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Here is some suggestions:
1-if we have to change our windows we lose all information for example in technology folder I had 300 feed that I must read but I lose them so could you do something about it that we can save our information.
2-I had some feed that I disable them but when we expert our feed and import feed again in new system we have to again put the time to disable this feeds.
3-shortcut key for example for "disable" or "mark all read" and let us choose our key.
4-we can not disable one folder with all feeds in it if we have to disable we must do it one by one so please add disable this folder to the right click.
5-if we use feeds from photo site it show photo in the size that site issue but snarfer
must be able to show pictures the way that we want for example flicker issue 200 pictures yesterday so now i have 200 new feed in snarfer about flicker but I must click one by one to see them but if snarfer have this ability to show pictures in the thumbnails like this and have this ability to show in one page 10 or 2 or 50 it would be very nicer and easier like this:[/img]

Hi, I rename my feeds to save display space. Works fine in the individual feed display, but when I display all the feeds in a folder, the renames are lost.

This is a real problem with craigslist feeds as the source column displays the raw url rather than the name of the feed.

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ADD Boing Boing Gadgets

VISIT Boing Boing Gadgets

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Boing Boing Gadgets will feature a daily stream of reviews on consumer electronics, games, and related geek gear. Led by veteran gadget-blogger Joel Johnson, Gadgets.BoingBoing.net will also include contributions from BoingBoing.net"s four co-editors: Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, Xeni Jardin, and David Pescovitz."

I request Snarfer's source to be released under an open source license. This will help speeding the production of the software and fixing of bugs.

Snarfer can read twitter (and twemes) in RSS... I suggest a simple GUI to enable replies for the twitter posts

1. The user select a post
2. Snarfer identify the post as a twitter post
3. By the context menu the user select "Reply twitter post"
4. The user enter a message and login / password for twitter (a checkbox would enable to save the login and password)
5. Snarfer posts the message at www.twitter.com

www.twitter.com
www.twemes.com

Hi Folks, just a request to add Southeast Missouri to the Craigslist Plugin/search.
This is the URL:
http://semo.craigslist.org/
BTW, Snarfer rocks! I spent hours trying to set up a CL search on RSS Mixer and also on My Yahoo, and
I was ready to commit harikari (sp?) Thanks!

"A cat can have kittens in the oven but that don't make 'em biscuits" (unknown)

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ADD Offworld

VISIT Offworld

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Boing Boing Offworld is a hub for gaming culture that cultivates the joy of discovery, sense of wonder, and celebration of innovation that all of us, and you, thrive on. Offworld will mix no-nonsense game reviews with profiles of designers, game industry news with level-headed think pieces, how-tos with actual games you can play. And of course, community! Gaming is a social (phenomenon)."

At the moment, single-clicking on the tray icon does nothing. In order to make the Snarfer window reappear, you have to double-click on the tray icon.

I suggest this to be changed: Snarfer window should reappear with a single click on the tray icon. In case developers don't like this action, then another possible use of singe-click event could be to show the same context menu that is shown by right-click.

I suggest another item to be added to the context menu of the tray icon allowing to refresh all feeds. Not every body may know/like the keyboard shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+F5), and it is not user friendly to force them to double click the icon, use menus to refresh feeds, then minimize the window.

When refreshing all feeds, I would like to have a way to have some feeds get refreshed before others -- somehow prioritize the refreshing process.

Snarfer is just being careful to make sure database is ok. This mostly happens if machine is shut down before Snarfer closes (meaning it was still grabbing feed data). While rare we had one user with this issue who was just hitting power button to shut down cause it was quicker. If you sure machine was shut down properly you can hit cancel to bypass database check.

1) A way to add a bookmark from the Snark browser into Firefox/Opera/IE-IS-THE-WORK-OF-THE_DEVIL/whatever.
2) A view like the "panes" view in Bloglines Beta.
3) A keyboard shortcuts to toggle between tabs and manipulate/close/bend-them-to-my-will.

Even so, Snarfer rules...

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ADD Aquarium Drunkard

VISIT Aquarium Drunkard

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Based in Los Angeles, Aquarium Drunkard is an eclectic audio blog featuring daily music news, reviews, mp3 samples and podcasts. Originating in 2005, the Drunkard bridges the gap between contemporary indie with vintage garage, psych, folk, country, New Orleans funk, r&b, soul and everything that falls in between.

Run by Justin Gage, the blog has since spun off Autumn Tone Records, the Aquarium Drunkard Presents series, the weekly, two hour, Aquarium Drunkard Show (Fridays on SIRIUS satellite radio"s Left of Center (channel 26), and the AD show broadcasted live, Wednesdays 2-4 pm/pst, from Little Radio in downtown L.A..

Noteworthy recurring features include: the Off The Record artist series, The AD Interviews, the AD podcast series; the Live Upload Series featuring rare and/or exceptional live performances in their entirety; and exclusive artist sessions recorded in the studio for the Aquarium Drunkard Show (e.g. White Denim, Radar Bros., Rocky Votolato, The Submarines, The Broken West, Travel By Sea, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Tandemoro, Le Switch etc.)."

When you add a new feed there's a checkbox to download archived posts but this only works if blog is setup to provide. So basicly it's all controled on the blog side.

I have been using Snarfer for a few months and all of a sudden the feed from Autoblog will not update. I have directly checked the website and there are updates available.

Is there something I can do to handle that?

Sus

Due to code changes we can no longer support 2000 once we upgraded to Vista support.

Hello snarfer ;

I congralate you for great programme that can veiw and store RSS files in easy and good way .

what I want that you make the browsing depends on the default browser in the system .

Your programme depends on the windows interner explorer . but what about how use the other browsers.

Ss , if somebody has firefox for example then snafer browse RSS using firefox . also and it goes for the other browsers.

And because of this , after long time , the user will have a cache files in interner explorer and in the other browser

which takes a space .

also , some browsers are faster than the others , so bowsing RSS in snarfer using the default browser will be more

effecient for snarfe than using interner explorer .

Thank you for reading my requset .

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ADD Simply Recipes

VISIT Simply Recipes

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Hello and welcome to Simply Recipes. If you are unfamiliar with Simply Recipes, please allow me to take a moment to introduce you to the site. The first thing you should know is that Simply Recipes is a blog or a personal website, created and maintained by me, Elise Bauer. Unlike most of the large recipe sites that you might find on the Internet with tens of thousands of recipes, Simply Recipes is my personal website, with only a few hundred recipes, all tested by me, my family or my friends. We invite you to try the recipes, and if you would like, leave constructive feedback in the comments. Do you have a recipe binder or box of recipe index cards? Think of this site as our family sharing the recipes in our recipe binder with you. As we cook the recipes multiple times, we often think of improvements and update the recipes. So keep in mind that what you see here is a work in progress.

