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This website serves as my personal blog and also for information regarding my Windows Phone app, MyFeeds.

  • MyFeeds 2.0 Beta Info

    I’m getting pretty close on my 2.0 update to MyFeeds. I’ll be publishing a beta to the Marketplace soon.If you would like to participate, please join the mailing list and follow the directions in the welcome email. I could really use feedback on some of the changes I’ve made. Here’s a list of what’s new so far: Live tile. Displays number of feeds with unread items on the front. On the back you can see how how many unread items there are. Pin feed to start screen. Tile displays how many unread items that feed has. Podcasts play using the background audio feature in Windows Phone 7.5. The app no longer has to be running to listen to podcasts! Use checkboxes to select feeds and then mark as … more

  • MyFeeds 1.19 Available

    MyFeeds 1.19 is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace! If you don’t see the latest version yet, be patient. I just published it so it may take a bit to show up. This is a very minor bugfix release. I am working on the 2.x code as well, which will have some new features. This release contains the following: Article has blank space at top when there was no image associated. Fixed. RSS feeds with no description tag cause app to crash. Fixed. RSS feeds using Cyrillic (windows-1251) codepage do not display properly. Fixed. more

  • MyFeeds 1.17 Now Available

    MyFeeds 1.17 is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace. It has been rebuilt for Mango (Windows Phone OS 7.5). Supports fast app switching. Article view now has in-line links, thanks to the new RichTextBox in Mango! You can now copy and paste OPML for import and export of your feed list. more

  • MyFeeds 1.16

    MyFeeds 1.16 has just been certified in the Marketplace. This is another bugfix release: Long text in articles was getting cut off. This is fixed. A bug was sometimes causing a crash when loading feeds from local storage. more

  • MyFeeds 1.15

    I’ve submitted another update to MyFeeds. It should be available in the next few days. No new features, just some more bug fixes: Bugfix – App crashes when resuming to the Feed Item Display page. Bugfix – App crashes occasionally when feeds are updating. Bugfix – App crashes occasionally when navigating between pages. more

  • MyFeeds 1.14 Available

    Well, that was quicker than I had originally planned… Change Log: 1.14: Bugfix - Found another bug which was causing feeds to be deleted if they were being saved while the app is shutting down. Now the most that can be lost are the feed items. MyFeeds more

  • MyFeeds 1.13 Available

    MyFeeds 1.13 is now available in the Marketplace. Change Log: Bugfix - Not all feeds updated when app starts. Bugfix - Feeds may be deleted if being updated when app is shutting down. more

  • MyFeeds 1.11 Coming Soon!

    It’s been a couple of months since I’ve released an update, but now MyFeeds 1.11 has been submitted to the Windows Phone Marketplace and should be available soon. Here’s what’s changed: Improved load time. Fixed bug when posting to Twitter. Feeds now update completely in the background. New article view does not rely on web browser control. New in-app web browser for viewing the full article and links in the articles. Allows portrait mode to be locked. Option to stream or download podcasts. Image size is based on font-size selection. Read/Unread indicator in feed item list. Podcasts only show as "read" after fully listening to them. more