Fri 13 Jun 2008
There’s a new test build of Snackr, v0.35, up on Google Code. This version adds much better support for non-Western language feeds (in particular, feeds with encodings other than UTF-8). If you had trouble with Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, or other languages in previous versions of Snackr, please check this version out and let me know if it works for you.
This version also adds a much-requested feature: the ability to only show items within the last N hours (in previous versions, you could only set this to a number of days). To set this, just go to the Preferences tab of the Options popup, go to “Don’t show items older than”, type the number of hours you want, and choose “hours” instead of “days” from the dropdown.
Finally, this should fix a major bug I introduced in v0.34, where the ticker would permanently freeze after collapsing and re-expanding it in some situations. If you saw this bug before, please let me know if you still see it in this version.
As always, you can leave bug reports/feature requests in comments here, send me email, or file them in the Google Code issue tracker. Thanks!
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June 17th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Yea! .35 stays on top, where as .33 wouldn’t– at least with Safari. Fixed! Fixed! Cheer!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:55 am
I love it
June 18th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I absolutely LOVE Snackr! It looks very nice right under my browser. I use it to get Yahoo! News (Reuters & AP) feeds so I am always up-to-date on the latest news! I feel so smart now, thanks to Snackr!!
June 18th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Just found out about this app from lifehacker. Really like it, please please keep on working on it (and making it less resource intensive >,<)
Thanks alot for your brill work!
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
fantastic work!
keep up the awesome work!!
thank you
June 25th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Oooh, the “Last N Hours” thing is going to be great! Is there a way to click on an item and mark it as read (so it gets removed from the ticker) without actually opening the article?
Sometimes, I know I don’t want to read something, and I don’t want it to keep drifting by and taking up space that could be used by things I haven’t seen. Heh.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:45 am
@Jeff: nope, not right, now but it’s a popular requested feature, so I’m hoping to get it into a build soon.
June 29th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Thanks for updating
June 30th, 2008 at 9:15 am
snackr looks neat down there. I am sure I will figure out how to use it! I barely know how to use RSS. Say hi to Chi. I got my third girl! born last month. Elissa Marie. Healthy. Hope yours is too. Time flies cuz. You sure have come a long way. Get me an address to your music, okay? Say hi to ya Sra. Franky
July 1st, 2008 at 7:04 am
Hi Love Snackr telling all my friends but since downloadin Firefox 3 having difficulties adding rss feeds to Snackr - no probs to Outlook but can’t view xml to copy & paste to Snackr? Any ideas? Thx Pemo
July 6th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:07 am
@Pemo–haven’t tried FF3 yet. I can’t quite tell from your descirption what’s going on–is the problem that when you click on a feed in Firefox, you can’t get the feed URL? Sounds like some behavior has changed in Firefox. I’ll have to take a look.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I like it! Snackr is fantastic for snacking on news through the day…:)
One request I’ve got (you may have seen this already) - I’d love for clicking on feed items to open in the existing Firefox window that’s open, rather than opening a new window. I’m on OSX 10.x with Firefox 3…
July 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I just tried out the test version with the stars - also great!
I’d love to be able to star something from the ticker itself, though…a common use case is that I’m watching it go by while working, and I’d like to read something, but don’t want to open the read view; just note something to open later…
July 14th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Love it, but still holding my breath for Google Reader syncing. My fingers are crossed that that’ll be soon.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:01 am
so great stuff here. a great app continues to improve and i am shocked that there exist no viable alternatives that i know of on osx - a usually vibrant small app platform.
i just downloaded .37 from google code and its much improved at least from what i can tell in the 30 mins using it. the stars finally work although i have yet to make much use of them. dont think they’re vital for this type of tool but not bad to have.
another thing i think is GREAT is the post/send actions. i really use these features much on other apps and the mail to is the best. one more i would ask for is ‘post to facebook’ much like the bookmarklet i already have on my browser. right now i can open the article in my browser and then click ‘post to netvibes’. two steps. no big deal for now.
finally i think something that could be considered is ‘netvibes’ integration. its my primary feed reader. its not important for me now though since i’ve separated my feeds between snackr and netvibes and like it that way so dont see how i can use it.
is there a better place to provide overall app comments and feedback than on blog posts?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
@hamad–thanks! I’m planning to make the post/send actions extensible in the future through the Options dialog, but in any case I’ll add a Facebook one in the next version.
Will definitely take a look at netvibes–now that we have one integration working, it should be easy to do others.
I don’t have a forum right now, so blog posts (or email to me) are best right now. You can also post bugs/feature requests to the bugbase at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/snackr/issues/list
August 29th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I have the same problems with the new FF3.
are there any problems known with safari?