News Reader
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Summary
The NewsReader activity provides an interface for viewing news feeds (RSS feeds). This allows you to keep track of a wide variety of news and current affairs stories, from multiple websites on a single screen. It can also download audio, video, and bittorrent files. So it can be used to keep track of podcasts.
Description & Goals
The NewsReader activity is based on Penguin TV.
Limitations
The majority of podcasts are made available as mp3 files, which cannot be viewed by the OLPC by default. To enable mp3 playback, an [extra codec has to be installed].
Goals
Collaboration
Visual Design
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Development
Development is hosted on sourceforge, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/penguintv/.
Source
Code is hosted in Sourceforge SVN
RPMs
- none available
Resources
Functional Test
Open the NewsReader activity.
If connected to the internet, click on Planet OLPC and ensure that the news items get updated. Ensure that the scroll bar works. Click on the news text and ensure the up/down arrows, and the game pad buttons for scrolling through an article.
Close the activity; ensure that it closes properly.