How we got started. A few years ago I started writing down the recipes I had grown up with and posting them to my website. I had just turned 40, and had spent most of my adult life working as a hectic Silicon Valley consultant with little time to cook, let alone learn how to cook beyond what I had learned growing up. I come from a big family - six kids - and thought what a terrific family project, to document our family recipes! Both my mother and father are excellent home cooks, mom by necessity to raise us all, and dad because he loves to eat well and enjoys the experimentation of trying out new recipes.

Well, the family recipe blog that started in 2003 has blossomed and taken on a life of its own. Simply Recipes now reaches over two million visitors each month and was voted Best Food Blog Overall in the 2006 Food Blog Awards. What started as a small family project now reaches tens of thousands of people every day.

Where we get the recipes. Many of the recipes are old family recipes, many we make up, and many of them are those that we pull from cookbooks, magazines, and newspaper clippings we've collected over 30 years. If we have pulled a recipe from another source, we try to attribute that source where we can (sometimes it's hard when you only have a clipping.) The recipes shown here use mostly whole food ingredients and only occasionally a few things from cans or prepared foods. We believe in a varied, healthy diet, using real butter, real cream, eggs, lots of green vegetables, and protein from meat, fish, beans, and cheese."

Snarfer allows options to keep 50-100-200-400 messages, and everything. I have several feeds which has a lot of posts everyday and the maximum 400 messages reaches quickly. Then, I have to select the option the keep everything. But then, I have to frequently manually delete old messages. Can Snarfer adds a tool for database clean-up in which I can ask the tool to delete all message in the whole database / in a folder / in a feed which is older than a specified date?

snarfer is a best.but don't have stop updating feed like Omea reader.

I tried dragging the feeds around to re-arrange them but it doesn't work. There's also no alphabetize feature. In fact the feeds seem to arrange themselves in an arbitrary order.

Dear Snarfer creator/crew, first off let me thank you for this great program. Now that I am using it (all the time) I could not imagine what I would do without it. Since you are open to requests I hope you don't...

Can you make it possible for me to drag and drop into firefox browser. That is to say the link that says "OPEN ORIGINAL ARTICLE".

I use adblock plus it is a firefox addon. It would be great if you could integrate it into the snarfer browser this way I would not have to use an external browser at all.

I hope you don't mind these requests they are just gravy for an already excellent program.

Great program, especially the ability to handle a large number of feeds, unlike others. Here are a few enhancement requests...

1) Ability to suspend (resume) ALL feed retrieval from a menu item such as File / Suspend Retrieval (resume retrieval)
2) More friendly cpu usage. It pegs the cpu when retrieving feeds, at least right after startup, it seems to use less cpu on retrievals thereafter.
3) Option for popup(s) to show new data. Either via 1 popup (as in SharpReader), or multiple popups (as in the old FeedReader). Should have various options for time to stay visible, position, clicking link to open in default browser, etc.
4) Ability to set retrieval period, disable, and other options, at the folder level.
5) Ability to select and set feed options for mutiple selected feeds (i.e. hold down ctrl or shift and select multiple feeds in the treeview)
6) Option to open article in default browser via double-click, instead of having to use right-click menu item "open original article".
7) Right-click option to mark an article as "saved" so that it won't be deleted no matter what value you have the "keep old messages" set to.
Option to have a "smart" refresh interval where the program would determine the optimal interval based on how often new articles are posted in the feed (as in FeedReader)
9) Ability to sort by date descending and keep that setting when going from feed to feed, and also start up in that mode.
10) Options to keep old messages by "time" in addition to number, i.e. keep for 10 days, 30 days, 60 days, 3 months, 6 months, etc...
11) Better handling of feeds that don't use proper time stamps, i.e. for some feeds it gets the same articles over and over and over each refresh interval. I have seen other posts saying this is because of improper article timestamps. But, other feed readers handle this situation somehow and don't keep getting (or at least showing) the same articles over and over. I realize this may be a problem with the feeds, but I think the program could be nicer in handling this situation rather than showing the same old articles over and over.

Thanks for the great program!

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ADD National Football League Blog

VISIT National Football League Blog

What's this site about?

From Website ... "The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league. It is an unincorporated 501(c)(6) association controlled by its members. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (the league changed the name to American Professional Football League in 1921 and then settled on its current name in 1922). The league currently consists of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions, divided evenly into two conferences — the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) — of four four-team divisions.

The regular season is a seventeen-week schedule during which each team has one bye week and plays sixteen games. This schedule includes six games against a team's divisional rivals, as well as several inter-division and inter-conference games. The season currently starts on the Thursday night in the first full week of September (the Thursday after Labor Day) and runs weekly to late December or early January.

At the end of each regular season, six teams from each conference play in the NFL playoffs, a twelve-team single-elimination tournament that culminates with the championship game, known as the Super Bowl. This game is held at a pre-selected site which is usually a city that hosts an NFL team. The following week, selected all-star players from both the AFC and NFC meet in the Pro Bowl, held in Honolulu, Hawaii.

While baseball is known as America's "national pastime," football is the most popular sport in the United States. According to the Harris Poll, professional football moved ahead of baseball as the fans' favorite in 1965 and has remained America's favorite sport ever since. In a Harris sports poll done in 2008, the NFL was the favorite sport of nearly as many people (30 percent) as the combined total of the next four professional sports – baseball (fifteen percent), auto racing (ten percent), hockey (five percent) and men"s pro basketball (four percent), Additionally, Football's American TV viewership ratings now surpass those of other sports.

The NFL has the highest per-game attendance of any domestic professional sports league in the world, drawing over 67,000 spectators per game for each of its two most recently completed seasons, 2006[4] and 2007. However, the NFL's overall attendance is only approximately 20% of that of Major League Baseball, due to MLB's much longer schedule (about 162+ games)."

nowhere to download keyword watch plugin, please bring it back
and desktop alert function is very useful as well...

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ADD Election Law Blog

VISIT Election Law Blog

What's this site about?

From Website ... "The law of politics and the politics of law: election law, campaign finance, legislation, voting rights, initiatives, redistricting, and the Supreme Court nomination process. Rick Hasen's web log."

