AmphetaDesk
Description: AmphetaDesk is a news aggregator - it sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage.

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# 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! A Brief History - Blurbage about inspirations, desires and buildup. Why "AmphetaDesk"? - What kinda name is AmphetaDesk, anyways? Discussion Mailing List - The latest in news, support, add-ons, and more. Screenshots / Tour - Preview AmphetaDesk before you download. Give Thanks - Show your appreciation for AmphetaDesk. 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. What's New in Version 0.93.1? - What can you expect? Download AmphetaDesk v0.93.1 for Mac OS 7-9 (released October 31, 2002). Download AmphetaDesk v0.93.1 for Mac OS X (released October 31, 2002). Download AmphetaDesk v0.93.1 for Windows 98 and up (released October 31, 2002). Download AmphetaDesk v0.93.1 for Windows 95 ONLY (released October 31, 2002). Download AmphetaDesk v0.93.1 Source (Linux, etc.) (released October 31, 2002). # 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. Finding More Channels - Find thousands of additional channels for your AmphetaDesk. Integrating Your Website - Making life easier for AmphetaDesk users and your web site. Skinning AmphetaDesk - How to customize the look and feel of AmphetaDesk. 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. Development Mailing List - Questions, help, implementations, and more related to coding. SourceForge Project Page - Latest sources, bugs, feature requests, mailing lists, etc. Build Instructions - Creating runtimes and build environments for your installation. Files and Directories - What every file and directory in AmphetaDesk does and means. XML: myServices - An examination of the myChannels, myStrips and myWebCams XML syntax. XML: mySettings - The XML configuration for the configuration of AmphetaDesk. XML: Services Lists - Explanation of the XML for the list of various services lists available. 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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