New beta of NewzCrawler

By Lisa on March 18, 2003 1:54 PM | techie stuff | Permalink | Comments (5)

From the NewzCrawler mailing list (Yahoo Group):

"We'd like to inform you that NewzCrawler v1.4.1 build 1415 Beta has
been released. Some of it's changes and fixes are:

- customizable user agent (Preferences/Connection/Protocol tab)
- My Blogs, Outgoing and Search results folders can be hidden (Preferences/Appearance tab)
- added Next unread and Previous Unread commands (Alt+Down and Alt+Up respectively)
- colors customization is back (Preferences/Appearance/Colors tab)
- possibility to use Mozilla as embedded browser
>> to be able to use Mozilla do as follows:
* open Mozilla folder ("C:\Program Files\Mozilla\" typically)
* type "regsvr32 mozctlx.dll" command
* restart the NewzCrawler and you'll be able to choose between IE and Mozilla

- channels tree and news list font customization
- ability to configure language IDs for MS agent (Preferences/Encodings tab)
- possibility to lower case the html tags and quote all html attrubutes in the BlogThis! html editor (Preferences/General/Post tab)
- Add newsfeed wizard now autodetects feed encoding
- fixed posting to the MovableType"

5 Comments

jen said:

i really need to figure this whole newzcrawler/rss thing out....you guys are talking in a different language than me lately!

March 18, 2003 2:00 PM

dave said:

It's pretty cool Jen.

MT's got the ability to output your blog entries into an xml feed (you'll see index.xml and .rdf files on your server where your blog is). Now, because of this, you can use an rss aggregator to "pull" in this information and view at your leisure.

So instead of going from page to page to see what's new with all of blog land's lives, you simply input their xml feeds into your program and it shows it all to you in one place.

You can also pull in feeds from like CNN or Reuters to also get the most recent news too!

When I get into work in the morning, on top of checking my e-mail, I also pull up my aggregator (I use NewsDesk, though NewsCrawler has better abilities, but ya gotta pay for it) and view the day's blog occurences as well as get the most recent news and weather and anything else I can find with an rss feed.

March 18, 2003 3:28 PM

kristine said:

downloaded and installed! I think the Mozilla internal browser this will stop the evil popups I get on some news feeds (like Entertainment Weekly who has evil ads) And that makes me happy!!