OK Dennis,
I will look at it and see what I can do. First I will make an app to
capture the html and go from there.
I will get back with you on it.
Bruce
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: an idea for an app: CNN headlines
Bruce I was referring to the CNN app idea. I think it's a good one.
On 1/30/2014 3:53 PM, LB wrote:
>
> 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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