Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: an idea for an app: CNN headlines
Hi Dennis,
Are you talking about the CNN idea or just apps in general?
I would like to do something like this but too many things have
prevented me from even getting started. I am always on the fly and do not even
read entire emails, thus missing the point when it is not in the first 5 or so
lines.
The other reason is too many viruses out there and I even got burnt by the
federal government which installed spy ware on there FTC sight, which was a
recently government created web site...NSA issues.
The discussion could first start with what attracks most people, web pages
or programs for on this blog it is hit and miss app writers and not those
interested in apps.
Maybe we can get a discussion going.
Bruce
I would like to see this done.
On 1/30/2014 8:24 AM, Chip Orange wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sometimes I get emails from people who would like to write an app (to
> help learn scripting better with, or as a project they can get
> interested in), and they’re looking for suggestions. So, I was hoping
> we all could post our suggestions to the scripting and apps list when we
> thought of such things, and if someone decided to take up an idea, I’d
> hope they’d answer such a post to let others know someone else was
> already working on that idea (we had a wiki entry at one time as a place
> for people to list their plans but alas …).
>
> Well, this idea comes as a result of various people asking me “have you
> heard …” and then some recent news item. I’d like to say yes, I’ve
> always heard, but I don’t usually have the time to go keep checking CNN
> (or even an RSS aggregator).
>
> My idea is that I see CNN has their headlines in various categories
> listed in an XML RSS file, which they update from time to time. I was
> thinking it would be nice if, as they added some new headline in a
> category you had marked as being of interest to you, your app (which
> would check say once every 5 minutes) could either speak the headline,
> or bring up the headline in a message box? Either way, perhaps you’d
> have a hotkey which would bring up the headlines and allow you to jump
> to the CNN page for a given headline.
>
> So, that’s my idea (which I don’t have time for because I’m not
> finishing my other ideas). Others are free to comment on it or modify
> it until, in some form, it catches someone’s interest.
>
> It may not be the best app idea, but maybe just discussing app ideas
> here will help us create one which is the best app idea (after all, it’s
> really (to me) where WE outshines all other competition, in that it’s so
> easy to create an app).
>
> Chip
>
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