Vienna 2.5 beta
If you’ve ever wanted to tweet or post to Facebook from your news reader, be sure to check out the beta for the next version of the open source Vienna.
We tried it, and — despite the app being in beta — the features worked flawlessly. When you’re in a story you want to share, simply click on one of three icons in the tool bar for Twitter, Facebook and Evernote. You’ll be taken to the site of the service you’ve chosen, with the URL of the story you want to share ready for posting.
Perhaps more exciting than this sharing feature is the advent of plugin capabilities. So far, two types are supported: link plugins that allow sharing of the type described above for Twitter, Facebook and Evernote, and script plugins that allow you to run defined actions through AppleScript.
Plugins are apparently easy to create — no programming expertise is needed. So who knows what cool stuff the Vienna community will dream up. Maybe I could finally figure out how to create my dream script: a button that marks all the stories in a feed as read.
Posted Thursday, February 11, 2010 in Updates
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