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[HTC Sensation] kpjimmy:
Thanks for this! My wife will be playing Assassins creed soon and I know my PS3 will be off limits lol. This can tie me over for a spell.

Any other games out there for the controller?

Running the latest MIUI from scott at the moment.
[HTC Sensation] nonione:
how do you do this?
[HTC Sensation] suprakarma:
Well, I've been able to play the games, the issue is with sense 3.5, for some reason the app makes it react very funky, haven't really made the effort tweak it and make it work right so I always go back to the xe roms :/
[HTC Sensation] rel500:
Not to sure. I was using a mytouch 4g and it ran perfectly but I was using sense 3.0
[HTC Sensation] ssojyeti2:
Sprinkle is like that on all roms and devices using chainfire
[HTC Sensation] fearkillerr:
Running great, no problems, MIUI 1.11.4.1 Faux 2.4r N kernel. : )
[HTC Sensation] nonione:
managed to make it work on RCMix3D :) all you have to do for sense to start bootlooping is to remove all the non htc widgets and everything is gonna be alright

also viewing pics in the gallery makes sense reboot

also also you can change the launcher

anyway working great currently on level 6
[HTC Sensation] rel500:
And know its available on ALL Gingerbread devices.
[HTC Sensation] ST4LK3R89:
thank you. it's one of the best 3rd person shooter games.
[HTC Sensation] alex1301:
how can i move the camera with the right analog stick?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Name: NewsSpot

Sync your articles as quick as a wink, store text and images for offline reading and search your articles in a gorgeous metro style way.

This is NewsSpot, a full-featured Google Reader client for Windows Phone: Its advanced sync-engine delivers a two-way sync for your unread and starred articles, which only syncs what needs to be synced. Already stored hundreds of starred articles? NewsSpot will download them once and never again. It caches articles as well as images for later offline reading.

Ever wanted to search your starred articles? Ever been interested in a specific topic of your reading-list? No problem with NewsSpot. Just tap the search button and enter your keywords, it will instantly filter your current list to what you've searched.

Together with Windows Phone Mango, NewsSpot now offers live tiles and toast notifications. For example, you can pin secondary live tiles to your start screen showing the count of your folders. Of course, live tiles can be updated per background task.

Other features include:

- Bookmark your article in Instapaper or ReadItLater or send a link per Email

- Mango only: share your article via Twitter, Facebook, Windows Live etc.

- Mango only: benefit from compressed web communication and save up to 80% of your data plan

- Open YouTube or Marketplace links from within the application

- Read articles in full or mobilized view, supported by Google or Instapaper

I've just released v2.0 of the app, which takes advantage of a lot of Mango features. Here is a list of things that are new in v2.0:

- Compatible with Windows Phone Mango

- Share article via builtin phone services

- Application live tile can show unread, starred and shared count

- Secondary live tiles with folder count

- Background task with toast notification and update of tiles

- Adjusted trial limits, added advertising

- Added support for gzipped communication

- Further improved sync speed

- Uses system progress indicator

- Added what's new to about page

- Added flip animation to folder tiles

- Changed icons so that they stick to the system theme

- Lots of minor changes and bug fixes

There is an add-supported version which has all features with the sole restriction that it lets you sync at a max 200 unread and 50 starred articles. The full version supports up to 1000 unread or starred articles.

NewsSpot is a matter of the heart to me and I'm constantly trying to improve it. So if you find a bug, have a suggestion or any other feedback, don't hesitate to write here or contact me per pm or twitter (@fourspotproject).
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] banvetor:
I just downloaded it, will check it later!

I normally use WonderReader, let's see how your app fares against it... ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] arkavat:
Here is the link to the app

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/apps/27ec9e5f-f88a-4caf-bdb4-68d71c962f02
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
@banvetor:

Thanks for trying it, looking forward to your feedback :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
@arkavat:

Thanks for posting the link! :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] zedmartinez:
Nice Work

Only got to try a few feed items with it so far, but I like what I'm seeing. Nice settings menu, very fast. I just wish it had the option to download read articles for a certain period of days (I frequently have to reference read articles within a day, but not so much after say, three), and a higher class icon to match up to the slickness inside the app and I'd say there's a new Google Reader app in my life.

