yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G1 Apps and Games] Jason Syn:
Greed all the way, nothing you have to do to get it to sync with Google Reader, just login and start reading! I've been using this app since I got my G1 and it's the best RSS reader hands down.
[G1 Apps and Games] apfroggy0408:
Thanks a lot man.
[G1 Apps and Games] speoples20:
I use Greed as well. Works perfectly with my Google Reader.
[G1 Apps and Games] recasper:
I used to use PureRSS and BeyondPOD, I opted out of PureRSS once I got my hands on Greed. Absolutely grand. Google integration is epic. So nice to have the option to add feeds to my greed browser at a remote computer.

Still use BeyondPOD for podcasts though.
[G1 Apps and Games] Slave1:
What's the podcast support like in the full version of Greed? I was using Doggcatcher but recently moved to Beyondpod.
[G1 Apps and Games] mattaku:
Has anyone tried NubiNews?

It's not strictly an RSS reader, as it doesn't allow you to add arbitrary feeds. However, for the feeds that it supports (10+ sources, including NY Times, Engadget, The Register, Gizmodo, Yahoo News, etc), it renders the FULL pages, including all the images.

Other RSS apps only display the summary text inside the feed XML file. For the whole news story, you need to open the Browser, which is really a slow pig on the Android platform.

What NubiNews does is to strip off all the crap (ads, etc) from the page, and display only the interesting contents. This makes the download really fast. For example, some news page in Yahoo News would take over 15 seconds to load in the Browser, and it's horrible to view because you need to scroll horizontally and vertically.

In NubiNews, such an article would load in less than 5 seconds, and the page is reformatted to scroll only vertically for easy navigation.

As an added benefit, NubiNews also zooms the images in the iPhone style.

Here's are a few screen shots:
[G1 Apps and Games] uberingram:
twitter has for the most part replaced my RSS feeds but in the occasion I do use them I just load up Google Reader in the browser.
[G1 Apps and Games] sino8r:
Greed is the best for me by far and have tried 90% of the ones for the G1.

It syncs with google reader which is great because if you have to do a system wipe, it saves all the feed links. It HATE HAVING TO RE ENTER ALL THOSE FEED LINKS AFTER A WIPE! Closest thing to viigo around.
[G1 Apps and Games] sino8r:
Sorry double post.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] gloom:
Hi guys,

Just wanted to warn those of you who are mirroring custom roms that microsoft is watching what's happening.

Until know was mirroring the diff versions of ROMeOS from monx but just got an email from my hosting provider asking me to stop serving those files.

They included the original message :
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mindfrost82:
Since I'm an admin at PPCGeeks, we too have been getting take down notices from Microsoft, but so far its been about threads/posts in the forums and some attachments (XIPs, etc).

We just deleted the threads/posts/attachments. If there were rapidshare links in there, then I'm sure those links are still valid (if you know them), its up to Microsoft to contact Rapidshare to take those down.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] rlblue:
ohh... crap!

That's unfortunate. Makes me want to burn every Microsoft product I've ever unwittingly purchased.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] JimmyMcGee:
Oh wow A Large company with big scary lawyers is trying to protect their product. This has never happened before in the history of the Internet. :eek:

Oh Wait...:rolleyes:

Just chill out, if you have been on the internet enough you know that these things ebb and flow. :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] votum:
This is why I haven't, and never will, pay for a MS product.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] HelterSkelter67:
and that is why they will continue to do this :P
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Joecd04475:
And the vicious cycle continues...
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] landlocked:
Woohoo! Time for a Ubuntu ROM!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] noellenchris:
people could just pm a cook etc. for d/l links...verify by how long a user has been here on XDA... sry noobs... otherwise, just wait it out...
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] johanromijn:
You visit this place and don't own a PocketPC or PDA?

If you do, you already payed a Windows Mobile licence.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] d0ugie:
hmm.

