Many news aggregators (including NewsGator) write something interesting (to them!) into the HTTP referrer field when retrieving RSS feeds. For example, NewsGator writes http://www.rassoc.com/newsgator/ into this field. There have been some interesting posts about this recently, mostly saying that this is an inappropriate use of the referrer field, and that User-Agent is where the aggregator [...]
Archive for: January, 2003
Retrieving news
If you are having a problem where NewsGator seems to stop retrieving news, and the status dialog just shows “Retrieving…” for one or more of the feeds, read on. Each feed should time out within 60 seconds. If you are seeing a feed get “hung up” for more than a couple of minutes, and when [...]
NewsGator and .NET installation
There have been problems with the NewsGator 0.8 installation where the .NET Framework would sometimes be downloaded and installed even if it was already present. There is now a new installer on the download site, which you can use if you already have the .NET Framework installed.The problem seems to be in the detection code, [...]
Newsgator v0.8 Released!
Another huge release, this one pretty much feature complete for v1. You can read the release notes on the download site, but here’s a couple of things to wet your appetite: Added “NewsPage” HTML view of news: Added Internet Explorer context menu to right-click on RSS link and add to NewsGator: Can now adjust retrieval performance [...]
NewsGator 0.7
This is a huge milestone for NewsGator…it is getting fairly close to feature-complete for v1.Here’s a rundown of what’s changed:Posts without titles will now show an excerpt from the post instead of a blank title. There is now a busy notification icon in the task bar when NewsGator is retrieving news. New status dialog, which [...]
Titles and NewsGator
We’ve enabled titles, which means that you’ll now have to refer to me as the 4th Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale. :)Actually, it’s because NewsGator rocks, but only if you are using titles. [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]Just thought I’d mention…current (private) builds of NewsGator work much better than before with [...]
Collaboration and NewsGator
Sam Gentile comments on NewsGator and collaboration:BTW, I have been using Greg’s awesome NewsGator for two weeks now and it just rocks! Related to my last collaboration posting, I see this as playing an important part in my collaboration tools. For better, or for worse, Outlook is the center collaboration app of my desktop and [...]
NewsGator v0.6
NewsGator 0.6 is now available. This fixes a few problems:Fixed problem where if default mail format in Outlook 2002 was set to plain text, then bodies of posts would not be correctly displayed. Fixed problem where if user chose to hide the NewsGator toolbar, it would incorrectly show up again the next time Outlook was [...]
NewsGator v0.5
Well, it figures…as soon as I drop v0.4 to the web, I get the problem fixed that was nagging at me. This was the problem where the “NewsGatorView” view in Outlook would not be correctly created much of the time, and often would not be correctly applied to news folders. All taken care of now. [...]
NewsGator v0.4 Released!
NewsGator (formerly the Outlook News Aggregator) version 0.4 has been released and may now be downloaded from http://www.rassoc.com/newsgator. This is a major release; a few highlights:NewsGator is an Outlook add-in, fully integrated with Outlook’s user interface. Works with both Outlook 2000 and 2002. Respects online/offline settings in Outlook 2002. Performance has been drastically improved. Now [...]