1.1 Submitted and Some Kind Words
November 6, 2008 by kidjan · 11 Comments
Good news: 1.1 has been submitted! We’re confident that this release will really build on 1.0 and provide a much better experience. We were blown away by the response 1.0 got, but we feel that 1.1 is going to be a big improvement.
We definitely have had loads of constructive criticism, and we hope to receive far more in the future. That said, everybody loves to be flattered. Here are two short reviews on DaisyFeed. The first, from The Apple Blog:
Daisy Feed incorporates an immense array of features including feed ranking, favorites list, email integration and — this is the killer feature for me — auto-feed recognition. And, just in case you need that extra push to go grab the app right now, it looks gorgeous and is totally free.
The second, from antarjaal:
A free RSS reader. Better looking and performing than the “Free RSS Reader”. The autodiscovery of feeds also worked quite well. It allows for categorizing the feeds and has a separate screen for favorites.
To both, thank you for the kind words, and we hope 1.1 exceeds your expectations.
DaisyFeed 1.1 Approaches!
November 6, 2008 by kidjan · 1 Comment
We are nearing completion of 1.1, which is going to bring about a slew of new features, improvements and bug fixes. The feedback we’ve received has been tremendously helpful, and to everyone who submitted bugs, feature requests and critiques, thank you! Your contributions have been extremely helpful.
A brief list of changes in 1.1:
- The Full Article feature returns! You will now be able to view the full web page in DaisyFeed.
- Online Documentation. We’ve added additional documentation available in the application that details how to perform various operations. We’ll be updating the documentation in the very near future to include more tutorials.
- Reworked page for viewing articles–added buttons to jump to previous and next articles, moved safari and mail links into a separate menu
- “Strike” gesture support for deleting items from a feed! By swiping a given feed item, they can be easily deleted.
- Basic OPML support. By entering an OPML URL into autodetect (e.g. scripting.com/feeds/top100.opml), DaisyFeed will add a whole new category and all of the feeds contained in the OPML file.
- Fix for feeds with relative URLs.
- Fixes for some feeds with funny date/time formats.
- Fix for odd keyboard layouts and using wrong keyboard for a given page.
- Improved Memory Management. This makes DaisyFeed more stable and less prone to crashing.
- More robust feed parsing.
- Numerous other bugs and application crashes have been solved.
Bullet points are all fine and dandy, but everybody loves the eye-candy. Here’s a shot of the new article page (full view returns! previous/next article navigation! hurray!), and the new sub-menu to mail/open in safari:
Here’s a screen shot of the online documentation:
Here’s initial OPML support:
For OPML, we’d love feedback on how you use OPML files in various reader applications so we can figure out how to best implement this new feature. We realize our method for importing may not be ideal, so suggestions and advice are welcome. We look forward to hearing any and all comments about DaisyFeed. Let us know what you think!
How to Add a Feed Manually
November 1, 2008 by admin · 6 Comments
DaisyFeed allows you to add new feeds manually. To create a new feed, press the “Categories” button on the bottom of home page. From there, you should see a page like so:
Tap the category to which you would like to add a feed. Once selected tap the [EDIT] button in the upper right hand corner. For example, here’s what the AutoDiscovery channel looks like after you tap the [EDIT] button:
From here, clicking on the green plus symbol will let you add an entirely new feed. Enter a name and description for your feed. Then enter the full URL to the feed (you might have to view source on the homepage of the feed to figure this out). For example, here’s what a feed to Silent PC Review would look like:
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! You can also easily change the category by hitting the blue arrow!