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 !

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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.

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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....

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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

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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

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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].

ADD Funny or Die

VISIT Funny or Die

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Funny Or Die is a comedy video website (duh) that combines user generated content with original, exclusive content. The site is a place where celebrities, established and up-and-coming comedians and regular users can all put up stuff they think is funny. At the same time, the site hopes to eliminate all the junk that people have to pick through to find videos. That means around here you get to vote on what videos are funny and what videos deserve to die. Go here to find out more about our awesome, revolutionary and life-altering voting system and prepare to have your minds sufficiently blown.

Funny Or Die was created by the guys at Gary Sanchez Productions (Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy) and a bunch of Silicon Valley dudes and ladies who drive Hondas and watch old episodes of Babylon Five. Michael Kvamme, an aspiring young comedian, came up with a concept for a new kind of comedy site and told his dad, Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital to write a check. Randy Adams, a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, signed on to handle design and implementation. Now, Funny Or Die has offices in Japan, Madagascar and Bahn, nine full time lobbyists in Washington and an elite private security force consisting of four hundred soldiers and six attack helicopters."

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 Gizmo Cult

VISIT Gizmo Cult

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Gizmocult dot com was launched in August, 2008 by two young gadget enthusiasts by their names : Cristian Raiber and Irimia Sebastian. Our site is intended to bring the latest information in the gadget industry - while at this point we"re aware that"s not possible we"re hoping that in the near future you - our readers - will help us create a nice user-based community. At any point, if you"re interested in becoming a contributing writer and enjoy the exposure and free back-link we would be more than interested in a collaboration."

Sorry but no.

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 CQPolitics

VISIT CQPolitics

What's this site about?

From Website ... "CQ also publishes a free political site, CQ Politics, which serves up a unique, compelling perspective on politics and campaigns.

Objective. Non-Partisan. Authoritative.

About CQ

Congressional Quarterly Inc. has been the nation's leader in political journalism since 1945. Over that time, the company has built a peerless reputation for objective, non-partisan and authoritative reporting on Congress and politics. Today, CQ stands on the leading edge of information companies publishing in both online and print platforms.

CQ has the largest press corps covering Capitol Hill. More than 150 reporters, editors and researchers keep subscribers informed on weekly, daily and real-time news cycles. In addition, CQ is the leader in legislative tracking. It offers a robust suite of fully integrated online services that includes bill coverage, schedules, CRS reports, government documents, member information, transcripts and more.

CQ is primarily a subscription-based publisher whose clients include members of Congress; leaders in the executive branch, business, nonprofit organizations and government affairs shops; and top academic institutions and media outlets.

CQ also publishes a free political site, CQ Politics, which serves up a unique, compelling perspective on politics and campaigns.

Further, the nation's leading corporations, trade associations and advocacy organizations are also regular advertisers. They leverage CQ products to get their message in front of Congress and the policy-making community.

A sister publication, GOVERNING magazine, has become the publication of choice for leaders and administrators in state and local government.

Congressional Quarterly is a unique company in a world of media conglomerates and newspaper chains. As a private, for-profit organization, CQ is a wholly owned affiliate of the Times Publishing Co., which publishes the St. Petersburg Times of Florida. TPC is owned by the Poynter Institute, a non-profit school for journalists in St. Petersburg named in honor of CQ's founder, Nelson Poynter."

Snarfster wrote:

Change this key in the registry to desired location ...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Snarfware\Snarfer\DatabasePath





Disclaimer: changing the registry can cause your system to become unstable, so this is at your own risk.

Thanks! Works nicely!
I you still add the function which keeps the folders sorted by date (and resorts automatically when receiving new messages) I will be really happy with Snarfer.

Your data files are stored here...

\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Snarfware\Snarfer

copy the Snarfer directory to same location on new machine.

As long as you have the whole directory you should be in good shape.

Your data files are stored here...

\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Snarfware\Snarfer

copy the Snarfer directory to same location on new machine.

Thanks for the tip! I will try it!

Dougster

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 Snopes

VISIT Snopes

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Q: Is everything on this site about 'urban legends'? A: In a strict folkloric sense, no. Urban legends are a specific type of folklore, and many of the items discussed on this site do not fall under the folkloric definition of "urban legend." We employ the more expansive popular (if academically inaccurate) use of "urban legend" as a term that embraces not only urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items."

Default is 60 mins. If you right-click on a feed and choose properties you can adjust that. Remember that Snarfer won't override a feeds default setting.

