Zocalo Web Feed Reader (sharp Rom) Options

[koan]

Hi

Zocalo is a lightweight web feed reader for the Sharp ROM. It is designed for the PDA form factor, i.e. make sensible use of a small screen, use keyboard or stylus to navigate everything, don't use a lot of memory or disk space. It can handle RSS, RSS RDF and Atom.

I have been testing Zocalo for a few months now and it seems stable. There are a few minor issues that I want to improve in future releases and I have a lot of ideas for features that I want to implement. I plan to port to the other Zaurus Linuxes.

Please find more details at the Zocalo web page.

This image is linked to a screenshot of the latest version on my website:

[jakfish]

Hi, koan,

I'd love to make a backup of my rss feeds that I've typed into Zocalo. I don't find them in zocalo.conf. Are they stored in another file that I can safely tuck away on the desktop?

Jake

[koan]

At the moment there is no convenient way to create a list of subscribed feeds from Zocalo. Each feed is stored in an individual file containing all the information about the feed and all the current articles. Feeds are stored in /home/zaurus/Applications/zocalo/*.xml.

To do a quick backup you could clear all articles via the Storage tab of the settings dialog and then copy the xml files to get all the meta data and URLs.

I would not recommend moving feed files around, i.e. renaming them, copying additional files into that directory or editing the conf file.

[jakfish]

This is a big help; thank you. I have about 20 feeds and they were a hassle to type in. Now, at least, I have a directory stored away, and in the event of a crash or failed recovery, I can copy over the directory and maybe get lucky.

Jake

[xamindar]

in the event of a crash or failed recovery, I can copy over the directory and maybe get lucky.

Jake

Tell me about it. I just got through changing all my passwords on all my important internet accounts and saving them in the kpassword manager on my zaurus a few days ago. I decided to reboot my zaurus yesterday and when it came up my background was back on default and none of my pim applications had any info in them anymore. Rebooted back into debian and ran an fsck on the hard drive and for some reason it was almost totally corrupted. It seems that every file that I modified in the past month was corrupted beyond use.

So now I have to hope most of those new passwords are saved in firefox on my pc. At least the email ones are so I should be able to use the reset services of my bank and such to get it fixed. But what a hassle, hours of organization deleted.