{"id":806,"date":"2012-08-30T20:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T17:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=806"},"modified":"2012-09-02T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T17:04:59","slug":"greatnews-tool-for-reading-news-rss-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"GreatNews, Tool for reading news (RSS feeds)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiostudio.com\/\">GreatNews<\/a> is a good alternative for reading <a title=\"Selected News (feed) sources on ICT\" href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=734\">news<\/a> (RSS\/Atom feeds)<\/p>\n<p>Good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>list of feeds are maintained<\/li>\n<li>automatic refresh of feeds<\/li>\n<li>different styles available for showing feeds<\/li>\n<li>search over Feed Group<\/li>\n<li>import &amp; export in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OPML\">OPML<\/a> format (XML)<\/li>\n<li>possibility to open feed text in external browser for better reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The figure below shows the condensed view when using &#8220;Brief&#8221; style.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/greatnews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"454\" alt=\"Greatnews\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/greatnews-small.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Automatic updates makes it possible to use this tool to display latest news on &#8220;newsboard&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The figure below shows the handy search function applied to Feed Group Security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/greatnews-search.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"314\" alt=\"Greatnews-search\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/greatnews-search-small.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPML Example<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The text below is created by exporting the BBC Feed Group from GreatNews tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/opml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"266\" alt=\"OPML\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/opml-small.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Advanced<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One can extend GreatNews functionality for a &#8220;newsboard&#8221; display by using a simple <a title=\"Autoit, Tool for automating GUI tasks\" href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=33\">autoit<\/a> script for automating the looping through all the feeds. See autoit script below; key F7 is send regularly into GreatNews tool.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile 1<br \/>\nWinActivate(&#8220;GreatNews&#8221;, &#8220;&#8221;)<br \/>\nWinWaitActive(&#8220;GreatNews&#8221;, &#8220;&#8221;, 30)<br \/>\nSend(&#8220;{F7}&#8221;)<br \/>\nSleep(10000)<br \/>\nWEnd<\/p>\n<p>\nWith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">wine<\/a> tool, one can run GreatNews (and autoit) also in linux environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alternatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/sage\/\">Sage<\/a> is a light Firefox add-on. However, it still lacks the automatic updates. Although it does updates feeds when clicked. Condensed view can be achieved by using custom css called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/misc\/StealthCSS.zip\">StealthCSS<\/a>, which is available from their <a href=\"http:\/\/sage.wikia.com\/wiki\/Feed_Style_Sheets\">wiki pages<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/readefine.anirudhsasikumar.net\/\">Readefine<\/a> is capable of showing feeds in a condensed way (in newspaper style). In addition, it can be runned in Linux. However, it does not &#8220;really&#8221; maintain list of feeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GreatNews is a good alternative for reading news (RSS\/Atom feeds) Good: list of feeds are maintained automatic refresh of feeds different styles available for showing feeds search over Feed Group import &amp; export in OPML format (XML) possibility to open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}