Horus is a RSS news reader application for Symbian^3 devices with a unique UI. Additionally, Horus also supports podcasts and videopodcasts. With Horus you can customize your RSS feeds modifying its colors, titles, or sorting them, and you can add new RSS feeds entering its url or just searching for them with Horus built-in search engine. A new way to enjoy reading your favourite news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THq58M8ccSE
You can download Horus FREE from Ovi Store.
June 2, 2011 at 7:23 pm
I can’t add any RSS/website only the preloaded ones, and I don’t want them.
I uninstalled the app, please let me know when you fix it, I have Nokia N8.
June 2, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Hi, thanks for your comment.
You can add new feeds with the current version, these are the steps to add a new RSS feed in Horus:
1- Touch the “+” buttón that appears on the left side.
2- Touch the text box and enter the feed. You can enter a name to search for the feed or you can write the full URL, in this case make sure you write http:// at the beginning of the URL.
3- Touch the button that is in the right side of the text box.
4- If your phone has an internet connection several feeds will appear. Click on the “+” button of the one you want to add. That’s it.
You can watch this video to see how Engadget feed is added http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THq58M8ccSE .
If you have any question, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Regards, Fran.
June 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm
After searching for engadget, it found it, and then when I try to touch the ‘plus’ button before the engadget name(to add it), nothing happens.
That is the problem.
June 2, 2011 at 8:53 pm
After touching the screen 30 times I succeeded in adding the rss!
But when I go to delete the inbuild rss I (again) have to touch the screen ALOT OF times in order to delete something OR to add something.
My N8 is new, and everything is working great.
I think there might be a problem in the touch method or something.
Thanks anyway.
June 2, 2011 at 8:56 pm
and when I try to click on a feed in the home screen, the UI thinks I am trying to move the feeds or to go up and down, takes me 3-4 clicks in order to get into a feed.
I hope you guys will fix it because the app has a huge potential.
June 2, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Ok, I think I know what’s the problem. When you touch it, you are moving your finger a little bit and when that happens it’s like the button isn’t clicked, you need to press and release because if you leave your finger in your screen if a little movement is detected it won’t reflect the click.
Anyway, I’m going to try to solve it for the next release. Thanks for your patience.
June 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm
After searching for engadget, it found it, and then when I try to touch the ‘plus’ button before the engadget name(to add it), nothing happens.
That is the problem.
June 2, 2011 at 9:02 pm
No problem,
But believe me I had alot of touch screen phones, the problem isn’t with my fingers or the way I touch it.
June 2, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Ok, don’t worry, it’s easy to solve this -it shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours- but I’ll wait one week to see if there are other problems and then a new version will be submitted to Ovi Store, so in a couple of weeks it should be available the update.
Thanks again for your comments and your patience.
June 2, 2011 at 9:30 pm
No problem I am glad I could help.
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June 18, 2011 at 8:36 am
hi man,
Just tried your new Horus version, working great!
Good job!
June 18, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Thanks, you were a big help to identify the problem quickly.
July 13, 2011 at 10:39 am
Hello. I love your app, the only thing i miss is the home widget (but we talked about it already) and HIDE button or option… And auto reload function, if it is there i am sorry, i havent found it…
Thank you for the app
August 19, 2011 at 4:59 am
horus crashing on my symbian anna.
August 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Doesn’t work on Symbian anna…. Crashes when searching…
September 4, 2011 at 7:57 am
Hello again.
There is still another problem… The Horus app is not able to provide all RSS feeds, the example:
http://www.symbiantweet.com
I hope you will look into it
October 6, 2011 at 12:35 am
I add http://conversations.nokia.com/feed/ and http://www.cittaceleste.it/rss/ to the “not-working” list.
BTW the app is great, a very beautiful UI
Are you planning Belle support, landscape and/or an homescreen widget?
October 6, 2011 at 9:00 am
First of all, great app, really loving it on my C7 running Anna.
Is there a way of transferring the list of feeds from the Beta version to the one installed via Ovi Store?
October 6, 2011 at 10:11 am
@Kevin If you had access to the folder where Horus is installed you could copy a file called Horus.dat and all png images located there, but by default those directories cannot be accessed in Symbian -and I’m not sure if there’s a way to access there-.
