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Portable Feed

by Gand last modified 2006-05-10 10:20 PM

Portable Feed is the binary distribution of the Feed RSS, Atom newsreader packaged as portable application so you can take all your favorite newsfeeds with you.

Portable Feed is the Feed RSS, Atom newsreader packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 10 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking all your favorite newsfeeds with you.



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How to install


1. Drag "Portable Feed" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 10 MB of free space.

2. Clicking "Portable Feed" will open Feed from your portable device, wait a while before Feed start.

3. If a local copy of Feed is running an alert window allow you to quit it.

NOTE: Set "Delete articles: After 1 Day" in Feed Preferences to save your portable disk space.

Using your data


You can copy your user preferences to Portable Feed when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your favorite newsfeeds you already have on your system, just click "Copy" when prompt.

Feed application, preference file and folder are inside the bundle:
Portable Feed.app/Contents/Resources/app/


Portable Feed is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus

Support Forum


Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum

Script code


Change log


  • 0.7b1 r1.0 (10.05.2006)
    • First public release.
    • 100% standalone.
    • Preference are automatically copied if desired.
    • Portable Feed ask to quit Feed copy already running.

Donations



Aknoledgments
Thanks to Feed author Keith Anderson.

Portable Feed.app © 2006
Carlo Gandolfi - http://www.freesmug.org
Paolo Portaluri - http://plus2.it/~paolo/

CC-GNU GPL
This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.

Feed provided is an unmodified version of official binaries downloaded from keeto.net/feed/
Copyright 2005 Keith Anderson licensed under The BSD License.


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