Better RSS Notification

I've complained about this before, but maybe I'll do it again and someone will listen this time.

I need a little tray gadget that notifies me of RSS updates. It shouldn't be a full reader. It should just display a pretty little popup box when a new entry is added to one of the feeds I read. It should display the content of the entry as text, nothing fancy, and a link to the actual post.

It would be really cool if it synced with my Google Reader account so that when I added a feed there, it would start tracking that one in my tray applet.

Something this simple would make my life so much better. For all of the stuff I build for the web for other people, can someone offer me this simple little program in exchange? Please? Do I have to write this one myself, too.

Want to make it even better? Make it a Windows Twitter client, and have it track the Twitter RSS of the account that it submits to. That would be really slick.


4 Responses to Better RSS Notification

  1. owen from asymptomatic.net 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

    Diana: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, right? I just gotta find me a spellcaster. :)

    amanda: I think maybe you're mistaking my desire to not have to run a browser with something that Safari (a browser) offers.

    Pat: That would mean I'd have to install IE7 on the PC that I want to read feeds on. I don't know if I'm ready to do that just yet, since I primarily need to check for compatibility with IE6 for web development. There's got to be a better way!

    I think maybe this is a feature I should add to Ozone - a more sophisticated notification system, and the ability to read RSS/Atom. I really need some more time to finish that.

  2. Diana from dianahiggins.com 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

    I can barely write a blog entry, but I hope someone out there can tackle this for you. :P

    Seriously, you people who make these things just blow my mind. In my universe, I'm thought of as tech-savvy for being able to USE the things your kind makes.

  3. amanda from amandafiles.blogspot.com 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

    I'm on a mac. Safari has that little tray thing. It's very conveinent.

  4. Pat 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

    Depends what you want. I can't offer easy sync with google reader (and I don't care to look up their API), but if you're willing to deal with the "Windows RSS Platform", then it's probably only a couple hundred lines away (mostly glue and UI):

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/feedsapi/rss/overviews/msfeeds_ovw.asp

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