The feed requires authentication and I of course can not give the username & password, because it's an internal one.
So I don't know how it would help you.
It's a confluence feed, so the feed url is pretty similar to this:

[http://confluence.demo.atlassian.com/createrssfeed.action?types=page&types=blogpost&types=mail&types=comment&types=attachment&sort=modified&showContent=true&showDiff=true&spaces=conf_global&labelString=&rssType=atom&maxResults=10&timeSpan=5&publicFeed=true&title=Confluence+Demonstration+RSS+Feed]

but just another domain and authenticated.

Those pictures which does not require authentication (like emoticons from the same server and external pictures) are visibile in the preview for messages from the same feed so the issue seems to be related to authetication.

Using 1.0.2. now, I still can't change the height of the preview pane. I can't drag the line to the bottom. And worse, the screen kind of changes by itself and moves higher, just the size I don't want it to be.

I use Vista on my laptop, but the same problem occurs on my pc with XP.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong or is it a bug?

P.s. I just downloaded 1.0.2. and the watchlist is working, great!

Regards, Yolanda

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 Micaman's Thoughts (português)

VISIT Micaman's Thoughts (português)

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Este Blog foi construído com o intuito de partilhar com o Mundo um local onde coloco as minhas ideias, interesses e notícias acerca dos mais diversos temas. Espero que encontrem algo de interessante e contribuam da forma que acharem mais oportuna."

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 One Higher Power

VISIT One Higher Power

What's this site about?

From Website ... "Mission - Helping people understand there is only one higher power.

Vision

Working toward a world where all people put down arms in regard to religion - in an understanding that we are all designed of the same light, serve the same spirit, and work toward the same ultimate purpose.

Values

Get The Picture - We are in a critical phase in the history of humanity as the battle of ideas rears its ugly head through violent, hateful actions - across the world, in every country, in every town. Most often, this struggle is fought on the premise of faith and religion.

Get Moving - It is time for people to put down arms over these religious and political differences and engage in the universal truths of the higher power: we are born of this higher power, we must seek to know it more, and we must seek it together.

Get Real - It does not matter what someone"s faith is. There is a spiritual ether that exists within the fabric of everything we know. We feel it, regardless of how individuals view it or associate it with religious doctrine. God (or Allah, or the Great Spirit, or Tao, or Nirvana or whatever other way people choose to describe this higher power) exists in quiet disregard for our mortal and material efforts to package and present it.

Get Strong - There is universal wisdom in every faith and religion, as well as there are fallacies. By focusing on what we personally know about this higher power, and openly engaging and debating this knowledge with others, we can break free from the immovable anchors of religious doctrine, tradition, and ritual which have taken hold within our social structures. Only then will we be free to seek, embrace, and further understand the spirit that connects us all as brothers and sisters."

The dates in those feeds are not valid - they don't include a time zone - so Snarfer assumes the time is Universal Time (GMT) as a best guess. Unfortunately, that's 7 hours off from Bangkok time which I assume is the time zone it should have been. There's nothing we can do to fix this. I'd suggest you report the problem to the websites that produced the feeds.

On the right side it shows that several eBay searches have found something, but the list to the right is empty. This has been working fine for quite some time and all of a sudden it stopped working.

I have a problem with 2 Thai news websites reporting the same wrong times. Other sites are ok.
both report 7 hours different than real time. IE: actual real time 4 pm shows at 11 pm. Is there a way to correct this?

wrong time for Thai sites
http://www.bangkokpost.com/rss/src/breakingnews.xml
http://www.bangkokpost.com/rss/src/topstories.xml

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/rss/headlines.rss
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/rss/national.rss
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/rss/breakingnews.rss
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/rss/regional.rss

correct time reported from Singapore site
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/rss/latest_cna_asiapac_rss.xml
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/rss
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/rss/latest_cna_world_rss.xml

My Snarfer shows hightlighted searches on the left, but my window on the right is just blank. What did I do? My Craiglist searches work just fine.

That's easy. We've put together a few buttons (one with transparent background) you can add to your site or blog.

Cut n' Paste the code snipets below each image to easily add.

OK we lied but hopefully we got your attention enough to read a couple sentences. For more than 3 years we've worked very hard to supply you with a great RSS Reader for free, no ads, no spyware, no search toolbars, just great software. Snarfer is the #1 RSS Reader on CNet's Download.com with over 135,993 downloads beating well funded software companies like FeedDemon by almost 2 to 1.

So your asking yourself what do the folks at Snarfware want from me? Money, NO! My house, NO! How about my kids, HELL NO! All we're asking you to do is help us promote Snarfer by doing the following:

• Put links anywhere you can back to the Snarfware website telling others you use Snarfer to read RSS feeds.
  


