[Gllug] daily news feed

Ben Fitzgerald ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 24 16:37:27 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 10:00:39PM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 16:50 +0100, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This may be readily available, but my google ability today is
> > +terrible+.
> > 
> > I'm looking for some kind of daily news feed. I've got an ipaq and want
> > to dump the day's headlines from free news sites - bbc, newspapers and
> > some linux sites, to read on my way to work. A tarball to copy + extract
> > would be ideal.
> 
> I've used sitescooper or the plucker desktop to crawl various websites
> and pick up the information, then Plucker (www.plkr.org) to view it on
> my Palm. Plucker is a PalmOS viewer, so you may not be able to use that
> directly, but you can get a PocketPC app to read plucker document format
> from http://vade-mecum.sourceforge.net/, and I think there's been an
> attempt to port Plucker so if you run Opie on your iPaq you may be able
> to run it.

This looks to be very useful. I've got sitescooper, plucker and a viewer
installed and it looks promising. I'll have to play with the default
config. Thanks very much for the pointer, Mike!

ben.

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