@Fabio With the Nokia Conversations feed, try it again, it’s working for me -make sure to write http:// at the begining and click several times in the button if it doesn’t appear the first time or enter the url where it’s redirected http://feeds.feedburner.com/NokiaConversations-Posts .
About the second feed, http://www.cittaceleste.it/rss/ there is a problem with the xml document, it contains errors and cannot be loaded as an xml file. Usually, when the feed is updated and the part where the error is located is no longer in the document you could add it to Horus.
If you want, try to enter in that url from Google Chrome, now you’ll see an error message like “This page contains the following errors: error on line 1 at column 7218: Opening and ending tag mismatch: BR line 0 and title”. When you don’t see errors you’ll know you can subscribe to the feed from Horus.
And about Symbian Belle support, sure, you can count with it. When I can update my phone to Belle I’ll check if there are problems and I’ll fix them if that’s the case. With landscape I think no, there is a problem with Symbian phones: they have a panoramic resolution (16:9) and the top bar and the place where ads are located occupy most part of the screen and for example it’s almost impossible to see a full image. With E6 resolution (640×480 instead of 640×360) it’s at least acceptable. And finally
, with homescreen widget I tried to create it in the past but the libraries that were used -some old libraries from N97 Mini SDK- to create a HS widget for an application stopped working since QT 4.7. If I find a way to make it work in the future there’ll be a HS Widget because it has been the most requested feature.
October 12, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Hello sir. First of all, I would like to congratulate and thank you for creating such a nice app. I’m using s60v5 version. There are two things that I think can make it even great:
1. An article sharing option (facebook, twitter, email etc.)
2. A night mode option (like UC Browser) for reading at night in low light.
Thanks a lot!
October 15, 2011 at 12:31 pm
There’ll be a new update to fix a bug that was reported by a user and I hope I can include those features, so check the next update that should be available in Nokia Store in a couple of weeks and I’ll probably publish the Beta version here.
October 13, 2011 at 9:19 am
This is by far the greatest RSS reader in Ovi Store.
What has already been proposed as improvements is ok.
But the most important is to have a proper widget. This will boost its user experience.
Also please kame it available for Belle handsets. I have now an 701 and i really miss this app….
October 15, 2011 at 12:31 pm
For now it’s impossible to create a home screen widget. The problem is that the libs that were used for it -some old libraries from the N97 Mini SDK- don’t work since QT 4.7. If I find in the future a way to make it work I’ll try it.
About Symbian Belle devices, the version for Symbian^3 phones should work. I can’t test it now myself and that’s the reason why it’s still not available in Nokia Store but you can try the Beta version for Symbian^3 http://www.fallenleafsoft.com/Horus_BETA.sis . I would like to know if it works and if everything is working ok I could add compatibility in Nokia Store.
October 14, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Hey, your app looks really good but I can´t install it on my smartphone I have a nokia 5230 ,and I downloaded it from nokia store ,well everything ok at this time but oh surprise an error jump, it says “installation error” and that´s it, I cant use the app but when I go to settings, app administrator, the horus app is installed, I don´t understand why I can not use the app if it is installed on my device please help me to try your app. Thanks in advance.
October 15, 2011 at 12:29 pm
These installation problems are often related with Smart Installer that is the responsible to check you have the needed QT libraries installed and if you haven’t the program downloads them. The problem is that sometimes it shows this kind of errors.
You can try to download the Beta version that is not packaged with Smart Installer from http://www.fallenleafsoft.com/Horus_s60_BETA.sis . The only difference with the version in Nokia Store is that this version is only self-signed and when Horus tries to open the web browser -to read the original news or download a podcast- you need to make sure the browser isn’t opened, otherwise it won’t access the url. If this version doesn’t work maybe you need to download the latest Qt libraries, you can find them on internet but if you don’t find them let me know it and I’ll try to upload them somewhere.
October 18, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Hi! Great app! Thanks! Is there a way to make the app use the internet only for limited amounts of time, say each 30 minutes or each hour? This would diminish battery consumption, since 3g drains it really fast.
As for the beta version, the current one is better than the one in nokia store?
By the way, I have a E7 and would be willing to pay for a app that could have landscaping view – but don’t be too greedy!
