Comments on: News Aggregator of My Dreams

By: AsbjornM

AsbjornM — Sat, 17 May 2003 13:22:59 +0000

I uses SharpReader at two computers, works okay, I only copies the subscriptions.xml between these two computers.. And no, my two computers are not on the same network. (Well, ok, they are, somewhat, via the internet).
Copying this file I have my blogroll updated all the time, better than using export/import I think, But of course, the data is not synchronized, but that is another case.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 16 May 2003 23:30:13 +0000

SharpReader is a .NET news aggregator, written in C# (pronounced C-sharp, hence SharpReader). So, nope, the assumption I’m on some flavor of Unix isn’t correct. :-/
I don’t know that SharpReader stores its subscription info in a file (it exports/imports via an XML file, but that doesn’t keep things synchronized). But if it did, why not just have an option to set the location of that file, either to a local folder or to a URL? Added benefit — I could share my subscription list with other people.
Since Mozilla bookmarks are just a specially formatted HTML file, and Mozilla already has an editing/publishing mechanism built in, it should be possible to host the bookmark.htm file someplace else other than the Mozilla profile directory on my local machine.
Of course, all of it’s possible. As with any software feature, it’s a matter of getting it on the radar of someone who can code it. If I had a few years to spare, it would be interesting to learn to code…

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Fri, 16 May 2003 22:40:03 +0000

Assuming you’re running some flavour of *NIX, just have your home directory on a server somewhere… You’d have the same settings no matter where you log on.
You’d probably want some kind of fallback, in case the connection went down (or you went on the road or something…)