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ADD Knowledge Problem

VISIT Knowledge Problem

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Lynne Kiesling is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and in the Social Enterprise at Kellogg (SEEK) program in the Kellogg School of Management, both at Northwestern University. She is also a faculty member in the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) and a faculty affiliate in the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO). She is currently a member of the GridWise Architecture Council, a group of 13 experts volunteering their time to articulate the guiding principles for an intelligent, transactive, energy system of the future, and to guide and promote measures to transform the nation's electricity system into a more reliable, affordable, secure network in which users collaborate with suppliers in an information- and value-rich market environment."

Try and install in Snarfers preview window. It may not be registering itself prop. for Snarfer to see it.

Hi,

I'm using Snarfer 1.0.2, I noticed it wasn't refreshing my feeds, as in I'd set them to refresh at 15 minutes and the most recent ones were 2 days old. Did a bit of digging and found a repeatable problem.

On a certain feed, (perhaps a harbour where sea-faring bandits may moor their boats..... )which has no ttl value I tell it at 20:42 to refresh at 15 minutes, hit apply and the "Next refresh time" goes to 20:57. All good. Now if I do a manual refresh (time was 20:44), it does so but if I go back into that menu, the "Next refresh time" has changed to 19/01/2009 20:44 ???? What's going on here?!

I've just tried turning off "Automatically adjust to daylight saving time" (I live in UK) and it makes no difference.

Any ideas?

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ADD Hack a Day

VISIT Hack a Day

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Hack A Day is a technology weblog about hacks, mods and do-it-yourself projects. There are many kinds of daily hacks posted and a once-a-week how-to article. Some simple projects and mods are posted as links and lazy afternoon specials. Hack-a-Day was recently spun-off from its parent company, Weblogs, Inc., when the blog network was purchased by America Online. Hack A Day emerged independent after the deal was settled between the two entities. HaD's lead blogger is Eliot Phillips. He is assisted by associate blogger Fabienne Serriere. The blog has an expanding readership and a very active following judging by the fact that most of the links are submitted by its loyal clan of readers."

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ADD The Daily Beast

VISIT The Daily Beast

What's this site about?

From Website ... "It's a speedy, smart edit of the web from the merciless point of view of what interests the editors. The Daily Beast is the omnivorous friend who hears about the best stuff and forwards it to you with a twist. It allows you to lead the conversation, rather than simply follow it."

Feed Demon has a "Panic Button" that pops up when you've been away long enough for the messages to pile up, which allows you to mark old messages (1, 2 or more days old) as read. Since I check Snarfer at home at night, its annoying to log back in at work and see a lot of the messages I read at home as "new". Is there a way to mark all messages older than 12 hours (or more) as read?

I want to suggest one future, suppose i have 10 folder in my main feed and in each 10 folder i have more then 20 feeds inside, now i can get aggregate feeds for sub folders but not main feed folder where i saved my other several folder.

Example

My Feeds :
Breaking news
CNN
forbes
Business News
Yahoo
google
reauters

Technology

Softwares

so i can get aggregate feed for Breking news and by shorting feeds as per time or topic, but i can not get aggregated feeds for my all folders in My feeds section.

I hope u i explained and u understood what i said.

Thanks much for your detailed instructions. I was wondering how to get that prompt back. I was getting sick and tired of accidentally deleting my searches.

Hi
there is a missed feature in this version. when there are some feeds or rss that you want to mark it,star it or other kinds of these material to read or refer to it later, there is no way of doing in this software.
could you please add this feature to this software?

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ADD Science & Soul

VISIT Science & Soul

What's this site about?

From Website ... "My name is Kazimierz Funk. I live in Buffalo, NY USA. I am currently a student in the field of bioengineering with a minor in biology. I hope to attain my PhD and become a professor. In the meantime, I enjoy playing my trumpet, soccer, reading, camping, hiking, climbing, and doing scientific research."

I noticed this problem was fixed in a much earlier version of Snarfer, but still seems to haunt me every time I start up Windows. My details:

WinXP Professional
Snarfer 1.02

When I shutdown windows, I don't generally first shut down Snarfer as well (I have it run automatically as I check it a number of times during the day). Every time I start up Windows, though, I get the message that Snarfer was not shut down properly and asks if I want it to check files. I click yes, and it checks 28 files.

Any ideas on what the problem might be?

Sorry if this was already answered, but all I found was something about this bug being fixed in version 0.5.

Cheers!

especially for mark all read -option.

Feh!

It's still the best aggregator I've tried, so I'll reinstall. It would be nice to have it export ./feeds.opml each time it's shut down. Can do?

Not at this time but we hope to do something with next release.

If u would like to see the gr8 features of desktop alearts i have seen till now in "sharp reader", just take a look www.sharpreader.com

Sounds like database is corrupted. You'll have to reinstall. Sorry.

i am getting this error using 1.0.2. what info is needed to determine the cause.

Not at this time. It's something we're kicking around.

This is very popular request, please fix it would make the client much better (allready quite good, thanks for taht)!

These posts are of same issue:

http://www.snarfware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1070
http://www.snarfware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1051
http://www.snarfware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=284

Goodmorning,

very important for a feed reader are the watchwords. To have the possibility to see where there are certain words on title or body of message that avoid to me to read all the articles loosing too much time to find the article I need

Best regards

Sid

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ADD FiveThirtyEight

VISIT FiveThirtyEight

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Who are you? My name is Nate Silver and I live in Chicago. For additional background, please see here or here. The other contributor to this website, Sean Quinn, lives in California.

What is the significance of the number 538? 538 is the number of electors in the electoral college.

What is the mission of this website? Most broadly, to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections.

How is this site different from other compilations of polls like Real Clear Politics? There are several principal ways that the FiveThityEight methodology differs from other poll compilations:
Firstly, we assign each poll a weighting based on that pollster's historical track record, the poll's sample size, and the recentness of the poll. More reliable polls are weighted more heavily in our averages.
Secondly, we include a regression estimate based on the demographics in each state among our 'polls', which helps to account for outlier polls and to keep the polling in its proper context.
Thirdly, we use an inferential process to compute a rolling trendline that allows us to adjust results in states that have not been polled recently and make them ‘current".
Fourthly, we simulate the election 10,000 times for each site update in order to provide a probabilistic assessment of electoral outcomes based on a historical analysis of polling data since 1952. The simulation further accounts for the fact that similar states are likely to move together, e.g. future polling movement in states like Michigan and Ohio, or North and South Carolina, is likely to be in the same direction.

