G1G1 Pre-installed Activities

[Mikus Grinbergs]

>> In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of
>> the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed.
> I'm not convinced that they are well-tested.  They included News Reader,
> which hasn't worked for the last several releases.

News Reader is a strange bird.  In developed countries (e.g., for 
G1G1v2), much information is available as RSS feeds.  Therefore the 
XO *should* have an RSS-accessing activity.

 From Dec 2007 on, I have always had trouble getting News Reader to 
"see" __any__ RSS feed.  It normally tells me something like "there 
ain't no such thing".  HOWEVER, the percentage of attempts that have 
been failing has been decreasing over time -- for me, News Reader 
works much more reliably in recent Joyride than it did in Update.1.

Last time I used NewsReader was at approximately Joyride 2444 - it 
worked for me then.  [To run News Reader, I need to go someplace 
with an AP.]  I seem to remember it having worked for me on 759 as well.

mikus