Guest Monolithix Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 So as Paul and I were discussing on this weeks Podcast, I've set up RSS Hub on my HD to pull down my "twitter with friends" feed in an attempt at getting pseudo-instant alerts thanks to HTC including a system-notification feature (or maybe that was illiumsoft :rolleyes:). However it's being kinda odd, to the exent of which I feel like i'm missing something obvious. It will only update the feed every 40 minutes (in this case), and then expires (eg - deletes) the entries when it next refreshes. Anyone else using RSS Hub found a way to make it act more normally? That is, update every 5, 15, whatever minutes and to store a decent backlog of entries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dr_nick Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 i find it annoying that it doesn't download a decent amount of text, and instead i have to follow a link to the webpage for every post. can't see a setting to increase the standard volume of text it will download for free.. also - doesn't seem to download more than about 17minutes of a podcast. - just enought o be annoying cos you are just getting ionto the swing of things and it cuts out! there must be a better (preferably free) program than this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Well there's newsgator, which is awesome and what I use for day to day rss triaging. The reason I picked up on RSS hub was the built in system notification setting, it also has keyword filtering and the limited text is fine for my purpose, which is twitter :rolleyes: If there are other half decent RSS readers out there which can product useful notifications then that would achieve the same end :) PS: No probs with Podcast downloading on mine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Worth a look? http://code.google.com/p/prssr/ New release yesterday with ATD support too! :rolleyes: P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dr_nick Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 but rss hub requires to be running in the background, does it not, for the notifications to work? would newsgator alarm if it received a new feed whilst running in the background - hey prest same thing?! i toyed with newsgator before and think i found it no good for my needs, but that may have been because i was looking for a desktop podcast catcher which would automatically synchronise downloaded content on activesync connection. but if this work around can get me instant notification of twitter feed, then maybe i do need a download-direct rss aggregator... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 The best solution DOES seem to be for someone to write an app for this. I propose an app that... - runs in the background - on a set schedule consumes your Twitter RSS - puts the messages in your SMS inbox as if they were real SMS (and plays appropriate notification) That'd be cool. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Monolithix Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Maybe the motivation i need to finally get into .net programming? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 I reckon it'd be a pretty simple app... P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dr_nick Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 (edited) DO IT!!! (please!) didn't realise there was a twitter community on modaco...! Edited December 18, 2008 by dr_nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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