How often is the site updated? Generally, the charts, graphs and polling averages on the site are refreshed once per day to reflect any new polls. Sometimes, there might not be any polling on a given day, and so an update will not take place. Other times, volume may be so heavy that multiple updates are necessary.
You can tell that the charts and graphs on the site have been updated any time you see the "Today's Polls" tag in the footer.
Senate polls are updated less frequently: generally once per week, on Mondays.

What is your political affiliation? My state has non-partisan registration, so I am not registered as anything. I vote for Democratic candidates the majority of the time (though by no means always). This year, I have been a supporter of Barack Obama. The other contributor to this website, Sean, has also been a supporter of Barack Obama.

Are your results biased toward your preferred candidates? I hope not, but that is for you to decide. I have tried to disclose as much about my methodology as possible."

Goodmorning,

In modern times there are screen very capable on width but we continue to make feedreader with no possibility to use the width.
It could be very useful to have the possibility to have the preview pane on the side (right) instead only below the news title.

Many thanks

Sid

1st: keep up your great work

2nd: why don't open links directly (in background if possible) in the user's default web browser? In this way users could stick with their fav browser (and we all know that people are really loyal to their fav browser ) and enjoy bookmarking, extensions, download managers, full screen view and stuff as usual.

My two cents... thank you!

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ADD Pollster

VISIT Pollster

What's this site about?

From Website ... "The maps that now appear on the front page of Pollster.com and other parts of the site allow you to quickly scan the latest trend poll trend estimates for every state in the Presidential race, as well as races for Senate and Governor (with U.S. House coming soon). The maps also allow you to navigate to our poll charts by clicking on the state.


How do I use the map to see data for Senate and Gubernatorial races?

In the upper left corner of the map, under the heading "Map Chooser, you will see a pull down menu that allows you to change the map to display races for President, Senate and Governor in 2008. The Chooser menu also includes a Find All Polls option that displays a map that takes you to index pages for each state. These index pages automatically update to include all chart pages on Pollster.com, including archived data from 2006.


Where do the numbers come from?

When you hold the mouse pointer over a state, you see a display of the latest "trend estimate" numbers from our charts of all available public polls for that race. The numbers for each candidate correspond to the most recent trend estimate -- that is the end point of the trend line that we draw for each candidate. If you click the state on the map, you will be taken to the page on Pollster.com that displays the chart and table of polls results for that race.

In most cases, the numbers are not an "average" but rather regression based trendlines. The specific methodology depends on the number of polls available.

If we have at least 8 public polls, we fit a trend line to the dots represented by each poll using a "Loess" iterative locally weighted least squares regression.
If we have between 4 and 7 polls, we fit a linear regression trend line (a straight line) to best fit the points.
If we have 3 polls or fewer, we calculate a simple average of the available surveys.


How do regression trend lines differ from simple averages?

Charles Franklin, who created the statistical routines that plot our trend lines, provided the following explanation last year:

Our trend estimate is just that, an estimate of the trends and where the race stands as of the latest data available. It is NOT a simple average of recent polling but a "local regression" estimate of support as of the most recent poll. So if you are trying to [calculate] our trend estimates from just averaging the recent polls, you won't succeed.

Here is a way to think about this: suppose the last 5 polls in a race are 25, 27, 29, 31 and 33. Which is a better estimate of where the race stands today? 29 (the mean) or 33 (the local trend)? Since support has risen by 2 points in each successive poll, our estimator will say the trend is currently 33%, not the 29% the polls averaged over the past 2 or 3 weeks during which the last 5 polls were taken. Of course real data are more noisy than my example, so we have to fit the trend in a more complicated way than the example, but the logic is the same. Our trend estimates are local regression predictions, not simple averaging. If the data have been flat for a while, the trend and the mean will be quite close to each other. But if the polls are moving consistently either up or down, the trend estimate will be a better estimate of opinion as of today while the simple average will be an estimate of where the race was some 3 polls ago (for a 5 poll average-- longer ago as more polls are included in the average.) And that's why we estimate the trends the way we do.


What do the scoreboards represent?

For the presidential race, we add up the electoral votes represented by each category of our classification. So we have allocated all 538 electoral votes as either strongly supportive or leaning to a candidate.

For the race for Senate, we have classified the current standing of the 35 contests and added those numbers to the party affiliations of the 63 Senators not facing an election this year. As such, the large numbers in the middle of the scoreboard should add to 100. The two senators labeled as "other" (Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut) caucus with the Democrats.

We follow the same procedure for the races for Governor, plotting our classifications for the 11 contests for Governor and adding those numbers to the party affiliation of the remaining 39 governors not up for election this year.


What is the basis of the classification of each race?

Regardless of the number of polls, we calculate a "confidence intervals" around the trend estimate based on the average sample size for the available polls in each state. These intervals reflect the uncertainty in the estimate due to random noise in the polling data.

If a race shows a lead that is outside the 95% confidence interval, then we classify this as a "strong" lead. If the lead is between the 68% and 95% confidence intervals, then we classify it as a "lean". If the race is inside the 68% confidence interval, then we classify the race as "too close to call."



Mark Blumenthal is the editor and publisher of Pollster.com.
Charles Franklin is the co-developer of Pollster.com.
Margie Omero is President and founder of Momentum Analysis, LLC, a Democratic public opinion research firm based in Washington, DC.
David W. Moore is a senior fellow with the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
Steve Lombardo is President and CEO of Lombardo Consulting Group.
Brian Schaffner is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Kristen Soltis is currently the Director of Policy Research for The Winston Group, a Washington DC."

Thanks for your Great App!
Here is some suggestions:

1) ability to rate, tag, make favorite, change color/bgcolor for an item in local mode
2) ability to backup/restore all items (this is in your list too)
3) ability to change refresh rate based on each folder/subfolders or
4) ability to archive manually
5) ability to have item's received datetime in addition to actual item's server datetime ('cause some dates are not in sync)


Great Thanks in advance

I agree. I checked the prompt to not display the delete confirmation prompt again and now I've accidentally deleted my searches on several occasions. A recycling bin would be great or at least tell me how to turn the delete confirmation prompt back on. Thanks

Any chance

OK this just happened to me. Think this moves to bug column. Will check it out.

Please DO ADD A FEATURE which can send all what is stored after a period of time so that we are able to restore all back to snarfer again; I mean data of feeds!

Hi James,

Thanks for the response - unfortunately the link above directs to "The topic or post you requested does not exist"...

