10-19-2006, 11:28 AM
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Clinton Fitch Reviews Spb Insight
"Over the past few years, RSS and Atom feeds have grown exponentially in popularity. Almost every major website has at least one feed available while many, including sites such as MSNBC, CNN and other news sites, have multiple feeds available. If Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com! (a very small site compared to those) is any indication, RSS and Atom feeds will continue to grow in popularity. Spb Software House has jumped into the RSS/Atom feed application furry with their latest application, Spb Insight. This new and exciting application offers users the ability to subscribe to these feeds, have full offline reading including pictures, create templates for sites, and has an extensive online catalog of feeds available to you so you do not have to know the feeds direct URL. While Spb Insight has room to grow, it is a well rounded application and provides quick and easy information to users from an almost limitless amount of information available on the Internet today."
If my review left you wanting more information about Insight, take a look at Clinton's excellent review. Overall I'm not blown away by Insight, but the offline content pulling abilities plus the clean look are very nice. Anyone made it their news reader of choice?
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10-19-2006, 03:42 PM
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I purchased it yesterday. It's definitely a great start. The offline, full text idea is excellent. However, since it is 1.0, there are some definite shortcomings. Since Spb has a good history, I am extremely optimistic!
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10-19-2006, 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by mattbugz
Since Spb has a good history, I am extremely optimistic!
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That's a good attitude to have on it and I agree. When PocketPlus first came out it was good but not great. Now it is one of the best (if not the best) in the category. I suspect (and somewhat expect) that Insight will mature equally as well.
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10-20-2006, 08:26 AM
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I find RSS a pretty limited solution for offline reading on PPCs as most of the content requires you visiting the actual site. I recently tried Egress & Newsbreak & ended up deciding that www.isilo.com is still a superior solution for my needs. It has a best-of-breed reader (wonderfully configurable) & awesome control over content selection.
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10-20-2006, 02:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
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I've also noticed that Spb titles don't seem to be overwhelmingly great on the first release, but given a little bit of time they almost always turn into the best in their category.
Also, it's nice to see someone else mentioning iSilo. I've been using that one since I got my 3975 years ago. I don't know how I would get by without it either.
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