How To Use Categories
October 24, 2008 by kidjan · 1 Comment
DaisyFeed allows you to easily add new categories, and assign feeds to them. To create a new category, press the “Categories” button on the bottom of home page. From there, you should see a page like so:
“News” is a category that exists by default, and “AutoDiscovery” is a category that is added when you discover new feeds through the AutoDiscovery feature. To create a new category, click the “Edit” button in the upper right corner of the screen. The page should now look like so:
From here, clicking on the green plus symbol will let you add an entirely new category. The red minus symbol will let you delete a whole category (this will also delete all feeds inside!). Clicking on a feed itself will allow you to edit an existing feed. Click on the green plus symbol and add a new category. I added a “Computer Hardware” category:
Once you’ve added all of the information, click the “Save” button in the upper right corner.
Now let’s say I want to move my Silent PC Review feed (which is in my AutoDiscover category) to this new Computer Hardware category. Click on the AutoDiscover category and select the edit button in the upper right corner:
Click on the Silent PC Review feed, which will take you to the edit page for that feed. From there, you can easily change the category with the wheel feature at the bottom of the edit page:
Also, note that on the edit page, you can easily add this feed to your favorites list by sliding the “OFF” toggle switch to “ON”. That feed will be added to your favorites page!
How To Use AutoDiscovery
October 24, 2008 by kidjan · 4 Comments
DaisyFeed includes a sweet AutoDiscovery feature that will check a page for RSS and Atom feeds. From the DaisyFeed start page, click on AutoDiscovery in the lower right corner. You should see a page like so:
From here, enter the URL into the address bar, and click “Go.” Let’s say we want to add Silent PC Review:
DaisyFeed should detect a feed on the page:
Click OK, and DaisyFeed will add the feed. From there, it will be added to the AutoDiscovery category.
We Make Life Easy
October 21, 2008 by kidjan · Leave a Comment
Somewhere in an Internet forum, far, far away…unwired posed a question:
DaisyFeed has an “autodiscovery” mode where you enter the website where you want to get RSS feeds from. It says “no RSS feeds detected” but the website has a heading saying “Our RSS feeds” with the RSS feed icons next to each category. (DaisyFeed doesn’t) give a clue as to what format they want the information in e.g.
http://xxxx.com/feeds/ or whatever or do you just put in the www.xxx.com format?
To put it bluntly, the DaisyFeed team consists of some of the laziest individuals known to man. Because of this, the idea of having to manually locate and enter a URL like”http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch” simply doesn’t work for us.
We make life easy. Just enter the URL of the homepage (e.g. for Silent PC Review, enter “silentpcreview.com”. For Tech Crunch, enter “techcrunch.com”, etc.), and DaisyFeed will parse and locate any feeds (be they Atom or RSS) and present you with the results.
We’re also looking at totally new ways to add and manage feeds that we’re really excited about. But I don’t want to spill the beans just yet. 
Compiling list for DaisyFeed V1.1
October 19, 2008 by banksy_slc · 3 Comments
I wanted to start by thanking everyone who has taken the time to email, blog, twitter, review or chat about Daisy Feed. The response has been more than we could have expected and as a developer I ALWAYS appreciate when users take time to provide good feedback. I’m contemplating setting up some kind of incentive program for bug hunters. Check the blog because I’m sure that I’ll put something up this week.
I had a great success tracking down a couple of really slippery bugs. In fact, I did so while watching the match at the pub. So before things go any further, we want to capitalize on the feedback that we have already gotten and get some fixes out there as soon as possible.
Our current list of targeted defect fixes includes:
- Keyboards poorly defined on Edit Channel screen input fields
- Poorly defined error messages when Feed URL doesn’t work (Error code 5)
- “Read” flag not properly updated when app is closed
- No ability to multi-touch zoom on brief detail view
- Bad date conversion in certain international zones
- General stability issues
We plan on throwing in some kind of cheap UI goodies in the mix just to make sure everyone knows they have 1.1 when the update hits their iPhone or iPod touch.
-dB & the KREW
News, news, news
October 17, 2008 by kidjan · 1 Comment
First, the good news: DaisyFeed has been accepted to the iPhone store and is available! And FREE! And we’d love to have everyone download it and let us know what they think. We already have more downloads than we expected, some emails and a few other assorted comments. By no means is DaisyFeed done (to the contrary: we are just getting warmed up), and we plan on improving this application in the future. Your feedback is always welcome.
Now, the bad news: due to some nerdy programmatic issues (I won’t bore you with the nitty-gritty), we had to zap the detail view (you can still view it in Safari) from the application until we can work out some kinks. So the feed page looks something like so:
So you can still view the full page, but not inside DaisyFeed. We fully expect this to be resolved in a future release.
Anyways, download it and tell us what you think!
DaisyFeed submitted to Apple
October 11, 2008 by banksy_slc · 2 Comments
I submitted V1.0 of DaisyFeed to the iPhone AppStore today. The application is currently in review but 
should be available in the store within a week or so. We’ve been testing the app on iPhone 3G’s for quite some time now and I have found that I really enjoy its functionality and user experience. I’m very interested in hearing back from users as to their experiences with the app as well.
I have yet to start in on the feature list for V2 because I am waiting to hear back form users as to what they want to see. I am definately contemplating some of the following:
- Smart folders - Some type of SmartFolder system on either its own tab or integrated into the Categories screen. Folders like ‘Newly downloaded’ & ‘All unread’
- Search - Once your created this database of feeds, it would be nice to able to search it. Duh.
- AideRSS - Really start to use more functionality from this great service.
That’s all for now.