ReaderMini.com version .9.2
Changes in Release .9.2 – 1/17/07
- Refresh Feed List button is back.
- Removed some words from the footer to make more room. “connections:” became “ajax:”.
- Various skin improvements.
- Get Next Page is now at the top and bottom of all feeds.
- Get Next Page works for starred, shared items.
- Get Next Page works for category river feeds.
- Show unread only may work for starred and shared feeds. Let me know. 🙂
New versions of Tasks and Tasks Pro!
Congrats to Alex King on the long awaited releases of Tasks 2.7 and Tasks Pro 1.7! I go back and forth between paper and digital task tracking and, in my experience, Tasks is a fantastic digital option. Now that it has tags, there’s no stopping it!
Nokia N800 Review – by ThoughtFix!
ThoughtFix once again delights us – this time with a thorough review of the N800 Internet Tablet. I agree with most of what he says. His conclusion matches my feelings, exactly: “The Nokia N800 delivers the best Internet experience available in a pocketable form without breaking the bank.” Seriously.
I do wish he spent some time extolling the virtues of the built in media player and the soon to be released Canola media player (which is awesome on the 770). I imagine that’s coming in a later post!!
I disagree with his assessment that Google Reader works fine. With a small number of feeds, it’s apparently not bad, but the more you have the slower it is. If you want to use Google Reader on the Internet Tablets, you can use ReaderMini.com, but I wish Google had optimized their code, instead, so we wouldn’t need workarounds like that.
Update: Two more great reviews (via RingNokia): InternetTabletTalk has a multi-video review. Mobile Burn forums has a lengthy review, too.
ReaderMini.com version .91
Who says Google Reader doesn’t work on the Nokia 770 and n800 Internet Tablets? Check out the latest version of my unofficial Google Reader front end, ReaderMini.com.
Changes in Release .9.1 – 1/14/07
- Text in feed list now lines up better.
- Brand new theme!
- Button locations have changed.
- No more (0) if a feed is stale.
- Bold text has been removed from the feed list.
- Fix: Hide/Show stale feeds now works again.
- Added rudimentary AJAX progress indicator to several buttons.
- Changed the icons for a few buttons – checkboxes everywhere!
- Fixed: Links from posts in category river views now work.
- FAQs, Credits added.
- Added a “Get Next Page” button. Works sometimes (normal feeds), but not others (starred items, shared items feeds, category feeds).
Hibernate to Flash? A great compromise!
UMPCs are starting to be released with flash memory hard drives. Large flash drives use less power than a conventional hard drive, so they are an obvious choice for an ULTRA MOBILE device. But they are EXPENSIVE. ThoughtFix suggests a great compromise. Let us hibernate or standby to Flash. Flash is faster than my seagate and less volatile than RAM. It doesn’t have to be a lot (2-3GB) to take on the task, so it won’t add hundreds of dollars to the price tag.
John Tokash 