If you could repost the instructions, that'd be great. I've searched my system and can't find any obvious clues in the Registry, nor any suitable config files on disk.

Try international expansion. Or "CE Mark" (in quotation marks).

It would be very useful if I could mark the results of a search as read.
For example I'm not interested in MVC at the moment so I use Find, get a bunch of articles and want to set some or all as read.

Sometime it is useful to rename the subject in my own way.

I use this reader on work computer where not access to C: or system files.
Portability will be a really great solution.

Great software ! Two feature requests:

1. Craigslist searches: ability to save "sets of cities" and use in different searches. Example: you have a "local" set of towns for some items, and a "regional" set of cities you want for other search items

2. Portability: some way to backup configuration and move to another computer

Thanks !

This OPML file contains one or more feeds from the publisher. Click on the link below to open a dialog box that will allow selection of which of these feeds to add to Snarfer.

Some users may see an [Open - Save - Cancel] dialog box, choose the Open option. To have Snarfer open the OPML dialog box automatically in the future uncheck the [Always ask before opening this type of file].

ADD Salon

VISIT Salon

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Salon, the award-winning online news and entertainment Web site, combines original investigative stories, breaking news, provocative personal essays and highly respected criticism along with popular staff-written blogs about politics, technology and culture. Salon hosts two online communities, Table Talk and The Well, and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York City and Washington D.C.

Founded in July 1995 by David Talbot, Salon has been called "intriguing and intelligent" (Washington Post), "truly compelling" (Time) and "smart and provocative" (Forbes). Salon.com has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, "Good Morning America," "Morning Edition," "Talk of the Nation," "Crossfire," the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Time, Newsweek and other major media.

Executive Staff
Joan Walsh: Editor in Chief
Chris Neimeth: Chief Executive Officer
Norman Blashka: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Columnists
Joe Conason, Heather Havrilesky, Gary Kamiya, King Kaufman, Andrew Leonard, Patrick Smith, Cary Tennis"

Download and install the example stylesheet in your Snarfer ...
http://www.snarfware.com/downloads/ExampleStyle.Snarfer

Restart Snarfer.

Now look in C:\Program Files\Snarfware\Snarfer\stylesheets for Example.xsl.

Open it in a text editor to see our formating.

You can also install other stylesheets and examine their files ...
http://www.snarfware.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7

One of these days we should add info to our Wiki

In addition to my not being able to open any of my saved craig's list vehicle searches and receiving a "you are not authorized" message, it appears as though none of my searches are updating since early this morning. ????

I have just finished reloading all of my vehicle searches for craig's list and now when I try to open the listing I get this message:

You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied.

I have tried exit, reboot and reopen snarfer all with no change. Please help.

Go into Options, Reading Tab and set the "Mark as read" "Mark messages after" to a low value. I have mine set to 100 ms.

This OPML file contains one or more feeds from the publisher. Click on the link below to open a dialog box that will allow selection of which of these feeds to add to Snarfer.

Some users may see an [Open - Save - Cancel] dialog box, choose the Open option. To have Snarfer open the OPML dialog box automatically in the future uncheck the [Always ask before opening this type of file].

ADD The Big Picture

VISIT The Big Picture

What's this site about?

From Website ... "A frequent commentator on CNBC, Barry L. Ritholtz is a weekly guest on Kudlow & Company. He has guest-hosted Squawk Box on numerous occasions, and also appears regularly on Bloomberg, Fox, and PBS¹. Mr. Ritholtz was profiled in the Wall Street Journal"s Quite Contrary column (August 3, 2004; Page C3). His market perspectives are quoted regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes, Fortunes, and other print media².

He is deeply honored to be the dedicatee of the The 2007 Stock Trader's Almanac's 40th Anniversary edition.

Mr. Ritholtz is the author of the popular "Apprenticed Investor" columns at TheStreet.com, a series geared towards educating novice and intermediate investors. Mr. Ritholtz also publishes more formal analyses, often at The Wall Street Journal, Barron"s, or RealMoney.com3.

Mr. Ritholtz is CEO and Director of Equity Research at FuisonIQ, an online quantitative research firm. For the first time, the company is making their institutional grade research product available to individual traders and investors.

Recently, Mr. Ritholtz was Chief Market Strategist for Maxim Group a New York Investment bank, managing over $5 Billion in clients assets. Applying his model to the broader investing environment, Mr. Ritholtz wrote weekly Market Commentary for the firm's brokers and institutional clientele. His research and investment commentary is now available to the investing public at Ritholtz Research & Analytics.

Beyond the weekly commentary and published articles, Mr. Ritholtz also authors The Big Picture -- a top-ranked financial weblog. The Big Picture covers Investing & Trading to Macro Economics, and everything else in between. The blog has quickly amassed over 11 million visitors.

Media accolades have poured in for The Big Picture from the NYT ("Trenchant economic commentary") and the WSJ ("What the In-Crowd Knows). The Journal cited The Big Picture as the Economic "Blog Insiders Read to Stay Current;" Business Week noted its "insightful calls on the direction of the stock market" (Blogging For Dollars). CNBC's Larry Kudlow described it as "very helpful and addictive -- the best stock market blog there is." Numerous traffic sites rank The Big Picture as the most trafficked Markets/Economic's blog on the web.

Ritholtz' longstanding interest in media and technology led him to Burst.com, a publicly traded software firm focusing on faster-than-real-time audio and video streaming over the internet. He has served on the firm's Board of Directors for the past 4 years. His expertise in digital media has led top tier Newspapers and Magazines to consult with him on the development of their online strategies.

Hailed as a "bright and savvy fellow" by Alan Abelson's Up and Down Wall Street column (Barron's), he is one of handful of Strategists who participate in BusinessWeek's annual market forecast. He teaches a course on The Economy of America for New York University's School of Continuing & Professional Studies.

Mr. Ritholtz performed his graduate studies at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, where he focused on Economics, Anti-Trust and Corporate Law. He was a member of the Law Review, and graduated Cum Laude with a 3.56 GPA.

His undergraduate work was at Stony Brook University, where on a Regents Scholarship, he focused on Mathematics and Physics, graduating with an Associates degree in Political Science. He was a member of the Stony Brook Equestrian Team, and competed successfully in the National Championships (1981) of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. In addition to writing the National Affairs column for the campus weekly (The Stony Brook Press), he was elected Vice-President of the student body.

When not bemoaning the New York Knicks' all-too-frequent offensive lapses, Mr. Ritholtz is a vintage sports car enthusiast. He and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, and their hairy dog Max, live on the North Shore of Long Island, New York."

