Category: FeedDemon

FeedDemon supports ecto

Published on by Nick Bradbury5 Comments

Both ecto 1.0 RC4 and FeedDemon 1.10 RC5a were released yesterday, which is good timing since the developers of ecto and I have been working to enable ecto as “Blog This” tool in FeedDemon (thanks, Alex!). This adds to the list of desktop blog publishing tools which FeedDemon already auto-detects:

If you’d prefer to post directly to your blog from FeedDemon, instructions are available for several blogging packages:

BTW, if you’re not sure how to blog from FeedDemon, all you need to do is right-click a news item in FeedDemon’s news item list and select “Blog this News Item.”

FeedDemon 1.10 RC5

Published on by Nick Bradbury1 Comment

Okay, I lied about RC4 being the last FeedDemon 1.10 pre-release :) Out of necessity, I’m making one last pre-release available. RC5 contains a number of fixes related to how Japanese characters are displayed, and it also includes a new “Web Search” feature along with support for IE’s form auto-completion.

If you encounter a bug in RC5, let me know by posting in the FeedDemon Support Forum. Please include 1.10RC5 in the subject line of any message you post about this pre-release.

Note: Translators, I apologize for yet another change, but there are two new strings in this release. If you’d prefer not to send me new FDLANGs, please feel free to simply email me the translations for the strings shown below.

<const name="S_StatusPopupKilled" value="Popups were blocked on this page. Press &quot;Ctrl&quot; when clicking to allow popups."/>
<const name="S_SearchWeb" value="Search Web"/>

Japanese FeedDemon bug fixed

Published on by Nick Bradbury4 Comments

Among the bugs on my “must fix” list before releasing FeedDemon 1.10 is the one described here, in which FeedDemon shows garbage in the status bar when running on the Japanese version of Windows.

Well, I’m happy to report that after much hair-pulling, I’ve finally found the cause of this UI bug and fixed it [screenshot].

This was the last high priority bug on my list, so if all goes well FeedDemon 1.10 will be released on Monday.

FeedDemon 1.10 RC4

Published on by Nick Bradbury2 Comments

FeedDemon 1.10 RC4 is now available to registered users.

  • Added: Generic “Date” column to news item list, which contains pubDate if it exists, received date otherwise. This new column isthe only date column shown by default – both the “received” and “published” columns are hidden. This also affects the default sorting and grouping (both are now set to the generic date), which may change how you’re used to seeing news items sorted.
  • Changed: The default newspaper filter is now “Unread News” instead of “Today’s News”
  • Changed: The default value for automatically marking items as read has changed from five seconds to three seconds
  • Changed: The cleanup wizard now remembers your selections
  • Changed: Double-clicking a news item navigates the news item’s link if the item newspaper is showing, otherwise it re-displays the news item newspaper (change in RC3’s behavior)
  • Fixed: FeedDemon now correctly handles xml:base in Atom entries and passes all the link tests at http://diveintomark.org/tmp/tests/wellformed/base/links-in-content.xml and http://diveintomark.org/tmp/tests/wellformed/base/links.xml
  • Fixed: “Previous unread channel” shortcut skips topmost channel

When you’re ready to download RC4, stop by the FeedDemon beta site.

Web-based forums almost live

Published on by Nick Bradbury1 Comment

As announced earlier, my support newsgroups will soon be replaced by web-based forums which are currently being tested.

Once I’m done tweaking the forum code, the newsgroups will be made read-only – which should occur within the next few days. If you have a new support question, you might want to post it in the web-based forums now instead of starting another newsgroup thread.

Note that since I’m sill working on the forums, you may run into an occasional slowdown (or cryptic error) while the code is recompiled. These problems should be infrequent, and should no longer occur after the forums “officially” go live.

FeedDemon Tips

Published on by Nick Bradbury1 Comment

Now that the TopStyle Tips blog is off and running, I’d like to announce FeedDemon Tips. This new blog will be regularly updated with helpful tips and tricks for FeedDemon users. Authors include myself and these FeedDemon power-users:

If you’d like to be a FeedDemon tips author, just use my contact form to let me know. You don’t have to be a prolific poster to be an author – just a few tips a month will suffice.

To visit FeedDemon tips, point your browser to:

http://nick.typepad.com/feeddemontips/

PS: Don’t forget to subscribe to the FeedDemon tips RSS feed :)