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July 28, 2008
Share stories right from your news reader
Over the summer, my intern Dan Koestler and I decided to get serious about Apprise, a news reader written for AIR. There are a lot of news readers out there, so the natural question is what sets Apprise apart? Here's a summery of what I believe are our most compelling features:
- AIM integration. Send stories to your AIM buddies from Apprise rather than copying and pasting URLs into your AIM client. Apprise doesn't replace your AIM client -- it works alongside it to make sharing stories easier and more efficient.
- Twitter integration. Post URLs to Twitter directly from Apprise. Again, Apprise doesn't replace your Twitter client, but it makes posting stories to Twitter much faster and easier.
- Folders. We finally broke down and added folders, our #1 feature request. We now have folders for you to organize your own feeds, but Apprise still automatically organizes posts by author and topic, as well.
- Automatic feed resolution. It's surprising how many sites don't make it easy to find their RSS or Atom feeds. Now you can just enter the URL of the site that you want to aggregate, and Apprise will find the feed for you.
Apprise has several other cool features like realtime search accross all feeds, OPML import and export, Vi keys, and site view. And it finally even got a nice design so it no longer looks like a developer designed it.
You can find Appirse at apprisereader.com. If you already have an earlier version of Apprise installed, you should be able to click on the badge and replace it, but you also might need to uninstall the old version first. This version of Apprise adds auto-updated, so from now on, you'll get new features and bug fixes automatically.
Update: I should have mentioned that you should export your feeds before upgrading to the new version of Apprise so you can easily import them again. In future versions, all your feeds will be preserved.
Posted by cantrell at July 28, 2008 8:04 AM
Comments
Hmm, you may want to put a disclaimer up to all those that used an earlier version... I've just lost all of my feeds!! Now I have to hunt around the net to find them all again.
Thanks!
Posted by: Mark at July 28, 2008 8:31 AM
Wonderful revision. Been using Apprise Reader almost exclusively since you originally released it. After upgrading, I lost all my feeds and marked posts. Any way to get that db back?
Posted by: Michael at July 28, 2008 8:34 PM
Mark and Michael,
I apologize for not mentioning this in my original post. Your feeds aren't actually lost, but the new version of Apprise uses a new database file. If you really want to recover them, you can open the apprise.db file in a SQLite client application and get them that way.
Future versions of Apprise will always preserve your data.
Christian
Posted by: Christian Cantrell at July 29, 2008 9:51 PM
Christian,
I've used a SQLite application to get all of my feeds back. Thank you.
Posted by: Mark at July 30, 2008 6:59 AM
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