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[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Just a quick update to let you all know that RSS Central v1.8 is now available to download. This is a bug fix/stability update and resolves a number of problems and issues that have been reported to me over the last couple of months. I'd definitely recommend upgrading your existing versions!

For those of you that haven't tried RSS Central, why not give it a go? The trial mode is completely unrestricted so you can fully use and evaluate the app to see if you like it.

This will probably be the last pre-Mango version of RSS Central. I have lots of ideas for Mango, I'll reveal more details over the coming weeks...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] neugier:
I am very happy with this comfortable reader. Really good work.

Idea for Mango: live tile with animated news feed ....
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] anandmalli:
nice app.. may be I like it...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Here's a little teaser image for you all:

This is still a work in progress and I've a couple of obstacles still to overcome to get this doing what I really want, but I've a feeling you'll all like the next update of RSSC!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] neugier:
Is a dynamic News feed tile like the picture-hub tile possible?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
I don't think so... I'm limited to a tile inside which I have reasonable control over the content, but it has to be static, I can't animate it. I can also use the back of the tile to display further information, but again it can't be animated.

The tiles can only be updated while the app is actually running (e.g., when you're reading articles) or once every 30 minutes via a background task. Creating tiles like the Picture Hub or XBox Live still isn't possible with Mango.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] hokik:
Can this reader cache full articles including all the images, for offline viewing (without connection)? For example, a single article might have 5 images. Can this reader cache the full article including the 5 images for offline (with NO internet connection) viewing?

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Hi hokik,

It won't download images referenced within each RSS article, I'm afraid... For it to download the RSS feed requires a single web request, inside which all the articles are contained. This allows just a single quick call per subscription to provide all of the news articles.

To download the referenced images would then require RSSC to parse through the articles finding all the images, and then making separate calls out to the web to download each one. While this is certainly possible, it would be time consuming, and the thing I really want RSSC to be is quick quick quick.

An alternative is to read through the articles, and if there are images missing that prevent you reading them properly, send them to Instapaper for later viewing. RSSC will queue articles for Instapaper even if you have no network when you select to send the article, and will then re-send all of the queued articles the next time you do have a 'net connection.

Hope that answers the question!

Adam.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] hokik:
Yes, I understand that to download and cache all the images it would be time consuming. But, we can include a setting to turn this feature ON or OFF. So, it is entirely up to the user if they want this feature on or off.

I don't like Instapaper because I do not want to view the images later. When I am reading an article or blog post, I want to see ALL the images NOW. I don't want to read it later.

The benefit for having the option to download and cache all images is that, we can download everything when we have a connection. Then, when we are on the move, we can enjoy reading even without a net connection. Good, right?

Check out Byline (an iPhone RSS reader), it has this feature.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Hmm, OK, it's an interesting idea -- I'll add it to the To Do list and see what I can do. :-)

Other RSSC news coming soon...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] hokik:
Awesome. I really look forward to this feature... and I will certainly buy it if this is added. Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Press release:

I am very pleased to be able to announce the release of v2.0 of my popular RSS reader application, RSS Central. This update is for Mango only, and finally implements many of the features that people have been asking for over the last few months.

The update takes full advantage of the new Mango feature set, and includes the following new features:

- fast app resume.

- live tiles -- all of RSS Central's tiles now display live unread article counts when pinned to the start menu.

- background downloads -- RSS Central can now download updated subscription content when it isn't running.

- pinnable tiles -- any subscription (or subscription group) can be pinned to the start menu for instant access (and of course, these are live tiles too!)

- sharing of articles to social networks (Twitter, Facebook, ...)

- subscriptions will be downloaded in compressed format if the server supports it, meaning that they download even faster!

All this is in addition to the existing set of powerful features, including full RSS, Atom and RDF feed support, offline reading, subscription and article search tools, keyword features to help highlight articles of interest, import and export of subscriptions in .OPML format, uploading to InstaPaper and more.

