GigaBlast is a new search engine that appears to be doing things differently. I like the fact it returns RSS feeds in addition to it's results.
1:57:17 PM
Freshly Squeezed Software is working on a new RSS reader for OSX. PulpFiction (er, the name may be a problem) has several awesome features that I think are what the next generation of news readers will need.
It has many features that are standard in most email packages, like rules and colors. Most interesting will be the addition of CSS. One of the downsides to reading articles in a newspaper is that you can't customize how it looks. It's printed, after all! Computers offer us a lot more possibilities, and PulpFiction exploits those possibilities through its use of customized cascading stylesheets (CSS). With CSS, you can customize the fonts, colors, alignment, spacing, margins, and overall appearance of all of your articles! The more adventurous can even customize the HTML markup used to generate and display each article, further expanding the realms of possibilities. Want to recline in your chair and do some reading? Choose a stylesheet with big big fonts. Prefer white text on black backgrounds? Go for it! The choice is yours, and PulpFiction allows you to view the content you want to see, the way you want to seee it.
I hope that the persistent storage and scriptable features of the app will allow for auto downloading of enclosures. The beta should be here in a few weeks and I for one am pumped about it!
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