This is making me sweat a little as the "primary" mirroring man for some of Monx's roms.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] GenghisZ:
I also recieved a mail from 'the Internet Investigator' LOL.

I requested an explanation in my mother-tongue, and an official written complaint through local authorities. Let's see how that goes.

If he can't provide, the file stays and he can s*ck my European (thank God for the European Law) b*lls :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] fishzine:
I HIGHLY suspect that the 6.5 stuff is what has gotten microsoft's attention and the rest is a 'while we are at it' bonus. Can't fault Microsoft for wanting to protect an upcoming release especially since the 6.5 stuff right now isn't really read for prime time and microsoft could make a pretty valid arguement that it is damage to the reputation of WM 6.5, and potentially causing a loss in future sales for 6.5. (Can't believe I just defended the big bad MS)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Antzor:
am I the only one who sort of sees this as Microsoft sort of shooting itself in the foot by doing this?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] ndn715:
of course i understand MS' perspective on this, protecting new versions, etc... but the issue with 6.5 is that there is nothing that prevents it from running on existing devices, however they have stated that it will not be released for anything out right now. WTF? too bad another mirror went down, good luck getting them all :)

btw, james young doesnt have a MS account at all, just looked it up :) (usually they do)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] alodar1:
Did Microsoft say that...or did the Operators say that? I've heard Operators say they won't be upgrading. Microsoft argument for countering the iPhone is along the lines of they don't won the hardware and can't control implementation.....
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] krogoth:
Let's calm down. We are community od XDA-DEVELOPERS - this board is like a legend. All the custom roms cannot be removed, 90% of users are here just becouse of new ROM's! I can understand MS but let's face the true, most of bugs findings, walkarounds and fixes for all MS products are developed by "illegal" product owners.

I know dozens of places where people makes mods, hacks, etc for every MS software but they have never been forced to remove it from their servers becouse of MS demands. Even Microsoft knows that, the best experts are madcaps from places like this, and they are MUCH more usefull then 1,000,000 "legal" idiots or noobs on MS discussion groups/boards.

I like M$, but sometimes they should seek for problems in the RIGHT places.

Cheers.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] drunkbastard:
Rather than shutting down mirrors, MS should be enlisting the help of chefs, et. al. in releasing a version of 6.5 that the masses will actually appreciate. The problem is that MS takes way too much time to release a product that is usually obsolete by the time they get around to putting it out, and buggy. I can't begin to fathom counting the number of times I have expressed my loathing for MS programmers, be it with PC or PPC software / OS / etc.

They should be thanking XDA for trying to make their OSs perform better and enlisting the help of the very people that their "Internet Investigators" are trying to thwart. But maybe that's just my opinion.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] ndn715:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/16/microsoft-announces-windows-mobile-6-5/

"Sadly, Microsoft's saying that no devices in the market today will receive official 6.5 updates, but don't pull out your wallets just yet, though -- the first devices with Windows Mobile 6.5 preinstalled should be available in the fourth quarter of the year."
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] garyfunk:
Go for it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] garyfunk:
This is why children should not be allowed to touch computers.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] GTRoberts:
This is an interesting one... mainly because the same "James Young" name was used in other "take down" notices (Win 7 screen shots!!) to other websites but it has been proven this person does not exist while the email address doesn't go anywhere.

Until its completely verified, I'd take these emails with very large grains of salt!!

We all know there are certain Microsoft employee's on this site, they are being helpful AND they have been on here for quite some time... so you would think they, or at least Microsoft's legal department would have done something about the ROMs waaaaay before now?!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] ndn715:
afaik, we don't give a sh** :) the devs i've talked with hold xda-dev in high regard...
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Dereth:
solution

Start using torrents?

its easy to use and they cant bother u for hosting a torrent file or the link to it if you dont wanna host the acual file.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Kraize:
Interesting! I got a similar message from "James Young" for Aruppenthal's roms.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] hjlow:
silly

MS should do everything to keep people on XDA happy we use their products and tell our friends about it.. iphone OS v3.0 is coming, webos is coming, we could all leave if it wasnt for xda
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] noellenchris:
Microsoft should read these forums more often. After all, were their #1 customers all over the world! We develop and fix APP's and ROM's to what we like. This is free advertising / marketing research at it's best....did I mention FREE! If their Marketing staff would browse at XDA, their jobs would be cake.

