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f00fighter replied on April 10, 2009 01:49 to the idea "Bookmarks for favorite channels and shows" in boxee:

I love this idea...it would be great to have quick access to favorite channels on the "home screen" instead of navigating through multiple levels of menus to find that same show you watch regularly.

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f00fighter replied on April 10, 2009 01:32 to the idea "Send Boxee audio to AirTunes speakers." in boxee:

This would be fantastic. I use an AppleTV as the front end to my music library and stream music to the rest of my house via multiple Airport Express devices. It would be great for Boxee to be able to "see" my shared iTunes library, play music, and stream to the Airport Express devices. Why exit Boxee if I don't have to!

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f00fighter marked one of edwk's replies in Feedly as useful. edwk replied to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read".

f00fighter replied on March 28, 2009 15:33 to the problem "Feedly-mini Toolbar showing on pages that I am not subscribed to." in Feedly:

Yes - the Feedly mini-toolbar is now showing on both the main website & each individual article page.

In it's current state, showing the Feedly-mini toolbar only on individual articles/posts probably makes more sense since it actually has an impact on Google Reader (GR) & the Feedly Digest (FD). Showing it on the main page makes a little less sense since it has no real impact on GR & FD at the current time.

However, if the mini toolbar had a new option that allowed you to mark all articles on the main page as read that might make it worth having on the main page too. If that button/option is selected the toolbar could scrub the page for all linked articles and mark those articles as read in GR & FD. Does that make sense?

This would allow you to mark all articles on the main page as read (sometimes you don't care to read more than the excerpt that appears on the main page), while also letting you only mark articles as read that you actually read. This level of flexibility would make Feedly very powerful.

I guess I'm kinda torn here and can't decide which makes more sense to me. Would you consider making it an option and/or adding a new "Mark all linked articles as read" option?

[ ] Show Feedly-mini toolbar on individual articles/posts
[ ] Show Feedly-mini toolbar on main website

Just an idea.

f00fighter replied on March 27, 2009 15:51 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

I understand that this may not be an easy fix - but I also imagine that there may be many feeds that aggregate posts from multiple feeds/sources - so it would be great if the Feedly toolbar knew how to handle those cases.

Hope your code gurus can come up with a solution!

f00fighter replied on March 27, 2009 15:48 to the problem "Feedly-mini Toolbar showing on pages that I am not subscribed to." in Feedly:

Feedly auto-updated to 1.2.223 (build 2482) - but now the mini-toolbar isn't showing on the sites that I subscribe to when I select

"yes but only on the websites I subscribe to"

The only way I can get the toolbar to appear is to select:

"yes but only if it has found interesting metadata from friendfeed, digg, etc.."
- or -
"yes - on all the rss enabled websites"

f00fighter reported a problem in Feedly on March 27, 2009 03:06:

Feedly-mini Toolbar showing on pages that I am not subscribed to.

I have enabled the Feedly-mini toolbad and selected it to only show on websites that I subscribe to.


However, the Feedly-mini toolbar still shows on websites that I am not subscribed to. The video below demonstrates the problem.

http://screencast.com/t/kwWTXIjSq

Actually, the toolbar shows up on pretty much every page - subscription or not. For example, it shows up on the main GOOGLE.com page. Oddly, it does not show on www.getsatisfaction.com !

f00fighter replied on March 27, 2009 02:52 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

Edwin - Here's a video showing an example of the problems I am having:

http://screencast.com/t/I1Tw8PKLRGA

f00fighter replied on March 27, 2009 02:12 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

Hey Edwin - Looks like unsubscribing from all of my previous feeds in Google Reader helped the situation with Feedly a little.

So far I have only added back 2 feeds (scobleizer & techcrunch) out of the 70+ that I had. However, I am now seeing that *some* of the posts/articles I visit on the websites I subscribe to are being marked as read in Google Reader & Feedly.

I have found 2 different articles that refuse to be "marked as read" - one on Scobleizer, one on TechCrunch.

I'll try recording a video here soon...

f00fighter replied on March 26, 2009 18:57 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

Great, thanks Edwin - I'll work on recording it tonight.

By the way, as an additional troubleshooting step, I unsubscribed from ALL of my feeds in Google Reader (don't worry - I exported my subscriptions to OPML first) and re-subscribed to the Scobleizer feed (http://scobleizer.com/feed/). There's only one feed in my Google Reader now.

Then I logged out of Feedly and logged back in which rebuilt my Feedly digest. Unfortunately, the articles still aren't getting marked as "read" when I visit the page. The Feedly-mini toolbar appears, but it's not marking the article as "read" in Feedly or Google Reader.

Hopefully having a single feed will make it easier to demonstrate the problem on video and troubleshoot afterwards.

Video to come...

f00fighter replied on March 26, 2009 03:59 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

OK - I will gladly work on a screencast, but need to find software/service to do it...any suggestions?

f00fighter replied on March 26, 2009 03:37 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

Hey Edwin - Perhaps the problem is between my keyboard and the back of my chair!?

I thought that the Feedly-mini toolbar would mark the items as read in Feedly AND in Google Reader - did I misunderstand the way the Feedly-mini toolbar works?

I thought that the Feedly mini-toolbar would "watch" what pages I visited - and mark those pages as read in Google Reader AND Feedly if I subscribed to the feed for that site. Based on what you state above, it seems that the Feedly-mini toolbar only marks those items as read in Feedly, but not in Google Reader.

Can you help clear up my confusion?

f00fighter replied on March 25, 2009 20:24 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

OK, thanks Edwin.

FYI - I initially installed Feedly on an iMac running OSX 10.5.6 with FF 3.0.7. In the off-chance that this was an environmental issue I also installed Feedly on a laptop running Win XP SP3 w/ FF 3.0.7 - but I still had the same problems as previously described.

Let me know if I can provide any additional information to help you troubleshoot the issue.

f00fighter replied on March 25, 2009 10:50 to the problem ""Auto-Mark As Read" doesn't Auto-Mark As Read" in Feedly:

The current feed advertised on TechCrunch.com is http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch which matches my feed url in Google Reader:

However, when I visit an article on TechCrunch (ie - http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/03/25/p... ) the Feedly-mini toolbar appears but that article\page does not get marked as read in Google Reader.

I've also tried other sites (like http://scobleizer.com)


but no matter what site/page I visit - Feedly doesn't seem to be marking that article/page as read in Google Reader. For example, I went to this page: http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/24/is-c... and the Feedly-mini toolbar appeared - but that article/page is still "unread" in Google Reader.

I also disabled all other add-ons in Firefox (3.0.7) and visited a number of sites that I subscribe to, and read a bunch of articles on each site. In every case he Feedly-mini toolbar appeared, but Feedly still doesn't mark those Google Reader items as read. What else can I do to help troubleshoot this issue?

By the way - I enjoyed your video-interview with Scoble!