard single dialog for now but I'm gonna tabify
them and organize them and everything.
build: RSXE v0.07 (453kb)
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11-nov-2005
friday
| coding enlightenment and a new build (0.06)
Wow, I guess I am on the path to coding enlightenment:
I.e. just constantly use and improve what you're working on,
and count on the accumulated effect of 1000 decisions. So far it's paying
off, but then again I spend hours and hours just reading news! Which is fun,
actually.
build: RSXE v0.06 (449kb)
Lots of little UI polish changes, and a 70k smaller installer (go lzma compression!)
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07-nov-2005
monday
| bout time for a new build
So I've been autodidacticizin' and reading like crazy. There is so much information
out there to read! Thus: RSXE's consume-style browsing. Screw email-style clicky-click.
Just flash it all in front of my face as quickly as possible. Next, next, next...
build: RSXE v0.05b (517kb)
This is mostly just a maintenance/bugfix/optimization build.
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19-oct-2005
wednesday
| still going
Well, I'm working on RSXE on a daily basis now. I have an 'ideas' file a mile
long but for the moment mostly I just read news with it and see what irritates me, then fix
that. I'm trying to follow the advice to "build half a product, not
a half-assed product" that I read somewhere. (Don't worry, RSXE will be fully assed in time.)
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previous articles
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RSXE utilizes the CONSUME browsing metaphor. You have been warned.
it is pre-alpha
Yes, fresher than alpha, it's pre-alpha. That means it is a work in progress.
But it seems to work decently. I use it every day. You are welcome to use it
as well.
download
RSXE v0.12 (417kb)
(posted 17-jan-2006)
You can also optionally download and install the Mozilla browser control
if you would like your articles to render in Mozilla.
(Recommended)
Mozilla ActiveX control page
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