The official home page for Aggie can now be found at:
http://bitworking.org/Aggie.html
[Release Candidate 2 of Aggie was announced on May 20, 2002 and
should be used instead. These instructions are still valid for RC2. See this article for the changes from RC1 to RC2.]
Release Candidate 1 of Aggie, my news aggregator application is available for download here (Release Candidate 2 is now out and available here). Aggie
is a .Net based application for reading RSS files, similar to
AmphetaDesk or the news aggreator in Radio.
Why should you try out Aggie?
- It is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
- It is a native .Net application.
- It can handle RDF and RSS file versions 0.91, 0.92, 0.93 and 1.0.
- If you are a Radio user you can use Aggie to read your news when you
are away from your main computer. Radio publishes your list of news sites
into a file called
mySubscriptions.opml that is uploaded to your
gems directory. Set the channel list to http://radio.weblogs.com/NNNNNN/gems/mySubscriptions.opml,
where NNNNNNN is your Radio site number.
- If you are an AmphetaDesk user you can try out Aggie easily. It can read and write
the AmphetaDesk channels list. You won't need to manually transfer your list
of news sites to Aggie. Just set Aggie's channel list to point at the
file
myChannels.opml located in the data subdirectory where
AmphetaDesk is installed.
- Aggie is multi-threaded, making more efficient use of your internet connection
and getting the news to you faster.
- Aggie is small: Only a 30K download.
- No embebbed web server. No configuration through web pages. Aggie is
a native windowing .Net application, the web browser is just used to
view the news.
- Continuous feedback. As Aggie pulls in the news it gives continuous
updates on it's progress, informing you of which sites it has
visited, which ones are still to be pulled, which sites timed out,
and which sites are generating invalid XML.
Restrictions:
- Aggie requires Mozilla 1.0, Netscape Navigator 6.2, or Internet Explorer 6.0.
Sorry but Aggie does not currently work with Opera. (This will be fixed
in a future release.)
- Since it is a native .Net application you must have the latest
version of the Microsoft .Net Framework including the latest
service pack installed.
Installation directions:
- Download the ZIP file (Release Candidate 2 is available here).
- Extract all the files into a directory, something like "C:\Aggie" would make sense.
- Double click on Aggie.exe.
Pleese download and enjoy! Feedback and bug reports are always welcome.
Stephen Wolfram's 'A New Kind of Science' sounds like a must read. There is a write up in the latest Wired.
I don't know what it is, but I have a real soft spot for
anybody that goes against the grain of the academic establishment.
[Via The Shifted Librarian]