Hello,

Thanks for the program.
It could be great to see in the Options the posibility to setup refreshing time.

Thanks

I wouldn't mind having feeds being sorted from newest to oldest in Newspaper view.

Oh, and some new styles would be great. Something a little more web 2.0, perhaps?

I have been using Chrome for several days now. I am confident that it will become as popular as Firefox in a short while. The way Chrome is structured internally is unique with form following function similiar to a well structured database. Chrome is FAST and will remain so because of its basic structure. In browsers speed is king and Google is aware of this fact. Speed in response time to problems and speed in program execution. Do the research and I am confident you will visualize Chrome's future. Snarfer can capitialize on Chrome's superiority

When starting up Snarfer, I'd like to see a webpage of my own choice....

This OPML file contains one or more feeds from the publisher. Click on the link below to open a dialog box that will allow selection of which of these feeds to add to Snarfer.

Some users may see an [Open - Save - Cancel] dialog box, choose the Open option. To have Snarfer open the OPML dialog box automatically in the future uncheck the [Always ask before opening this type of file].

ADD FactCheck.org

VISIT FactCheck.org

What's this site about?

From Website ... "We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.

The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels.

The APPC accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations or individuals. It is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation."

For example:
* - restore previously open tabs. Sometimes I open links in new tabs (which is awesome) - but they are left open occasionally when Snarfer crashes; and when it's restored I have lost those links. It would be nice if Snarfer remembered those tabs before crashing.

* - ability to use add-ons that would save embedded movies - like YouTube movies and the likes.

Hi

First I want to thank you for providing Snarfer. It is for me a real time saver and enables me to stay tuned to a lot of feeds.
There is just one thing that annoys me. When i click in a folder (on the left) then in the reading pane the message opened is the message on the to (=the last message). What I would really like is that it would jump on the first unread post or item. Or, thaht would be an other option, to jump on the message I had opened the last time in this folder. Perhaps this sound complicated, but i think its just a matter of keeping a record of last read post for each folder e look it up again when entering it.

Thank again for your work.
Massimo

would be nice if I could edit the opml file itself. Much faster than dragging folders, one by one.

How do I search by a date range? Say, I want to search for an item like "Dell", for last week, who can I do that?

Hi, new Snarfer here.....

I use Google Desktop Search on my PC. Do you know if there's a plug-in for that so my newsfeeds get indexed? Or is there any way of doing that? I searched the forums and Google's desktop search plug-in page, but couldn't find anything. Thanks!

BTW, Snarfer looks great even though I've only used it for about an hour!

1) Text size adjustment using Ctrl + + and Ctrl +- like Firefox...

2) Open Snarfer from tray icon with ONE click instead of two - allow user to control effects of clicks on tray icon...

3) Make it easier to create new feeds from a list of feed addresses. I set up feeds to several sites that involved many feed addresses. Maybe I am missing something but it wasn't readily apparent how to easily do this. I copied the addresses from all the feeds I wanted to create and, using my clipboard enhancer ClipMate, "PowerPasted" them into the feed setup dialog dialog. Fortunately ClipMate has this feature that allows you to move through a list of clips and paste them so you don't have to go to the application and select each one as you work. And kudos to you guys for snagging the clip from the clipboard each time I opened the new feed dialog. It still took too many clicks and mouse movements though since I had to open a new feed dialog for each address. I was thinking why not add the capability to read a user created list of clips and add them in one operation. But then I thought why not make it even easier and have Snarfer navigate to a user supplied address, parse the page for feed addresses and then let the user choose which ones he wants to add? This would have been fantastic the other night when I was trying to set up feeds from the Scientific American website where a large number of feeds are available.

This is all I have so far.

Thanks for you consideration

Would it be possible to have a scrolling news ticker similar to the BBC News Ticker (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/4735697.stm)? It would be great to have all new messages scrolling across the screen and if you click on a message, it opens in the default browser.

Hey! Snarfer users we've opened the Request Features Forum to anyone who wants to post (no registration required!). We want to know what your thinking concerning features you want added, what problems need addressing, or anything else that's important regarding upcoming releases of Snarfer. Simply ignore username field when posting and remember forum is moderated so your post won't show up until we approve it.

Have Snarfer on watches download the original message in total so it's searchable locally. Would make Snarfer more powerful tool.

Would really like to see a backup system that automaticlly backs up feeds and/or database to a compressed file PLUS a restore feature. Losing stuff sucks!!!

Snarfer memory usage is always low, no matter how many feeds I have - great work guys - but some time ago Snarfer started always using 50% CPU when it's open, even when it's minimized. The machine is a Windows XP SP2 with IE7. What data can I send to you to debug this problem?
Also, whenever I close Snarfer, after the window and the tray icon are gone, the process still stays running, still eating 50% of CPU, and I have to end it manually in task manager. That means that every time I open Snarfer, it detects it wasn't cleanly shutdown and will check the files, which takes a long time.

Best Regards,
Gustavo Guerra

Is that something new? Because I'm positively sure it used to be the case that I could see the address bar showing the link of the page that I'm viewing - and often from there continue browsing other sites by just changing the address. Or maybe it was the case that inside the preview pane I clicked on a link that changed that preview pane into a web-page with an address bar. I'll try that. But I definitely know that I used to use the address bar while it was in the middle of the window (the barrier between the preview pane and the headlines).

Thanks.

For some unknown reason, each time I place the articles in order by date (newest ones on top), it never stays in that order. Is there a special way to set that up so it's the default? This is what I've tried (unsuccessfully) to do thus far:
1. Go to each folder and click on the Date so the up arror shows up.
2. Open each individual folder and again click on the Date so the up arrow is displayed.
3. Go to message folders and click on the Date.
I even exit Snarfer to see if this will save the settings, but it doesn't work. I've got to be doing something wrong, but I just can't figure it out.

Any help will be appreciated. . .George

This OPML file contains one or more feeds from the publisher. Click on the link below to open a dialog box that will allow selection of which of these feeds to add to Snarfer.

Some users may see an [Open - Save - Cancel] dialog box, choose the Open option. To have Snarfer open the OPML dialog box automatically in the future uncheck the [Always ask before opening this type of file].

ADD PolitiFact

VISIT PolitiFact

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Each election year we hear this lament from our readers suffering the barrage of campaign rhetoric: "just gimme the truth."

