Skweezer Becomes RSS-Friendly

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.greenlightwireless.net/skweezer/' target='_blank'>http://www.greenlightwireless.net/skweezer/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Greenlight Wireless today announced that Skweezer now supports RSS newsfeeds. The addition of this new feature was prompted by a recent survey of Skweezer users, which put mobile RSS access at the top of users' wish list for the service. Skweezer users can now read RSS feeds on their wireless handheld devices, such as PDA's or cell phones, without using a stand-alone RSS Reader. RSS feeds are often more convenient for mobile users to read than full Web pages, as they consist of a list of headlines and short descriptions that link to the full story or article. Content accessed from the newsfeed is compressed and reformatted with Skweezer's wireless optimization technology, making it faster to load and easier to view on a wireless handset. RSS feeds can also be bookmarked in Skweezer, allowing quick access to frequently visited newsfeeds right from the Skweezer homepage."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050225-Skweezer.gif" /><br /><br />Skweezer, which I <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35450">posted</a> on late last year, now supports RSS. And I know there's a fair few of you who use RSS and Skweezer (I'm one of them), so it's definitely great being able to bring these two together! For those of you who plan on trying this new feature out, be sure to post on your thoughts. :-)

[buzzard]

I just loaded a bunch of RSS feeds into Skweezer and as far as I'm concerned, it's works better than several RSS newsreaders that I've tried, including Newsbreak. It works faster because it's using a server but for the same reason when you look into the details to get more info on a story, you get the regular pictures and the text that go with the regular website story (and unfortunately some of the ads). Because you're using Skweezer the data fits on the page without any horizontal scrolling. I listed all of my RSS feeds in favorites starting with "RSS - name" so that all of the RSS feeds would be together and I wouldn't confuse them with the regular website. The font size in PIE is perfect when set at the usual medium but in Netfront you will definitely need to increase the font from medium to something larger.

The only drawback that I see, so far anyway, is that if you want to save a webpage for viewing later, you can't because your PPC is "looking" at a server and the actual page isn't on the PPC to be saved.