NewsBreak - Possible Best RSS Feed Reader for PPC
From the view of mine, reading rss headlines of news, websites as well as blogs is the most popular and useful application for mobile devices. With the popularity of blog, exchange and discussion through personal blogs is a useful communicating ways in our internet life. Mobile devices facilitate us to read blog anywhere and anytime.
NewsBreak 1.0 coming from Ilium Software Inc. maybe the possible best, user-friend rss reader for Pocket PC. Another possible good software is Egress.
Channel ManagementMultiple options is provided to add Channels (RSS feed) including import from a file (*.opml) which can be exported from your desktop rss reader software and seach online for channels as well as manually input rss feed address. Channels on your PPC can be exported as *.opml to your Desktop PC inversely.
Keyword DefinitionThis is a very cool feature on Newsbreak which makes users to find the more interesting stories on the top of headline list. "By define a list of special words and icons associated with them, when a headline is downloaded with one of these keywords it will be flagged with the corresponding icon." (coming from review article of Geekzone). You can also define the alerts based on these keywrods. Whenever a headline including specific keyword is synchronized, an alert will be received.
Auto UpdatingDifferent from many other rss readers for PPC, NewsBreak allows update over any connections: wireless LAN, ActiveSync, GPRS/CDMA and so on. Also there are options to define update frequency, either on general level or at individual channel level: when to update or wait until a connection is available. One possible usage is that when the battery of your device is low, you maybe wish not update until your device is powered.
Related Article:NewsBreak for Pocket PC Review, http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=3594NewsBreak Homepage, http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/nw/newsbreak.htm
FAQAfter you install the NewsBreak, if you meet "Unspecified Error" when you load the headlines. Just disconnect and reconnect your PPC.
NewsBreak 1.0 coming from Ilium Software Inc. maybe the possible best, user-friend rss reader for Pocket PC. Another possible good software is Egress.
Channel ManagementMultiple options is provided to add Channels (RSS feed) including import from a file (*.opml) which can be exported from your desktop rss reader software and seach online for channels as well as manually input rss feed address. Channels on your PPC can be exported as *.opml to your Desktop PC inversely.
Keyword DefinitionThis is a very cool feature on Newsbreak which makes users to find the more interesting stories on the top of headline list. "By define a list of special words and icons associated with them, when a headline is downloaded with one of these keywords it will be flagged with the corresponding icon." (coming from review article of Geekzone). You can also define the alerts based on these keywrods. Whenever a headline including specific keyword is synchronized, an alert will be received.
Auto UpdatingDifferent from many other rss readers for PPC, NewsBreak allows update over any connections: wireless LAN, ActiveSync, GPRS/CDMA and so on. Also there are options to define update frequency, either on general level or at individual channel level: when to update or wait until a connection is available. One possible usage is that when the battery of your device is low, you maybe wish not update until your device is powered.
Related Article:NewsBreak for Pocket PC Review, http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?ContentId=3594NewsBreak Homepage, http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/nw/newsbreak.htm
FAQAfter you install the NewsBreak, if you meet "Unspecified Error" when you load the headlines. Just disconnect and reconnect your PPC.
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