Because there is almost no animo for FeedZcollector we have decided to postpone support and further development.

Only in case the animo grows to substantial portions we will consider to re-start investment in time and money again.

Information about the MS Access database format was added to the Support section.

» Which MS Access data formats are supported?

Today the FeedZcollector price was dropped over 60%.
Due to technical problems with updating the Paypal purchase system, buying FeedZcollector was disabled for a couple of days.
The FeedZcollector purchase section is up and running again now

As said in our post of april 11th we will contact people who already bought FeedZcollector in order to make a fair proposition for a partial refund.

From time to time FeedZcollector may change pricing. Well ... we think the time is right for a change ...

The price will drop over 60%.

Because preparations are made to reduce the price of FeedZcollector the purchase section on the FeedZcollector site is disabled for a while.
The purchase section will be available again as soon as possible.

» FeedZcollector

N.B. We will contact people who already bought FeedZcollector in order to make a fair proposition for a partial refund.

Today (March 24th, 2007) FeedZcollector 1.4 was released.

It appeared that handling of the dc:date elements resulted sometimes in erroneous results. This is fixed in version 14.
Performance is improved significantly.

Version 1.4 - d.d. 20070324
- Fixed bug in hanling of the dc:date elements
- Enhanced performance compared to previous versions significantly

» FeedZcollector Download section

Due to technical problems the NewsRadar that was launched last month on November 7th is disabled.

Update 2006/12/15: Problems solved

Update 2008/04/12: Radar permanently deleted...

Today FeedZcollector 1.3 was released.

It appeared that when using a MySQL database the fields containing date/time information were not formatted properly.
This is fixed in version 1.3.

Two enhancements for data in the item table
The length of the title field is enlarged and leading and trailing spaces in title and description are trimmed.


Version 1.3 - d.d. 20061214
- MySQL database bug fix: Incorrect date/time format in the fields containing date information, for instance pubDate, dateAdded, etc.
- Item table enhancements:
   * title field: width set to 200
   * title and description field: leading & trailing spaces trimmed

» FeedZcollector Download section

When using a MySQL database the MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51 is required
» MySQL Connector/ODBC 3.51 download and instructions page

Today version 1.2 is released. No new functionaliies. Only a bug fix.

In some feeds the 'title' element and the 'description' element are optional items of an element 'item'. A feed however must contain at least one of the two mentioned.
In case the 'title' element is missing FeedZcollector creates a 'title' itself. It is derived from the description by striping the HTML - <BR> and <image> tags excluded - and limiting it to max 200 characters.

It is not guaranteed that this feature will stay for ever.

N.B. This only occured when the optional title element is missing


Version 1.2 - d.d. 20061119
- Bug fixed in composing 'title' element, in case it is derived from 'description' element. fixed.

Information about start/stop the FeedZcollector grabber added to the support section
» How can I open the FeedZcollector administrator console window?
» How can I start/stop the FeedZcollector grabber?

Today in the support section three new pages were published:
» Where can I download the default config file (fcs.exe.config)?
» Where can I download an copy of the initial empty MS Access database?
» Where can I download the SQL script for creating a MySQL database?

Version 1.1 - d.d. 20061111
- Internet connectivity check improved
- Adding enclosures to database: fixed
- Stripping HTML-tags for Item Titles: fixed
- Correct version name in administrator console window

On November 9th, 2006 FeedZcollector 1.0 was released by Zelders², founders of the feed directory & search service Feeds4All.com, the feed resources portal FeedFiles.com and the feed tagging service experiment FeedAlley.com.

FeedZcollector is an application that captures the content of web feeds (RSS, ATOM and RDF) at regular intervals. The content is stored in a Microsoft Access or MySQL database, ready for you to analyze, process or present.

FeedZcollector fits within the philosophy of 'Small Pieces Loosely Joined': it does not provide a User Interface for managing the feeds collection or for retreival or presentation of results. For these purposes other tooling is needed, like Microsoft Access or SQLYog or other suitable tools or services.

FeedZcollector is implemented as a Microsoft Windows Service. This means that as long as the operating system is running it does its job in the background once it is started, even if you log off. This makes it a perfect solution for a (web)server running services that depend on content of webfeeds.


To learn more about FeedZcollector visit the website: http://www.feeds4all.com/feedzcollector/
For more information please contact us by e-mail: mailto:support@feeds4all.com
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SOURCE: Feeds4all.com / FeedZcollector - Zelders² Holland

FeedZcollector Version 0.4 beta released today

Version 0.4 - beta d.d. 20061108
- Bug in Eventlog sort solved
- Version number of FeedZcollector in caption of administrator console
- Balloon tip for system tray icon gives instruction to start the FeedZcollector administrator by double clicking the icon
- Default feed added in MS Access data base

Today in the support section a chapter was added about reconfiguration of
the FeedZcollector database.
It explains how to rename the database or move the database to another location.
Switching to using MySQL is explained too.

» How can I change database type, rename or move the FeedZcollector database?

FeedZcollector Version 0.3 beta released today

Version 0.3 - initial beta d.d. 20061107
- Some unhandled exceptions fixed
- Button 'Clear Eventlog' removed from administrator client console
- FeedZcollector can be identified as 'FeedZcollector grabber'

Marjolein Hoekstra created the FeedZcollector NewsRadar.
It serves
a) A FeedZcollector River of News
and
b) the following search results
- [del.icio.us] Tag search for FeedZcollector
- [del.icio.us] URL search for FeedZcollector
- [Google Blog Search] Keyword search for FeedZcollector
[IceRocket Blog Search] Keyword search for FeedZcollector
- [Technorati] Keyword search for FeedZcollector
- [Topix.net] Keyword search for FeedZcollector

Go ahead. Click and see what's on the web about FeedZcollector!

Update: Due to technical problems the NewsRadar is disabled

Update 2006/12/15: Problems solved

Explanation of the database tables 'feeds', 'items' and 'enclorures' was completed.
They can be found under the Support section

Based on the input received immediately after launching FeedZcollector we updated the website with a QuickStart section, a Release Notes section and added some extra Support items.
We are working on the QuickStart section today, so feel free to come back later and view the result.

FeedZcollector public alpha Version 0.2 released today

- Added Internet connectivity check (Grabber stops in case internet connection not available)
- Added database connectivity check
- Added config file integrity check
- Added Event log support
- Added Event monitoring in FeedZcollector administrator window
- Changed the default installation to folder C:/Program Files/FeedZcollector/

Today Xander Zelders and Fred Zelders released FeedZcollector Version 0.1.1 as public alpha. This release is a demo version (with limitations). In the near future it can be upgraded to versions with less or no limitations.

Together with this launch the FeedZcollector website was launched.

N.B. Xander & Fred run Feeds4all.com (an enhanced web feed directory and search service) and FeedFiles.com (a Feed resources portal). Besides the two mentioned they manage several other sites and services.