Introduction
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AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated
news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads
the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick
and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage. With thousands of
channels available, AmphetaDesk can shave hours off your day - and
you'll look smart to all your friends! Egotism never had it
better!
- Installation - Easy install for Mac and Windows; Linux installation notes.
- Latest News - Readable via the web or AmphetaDesk.
- Kudos and Presspit - Hear what users and press have been saying about AmphetaDesk.
Customization and Expansion
AmphetaDesk's powerful backend allows easy modification to the
templates and internal source code shipped with your download,
whether you're on Mac, Windows, Linux or some unheard of beast
from limitless fathoms. Know someone else who tweaked their
AmphetaDesk? You can perform the same tweaks on your own, gaining
flexibility and control, allowing AmphetaDesk to be all you want
and need it to be. Here, we'll talk about various ways of
improving your use of AmphetaDesk, as well as walking you through
what others have done already.
Coming Soon:
- HOWTO: Adding Weather Reports - An explanation on how to add local weather reports.
- HOWTO: Creating a Linklist - Click directly to your favorite feeds.
- HOWTO: Showing Only x Items - Limiting the amount of data you see.
- HOWTO: Showing Only yyy Words - Limiting the amount of data you see.
For Developers
AmphetaDesk is developed with Perl and XML. All GUI functions
are coded in Perl using libraries from the specific OS as well (since
forcing the user to download Tk is a bad thing). Runtime versions are
built with Perl2EXE (for Windows) and MacPerl (for Mac's). The latest
source code is available from SourceForge CVS
and is designed to figure out what OS you're using at the time and
load in the correct libraries (although you'll probably need to
download and install various modules from CPAN). Besides the
module dependency, the source code should work without modification.
AmphetaDesk wouldn't be possible without the contributions of (alphabetically):
Dave Beckett (http header code),
David Berube (who's effort with the Win32 GUI code was impressive),
Tara Calishan (a constant promoter, her insight as a researcher has been invaluable),
William Eastler (who helped get AmphetaDesk off the ground),
Alan Fry (who contributed large amounts of effort to Mac GUI code that has yet to be used),
Steve Ivy (he of constant feature badgering and alpha hack tweaking),
l.m.orchard (for the Mac OS X native GUI wrapper),
Klaus Johannes Rusch (who reworked our networking code to support proxies and more),
Mads Toftum (contributor of code to fix some channel deletion bugs),
Eric Vitiello (an all around excellent contributer),
and Jeremy Zawodny (for hunting down a few bugs and patching them).
If I've forgotten others, please let me know.
- CHANGELOG - What's been happening from version to version.
- LICENSE - The Clarified Artistic License from NcFTP.
- TODO - Things forthcoming for the future.
Old Versions
These are old versions. How dare you want these! Scroll up, scroll up!
- AmphetaDesk v0.93 (released June 13th, 2002): Mac (OS X), Win (98 and up), Source
- AmphetaDesk v0.92 (released October 5th, 2001): Mac (OS 7-9), Win (all), Source
- AmphetaDesk v0.91 (released July 2nd, 2001): Mac (OS 7-9), Win (all), Source
- AmphetaDesk v0.90 (released May 29th, 2001): Mac (OS 7-9), Win (all), Source
- AmphetaDesk v0.24 (released March 19th, 2001): Mac (OS 7-9), Win (all)
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