RSS Central v2.0 is available in the Marketplace priced at $1.29. The trial mode is completely unrestricted other than occasional "nag" messages, so please give it a try and see what you think. More details and screenshots can be found at the offician RSS Central site here:

http://www.adamdawes.com/wp7/wp7_rsscentral.html

I am always working on enhancing and improving RSS Central so please do get in touch if you have any suggestions.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] fleafunk:
A suggestion

I would love if I could "collect" feeds in one page. Let's say I'm interested in three feed channels, then i would like the feeds from these in the the same window and also have one instead of three different live tiles for all of this. I think this would be a great improvement to an already very good application.

And about the tiles, would be nice if they where double sided with the last headline on the back of it. Just a thought...

Overall, great work on this application.

EDIT: found that you could do this by creating categorys but a simplier way would be appreciated...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] BigwaveMx:
Hi Adam. Nice update for RSS, lets see how works in mango.

Note: I'm still help you for traslation in spanish. Just let me know.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Hi Fleafunk,

The categories should allow you to do pretty much everything you describe: you can group multiple feeds together, display them all at once, and can pin the category to the start menu too.

If you could have it work any way you wanted, how would you change it to make it simpler to use?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Hi BigwaveMx,

Thanks as always -- not sure whether you've been able to try the Mango version yet but I hope you like it.

As and when I decide to add translations, I'll be back to this thread to pick up volunteers, don't worry -- many thanks for the offer, I do very much appreciate it!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] derausgewanderte:
loved it and now love it even more. Thank you
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] namhanz:
Thank you . I like app
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Ashe80:
Hi Adam,

i really like your RSS feed reader.

Yesterday i updated to the newest mango version and i have some ideas/issues. I think more or less tiny things:

- I have "update on startup" activated, some of my feeds are not updated because of update intervall i set (this is okay). In the past i waited till update was finished and clicked on update button. Then i got an popup, your subscriptions are already up-to-date, you want to update all?

This popup does not exist any more. I have to click on all not updated feeds and manually refresh them. Would be good to have it work like before

- When i switch between feeds rss central does not jump to the first feed, it remembers where you have need in the previous feed and jumps in the new feed to similar position. (Okay could be solved by clicking jump to the top, but auto top would be could to have it back).

- Most annoying thing: When i read a feed and switch between several articles with next button, there is always a white screen between the switches. In the early morning this is like a flash (I did not recognize this in previous versions)

- Last thing ;-)

When i opened an article and use function send article by email and after sending rss central is back open and in the article list, scrolling is not smooth any more. You have to switch to another feed and go back, then scrolling is working fine. (Don't remember if similar behaiour fast also before mango version.

So, here some issues which would make rss central more and better useable.

I really like it and please see this issue as constructive critics.

Aside german translation would be cool.

I remember that this was already discussed some time ago.

So thanks for such a nice program.

best regards

Ashe
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] neugier:
would be a nice feature, if we could choose the colour of the live tiles. I like choosing a colour different to the accent one.

black would be my favourite tile colour to choose for rsscentral tiles!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] boshkop:
My favorite RSS reader! :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] wp7.qiss:
It look very good. I will try it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] timmes:
looks like a very good RSS reader!

I will try it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Hi guys,

Would any of you be interested in helping me translate RSS Central into other languages? I've spent a fairly large amount of time modifying all the code to allow this, and I'm very nearly at the point where I need translators to work their magic.

I've already had offers to translate it into Swedish, Czech and Spanish (Latin American). I've had an offer for German too, but my German translator no longer has a Windows Phone, so if any of you can help there it will make testing much easier.

I'm very interested in any other languages people would be willing to help with. If you would be willing to help, please drop me an email -- you can find my address here:

http://www.adamdawes.com/misc/contact.html

Many thanks and I look forward to hopefully hearing from some of you!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] aeroloverz:
nice app dude, just a small suggestion, i think on the browser you need to show scroll bar , to know the end of the page

other than that this app is really good :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
The latest update to RSS Central, version 2.3, is now available in the Marketplace. The main new feature in this release is one that I have been asked to implement many times over the last year: localisation into other languages.

This version of the app adds support for German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish, with more languages to come. If you would like to help translate RSS Central into your language, please contact me and let me know! Contact details can be found within the app itself, or on my web site at www.adamdawes.com.

