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From: David Kennedy on 5 Nov 2009 10:13 Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: > > Agent (Windows) has options for "[]delete filter after [n] days []of > inactivity", and a visible inactivity counter, which works nicely. I > know some Mac newsreaders have similar, but I don't know which. > Wouldn't it b e nice to have a straight forward news reader for the Mac that actually conformed to normal mac practise? MacSoup does most of the things but has a particularly horrid interface and with most of the others they have a better interface but are not so comprehensive... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Peter Ceresole on 5 Nov 2009 10:34 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > MacSoup does most of the > things but has a particularly horrid interface and with most of the > others they have a better interface but are not so comprehensive... I agree that MacSOUP has a fairly lumpen interface, but it seems to me that its functions are limited and that once set up they are easily learnt. It's certainly not an example of a good UI, but it's certainly an example of a good newsreader, which is why I continue to use it. -- Peter
From: Jim on 5 Nov 2009 10:38 On 2009-11-05, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > >> MacSoup does most of the >> things but has a particularly horrid interface and with most of the >> others they have a better interface but are not so comprehensive... > > I agree that MacSOUP has a fairly lumpen interface, but it seems to me > that its functions are limited and that once set up they are easily > learnt. It's certainly not an example of a good UI, but it's certainly > an example of a good newsreader, which is why I continue to use it. Nemo looked promising, but the author seemed to have an on-again/off-again approach to development, plus he wanted to charge people for betas. And now that I look, the old links to it aren't working anymore. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK My Oasis of Calm has dried up. However, my Garden of Angry is flourishing quite nicely.
From: Peter Ceresole on 5 Nov 2009 11:35 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Nemo looked promising, but the author seemed to have an on-again/off-again > approach to development, plus he wanted to charge people for betas. I may be quite wrong, but it seems to me that authoring software is an extremely hard way to earn a living unless (a) you are employed by an organisation that has other revenue streams (b) you have a serious in with a business that wants to use your software or (c) you can induce somebody to buy you out. Of course, you can also use it to demonstrate your skills, although that feels a bit like (c) above. The internet, with the way it has of making punters believe that everything should be free, is an additional and huge problem. But at least it makes publicity very cheap, verging on free. Same with delivery, although funds transfer (aka payment) can cost real money. I know little or nothing about this; but is all that even approximately right? -- Peter
From: Jim on 5 Nov 2009 11:40
On 2009-11-05, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Nemo looked promising, but the author seemed to have an on-again/off-again >> approach to development, plus he wanted to charge people for betas. > > I may be quite wrong, but it seems to me that authoring software is an > extremely hard way to earn a living unless (a) you are employed by an > organisation that has other revenue streams (b) you have a serious in > with a business that wants to use your software or (c) you can induce > somebody to buy you out. > > Of course, you can also use it to demonstrate your skills, although that > feels a bit like (c) above. > > The internet, with the way it has of making punters believe that > everything should be free, is an additional and huge problem. But at > least it makes publicity very cheap, verging on free. Same with > delivery, although funds transfer (aka payment) can cost real money. > > I know little or nothing about this; but is all that even approximately > right? All of the above are certainly valid, but I'm not completely convinced it covers all of the situations. I can't offhand think of any others, mind, but I'm rather tired right now. For some reason all I can think of is 'herring', which never bodes well. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK My Oasis of Calm has dried up. However, my Garden of Angry is flourishing quite nicely. |