pRSSReader 1.4.1 Released
The lightweight RSS Reader for Windows Mobile, pRSSReader 1.4.1 has been released by its author and pRSSreader 1.4.1 is now open-source (GPLv2).
pRSSreader has been my RSS reader of choice. This free app can handle amazingly many versions of feeds: RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0, RDF 1.0 and Atom 0.3. Its Site manager allows you to subscribe to sites you want to read. You can group your feeds into folders and you can set up feed options such as displaying on the Today screen, caching options, etc.
pRSSreader is quite customizable. You can set up appearance of reading dialog, change font sizes, enable clear type, set the location of cache or an external browser for viewing the whole messages and many more (see registry tweaks for more options).
All of this at no cost to you since the project has gone officially open source. The project has moved to http://code.google.com/p/prssr/ where you find the download link.
I will try this I guess, even though the changelog says that the only change in version 1.4.1 is that it has moved to Open Source, so no new features or bugs.
However, Egress 4.0 has been released last week and I can’t really be excited about that. And while I do really like Newsbreak I do want to see the competition push the PPC RSS reader market to higher levels. I use RSS daily and to be honest, RSS readers aren’t exactly updated frequently.
I tried it and I find the software refreshing after using Newsbreak for so long.
However, there are two things I wonder about.
1) Is it possible to also show the articles (and not just the headers) of new items? I believe I’ve found all settings but still I’m not showed all of the content in an RSS item.
2) More important, I can’t download from two connections. SolSie, do you download both over a DATA connection and WiFi? I need to set a http proxy in order to download over my GPRS connection. However, setting this proxy in pRSSreader makes downloading over WiFi impossible (I need to turn of the proxy again to download over WiFi).
Newsbreak lets me just download over the available connection, it doesn’t matter if I’m connected to GPRS or WiFi.
I know you’re not pRSSreader customer support
but since http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/ now redirects to the new page and there is no info on customer support I figure that my best chance is to ask a long time and experienced user.
Any ideas?
I actually found an e-mail address and I got back a reply very quickly.
@1 this wasn’t requested so reading full articles from the Today screen isn’t possible.
@2 isn’t possible either but since my situation made sense this has been added to the ToDo list.
spmwinkel, I always download over ActiveSync.