RSS Central is a fast, powerful RSS reader application with a great feature set, including the ability to subscribe to any RSS feeds you wish, to share articles by email, SMS or via social networks, background downloading and live tile support, searching and article keyword highlighting, the ability to read your downloaded articles even if you lose your internet connection, and much much more. RSS Central also just celebrated its first birthday; with over 300 reviews, an average of 4.5 stars and a fully functional trial mode, you should give it a try if you are looking for a high quality RSS reader. The full version costs $1.29 / £0.99 / €1.29.

Full details about the app can be found on its page at http://www.adamdawes.com/wp7/wp7_rsscentral.html and it can be downloaded from the Marketplace here: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=bb5a4c91-3620-e011-854c-00237de2db9e or using the following tag:
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
RSS Central v2.4 is now available to download.

The new version contains translations into four new languages, as well as a couple of minor bug fixes. The full list of languages is: English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish & Ukrainian. Many thanks to the wonderful team of translators who have helped to make this possible -- I hope you all enjoy their work! More languages are on their way, and if you would like to help translate into your language then please contact me and let me know.

Full details about the app can be found on its page at http://www.adamdawes.com/wp7/wp7_rsscentral.html and it can be downloaded from the Marketplace here: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=bb5a4c91-3620-e011-854c-00237de2db9e or using the following tag:
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
RSS Central v2.5 is available now. The most obvious difference in this release is that I've added support for background images behind the page content, which makes the app look a lot more vibrant than the plain black background from before. Here are a couple of images:

This version also adds a translation into Hungarian (now a total of 10 languages supported), and improves the article browser so that when using the email/share/open in browser/send to Instapaper/etc. functions, it is the currently viewed page that is used rather than the base article page.

RSS Central currently has an average review score of 4.5 / 5 across nearly 400 reviews. A full unrestricted trial is available as always, give it a try and see what you think. Download from the Marketplace here.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] dirtywood:
perfect thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] :
Post saved for when I get my 900. I never see much point to RSS but this little app constantly gets raves. I will try it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
@bmstrong: Let me know what you think when you get to try it! If it (or RSS in general) doesn't press the right buttons for you, I'd be very curious to know why not -- what's wrong or missing?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] :
Adam, I will. It's on the list of first things to try on the 900. As for RSS? I've always kept an email with links of all the pages I visit and label it Aleph. Open the email and tap the link. Then reload the pages on the actual website. If I want to read something later? I email it off to myself. Works for me and I've been doing it this way for years. I just would rather go to the website than rely on an App. Over the years I cannot count how many I've tried.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
It's important to have a system that works for you of course, and it sounds like what you have does the job for you! A couple of ways you could possibly integrate RSS Central into/alongside your existing approach rather than trying to replace it:

- You can configure a default "Send to" email address in RSS Central, which you could set to be your own address. Once you have this, you can email any article link to yourself with just two or three taps of the screen. That would give you an easy way to get articles from the app into your email folder.

- You could try using the "Instapaper" features to flag articles you find interesting. I do this from my phone, and then have my Instapaper account's RSS feed subscribed from my email client, which gives me a one-touch method for getting articles from RSSC into Thunderbird on my desktop.

I hope you find something that works for you anyway! :-)

Best regards,

Adam.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Do you have suggestions or ideas for RSS Central?

I receive a lot of suggestions for things that people would like me to add to RSS Central. In order to help keep track of these and to allow people to suggest things more easily, I have set up an RSS Central UserVoice page. You can find it here: rsscentral.uservoice.com.

If you have suggestions or ideas, please post them. Also please vote on the ideas that are already present. I'll use the page to see which ideas are most in demand, and will consider future development of the app based on these ideas.

Please do get involved and let me know what you would like to see next -- thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
If you've enjoyed using RSS Central, I would be really grateful if you could spare a few seconds and nominate it for the Best News App on the Windows Phone 7 Community App Awards site: http://appawards.wp7applist.com/.

Thank you!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Thank you so much to everyone who nominated RSS Central in the WP7 Community App Awards. It got through the nominations phase for Best News App -- and has (to my surprise) appeared as one of the entries in the App Of The Year category too.

This of course means that I have another request: please vote for RSS Central!

