From Matt Berther:
I’ve typically been against a lot of advertising on websites, however, I have now put my first advertisement on mattberther.com.
The decision behind this was simple. The ad is for NewsGator, which is a tool that I use on a daily basis, and one that I could not imagine being without.
Thanks Matt! For those of you who don’t know, Matt is the author is the excellent MovablePoster plug-in for NewsGator, which allows you to post to your Movable Type or TypePad weblog.
Our new NewsGator ad went online a few days ago at infoworld.com. You can see it here. Feel free to grab the markup and display this baby on your own site. ;-)
Thanks to Didier Hilhorst from nundroo, who again did a great job!
Another NewsGator review, this one from eWeek. A small excerpt:
NewsGator is a must-have for news junkies who use news sites with Rich Site Summary content, such as Slashdot.org.
This has been mentioned lots of places already, but in case you missed it – ExtremeTech reviews six news aggregators, including NewsGator. A quote:
NewsGator provides an important convenience – operating inside outlook, it doesn’t require a separate application to view news feeds Since we use Outlook for email when using Windows, we found it super handy to have our news feeds embedded inside.. This is a unique feature to NewsGator, and if you use Outlook heavily, this product is for you.
If you were previously a NewsGator user before 1.3, it’s likely you’ve never seen the new NewsGator Tips feed. If you’d like to subscribe, go to the Subscriptions dialog, click the Add button, and select the Feed Wizard. Choose RSS and continue, select “NewsGator.com Feeds” from the list and click Next, and then choose the NewsGator Tips feed from the list.
And ignore the first tip about using the feed wizard – it’s not really applicable if you add the feed this way. ;-)
This is the first of a few posts to come about cool NewsGator features that aren’t obvious…
Did you know you can change the formatting of posts within NewsGator? A common request is to be able to change the default font used to render items. The font used is actually Internet Explorer’s default font, and you can change that if you wish (IE, Tools/Options, Font button). But starting in 1.3, there’s another way.
There is a file in your NewsGator installation directory called ngstyles.css. If you edit this file, and insert some CSS styles, you can change the way posts are formatted. For example, to change the font used for the post/comment links at the top of the post (or bottom, depending on how you have it configured), put the following into your ngstyles.css file:
.ngpostlinks
{
font-family: Arial;
}
Similarly, there is a file called NewsPage.css which contains style and formatting information for the NewsPage. You can edit this at will also, and come up with the formatting you like.
Chris Pirillo was kind enough to post the stylesheets he’s using in the NewsGator forums. In fact, he also posted a whole new NewsPage HTML file, which uses different icons. Thanks Chris!
So how about it? Anyone else want to post their creations in the forum?
At long last, NewsGator 1.3 is now available!
A few highlights:
Mark Pilgrim recently posted a set of feeds to test proper HTTP support in aggregators. Here’s how NewsGator fares. Note that you won’t be able to test these yourself, as Mark’s test feeds are Atom feeds; this was based on NewsGator 1.3 beta code with Atom support. “Success” below means NewsGator behaved correctly according to the spec.
To everyone who is running NewsGator, I have a favor to ask.
Please go to your control panel, add/remove programs. Find NewsGator in the list, and click on it. If the “Remove” button is either missing or disabled, please contact me ASAP. Thanks!
Did anyone notice something written about NewsGator today, without a link? Another surge of google searches for “NewsGator” today, which typically means there was an article somewhere mentioning it…