Comments on: Sneak Peek: Feed Notifier 2.0

By: Nox

Nox — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:01:15 +0000

Thanks Michael. It is indeed working perfectly. Well done!

Oh btw, I was trying to add the Google Apps Status Dashboard feed http://www.google.com/appsstatus/rss/en but it wasn’t recognised as a valid RSS/Atom feed.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:23:05 +0000

It has been implemented. Uncheck “Auto-play new items” in the Pop-ups section of the preferences.

By: Nox

Nox — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:21:33 +0000

Hi Michael, I’ve installed v2 and I like it. :) Btw, the “do not auto dismiss pop-up” feature hasn’t been implemented yet, right?

Thanks for a great job! :)

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:07:53 +0000

No, probably not :-)

How about the ability the set it to 1?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:52:16 +0000

The entry cache is there so the notifier knows which items it has already seen. If you set it to 0, you’d get duplicate notifications for the same items every time the feed is polled. Are you sure that’s what you want?

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:13:55 +0000

Hi!

Looking forward to release 2.0.

Some future requests:
* Set the Entry Cache to 0 (or 1), so you can use the application to display imortant messages from only one RSS feed.
* Set the Polling Interval down to 1 minute.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:48:43 +0000

Nox: Yep, that feature is on my to-do list for version 2, since it was requested at least a few times. :)

By: Nox

Nox — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:03:08 +0000

Looks good indeed. :)

Thanks Michael for working on a v2.

Here’s a small suggestion, is it possible to allow users to customize the “pop-up duration” to 0 or “Never auto close” such that the pop-up will never timeout and close automatically, but will instead wait for manual user intervention to dismiss it?

In that way, it can be used to monitor important system alerts that must be acted upon.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:57:11 +0000

This is looking really cool!