PocketRSS Settings

- General:  Basic settings for PocketRSS.
  - Current Database: displays your current PocketRSS database location.  To change use "RSS Database" from main menu.
  - Remove old data: enable this setting if you only want PocketRSS to retain the most recent feed data for each Feed.  By default, this option is disabled, and PocketRSS retains a history of past feed data for you to always have available.
  - VGA device: enable this flag if you are using a VGA device.  This flag is used internally to help various PocketRSS functionality.
- RSS/View Mode :  Setting for configuring the "look" of your RSS and View mode listings.
- Auto Reload:  Settings for configuring the frequency of updating Feed Data.
  - Note: Midnight is not a valid setting, but is considered as "off".
- Html/Description View:  Settings for the viewing of feed item description data.
  - Show Images: will attempt to display inline images from the web (requires you to be connected).
  - Show Extended: will display the offline full webpages (if available) for Feeds that you have enabled with the "Extended Data" setting.
- Audio/Podcasting:  Settings for the management of audio data within PocketRSS.  Note: audio data content is large and is not stored within the PocketRSS database, but is stored in the Audio Cache folder.  Also, since that amount of downloading is large compared to feed data, you either have to manually download queued audio content or schedule a specific download time.
- Today Screen:  Settings specific to the configuration of PocketRSS on the Today Screen.
  - Note: If you are using PocketBreeze, you with select both the "Enable" and the "Use PocketBreeze" options.
- Warnings:  Configuration of PocketRSS warning messages.
- Special:  Settings that can use to try to increase PocketRSS performance.  Note: use these with caution as the default settings what should always work.
  - Connect Time:  Set the number of seconds PocketRSS will wait while it attempt to connect to the internet.
  - Download Buffer:  You can change the size of the data block that is used during each request for downloaded data via the internet. 4KB is the default.  For Audio data, you will probably want to increase the block size to 32KB to increase download time.
  - Skip Headers:  Enable this option to tell PocketRSS not to download the addtional HTTP header information.  This header information can be useful in detecting download errors.  However, requesting this information adds more time to downloading.  If you get a lot of download failures, then you should disable this option.  The default is to skip headers.
  - Max Retries:  You can specify the number of retry attempt that will be made if a download event fails.
  - Verify Database:  With this option enabled, PocketRSS always makes sure that the database file exists before it queries the data.  This helps safeguard against situations where the database is in external memory and then the CF/SD card is removed from the Pocket PC while PocketRSS is still active.  However, extra verification may slowdown each database query attempt.  Hence, you have the option to disable this feature.  The default is enabled.
  - Lock Database:  Because the database is shared between the Today Screen plugin and the main PocketRSS application, PocketRSS generally obtains a temporary "lock" on the database which prevents another application from accessing the database at the same time.  Generally the Operating System manages this task, but PocketRSS does its own "locking" to help keep the Today Screen plugin and the main PocketRSS application sync'd properly.  The default is enabled, but you may diasable "locking" to speed up database queries.  IMPORTANT, we DO NOT recommend this and only provide this option for advanced users who assumes the risk of potentially corrupting their PocketRSS database.