Downloaded and installed a new RSS reader today, Awasu and gave it a quick whirl whilst out of the office. It looks really nice but the stupid thing doesn’t save the feeds to a local hard disk so as soon as I had disconnected from the internet and then went to look at the feed, it kept coming up with pages not found. REALLY annoying. It doesn’t look like there is an option to download the feeds either. It’s also meant to autodetect pages with rss feeds but it didn’t do anything when I went to my site or Mike’s
Newzcrawler offers both of these functions – although I don’t think it supports autodetect in mozilla – I must admit I’ve not used RSS feeds since switching to Mozilla as my main browser, but those two events are completely independant, apart from the fact that Mozilla allows me to open multiple pages at once in one window so makes it alot easier to read multiple sites quickly. I must get back into the habit of using Newzcrawler though (and add an RSS category to my MT installation!)
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Sorry to hear you’re having problems.
Feeds *are* saved to disk. When you open a channel, you should be presented with the latest feed even if you’re not connected. What exactly are you doing to get the page not found error?
Auto-discovery is already implemented and will be in the next beta release (out in a few weeks) i.e. it’s not in the current version 🙂
And if you’re using Mozilla, you might be interested to know that you can modify Awasu to use Mozilla instead of IE as the embedded browser. Check the FAQ for details.
Post something in the forums if you’re still having problems (www.awasu.com/forums).
HTH.