You can find it in the Best News App category here:

http://appawards.wp7applist.com/vote/best-news-app

...and in the App Of The Year category here:

http://appawards.wp7applist.com/vote/app-of-the-year

Many thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Dinchy87:
Hej Adam, your RSS app is really good, i use it for my news, i'am news blog writer in Bosna i Hercegovina (Balkan), i've started to build my own application to read the rss from my blog (http://wp7novosti.blogspot.com) i've used some tutorials ands some book that i have at home. I used webclient to show each feed in the browser, but i need help?! :( can you help me out to display the a feed after i tap on them on the first screen, to open in a seperate screen and display it there but only the main post, not the whole page of my blog... i hope you understand what i mean. here is my email adress if you could contact me and give me some tips or tutorials or videos how this can be made. (dinchy0906@hotmail.com)

Or is the method with webclient a wrong approach?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
I've had numerous requests over the last couple of months for a Windows 8 version of RSS Central. I just wanted to post a quick message to let you know that I am currently working on it.

There's quite a lot of work to do to the app to make it more suitable for desktop and tablet devices, which look and feel very different to the phone. I'm making good progress though and hope to be able to share some more information soon.

I really want to be able to use it too, so it's very much on my mind at the moment! I'll post more details as soon as I can. For more updates, keep an eye on my web site/rss feed or follow me on Twitter.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] aussiedog:
Awesome. May I request that we have the 'option' to not have the rss feed count on the tile. It is really not necessary for me. Other than that, it's a great app that I use everyday.

Thank you.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
I'll see what I can do -- if I forget, remind me. :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] BigwaveMx:
Hi Adam. Can't wait to get my favorite RSS reader on my W8 laptop!. If you need help with the resources file (for spanish language), I'm always ready to help.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
RSS Central for Windows 8 is nearly here!

Hello RSS Central fans,

I thought you might like to know that the Windows 8 version of RSS Central is very nearly here. The app is finished and submitted to the Windows Store for certification, hopefully it'll get through without any problems and will be available in the next week or so.

In the meantime, I've put the RSS Central product page online on my web site, which includes a number of screenshots to whet your appetites. :) You'll find the page here:

http://www.adamdawes.com/windows8/win8_rsscentral.html

I hope you like the pictures and I hope you'll enjoy the app! I'll post here again once it's available to download.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
RSS Central for Windows 8 passed certification a few hours ago and is now available in the store. You can find its page here:

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/rss-central/c4f042be-c7b9-4e08-af0b-cd3ed91c81e1​

I hope you like it!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Here's a short video showing an overview of some of RSS Central's features on Windows 8.

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[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] josiniscal00:
Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
Another quick update to let you know that RSS Central v2.6 for Windows Phone is now available in the Windows Phone Store.

The biggest change for this release is the addition of support for using SkyDrive when importing and exporting your subscriptions, as an alternative to the existing support for DropBox. This has been the most requested feature on the RSS Central UserVoice page so I hope you all like it. :) In addition, there is support for Chinese (simplified and traditional), new encoding support, and various bug fixes and minor enhancements.

I have attempted to fix the problem with the live tiles in WP7.8 by updating to use the new live tile API, but I've already had one report telling me that it's still not working, so this one may unfortunately be out of my control for the time being. Other than that, though, I hope you all like the update.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] AdamDawes:
This week I have released updates to both the Windows Phone and Windows 8 versions of RSS Central.

RSS Central for Windows Phone is now on version 2.9. The main improvement in the latest version is that YouTube videos can now be replaced directly from the article preview, without having to open the article's source web site (previously these just displayed an error message). The update also fixes the subscription search function and resolves a problem with the Dropbox import/export feature.

RSS Central v2.9 for Windows Phone is available now from the Windows Phone Store with a fully-featured free trial mode.

RSS Central Windows 8 reaches v1.1, and adds a number of features that were missing from the original release, including:

Added support for importing and exporting .OPML files from and to the local file system.

Added support for importing and exporting .OPML files via your SkyDrive account.

Added a Category filter to the subscriptions list to help find just the subscription you are interested in.

Fixed the subscription feed search function.

Added next/previous article buttons when in "expanded" or "snapped" modes.

Added an internal subscription list backup function to protect against the list being damaged or corrupted.

Various minor feed compatibility improvements..

RSS Central for Windows 8 is available now from the Windows Store, and it also comes with a fully-featured free trial mode.

I hope you like the updates!