October 17, 2003
Too much Ampheta in my Desk
I use Amphetadesk at work for monitoring incoming feeds from our sister publications and today I finally caved and set it up at home. Clicking through IE favorites to each blog on my morning reading list was becoming a tedious chore as the list swelled with BloggerCon attendants and other tidbits of good reading.
But I find that Amphetadesk displays about 20 posts from each feed on the main channels page. I went into settings to scale that back to one or two (if I'm checking them every day — and I am — just a couple of posts will keep me up to date), but there doesn't seem to be a setting for the number of items displayed from each feed. Anyone have a clue about this? Will it limit items to only the most recent after using it for a while?
I've been toying with the idea of just building my own aggregator that does everything just the way I want it to. I've been working on aggregating feeds at work this month, I wouldn't mind putting that knowledge to use while it's still fresh.
Comments
How about one of the other aggregators, such as NewzCrawler or FeedDemon for Windows or NetNewsWire for the Mac? NewzCrawler and FeedDemon both have a "newspaper" mode that only displays the day's most recent posts for a whole collection of feeds (dunno about NetNewsWire since I don't use a Mac).