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Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: jimg_uk2000 on May 20, 2004, 04:22:29 pm: I\'m looking for an offline news reader (preferably RSS but anything will do).

Does anyone know of one?
Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: maslovsky on May 21, 2004, 02:05:59 am: Quote
I\'m looking for an offline news reader (preferably RSS but anything will do).

Does anyone know of one?

Search for Zepo
Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: jimg_uk2000 on May 26, 2004, 06:02:47 pm: Thanks very much it looks just the ticket
Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: anonuk on May 26, 2004, 06:53:42 pm: is there a demo of this? and has anyone tried it on the c7x0? I would purchase it, just wouldn\'t mind knowing it would work first...
Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: dtruchan on May 26, 2004, 09:26:39 pm: I like the JPluckX (http://jpluck.sourceforge.net/) and OpieReader (http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/) combo.
Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: RichS on May 26, 2004, 10:46:55 pm: I wish I could say if it worked on a c7xx! ;-)

I use it constantly on my 5600 though and it\'s great. The current version does have two minor problems though. The first is that the speech option doesn\'t work if you use a compressed cache. The author is supposed to come up with a fix for that soon. The second is that it rarely had a problem with certain sites. Apparently some pages would give the wrong response and Zepo would sit and wait forever. It could use a timeout... On the other hand, since adding two more RSS feeds and switching to an uncompressed cache, I haven\'t had the timeout problem...

I hope it works for you. I love it, especially having it sit there and read the news to me! ;-)

The author is responsive to e-mail by the way!

Clciked just a minute too soon... I just received the new version of Zepo from the author, now version 2.4a. Installed & works great...
Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: jdmoorman on May 27, 2004, 04:11:44 pm: I tried Zepo on the SL-6000L - it crashes on take off.

ZaurRSS also does not work properly on the 6000.

Anyone aware of any that does work on the 6000?
Title: Is there an offline news reader for the SL5500
Post by: anonuk on May 27, 2004, 09:54:43 pm: im experimenting with some python scripts that may do this well on the vga machines, ill post results....