Comments on: FreeRange RSS Reader Version 2.2.8 Released

By: Blackberry GTD

Blackberry GTD — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:42:05 +0000

I agree Ron, I’m writing another review on version 2.2.9 soon, so we can post it here, several cool changes despite it being a beta version.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:58 +0000

I WANT BOTH!
If you ever used the facebook application you will understand what I mean. The facebook app does not have any separate PUSH functionality. All it does is hijack emails that come into your BlackBerry and import them into the application. This would be perfect as a way to import RSS emails into an application as PUSH…

By: luc-mobile

luc-mobile — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:14:05 +0000

Whoa, now you got my head spinning a little bit. I thought you wanted RSS feeds in your mail. You want the opposite? Mail via RSS? Is that correct? Why? How would that be better than The Blackberry Way?

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:43:49 +0000

I will have to check out that POP3 feature. That could be really cool… I really wish somebody would just use one of these RSS to email services and rebrand it into another application that automatically siphoned the emails into the appliciation to make it push RSS. Simple as Pie!

By: luc-mobile

luc-mobile — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:24:32 +0000

Hey, I had forgotten about this “thread”. Erm… this is not a forum, after all. Anyway, Ronen wanted “push RSS”, and it just occurred to me that Newsgator Go gives you that. For free! They have a very thorough Web-based back-end that includes the option of downloading your feeds from a POP3 account. Not any POP3 account, Newsgator Go gives you a POP3 account when you sign up with them. Just include that mail account in your Blackberry mailbox list. There you go.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:23:01 +0000

Derby. I will give it a one over later… I tried it when it was released and it was just glacially slow.

By: derby

derby — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:21:58 +0000

HeadlineHawk from RexWirless may be what your looking for. It isn’t intended for large numbers of RSS feeds, but you might look it over.

By: BerryReview

BerryReview — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:43:42 +0000

I know it may sound crazy but I would think that it could be done. Just like other applications that can hijack emails from your blackberry inbox all you would need is an rssfwd kind of program that emailed you the rss feed and a program on your blackberry that took it out of your inbox into another application…..DREAMING!!!

By: luc-movel

luc-movel — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:28:13 +0000

Push RSS! You’re a hopeless addict!

Well, there’s always rssfwd.com…

By: BerryReview

BerryReview — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:27:54 +0000

I agree Luc, Personally I wish the RSS readers out there could let you browse through rss feeds like you do emails. My big wish is that RIM comes out with RSS support in BIS that has its own push mailbox. I know I am dreaming…

By: luc-movel

luc-movel — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:30:18 +0000

The article already mentions the improvements Freerange has gotten, so I don’t have to go over those. That’s a relief, there’s too many of them!

What got worse in the new version are a couple of details that are really small, but important to me. The most important thing was the ability to scroll line by line (rather than by pages) with the space key. Viigo doesn’t have that, and that is one of the many reasons why I can’t use Viigo for too long and end up going back to Freerange. But Freerange 2.2.8 seems to have lost that ability with most feeds. Not all of them, but many.

I also miss the scroll bar on the side. It would tell me how far into the article I was: in the beginning, about halfway or close to the end. I don’t know why they decided to get rid of it.

Well, I guess most people won’t care about these two details, especially in light of all the other improvements. I still think it’s the best RSS reader around, at least for the Blackberry.