---------- Post added at 09:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:00 PM ----------

Ooh, one more thought. It might be nice to have an option to go ahead and automatically resync to the server after tapping to mark all as read, that way if I switch back to a desktop it already knows what I've seen.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
@zedmartinez

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

Syncing and keeping read items: this is already on my list, though I think it will not make it to the next or after next version. Maybe I should re-schedule things :)

Application icon: Yeah, grafics are not my strength. I'll figure out something for that

Automatic sync: this one also is on my list. I think automatic sync after tapping mark all as read can be done quickly. What do you think of automatic sync after a certain amount of time (like 5 minutes or so). I think this would especially make sense in combination with a sort from oldest to newest. Then you can read articles from top and the new ones are automatically appended at the bottom.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] zedmartinez:
Those sync options could work. I'm trying to think how Wonder Reader does it (currently my workhorse feed reader), I think it syncs everytime I go back to the all feeds list, or after marking all as read. I like the idea of the timeline-based syncing though, that's a neat idea.

Sorry to gripe about the logo :P I'm a graphics designer by trade, so, fussing over icons is sadly engrained in me. If you have too many problems or just would like the help, let me know what the parameters for tiles are and I'd gladly lend you some gratis help.

I keep being really pleased with the speed as I play with this. Excited for future updates, and you can expect a formal purchase as soon as I get paid this week.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
So, just checked again: Wonder Reader has some kind of direct sync model, meaning the status of articles is synced as soon as you tap on it.

I'm pretty sure this could be done in NewsSpot, too, though these actions have to be tolerant to network failures. Added to my checklist.

Regarding the offer to help with the icon: You'll get a PM soon :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Oh, I totally forgot to meantion that v2.1 is out since 11-10.

It was done in haste since Google changed the interface of its Reader, removing all social elements like sharing and replacing them with Google+.

I'm quite optimistic that the next update will add features instead of stripping them :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
Just downloaded to try out. If I like it, I'll be sure to buy it and rate it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
Ok. I've been playing with this a bit and seeing what it will/won't do. I like it.

I've noticed that it doesn't run in the background well, as in play well with multitasking.

Pretty much, I can open it up and read an article. Were I to press the home button or press an alert to answer an SMS, I can see NewsSpot in the open tasks list from the long press of the back button, but it attempts to resume then closes out back to either my home screen or another application running.

Also, I can press the globe button to open the mobilized version and then press back to return to the article. If, however, I choose the option to Browse in Internet Explorer, I cannot return to NewsSpot. It will attempt to resume and then crash to the home screen. I imagine this is the same issue as when trying to select it from the multitasking screen.

BTW, I decided to support you and pay.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
@ anseio,

Thank you for your valuable feedback and your purchase.

Regarding that multitasking issue: I've got a lot of crash logs lately and as far is I've analyzed them, many arise from the advertising control, especially when the app is tombstoned/resumed. Its a known bug I unfortunately overlooked during development.

So let me ask you a question: since you bought the app, the advertising control disappears. Did these errors you mentioned went away, too?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
Thanks for the info. Yes, I compiled this feedback after i upgraded.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
@ anseio,

Sorry to bother you, but I didn't get your answer. Does 'I compiled this feedback after I upgraded' mean that the errors remain?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
Yes, it means that it still doesn't hibernate.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
It may have to do with the fact that I'm using the HTC hd2, not an official wp7 device.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Well, I'll check the logs. Maybe I can find something there. Did the app just crash or have you been asked to send a crash log? If not, you may also look into the settings. If there is a log not uploaded yet, you should have an additional entry called 'manage logs'.

Anyway, there are a couple of logs on my hd from Hd2 owners. Will check them this weekend.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
I can't find anything in settings for managing logs. I wouldn't say that the software crashes. There's definitely no error. It's as if they close out in the middle of the "resuming" process.

For example. I'll open NewsSpot, go to an article, press home button, enter messaging and locate a message, long press "back" button, select NewsSpot... it will show "resuming", then go back to the messaging section within a few seconds. Another long press of the back button shows that there are no other apps in multitasking.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Just wanted to let you know that v2.2 was approved by Microsoft and should be online within a couple of hours.

Besides new artwork by zed martinez (thanks again :) ) you can now navigate from folders to your feeds. Furthermore read items can now be kept and synced.

@anseio:

I've found another couple of bugs related to tombstoning. Please tell me if the app now works better for you.

However, still I have no clue why the app crashes without a notification. The only reason I can think of is that the system runs out of RAM (and NewsSpot is actually rather demanding in terms of memory). Am I right that a HD2 has little less RAM than a HD7 (448 vs. 576MB)?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
Will give it a try in the next few days. Haven't been reading rss on my phone lately, but will let you know.

