A very slight change: I only updated to the current AIR version (2.0) and added a note about the publisherId: The pubId, although deprecated, is needed for backwards compatibility. You can find the publisher ID as a long string of gibberish in the name of your app’s install folder, or use a program like Badger [...]
read onNew: version 2.11 now supports Cyrillic and other non-Latin glyph sets
Finally, Telexer can read Novosti. In Russian. And in other news: the app is now free to use, no strings attached. Go download or update! This new version 2.11 (download here) is now able to display other character sets than the standard Latin one; news in Cyrillic for example. I made use of an Actionscript [...]
read onA very big year for RSS and syndication technologies
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb calls 2009 a very big year for RSS in a New York Times top ten overview. The list is dominated by social media conversation applications, with one dedicated RSS reader, and one breaking news service. But what unites all of these services is their focus on real-time delivery: for me, Pubsubhubbub [...]
read onNew CNN mobile news app: future of online news is in paid applications?
I doubt if the future of online news is in single-source, paid-for content, but CNN, with their new app for iPhone, certainly shows that paid applications could be the way to go – they combine the features you actually might want in a news app, and the end result is a well-designed and usable app to boot.
read onFollow the Leader by RSS Reader
Over the span of a few hours, the New York Times changed its leading article headline about five times today. I noticed, because Telexer kept notifying me. It’s interesting to see the process of a headline (and article) taking shape: going from sloppy to somewhat decent, all the headlines add to the story.
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Update: AIR Badge Clicktracker plugin 1.1
The values that had to be hard-coded into the source are now manageable from the Settings page. Also, the tag used to place the badge on the page no longer needs to contain urls and id’s.
read onLinkdump: free vs fee, and the experience of trial software
A number of articles on the topic of fee vs free, worth a read.
read onComparing free analytics services you could use with WordPress
Woopra, Google Analytics plus Polaris, WassUp, and Statcounter compared. With the current Telexer site, I’m discovering *all kinds* of new trackers and analytics services. Desktop clients, Adobe AIR front-ends. Real-time stuff, etc. I need to make a choice. Here’s how I think those services stack up.
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