| Neat HX trick to run update in background while reading headlines |
[13 Feb 2006|10:01am] |
One of the most requested features of HX is the ability to read headlines from your news sources while an 'Update Feeds' is running in the background. This is quite difficult to implement because JavaScript - the language in which HX is written - does not have thread support. I got this email this morning from a HX user:
i have a little trick to read feeds while they are updating: simply run TWO Habari, in two different tab ie, while in the first one they update, you can
read the second one.
I hope this can be useful for someone (with many feeds)
Timendum
This is a very neat hack. However, I have NOT tested this. So be careful when you try it out because it might run up bad credit on your credit cards, run away with your significant other, leave the toilet seat up or other unspeakable things.
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| [Announce] Habarixenu 1.0.2 released |
[04 Dec 2005|05:05pm] |
Announcing the release of Habarixenu v1.0.2. This is a bug fix release where two problems in Firefox 1.5 have been fixed.
Grab yours from Openscroll (right click, save as, open locally).
Update: Link fixed.
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| [Announce] Habari Xenu 1.0.1 released |
[18 Nov 2005|11:31am] |
Announcing the release of Habari Xenu v1.0.1.
- Works on both Mozilla 1.8a and Firefox 1.5rc.
- Bulgarian localization.
- Request time out feature when doing 'Update Feeds'.
- Should work with GMail Atom feeds.
Grab yours from Mozdev or Openscroll.
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| [Announce] Habari Xenu 0.9.5 and 0.9.6rc1 |
[27 Apr 2005|06:03pm] |
Announcing the release of a stable 0.9.5 version. Changes include:
- When viewing Icons+Text, the HX button in the toolbar now does not take up too much space.
- Separators in bookmarks are handled better in the subscriptions list tree.
- A minor bug where HX didn't do well with feeds containing only one item has been fixed.
- The last visit date timestamp is now properly set.
- A new option has been added to open the first feed on start up.
Also announcing the release of a development version 0.9.6rc1. Added the ability to set a time out for fetching/checking feeds.
Note: Link to 0.9.6rc1 fixed.
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| Where in the world is all the news chatter? |
[21 Apr 2005|09:43am] |
"Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory.
Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the globe. Connections between cities thousands of miles apart become apparent at a glance."
They also have a nice RSS feed
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| An Analysis of Habari Xenu development |
[21 Dec 2004|03:25pm] |
| Version |
Size (Bytes) |
Release Date |
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| 0.6.0 |
80,210 |
05/06/04 |
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| 0.6.5 |
287,116 |
05/25/04 |
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| 0.7.0 |
257,686 |
08/03/04 |
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| 0.7.1 |
116,072 |
08/10/04 |
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| 0.7.2 |
104,325 |
08/11/04 |
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| 0.7.3 |
88,613 |
08/11/04 |
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| 0.8.0 |
95,504 |
08/19/04 |
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| 0.9.0 |
104,215 |
10/09/04 |
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| 0.9.1 |
100,342 |
11/10/04 |
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| 0.9.2 |
90,994 |
11/15/04 |
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| 0.9.3 |
93,738 |
11/21/04 |
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| 0.9.4 |
93,621 |
12/12/04 |
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126,036 |
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The development of HX started off with a decently-sized 80kB version 0.6.0. Versions prior to this were developmental versions that were never released. There was no feed management UI in v0.6.0. A settings editor was introducted for the first time in 0.6.5. That is why you see a leap in size to 287kB. v0.7.0 was mainly a bug fix version. BY v0.7.2 I had moved to using the bookmarks to store and manage the feeds. Settings editor was considerably re-tooled. IIRC, FeedParser was also being incorporated around this time.
Since then, it is nice to see that we have stabilized at HX being around (but less than) 100kB. I hope it stays this compact at least till a stable v1.0.
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| [Announce] Habari Xenu v0.9.4 released |
[13 Dec 2004|10:56am] |
Announcing the release of Habari Xenu v0.9.4. Updates in this release:
- Parsing of blogspot Atom feeds corrected. (Bug 8110)
- Bug 8363 fixed. Use top two links for timestamping.