Yes, the HD2 has a tiny bit less RAM than the HD7... I think.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
It's performing a bit better. Now I can navigate to the home screen, then back into the app. I still can't open something else up, as the app will disappear. Probably a RAM thing. I'm desperately trying to get $ so i can buy a Lumia 800. Will definitely let you know how it differs.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Happy to hear that, so at least we are getting closer. And tell me if it gets better when you've got a new mobile. Maybe I can also reduce the memory consumption, which frankly is a field I did not put that much efford into yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
I'm happy to announce that version 2.3 was approved by Microsoft and should be available within a few hours.

This verison adds an option to auto sync periodically while the application is running.

Additionally a bunch of new appearance options are available, namely changing the application theme, hiding the system tray, sorting unread articles by oldest to newest and locking the screen orientation.

Happy New Year to all of you :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Took a little longer, but version 2.4 is now available in the Marketplace. This one adds a bunch of features, such as:

Readability mobilizer integration.

Instant sync: status changes are uploaded immediately.

User interface overhaul

Quick actions to mark an article read/unread or starred/unstarred in the articles list.

Swipe in article summary view to go to the next/previous article.

I've updated the images in the first post and I'd love to get some feedback :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
Congratulations on having a spot on wmpoweruser

http://wmpoweruser.com/newsspot-v2-...ant-sync-readability-mobilizer-and-much-more/
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jmerrey:
Congrats! This app has always been my favorite, visually. Now it's my daily user because of functionality. Very nice work! I think the default theme should be black however, it looks so amazing that way ;-)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Hey jmerry,

Thanks you, I really appreciate it.

Haha, so the default theme should be black. Here you can see how tastes differ. I wanted to have the default phone theme as default NewsSpot theme, until somebody convinced me to take the white theme, since it looks similar to the email app :D

Let me ask you a question: are you the jmerry who asked for background sync in the marketplace review? If yes, don't be dissappointed, I'd love to add background sync while the app is not running, but the phone simply puts too much restriction onto background agents. Here are only two of them:

First: they are only allowed to run 25 seconds, so a full sync (especially over GSM) would regularly burst this limit.

Second: even more severe, background agents are only allowed to use 6 MB of memory and this includes memory used by system libraries. The current implementation for updating the live tiles uses already 5,9MB.

This being said, background sync seems almost impossible for me at the moment. Well, at the moment, but you never know... :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jmerrey:
I keep getting an error about unable to sync, make sure there is a valid internet connection. My other google reader apps are working. Any ideas?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
jmerrey,

I'm sorry that you are experiencing problems with NewsSpot. You'll get a PM with instructions.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jmerrey:
Any word on fixing this bug? I really miss this app ;-)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Hey jmerrey,

Sorry for the delay. I'm still in the process of fixing some awkward bugs and tuning the performance. I hope to submit the update somewhen next week, hope that's short enough for you :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] jmerrey:
Great! I just reinstalled it on my new lumia 900, no errors so far so hopefully it will last until the update.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] s3ct0r:
Love the app keep it up :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] madonion:
How did I not know about this app before? It tells you a lot about how rubbish the marketplace is at the moment that apps like yours come far down the list when running a search for "google reader".

Anyway, anger with Windows Phone aside the app is great. The only thing it needs is the flipping live tile with an article title and image on the reverse like wonder Reader and Next Gen Reader have.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Hey madonion,

Sorry for answering so late and thank you for your post! Well, I'd love to see NewsSpot a little bit higher in the Marketplace, too :)

The reason for it being low when searching for Google Reader is pretty simple: this list is ordered by the total number of downloads, and since NewsSpot came pretty late to the Google Reader game, the other readers have quite an advantage. It’s a pity, since the more downloads you have, the more downloads you will get later on then.

Anyway, article title and image on the backside will come, though not in the next release.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Version 2.5 got certified and should be available in the next couple of hours.

In this release a couple of bugs were fixed (thanks jmerrey :) ) and some performance improvements were made.

Users of the trial might also find that some of the ads were removed.

Hope you like it!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Version 2.6 is available now.

Just a tiny update to fix possible problems during startup and a bug that was introduced in v2.5.

Regards
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Just a short notice: NewsSpot is off by 50% until next weekend. So if you were still uncertain, maybe you now have another basis for a decision :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Dinchy87:
Hello! i installed the trial today to look at your app and it is really good! The design of the App is really good, and the functions are the best i've seen! i make a rss reader for my own blog too, and i want you to asked if you could give me some nice tutorials or worth reading material on the internet about live tiles, database which stores the feeds, and how to manage that all as a newbee to development in silverlight. so far i have a UI which lists all the feeds from my blog, opens them in IE webclient... but i want later to implement to open it in app not in the IE. and want to add a database which stores feeds so that if you start the app it does not download all feeds again.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Hi Dinchy87,

Thanks for downloading NewsSpot, really appreciate your feedback.