• When you make postings on Facebook, forums, blogs, emails, etc. please mention Snarfer as your RSS Reader.
  


• Have you added feeds to Snarfer? Then email or post a comment on the feed telling them you use Snarfer to read their feed.
  


• Snarfer users are geniuses or you wouldn't be using Snarfer so think about ways you can help us get the word out!
  

Was wondering if there is any otehr steps i need to get an audio alert setup for
new messages i have followed the steps listed here and there is still no alert

Ty kindly
Dinzing

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 4outof10

VISIT 4outof10

What's this site about?

From Website ... "4outof10.com is a movie review site that celibrates mediocrity. Every single movie ever made has flaws and it is an uptight British man's job to find them. The latest films are reviewed alongside cult B-Movies (such as The Asylum's collection) and upcoming documentaries. 4 out of 10 is the maximum score and only a select few movies ever achieve this fabled result. The latest movie news and trailers are here alongside a forum to rant to your heart's content. Join us and let's bring Hollywood down a peg or two, one sarcastic comment at a time."

Thank you I will tell them and post ur advice in their forum.
You will no doubt appreciate that the feed is supposed to tell me when I can be in contact with particular people. Being informed (potentially) up to one hour after the fact is like playing telephone tag and of limited practical use.
Once again 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 Techcrunch

VISIT Techcrunch

What's this site about?

From Website ... "TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.

TechCrunch is co-edited by Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld.

If you would like to contact TechCrunch with suggestions, comments, corrections, errors, or new company announcements, please email editor@techcrunch.com.

TechCrunch has received the following coverage:

Featured on CBS News (again), Technorati 100, Feedster 500, and CNet Top 100 Blogs
Mentioned in the Wall Street Journal online and print editions on December 7, 2005
Mentioned in the San Jose Mercury News online and print editions on January 15, 2006
Discussed at length in the cover story of Business 2.0 magazine (print and online) for September, 2006
Voted the top blog by Business Week readers in a September 2006 poll
Featured in the online and print editions of the Wall Street Journal on November 3, 2006
Featured in a front page story in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 6, 2006
Written up by the Financial Times in December, 2006
Named one of the 50 Best Business Blogs by the Times of London in June 2007
Written up by Wired Magazine in June 2007
Featured with other blogs in the San Francisco Chronicle"s business section on October 21, 2007
Appeared on the Fox Business show Happy Hour on January 29, 2008.
Interviewed by Portfolio.com on February 29, 2008
Interviewed on the Charlie Rose show on March 7, 2008.
Featured in the Los Angeles Times online and print editions on June 5, 2008."

Have you upgraded to version 1.0.2? There was an issue in 1.0.0.

I confirm the same above. I've updated to Snarfer 1.0.2 around the 17th. And the latest post I have is from the 18th. Of course Snarfer is configured to start automatically at boot.

This is *not* a proxy related problem, at least in my case. I tried all settings, from manual proxy to auto when being at work, through direct connection when at home. This does not solve the problem.

A proof of this is that when I delete the Snarfware directory in Document Settings\Local Settings\Snarfer\..., and restart Snarfer, snarfer creates a new database, and when I add a new feed there, Snarfer refreshes it normally. This without changing the proxy settings.

And in case it helps, I had several times Snarfer complaining at boot that it was closed unproperly; even though I always shutdown Windows cleanly every time. Absolutely no idea why he is complaining.

Also, I tried the snarfer.exe /repair trick, but to no avail.

Thanks for your help.

Please right-click on non-working feeds and click on properties. Post the URLs in the forum for us to look at.

Also if you use Snarfers preview window (simply type in a URL on default tab) Snarfer will finds feeds for you. If the RSS icon on toolbar turns orange that means it found feeds. Click on icon to choose which to add.

Either use Task Manager to shut down the snarfer.exe process or restart your machine then go to File > Exit.

The feed URL has changed for Attytood.

Right-click on feed, choose properties, and change url to http://www.philly.com/attytood.rss

OR

Click HERE and install updated opml file.

The last two quick releases were real bears and included tons of code that unfortunately users don't touch, see, or feel. But we've laid the groundwork for being able to do interesting things via our plugin modules and this may be one of them for us to look at.

Many users are happy with the system tray icon changing when there's new messages to be read but I'm sure many others would like something more substantial.

Let us sort out where we're at after these releases.

All users are encouraged to update ASAP. This is an important maintenance release to address bugs in version 1.0.0 and before.

Download HERE to download now.

All users are encouraged to update ASAP. This is an important maintenance release to address bugs in version 1.0.0 and before.

Download HERE to download now.