October 21, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Also, could you create a way to add a feed by typing it, instead of searching for it? I am trying to add a feed with full text without success. The feed is http://feeds.mises.org/MisesFullTextArticles
and it is working fine with another reader…the problem is that borua can’t find it!
October 21, 2011 at 12:41 pm
sorry….horus cant find it…typing in ipad is bad!
January 27, 2012 at 11:09 am
Greetings, and thank you very much for your application. I am very happy with it! Please consider to redesign the icon in a future version so that it fits with the round icons of Symbian Anna/Belle. Thank you very much!
February 8, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I am trying to add Drudgereportfeed.com or Drudgereportfeed.com/rss.xml and the reader does not see any feed.
I love your reader and thank you for making it.
February 24, 2012 at 12:14 pm
I really liked the reader but I couldn’t add any feed using fulltextrssfeed.com
February 24, 2012 at 6:09 pm
I tried the default CNN feed that appears in fulltextrssfeed.com – http://fulltextrssfeed.com/rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss – and it’s working. Could you paste the url of the feed you are having problems?
March 4, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Hi,
On my E7-00 Belle this doesnt work with the default Browser. Alsways an error when I try to open the website. Works wehen I change the Browser to Opera. And how do I download a Podcast? When I press the play button on top there is the same error. This would be a great app, when I would be able to Download a podcast.
And why is there no landscape mode?
March 4, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Hi Erminaz.
Have you downloaded Horus from Nokia Store? Because I have published several BETA versions here and perhaps some webs have published those same versions and the problem is that they aren’t signed by Nokia -they are only self-signed- and it’s impossible to open the default Symbian browser.
The podcasts won’t work because when you click in the play button Horus tries to open the Symbian browser -even if you have set Opera as default-.
March 4, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Hi,
thanks for the fast answer. I did Install it from the Nokia Store. I tried to reinstall, same problem. Is there anything I can do?
March 4, 2012 at 4:32 pm
I’ll see if I can try Horus in an E7 with Belle as soon as I can and see what’s the problem. What I have seen in Belle is that it takes a bit more time to open Symbian Browser, first a popup appears with the message “Loading” and then it’s launched the web browser, while before of Belle it was immediately launched.
March 4, 2012 at 4:40 pm
If it is any help: I get the following messages, when using the Symbian browser(in German): Fist there ist a popup with “Daten werden geladen”, and then the error “Laden fehlgeschlagen. Versuch später wiederholen.”
Opera opens pretty fast, without any other Message.
March 4, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Mmm, it’s weird because it seems the web browser is initially launched then. Is it happening with all the feeds, could you tell me the feeds you are having problems?
And it would be a great help if you could try other apps like NewsFlow – http://store.ovi.com/content/107070 – and see if you still have problems to launch the web browser.
March 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm
I haven’t found a feed that works, seems to be a general problem. I have “extra 3 blog” installed – store.ovi.com/content/257922 – it opens the Symbian Browser without any Problem.
I cannot try NewsFlow because I don’t have(want) a Google account.
March 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Thanks for your help. I’m definitely lost because the code to launch the web browser is pretty simple, it’s only one line of code: QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl(“http://…”)); .
To launch Opera when it’s set as the default browser the code is more complex and it involves using standard Symbian C++. Tomorrow I’ll try to make a build using Symbian C++ code to launch the Symbian web browser and I’ll send it to your email so you can try it. As it’ll only be self signed it’ll work only if the web browser is closed but at least I’ll know if that’s the problem so I can send an update to Nokia Store.
March 4, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Ok, i’m waiting for an Email.
March 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
I just made a little Programm with the one line QDesktopServices::openUrl(QUrl(“http://…”));
same error, so thats the Problem, when running on my E7.
By the way, I think its a good idea to add a downloa button next to the play button. As I understand right you open the Browser because it starts Downloading and Playing. Most of the time I want to downlad my Podcast now, and hear later. Furthermore I want to decide where to download it. This is, as far as I know, not pissble with the Symbian browser. So I would like a button, thats opens the mp3-link with opera, so I can decide where to Download it.
The best solution of my Problem would of cause be, to add your own download function to the app and I can decide a defaul download folder, where to download the files, probably even better with subfolders for each feed.
Thats all from me for today.
March 5, 2012 at 11:32 am
Interessting: Same error when trying to open an link in mail. Seems to be a problem Nokia has to fix.