Regarding the coding: I will look what I can do for you. Do you have any experience in the MVVM pattern? Although this is not a requirement, it makes developing for WP a lot easier.

For the live tiles maybe take a look at look at Ree7 Tile Toolkit on Codeplex, it lets you create Live Tiles that have a little more native look.

Otherwise, the MSDN has quite some good resources for the basic stuff, e.g. for Live Tiles and Databases.

There is also a more sophisticated starter kit for displaying RSS feeds.

Hope I could help you and feel free to ask more questions.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Dinchy87:
Thanks lot for you response :) the link to the site for the live tiles helps me to manage some things in my app :) i also learned some new stuff from this MSDN site about local database, and the starter kit is pretty useful :) thx
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Ok, took some time, but slowly but steady the new version takes shape.

If there is anyone of you who wants to participate in the next beta, drop me a PM with your Windows Live email address and I'll add you to the list. Some nice new stuff is on the horizon :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] :
Is it possible to use the periodic background agent to load RSS feeds in the background? I've seen it used for background loading in apps for specific publications (WPCentral, Engadget, etc). I haven't taken a good look at the developer tools or tried them out, so I hope you don't mind me blindly asking.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
It might be possible, but I hesitate doing this for NewsSpot. The background agent imposes a couple of restrictions, which makes it very difficult to implement a full sync in the background agent. Please take a look at post #28, where most of your question is already answered.

The two major restrictions are memory usage (max 6 MB) and max runtime of the agent (25 seconds). Considering only the first, if you just implement an agent doing nothing, 2 MB are already gone. With HTTP networking, 1 further MB is lost, another one if you want to use custom graphics as tile background and 1 more when saving your Live Tiles with transparent PNGs. Basically you have 1 MB left then to do your work, and I have no clue how this would be sufficient for running the sync engine of NewsSpot.

To sum it up: my apologies, but there won't be any background sync soon. If the situation changes for WP8, I'll gladly consider it :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Ok the beta is available now and the invitations are sent. If I missed anyone, please send me a PM and I'll update the list.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Thanks to the feedback until now. The second beta is out and the invitations are sent. Hope you like it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Anyone interested in a preview of the upcoming features? WPCentral did a great write-up here
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anseio:
I saw that write up the other day and was really happy for you.

I wish I could say that I use the app often, but I don't read much news on my phone unless I think about it. When I DO think about it, NewsSpot is the best choice. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the new features in action.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Just a short status update:

The next version is finished and resides on my HD at the moment, since I have some pretty severe issues with the Windows Phone Dev Center. Until these are eliminated, I won't be able to update the app.

Sorry for keeping you waiting.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Version 2.7 is finally available on the Marketplace.

Unfortunately, due to some hassle with Microsoft, I had to re-release NewsSpot under a new account. Details are written here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpregister/thread/e7311fec-0f4c-4a16-a399-cc65152d024e

Please download the new version here: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=f001b025-94d7-4769-a33d-7dd34778141c

It will be FREE for a couple of days, so if you have bought the old version, just download the new one! Please consider giving me a positive review or rating, so I get my Marketplace position back as soon as possible.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
Oh yeah, what is actually new?

- new artwork by the master himself: zed martinez (many thanks for that!)

- vastly improved live tiles with heading and proper background image

- more sharing services (Readability, Delicous, by SMS)

- send article to Evernote (yezzz :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
NewsSpot v2.8 should now be available.

New Features include:

- Bookmark to Diigo

- Fixed bug: some articles could not be uploaded to Evernote

- Fixed bug: loading Readability view on opening an articles did not work

- Fixed bug: YouTube links did not work in Readability view

Additionally, NewsSpot goes paid again. To make sure: If you got NewsSpot while it was free, you will not be charged later on, even if you reinstall the app.

Happy reading!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
NewsSpot v2.9 should now be available in the Marketplace. The update includes:

- Added possibility to change the font size in the article view

- Added possibility to go to the main page on back key press when loading from a secondary tile

- Improved slide gesture in article view

Happy reading :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
NewsSpot v2.10 is now available in the marketplace! This is a smaller update for WP7, which just adds a new splash screen and fixes some bugs.

I'd like to take the opportunity to point you to the Windows Phone 8 update, for which I've started a new thread here.

Just to make sure: I plan to support the WP7 version for a while with new features, so stay tuned for what's next :)

Happy reading!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] FourSpotProject:
As you will have already noticed, Google is shutting down its Reader service by the 1st of July. However, this does in no way mean NewsSpot will be retired, too. Please read our Statement to see what's next for NewsSpot.