Description:
Speeed Reader is a Google Reader client for Windows Mobile devices. It allows users to interact with their Google Reader accounts (view articles, share articles, etc.) in a more native method than using the mobile web-based version. Speeed Reader will be adding functions and features to make it a must-have Windows Mobile application.
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Future Features:
- Article caching and offline modes.
- Implementing more Google Reader desktop functionality (marking articles unread, sharing, emailing, etc.).
- Search.
- Manipulating subscriptions (add/remove feeds).
Screenshots:
Known Issues (to be fixed in future releases):
- Any changes made to subscriptions, tags, etc. in the desktop client will not be reflected in Speeed Reader unless you restart the application.
- There is a memory leak in the internal web browser (.NET Compact Framework issue, out of my control). The internal browser will grab memory and not release it when using it to view articles. The problem is exacerbated even more if the article contains a lot of images. Please uncheck ‘Download Images’ to minimize this issue. You can also view articles in your default external browser to fully minimize this issue. Once Speeed Reader is closed, all memory is released back to the device however.
- Windows Mobile 6.5 users, the implementation of Pocket IE has changed, which negatively effects the intuitiveness of the internal web browser. Please use the external web browser. See settings for more info.
Update Description:
v0.94 (22-03-2010):
- Enhancement: Implemented Google Reader’s new authentication model.
v0.93 (19-11-2009):
- Bug Fix: Crash when starting Speeed Reader with caching disabled (introduced in v0.92).
- Bug Fix: Minor layout issues in the UI.
v0.92 (18-11-2009):
- Bug Fix: Passwords containing '&' result in login issue (fixes login issue for some users).
- Bug Fix: Search index always zero.
- Bug Fix: Not requesting all new articles in last refresh (with caching enabled).
- Bug Fix: Crash when starring a reading list article.
- Bug Fix: Reading List, Starred, Shared Lists unreadable when coming out of offline mode.
v0.91 (11-11-2009):
- New Feature: 2 new themes (Noir - dark/black, Beach - coral/turquoise).
- Enhancement: When navigating between multi-page lists, Speeed Reader will remember your page.
- Enhancement: Added bytes transferred (estimate) to the about screen.
- Enhancement: General Performance Increases/Memory Management.
- Enhancement: Made error logging user configurable.
- Bug Fix: Storage Card in Non-English Locale's Not ID'd Correctly.
- Bug Fix: Clicking last item in reading list causes a crash.
- Bug Fix: Download More articles index is inaccurate.
v0.90 (23-10-2009):
- New feature: Article Caching/Offline mode.
- New feature: Search.
- New feature: Share articles via email/sms.
- New feature: Download more articles for tag reading list.
- New feature: Mark (new) articles unread.
- New feature: Hide read subscriptions and articles.
- Enhancement: Now using Bit.ly for URL shortening.
- Enhancement: Dynamic manual article refreshing.
- Enhancement: Progress bar is back.
- Enhancement: Correct font sizes for QVGA devices.
- Enhancement: Newly designed settings UI.
- Enhancement: New Mirabyte Controls module.
- Bug Fix: Feed URLs contain ‘?’ now load correctly (no more "There are 0 articles to read").
v0.83 (06-08-2009):
- Bug fix: Attempting to open articles in external browser (besides IE/Opera) resulted in a program crash.
- Bug fix: Some characters now display correctly.
- Bug fix: Twitter panel shows wrong character count if you edit the Tweet.
- Enhancement: Full Windows Mobile Standard support.
v0.82 Build 3491(23-07-2009):
- Bug fix: Application error when Google Reader account contains 0 unread articles.
v0.81 (22-07-2009):
- Bug fix: Unable to open article in external browser while viewing the article using the internal browser.
- Bug fix: Articles "kept unread" in Google Reader desktop will be marked as read in Speeed Reader.
- Bug fix: Some users weren’t able to login even though their credentials were correct.
v0.80 (20-07-2009):
- Share articles using your Twitter account.
- Broadcast articles using the Google Reader Broadcast function.
- Open articles in your default browser (recommended for Windows Mobile 6.5 users).
- Now view list of articles by page - this allows you to set the 'Download Size' higher than before - also you can download older articles for any given subscription.
- Mark all of your articles as read, you can also just mark a tag, subscription, or article as read as well.
- Settings are now stored in SpeeedReader.ini in the application program directory. Makes it easy to use the same settings across different devices.
- Redesigned settings UI.
- Additional performance enhancements, bug fixes, code simplification, and additional settings have been added.
v0.71 (10-06-2009):
- Added auto-login capabilities, this option can be toggled at the login screen and in the settings.
- Added the option to load the reading list at startup.
- Renamed ‘Close’ to ‘Back’ (in the browser form).
- Resolved a crash involving empty subscription list, program will end gracefully J.
- Code tightening and optimization.
v0.7 (01-07-2009):
- New icon for program.
- Icons by each tag, subscription, article displaying whether an item is read, unread, starred.
- UI redesign (consolidation tabs into one).
- Touch scrolling in the browser.
- Ability to star articles.
- Ability to hide read articles.
- Multi-language support.
- Resolved issues with encoding (some characters did not display correctly).
- Resolved issues with QVGA devices.
v0.6 (20-05-2009):
- Fixed two crashes dealing with empty lists.
- Fixed crash where closing login form using the corner X/Ok causes unpredictable program behavior.
- Significant loading performance speed up.
- Ability to view reading list for all tags (excludes ‘Untagged’ tagged since there is no official Google Reader tag for this).
- AppToDate Support – need to have AppToDate (http://www.apptodate.org/get) installed to use this feature. AppToDate allows me to notify users (and download) of updates without them having to come to this site to find it.
v0.5 (17-05-2009):
- Implemented Mirabyte Touch UI for finger friendly lists and scrolling.
- Fixed bug where Google API token would expire preventing the application from marking articles as read after some time.
- Fixed crashes where no network/internet access exist.
- Fixed bug where an article marked as read on the home tab wasn’t marked read in the Tag tab.
- Fixed issue with screen layout/sizing problems on devices with lower screen resolutions.
- Fixed backwards scroll when scrolling through lists.