Hmmm..... do our customers want facebook? How often will they use the camera on their devices? The list could go on for every corner of every mobile OS they released... It's all here MS!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] pzlmg:
agreed!!:cool:
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Kraize:
I received an message from someone that would rather remain anonymous.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mindfrost82:
I received the same message. Next time I get a notice for PPCGeeks I'm going to reply and ask a specific question and see if I ever get a response.

I've emailed them back stating that we complied, but never received a confirmation after that.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] txj:
This is a fake email - doing the rounds.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Kraize:
Could anyone that works within Microsoft confirm that Internet1 [at] microsoft-antipiracy [dot] com. If you don't want to do it here, please e-mail or PM me.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Dane Austin:
Betcha he works for Apple :eek::eek::eek:
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Gnurf:
HAHAHA.

What catches my radar is that they use 2 emailadresses in the mail?

Internet1 and internet2 in the beginning and end of the mail. Why? If it was a legit mail wouldnt they use the same adress?

EDIT: Also, Microsofts own adress when looking at "contact us regarding antipiracy" is piracy(at)microsoft.com
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] schwags:
I don't work for MS, but I can tell you from doing an MX lookup those are valid e-mail domains for microsoft.com.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] r4st4m4n:
It is not very difficult to spoof an email address though ... ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] tsowen:
Here is something I found in Google on Jame Young

http://jamesholden.net/2007/04/25/microsoft-didnt-issue-takedown-notices-for-fairuse4wm/

April 25, 2007

Microsoft Didn’t Issue Takedown Notices For FairUse4WM

* Sites reporting the news noted that the notices were sent on behalf of Microsoft by so-called Internet Investigator “James Young”.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Dr.8820:
thanks for clearing this up tsowens!
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] alodar1:
I'm certainly not an expert here...but....Stop notices, especially from Microsoft, or made on behalf of Microsoft, don't seem to be in line with how they work. Has anyone here ever received an 'Official' notification from MS? I doubt it would be from someone 'on behalf of Microsoft'.

How official of a title is Internet investigator. Is that like calling a Garbage man a sanitation Engineer or a refuse collecto(no offense to anyone with this job..)? If Microsoft wanted something removed, they would only need to send a letter with official stamps and a validatable address to any and all concerned. I bet it would include Certifiable return addresses, links to MS sites about Piracy..and oh yeah....a Legal counsel you can contact with questions. This seems way stinky to me.....why not have Da-G, post a link, on Behalf of Microsoft?
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] arcsvibe:
I agree totally! An official letter on letterhead received from a corporate lawyer is legit not an email. Just for an example when I had my iPhone I used to go to modmyiphone.com The owners of the site received a letter from Apple lawyers telling them they had to change the name of their site. They could not use iphone in their web address (link to story here http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-6475.html) They had to change it to modmyi.com Sounds like a hoax to me...unless I misunderstood something :)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] schwags:
Yes, very true. From what I'm seeing now though, this most definitely is fake.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] duke_stix:
So I guess that i'm the only one that may see a little teeny-tiny bit of where microsoft is coming from?!

if the software hasnt been released by microsoft (i.e. wm6.5) then i do not think it should be available on the forums either, as simply because that is pretty bad to take a leaked piece of software and distribute it en masse. (despite how great it is to have a rom months before official release)

however, with any of the 'official' roms, i dont see much problem in this, and if anything, i reckong micro$oft should actually perhaps employ some of the great people on these forums as a lot of bugs are sorted out by the good people of bit-tech!

i do agree that if we are doing something illegal on the forums such as distributing an un-released product then by all means, m$ are in the right unfortunately, but i see no issues with distributing cooked versions of released material providing of course it is for non-profit!

