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Originally Posted by Ripper014
I have been looking at both today... and though I have not gone through it completely... here is what I can offer.
First... price... I believe that PocketRSS is only $5.00 less than half of Egress...
In general I like the layout of Egress... but I would perfer to get the extended information when possible. Egress does not seem to offer that. VGA support is another item that is missing.
PocketRSS also seems to offer a few more options... but the interface is not as easy to navigate...
garishkernels... maybe you should download PocketRSS and see for yourself... I am sure you are a better judge of your softwares weaknesses than us...
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I too, in general, prefer the layout of Egress. Hardly surprizing since I designed the app for myself and spend alot of time trying to get the layout "right". Egress is designed to optimize the space available for viewing the news items and keep the "flow" centered around the items themselves. You'll notice that there is no difference between the window that displays the headers and the window that displays the content, Egress merely expands the active item. Further, there is no window that displays the feeds as this is accomplished by the dropdown menu. I find it preferable to stay within one "window" and provide the ability to shift the displayed item within that window rather than require the traversal from one window or mode to another. Both NewsBreak and PocketRSS take the window to window approach.
As for the specific points you mentioned: Yes, Egress does not specifically support VGA resolution. You can use a VGA PocketPC and your fonts should be smoother but you don't get higher resolution icons. In the near future you will, I just haven't finished fine-tuning the icons.
In Egress you can download what PocketRSS calls "extended information" and with more options as well. Egress calls this web content and each channel has the option to download web content and to specify the number of links deep to cache. PocketRSS only downloads the html page specified in the RSS feed. Egress downloads the html page specified as well as all content referenced in the page (images, css, etc) and will do the same for the number of links deep as requested. When a item's web content has been cached, the item's icon will have an overlay of a curling green arrow to indicate that the content has been cached. The user may then bring up PocketIE to display the full content rather than just the partial content.
PocketBreeze integration doesn't exist at this time... but nobody, until now, has requested it. I can't find any posted information on how to integrate with PocketBreeze so I'll contact SBSH as soon as I am able and see if I can work it out.
And price, I agree that if you find the interface acceptable (and 2.0 is a big improvement in this area), that PocketRSS is an excellent value. I priced Egress where I considered it the be an excellent value as well. I believe this to be the case, but perhaps others don't.
And lastly, I don't agree that I would be a better judge of Egress's weaknesses. Egress does exactly what I want it to do since I wrote it for myself. Different people have different expectations and thus I request feedback from anyone since this feedback will allow me to expand Egress's abilities to meet more people's expectations.
Thanks.
-Karl
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Egress 2.01 Released
Linear Mode