That"s the mission of PolitiFact. The St. Petersburg Times of Florida and Congressional Quarterly of Washington, D.C. – two of America"s most trusted, independent newsrooms – have created the site to help voters separate fact from falsehood in the 2008 presidential campaign.

Journalists and researchers from the Times and CQ will fact-check the accuracy of speeches, TV ads, interviews and other campaign communications. We"ll publish new findings every day on PolitiFact.com, and list our sources for all to see.

PolitiFact (pronounced puh-lit"-eh-fact) is bolder than previous journalistic fact-checking efforts because we"ll make a call, declaring whether a claim is True, Mostly True, Half True, Barely True or False. We even have a special category for the most ridiculous claims that we call "Pants on Fire."

The St. Petersburg Times is Florida"s largest newspaper and the winner of six Pulitzer Prizes. Washington-based Congressional Quarterly is the authoritative news source for coverage of Congress and politics. CQ and the Times are affiliates of the Times Publishing Company, which is owned by the Poynter Institute, a center for journalism education in St. Petersburg.

PolitiFact will offer readers the choice of quick scorecards or longer stories explaining the issues and our rulings. It is a vibrant database that allows users to search for candidates" records of accuracy based on their names, issues, or the rulings on our Truth-O-Meter. The site will include video of campaign ads and candidates" speeches.

We'll also publish an "attack file" – a home for fact-checking the attacks candidates make against each other. We recognize that in a world of political bloggers and "independent" political action committees, attacks don"t just come from the candidates themselves. So we will also check out many claims that enter the public discourse via a talk show host, a blogger or even a fictional character in a YouTube video.

We think PolitiFact breaks new ground in political journalism. As voters get bombarded with confusing claims and counter-claims, they can turn to PolitiFact to find out what"s right and what"s not.

How the Truth-O-Meter works
The heart of PolitiFact is the Truth-O-Meter, which we use to rate the candidates" claims and attacks.

The Truth-O-Meter is based on the concept that – especially in politics - truth is not black and white. Depending on how much information a candidate provides, a statement can be half true or barely true without being false.

PolitiFact writers and editors spend considerable time deliberating on our rulings. We always try to get the original statement in its full context rather than an edited form that appeared in news stories. We then divide the statement into individual claims that we check separately. For example, a Bill Richardson TV ad produced two claims. (We only make Truth-O-Meter rulings on those individual claims. We don"t make them in our articles because they often summarize multiple Truth-O-Meter items that had different rulings.)

When possible, we go to original sources to verify the claims. We look for original government reports rather than news stories. We interview impartial experts.

We then decide which of our six rulings should apply:
TRUE – The statement is accurate and there"s nothing significant missing.
MOSTLY TRUE – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
HALF TRUE – The statement is accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
BARELY TRUE – The statement contains some element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
FALSE – The statement is not accurate.
PANTS ON FIRE – The statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim.

How we choose the facts to check
Every day, the presidential candidates unleash a torrent of words: speeches, TV ads, press releases, Web pages, letters to contributors, interviews. Together it forms a huge river of rhetoric that can be overwhelming. Who can you believe?

Our goal at PolitiFact is to sort out the candidates" claims and determine how true they are. With so many claims made every day and a modest staff, we use our best news judgment in deciding which facts to check.

First, we only check things that can be verified. We can"t verify an opinion like "the Iraq war was a mistake" or "taxes are too high." But we can confirm factual statements such as "John McCain voted both ways on the Bush tax cuts" (True) or "Some of the candidates don"t believe in God" (False. They all believe).

We choose items that pique our curiosity or look questionable. We checked a claim by Sen. John McCain that it"s virtually impossible to fire a federal employee. That"s long been the conventional wisdom, but we wondered if it was true. (It is). We checked Sen. Barack Obama"s claims about fuel efficiency because they seemed far-fetched.

Every day, we scour the transcripts of the candidates' speeches, debates and interviews for verifiable claims that look questionable. We welcome suggestions about facts we should check. Send them to truthometer@politifact.com."

Basically, functionality like iTunes has for quick downloading of multiple podcasts concurrently would really improve Snarfer's functionality for me.

Something where I could select a few podcast feeds, then right click and select download latest episode, or use a keyboard shortcut to download. Rather than having to open each feed, find the attachment, and right click on that to save target as.

Also to have a progress bar for showing the progress of multiple podcast downloads.

Many thanks for an excellent program!

I like the way using the spacebar moves to next unread message or next page, but can it also move to next feed when reaching the end of the feed or give us user defined keyboard shorcuts to enable these.

Also auto expanding and collapsing of the feeds as required.

How about synchronisation with Newsgator

Hey! Snarfer users we've opened the Request Features Forum to anyone who wants to post (no registration required!). We want to know what your thinking concerning features you want added, what problems need addressing, or anything else that's important regarding upcoming releases of Snarfer. Simply ignore username field when posting and remember forum is moderated so your post won't show up until we approve it.

This OPML file contains one or more feeds from the publisher. Click on the link below to open a dialog box that will allow selection of which of these feeds to add to Snarfer.

Some users may see an [Open - Save - Cancel] dialog box, choose the Open option. To have Snarfer open the OPML dialog box automatically in the future uncheck the [Always ask before opening this type of file].

ADD Talking Points Memo

VISIT Talking Points Memo

What's this site about?

From Wikipedia ... "Talking Points Memo (or TPM) is a liberal web-based political journalism organization created and run by Josh Marshall. It debuted on November 12, 2000. It covers a wide range of topics including U.S. foreign policy, domestic politics (especially at the federal level) and domestic policy.

During George W. Bush's first term the blog frequently discussed foreign policy and was especially critical of administration policy towards Iraq and North Korea. After the 2004 election, posts began to focus on the Bush administration's proposal to privatize Social Security. In addition to criticizing the substance of the proposals, Marshall argued that a unified front in the Democratic Party would deny Republicans political cover and force a loss for them on the Social Security issue.

A screenshot of TPM's old formatTalking Points Memo closely tracked the positions of members of Congress on the issue throughout 2005. It asked readers to monitor local media for comments from their own members of congress, and public categories were created for politicians on this issue: wavering Democrats were the "Faint-hearted Faction" and Republicans who doubted the President's plan were the "Conscience Caucus." Marshall also coined the term "Bamboozlepalooza", in reference to President Bush's 60-day (it was extended) tour promoting social security privatization. These terms have since gained use amongst the wider liberal blogging community. Other terms that Marshall has coined while criticizing the Bush administration include "Up-is-downism" and "Mumbojumbocrats."

