[ANN] News Reader Stack Available

[sims]

>Glad to hear someone finds it useful.  I was getting quite sick of clicking
>links, waiting for pages to load, clicking back to return to stories, etc.,
>thus this project.  There are a few more features I'd like to add, such as
>searching past stories, displaying reviews, and viewing forum comments, but
>I'm trying to complete some other "mini-browsers" beforehand.

Very nice, Scott!

I made something similar which grabs the local news from the Times of Malta,
saves the text and then makes a sound (.aiff) from the text. I can listen to
the news whilst doing other things here in the morning. You could also save it
to iTunes and end up with a MP3 file if you space is an issue.

Because of the AppleScript it only works on Mac.

To turn text into an AIFF sound file I do the following:

In the Custom Property  doAS     I place:  using  "Bruce"   saving to 
"MaltaNews.aiff"

   if the hilite of btn "Make sound file" is true then -- option of 
listening or reading the text
   put fld "pageText" into tWords -- fld containing portion of web 
page with html stripped
   replace quote with " " in tWords --quotes seem prevent the making 
of the sound file
   put the doAS of me into doAS  --I suppose you could just script it 
all without the Cust.Prop
   put "say"&& quote&tWORDS&quote  before doAS
   do doAS as applescript
   end if

atb

sims



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