(now i'll hide away and wait for the onslaught!)
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Dereth:
Im Pretty Sure its fake

all the emails sent form big corpotaions for coppyright infringement are copyrighted and technically you would be breaking the law postin that email here but that one u posted isnt copyrighted ive read emails from microsoft to the pirate bay and they are all copyrighted not that the pirate bay cares they post them up anyways.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] :
Well if this is fake then it sucks that all thses awesome ROMs are being deleted by the host in fear of M$ getting involved with them.

Fear is a powerful tool.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] zellbz:
Fake... This "James Young" is most likely an iphonefanboi trying to rattle the WinMo community..... check out this link: http://msmobiles.com/news.php/8059.html [/URL] , we should no let this lil' kid stop XDA devlopers.......
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] garyfunk:
That is just wrong on so many counts. You need to read up on copyright law.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] zellbz:
[ URL="http://jamesholden.net/2007/04/25/microsoft-didnt-issue-takedown-notices-for-fairuse4wm/"]

​

[/URL] this here "James Young" have been posting notices like this for years and they are definitely fake, fake, fake, fake......... fake
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] lavike:
Seems hoaxy to me. Google "james young internet investigator".

Usually "cease & desist" orders need to come through registered mail so that there is an official record of delivery & receipt. Unless they get hand delivered that is and then you've probably got bigger problems.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] sanche13:
Here's another interesting take on this "James Young" guy

http://jamesholden.net/2007/04/25/microsoft-didnt-issue-takedown-notices-for-fairuse4wm/

May not even matter, like someone posted before, fear is a powerful tool.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] ktwildchild:
Here is something that MSMobiles (dot) com had posted about this.

Quote from their website

Microsoft persecutes websites, that published screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 !

February 27, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R.

A guy who calls himself "James Young, Internet Investigator, on behalf of Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, United States of America", has sent a request to us to remove pictures with screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 (he pointed out to 2 URLs with JPG files) - and he did it AFTER Windows Mobile 6.5 was announced by Microsoft last week! Read on!

This guy claims to be from Redmond, USA but he has posted from IP address 213.152.242.27 (host: 213-152-242-27.available.lhr.mfnx.net ) which is located in London, EU. Therefore we have grounds to suspect that this guy is not acting on behalf of Microsoft. He also sent email from internet2@microsoft-antipiracy.com with use of mail server of IP address 213.152.242.21 (also located in London, EU).

While we can understand that this guy is persecuting unofficial ROM images with early version of Windows Mobile 6.5 (see here for more info!), we cannot fathom why is he trying to persecute screenshots, i.e. pictures only!!! After all Internet is full of screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 - now that it has been officially announced - and we have never posted links to ROM images with Windows Mobile 6.5 or to any other unofficial ROM images.

In any case, if it is genuine action on behalf of Microsoft, it is a case of extreme incompetence that this guy is showing because he is requesting removal of pictures of something that has been officially announced few days earlier.

* * * * *

Microsoft is 3 years behind Apple in area of smartphones (first multi-touch phones powered by Windows Mobile are expected in 2010 and Apple had them in 2007) and Apple has bigger market share in smartphones than Windows Mobile (achieved in a very short time of 2 years only!), so at least Microsoft should avoid upsetting people who are enthusiastic about their products...