Guest bloggers have included Matthew Yglesias, Michael Crowley, and, briefly, Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards. Beginning in the summer of 2006, a significant amount of weekend postings were provided by anonymous blogger DK. On November 11, 2006, DK's identity was revealed to be that of lawyer David Kurtz, who now openly posts under his name. The blog also employs a managing editor and two interns.

On July 10th, 2007, the site had a major overhaul, adding much more content from its related sites to the main page. It is part of the effort to have more original reporting on the website.

In 2008, TPM won a Polk Award for its coverage of the US Attorney Scandal. [1] It is the first, and so far only, blog to win the award."

This is a problem with the feed. Their dates look like this:

Sun, Aug 31 2008 15:00:01 +1000

when they should look like this:

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:00:01 +1000

Note the day and month are the wrong way around.

Snarfer actually handles the swapped day and month, but detects this as a non-standard date format in which the year usually comes after the time. So it parses 2008 as the time 8:08 pm and parses the 15 (or whatever) in the time as the year 2015.

I'll see what I can do to get Snarfer to handle this format in a future release, but your best short-term solution would be to report the problem to the website.

Can't reproduce this. Searches are working fine for us. Old searches need to be re-entered after updating plugin.

Please post your exact search info so we can see what your doing....

Type
Subtype
Keywords
-- leave checkboxes empty for now
Cities
-- min/max leave empty for now

Whether it is possible to group news by topic? If yes, as it to make?

Is there a place that shows what version of the plugin that you have installed? I went to:

Tools | Options | Plugins tab | Properties

But it does not show there. Nor does the Help | About screen show what plugins are install much less their version.

I installed the updated plugin, did a File | Exit and when I restart snarfer and create a new craigslist search, I still can't select the missing cities I mention in my previous post. I even tried shutting down my PC (Windows XP Home Edition) and restarting and that did not help.

Am I missinig a step here? Thanks

Install new plugin to update Craigslist searches....

http://www.snarfware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1037

Install new plugin to update Craigslist searches....

http://www.snarfware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1037

***** This plugin was updated August 25th, 2008. Please reinstall below (no need to uninstall old one first). *****

This plugin allows users to search Craigslist via the search box in upper right corner.

INSTALL Craigslist plugin (just click open if prompted to complete install).

Please restart [File menu > Exit] Snarfer after installing all plugins.

Notes ...
1) This plugin is only for Snarfer 1.0.0 or higher.
2) Fixes Canadian issue reported in forums.
3) Updates categories.

This OPML file contains one or more feeds from the publisher. Click on the link below to open a dialog box that will allow selection of which of these feeds to add to Snarfer.

Some users may see an [Open - Save - Cancel] dialog box, choose the Open option. To have Snarfer open the OPML dialog box automatically in the future uncheck the [Always ask before opening this type of file].

ADD The Jed Report

VISIT The Jed Report

What's this site about?

From Website ... "I've been blogging at The Jed Report since early 2007, focusing primarily on the 2008 presidential election.

Until now (I'm writing this on July 6, 2008), I've mostly gone simply by my first name, Jed, but as of today I'm finally admitting what many may have long suspected -- I am indeed the one and only Jed Lewison.

Now that you know my full name, I'm going to tell you more about me than you ever cared to know. I'll begin with the vitals: I'm 35 and I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, where in addition to blogging and posting the occasional YouTube video, I am a writer. I've completed one novel, a political thriller, and while I work on selling that project, I'm working on a new book, also a political thriller.

I moved to Las Vegas a couple of years ago from Seattle, Washington, where I was a marketing executive at RealNetworks, the makers of RealAudio and RealVideo. I was also a senior staffer for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, who was my boss at RealNetworks. (I actually lived in DC for a part of the time that I worked for Maria, but was never very fond of the city. I found I could do my job -- communications director -- more effectively from Seattle and traveling to DC when necessary.)

Although The Jed Report is relatively new, I've been active online for years. In 1994, I posted one of the first ever internet sites for a political campaign. (At the time, I was taking off a semester from my undergraduate studies at Yale to work as press secretary for Ron Sims, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Washington state. Needless to say, it was 1994 and we lost -- though in 2000, I achieved some revenge when Maria defeated the incumbent Senator Slade Gorton who had defeated us in 1994.) In 1995, I posted a fan site for the Seattle Mariners -- a sort of proto-blog featuring game updates and commentary. And at RealNetworks, I led the company's internet marketing and sales operation, building a business from nothing to $15 million per quarter before joining Maria on her senatorial campaign in 2000."

Since the code for the file didn't completely show up in my previous post; I have made a nice little package in a zip file so that people can get an Open in Firefox option in the IE right click menu (works within Snarfer as well).

You can download it from my website: IE Firefox Open (1.05 MB)

Make sure to read the readme.txt file so you know how to install it.

I hope this helps someone until Snarfer decides to put in an open in external browser button.

Please read my reply in this post, I think it is what you are looking for:

As the method that goofy suggested bypasses the internal browser completely, which I doubt is what most people would want.

http://www.snarfware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2235#2235

What feeds are you looking at?

I second the problem. It seems not only does snarfer consume 100% cpu but it also hangs the whole PC as a result. I cannot even open the task manager, switch applications, move the cursor, or even reboot... the only way to fix it is a hard reboot (hold the power button in for 5 seconds). When snarfer is disabled, no problems, but when it is running, I have problems every single time.

Please consider this a serious issue and investigate further.

I don't think this is actually fixed - I'm still having the same problems on my machine, and I'm using Snarfer version: 1.0.2 (reading "in a new tab" presumably with an IE6 engine).

Please advise.

CL will not update and cannot open any ads, give a permission error when attempted......also cannot import saved searches when a reinstall is performed....HELP...

glad to hear,

although done the line it might be better to make the list of allowed lists user defined.

Due to security issues we only allow approved sites to use embed tag and have the video show directly within Snarfer's preview window when scrolling down the message list (without opening the specific message). With each release the developer team adds other video sites we discover to the allow list so their videos work in preview pane.

TIP - If you double-click on a message with the non-working video and view the original message the video will work. This is because your now viewing message in it's web form and not it's feed form.

That link didn't work for me either. When you look at page's source code there's nothing to view.

This OPML file contains one or more feeds from the publisher. Click on the link below to open a dialog box that will allow selection of which of these feeds to add to Snarfer.

Some users may see an [Open - Save - Cancel] dialog box, choose the Open option. To have Snarfer open the OPML dialog box automatically in the future uncheck the [Always ask before opening this type of file].

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