04-20-2006, 08:00 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 349
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A6�Times, Your User Friendly Electronic Newspaper
"A6�Times is an enhanced news feed aggregator of surprising power. What sets it apart from conventional news aggregators is that it formats and displays news in a traditional newspaper format, adapted to the small screen of your Windows Mobile device."
Probably the nicest looking news aggregator I've seen yet on a mobile device, A6�Times is currently in public beta mode, so why not give it a whirl? It's content is derived from RSS, RDF, and ATOM feeds you can specify, and with preconfigured categories, it will give it that extra look that's comfortable yet versatile. While it's destined to support VGA screens, I hope it'll be just as friendly to square-screen devices.
This program brings me to a sidenote that I've always wanted to address publicly: ever watch a movie or TV commercial where it shows some technical or mobile device, sometimes ones we actually own or see, and it's mocked up with some funky, cool, full-screen, animated interface? Then, when we look at our devices and that kind of pizazz is nowhere to be found. If all of our apps looked as cool as A6�Times, it just might give the added "wow" factor we've been looking for. 
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04-20-2006, 09:24 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,520
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I installed this app to my SD card and it won't even start up.
-Toshiba e830-
EDIT: My mistake, I thought I already had .net CF installed. Somewhere between Hard resets I must have forgotten to re-install. It works now.
One item that would be good to add is an OPML import. That's probably the easiest way for people to convert to a new RSS reader.
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04-21-2006, 12:35 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 53
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I want the full version will that come out after May 19th?
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04-21-2006, 07:21 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 193
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Wow, I'm impressed
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04-21-2006, 12:34 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 147
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Definitely the best of its kind.
It makes me want to pump it with URLs and watch them assemble into my own "newspaper." Great for those long trips.
I want the full version too!
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04-21-2006, 02:58 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 283
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Can anyone tell me how much space the .NET framework takes on your PPC device? The download is 25Mb. Surely it can't need that kind of space on a PPC!
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04-21-2006, 03:09 PM
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Contributing Editor
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 3,111
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Quite a bit, but not 25MB - IIANM that's the whole distro for XP, and not necessarily just PPC.
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04-21-2006, 03:28 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 57
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I believe it's 5MB for the .Net. I tried installing it to the memory card (a miniSD but I'm getting crashes so I'm going to reinstall the .Net piece). Otherwise a slick reader. You can install the DB portion of the app to a memory card though.
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04-21-2006, 11:02 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 2,341
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by scottb
Can anyone tell me how much space the .NET framework takes on your PPC device? The download is 25Mb. Surely it can't need that kind of space on a PPC!
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5.4mb...and it will NOT install to a storage cad. You can try it, and it will say it has installed sucessfully, but if you go check the folder on your card it will be empty. It installs to the card for a few seconds during the install process then transferes all data to main memory.
Dave
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04-22-2006, 01:32 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 177
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and it needs work: I added about 10 feeds sucessfully yesterday. I went to install 2 Engadget feeds and as I finished entering the second one, it abended, truncating my feeds from 15 to 2. Newsbreak has no problem with the same feeds, on the same machine.
Guess its not only the lack of functions which makes it 'beta'... I'll wait for the production version and try again.
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