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Phillip M. Torrone of flashenabled fame has written an interesting overview about how he uses RSS on Mobile Devices. Yes if you are looking for some ideas on how you can take all of the news you want with you, this article is for you.
Want to run it on Pocket PC? Done
How about a SPOT Watch? Done
RSS on a Sony Ericsson p900? No Problem
You can't run RSS on an iPod Can you? But of Course! "RSS: For folks like myself, (research and news junkies) it is 10 times more productive to read RSS than HTML (regular web sites)... No wait for browser loading. No looking for "what's new." No distractions. Same font for all content (easier reading). Some have said it is like ?Tivo for the Web?. I think the same may hold true for mobile devices.
But what is RSS? RSS Stands for RDF site summary (RDF stands for Resource Description Framework, wow- that?s geeky) but most people rightly say RSS stands for ?Really Simple Syndication? and that?s what it is- an easy way to syndicate information from most of your favorite sites. What does RSS actually do? Well, if you?ve ever seen those little orange XML/RSS buttons on sites that means the site?s headlines and stories do not need to be read by a crummy ole? web browser, but by a (you guessed it) RSS reader. You can add all your favorite sites to a RSS reader and read dozens of sites in a quick, easy, ad free, spam free way. More good news, most sites have RSS feeds (NYTimes, CNN, you name it) there are many RSS readers to choose from and you can even read RSS feeds on your PDA, phone and iPods."
I pulled up some news just this morning on Pocket RSS software, which is pretty easy to use. Anyone here want to admit their RSS addiction?
Brad,
I have over 100 feeds I check every day. While I predominantly use NewsGator in Outlook, I also sync my PPC with my Exchange Server and the NEWS folder comes with it. So, I always can have my feeds with me wherever I go. There are just so many excellent blogs out there and it's a good time killer to spin through them.
I too have been using PocketRSS for several years now and it's a very good way to work with many feeds. Do you put them on the Today screen? I used to do that but the constant changing of the today screen got too distracting for me.
__________________ James Kendrick Microsoft MVP - Tablet PCwww.jkontherun.com Lockergnome contributor- Mobile Lifestyle...using mobile devices since they weighed 30 lbs.
I used an RSS reader with outlook to sync to PocketPC. It gave outlook some fits and when I reloaded my computer I forget about installing an RSS reader... going to look at it again.
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