​

Don't know if this helps with identifying who or what but it sure is "fishy".
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] tsowen:
Admins: Just talked with Microsoft being my profession and this was not sitting good with me since it was missing A. a contact phone number and for these cases it must also contain a Digital Signature with that being said they said it is fraud, I gave them the link here and they verified that they do not have a James Young employ and that the email extension internet2@microsoft-antipiracy.com is not valid furthermore they said on there notices they will also have a phone number for the person(s) to call and correspondence is done through written. I will be receiving an email with the case number and contact information for the antipiracy case manager who verified the information and will forward it to the Admins here and at PPCGeeks as well. If one one the Admins here can PM there email addy so I can send the email to them for future verification on these types of notices.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] evalu8t0r:
So this is an e-mail that your serveice provider forwarded to you? Could you have your service provider send you the mailheader of that e-mail so we can check IP addresses of the sending server?

microsoft-antipiracy.com does not have any SPF record or anything like that but still I think the header would show that the email is FAKE
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] p51d007:
I can see MS's side on ONLY one point. 6.5 "isn't" available yet, so I could sort of kind of maybe yeah you guess, whatever, see their side of this.

BUT! That being said...MS is missing the ball on one fine point. Their pinhead

developers can't hold a candle to some of the cooks on XDA and elsewhere.

Who do they expect to work out the bugs in their buggy software?

The only thing this is going to do is drive the cooks more underground.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] hefman:
Here is more news from PocketNow:

http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=7041

This is definitely a hoax...
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] tsowen:
Yes, like I said I cotacted Microsoft and have sent the information to Gloom and Flar from the email microsoft Antipiracy Department gave me with all the contact information they need to verify.

@Gloom I would send the email I sent you to your provider as well and let them reference the case number I gave you with Microsoft.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] F2504x4:
:D:D:eek::rolleyes:
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] :
technically anyone who owns a windows mobile device has paid for its software but microsoft does have the right to say hey knock it off

Whois Record

Registrant:

Microsoft Corporation

1 Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052-6399

US

Domain Name: MICROSOFT-ANTIPIRACY.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:

Nildram Ltd

hostmaster@nildram.net

Ardenham Court

Aylesbury, Bucks HP19 8HX

UK

01296 319100 fax: 01296 319101

Record expires on 09-Jun-2009.

Record created on 09-Jun-2000.

Database last updated on 13-Mar-2009 06:31:33 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

DNS1.NILDRAM.CO.UK

DNS1.NILDRAM.COM 193.218.99.3

DNS0.NILDRAM.COM 193.218.99.4

DNS0.NILDRAM.CO.UK
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] F2504x4:
You really need to read what this is all about and the damage it is causing the chef's and the XDA community

http://pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=7041

Microsoft Impersonator Sends Fraudulent Letters, Disrupts Community

Posted by Chuong Nguyen

March 13th, 2009 at 02:53 PM

It turns out that there may be an impersonator lurking around disrupting Windows Mobile communities. In response to an article that was posted this morning about Microsoft demanding that Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM images that were cooked unofficially be taken down, our own Microsoft MVP Adam Z. Lein spotted that the guy responsible for the letter to XDA-Developers may be a fraud, as was posted on PPCGeeks.

A similar hoax had occurred before at msmobiles in regards to Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots. In the cease and desist letter to msmobiles, the gentleman claiming to be with Microsoft's legal department asked the site to remove screenshots of the forthcoming operating system

. The letter was sent after Microsoft had publicly announced and shown the very screenshots at Mobile World Congress 2009. According to msmobiles: "In any case, if it is genuine action on behalf of Microsoft, it is a case of extreme incompetence that this guy is showing because he is requesting removal of pictures of something that has been officially announced few days earlier." It should also be noted that pocketnow.com had posted screenshots and news of Windows Mobile 6.5 before, during, and after Microsoft's Mobile World Congress announcement and we did not receive a cease and desist letter.

The community over at msmobiles performed some additional investigations and found that the gentlemam, James Young, sent emails originating from IP addresses in London and not from Microsoft's corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington, leading many to believe that he is not connected with the software giant. Additionally, emails were sent from internet2@microsoft-antipiracy.com, and not at a "@microsoft.com" email address.

Whatever the case may be, other forum members in our original post here at pocketnow.com made mention that only the Windows Mobile 6.5 cooked ROM made by ROM chef Da_G was affected and 6.5 ROMs for other HTC-made devices were seemingly okay.