HeadlineHawk: RSS and Top Stories Delivered Via Email
Here's an interesting application that is made specifically for the email friendly BlackBerry device. HeadlineHawk is (as far as I can tell) a free server-side application that you send commands to via email; it then sends replies via email. It's like HTTP except instead of clicking a link in a browser you send an email and instead of displaying a page, you get an email. The bonus is that it's sticky; if you close your the BlackBerry Browser you lose whatever you were looking at; the results of a HeadlineHawk session stay in your inbox until you're done with the emails sent to you. The downside is that it's pretty verbose; retrieving an RSS feed to be sent to your inbox means typing in: "RSS www.blackberryblog.com/index.rdf". IMHO, this would be a great J2ME application; instead of having to remember commands, you click on a button in the J2ME application or choose from a drop down list. The J2ME application can then switch you back to your email client or listen for results in the email client.
Regardless, it's worth a look. You can try it out by sending an email from your BlackBerry device to: "start@HeadlineHawk.com" with a subject of "register [device-manufacturer] [device-model]" (ie: "register RIM 7280").
December 02, 2004 in Software by ajohnson
Comments
New version of HeadlineHawk, called HeadlineHawk Pro is out... much easier to use. Pro is a downloadable application - and HeadlineHawk is still free.
Best feature - schedule the newsfeeds to arrive at whatever time you want (like during that boring meeting every monday!)
Posted by: capri boyington on March 8, 2006 5:41 PM