- Debugging alert message causing Bug 8176 on some Atom feeds removed.
- Altering of User Agent string when fetching feeds is now optional (turned off by default). This was causing problems behind some proxies.
Test drive your copy today.
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| [Announce] Habari Xenu v0.9.3 released |
[22 Nov 2004|08:06am] |
Announcing the release of Habari Xenu v0.9.3. Changes in this version:
- 'Subscribe' item in Context menu now optional (and off by default)
- Help -> Version
- 'Subscribe' in context menu works now on both links and hyperlinked images
- Custom stylesheets through userContent.css
- TARGET now set to _blank instead of _new. This makes opening new tabs on Firefox work correctly
Download your copy here
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| [Announce] HX 0.9.2 released |
[15 Nov 2004|03:17pm] |
I have uploaded version 0.9.2 of Habari Xenu to mozdev.org. It will take a day or so for the mozdev.org mirrors to catch up. In the meantime, you can download your copy here. Save it to disk and open it from disk to launch installation.
Updates:
- Import/Export OPML fixed
- Easy subscription to feeds through right clicking on link and selecting 'subscribe'
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| [Announce] Habari Xenu 0.9.1 released |
[10 Nov 2004|10:54am] |
Announcing the release of version 0.9.1 of Habari Xenu. Updates in this version include:
- International encoding problem solved
- OPML import/export support
- Edit feeds opens only feeds instead of all of bookmarks
- Preliminary 'Update All' and 'Catchup' support
- Minor copy changes
- Parser consolidation
- Sensible default feeds for first time users
Grab your copy today.
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| Firefox 1.0 RC2 has a sort of a news aggregator |
[06 Oct 2004|10:07am] |
According to this, Firefox 1.0 RC2 has a new feature called Live Bookmarks. Here is how it is described:
"You can now subscribe to and read RSS feeds in your Bookmarks. When you visit a page that advertises a RSS feed by using a <link> tag, a RSS icon will appear in the status bar. Click it to view a list of feeds the page is offering. Click one to subscribe - this adds a Bookmark Folder that contains all the recent posts from the feed."
I just tested it and here are my thoughts:
- The live bookmark is just like any other bookmark that is saved in bookmarks.html except it has a FEEDURL attribute whose value is the link to the news feed.
- The best way to use the news aggregator seems to be through opening the sidebar tab that shows bookmarks.
- Atom (At least LJ Atom feeds) feeds also seem to work.
- Only the headlines are fetched and displayed as individual bookmarks under the feed's folder. Unlike with HabariXenu and many other news aggregator summaries of stores are not displayed. This is a major PITA. Perhaps in the future they will do this onmouseover the bookmark.
Should I even bother porting HX to Firefox if there is a built-in news reader-ish thinggy?
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) thaths
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| [Announce] Habari Xenu 0.8.0 released |
[19 Aug 2004|12:39pm] |
Announcing the release of Habari Xenu 0.8.0. Grab it from here.
Changes in this version:
- Atom feed support
- Improved parsing. Most feeds should now work
- Settings editor error checking
- Automagical configuration of tabbed browsing for use with HX
- Feed date/time displayed for some feeds
- Restart of browser not recessary for settings to take effect
Known issues:
- Boingboing display fubared
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| RSSCalendar.com |
[17 Aug 2004|11:50am] |
RSSCalendar.com
A cool on-line calendar which exports your calendar entries to your friends in RSS. Yet another "feed" for catching up through Habari Xenu.
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| Version 0.7.0. Released |
[04 Aug 2004|03:20pm] |
Habari Xenu version 0.7.0 is now released. It now works with windows.
Expect the following in the next version:
- Improved feed parsing (RSS is a bitch)
- Support for atom feeds
- Unistalla support
Share and enjoy!
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| Google mulls RSS support |
[11 Jun 2004|09:56am] |
Google mulls RSS support:
"Google is considering renewing support for the popular RSS Web publishing format in some of its services..."
This is great news for RSS news aggregators like Habari Xenu.
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