I just got an iPhone and I’m stuck in the desire to be able to read my RSS feeds defined in my RSS client on my mac. I use Netnewswire.
I was happy to hear, that there’s a NetNewsWire app for the iPhone and that there’s a syncing possibility with an account on newsgator.com.
There are several problems:
- The iPhone app does only show the feeds having unread messages. But I sometimes want to read posts a second time.
- The “message read” information doesn’t seem to be synced correctly, there are a lot of differences on the clients about read messages.
- The biggest problem: When syncing is activated, it’s not possible anymore to update your feeds manually in the NetNewsWire. Your feeds will be updated, as Newsgator does it. There’s a good post about the retrieving interval methods of Newsgator.
I do have feeds I update manually on a regular basis, e.g. twitter or flickr. Sometimes special events or occurrences will also trigger my manual updates. But when synced with Newsgator you’ll loose that possibilty. I don’t know yet if I really want to loose that option. On the other hand, I won’t be able to read my feeds on the iPhone…
Problems humankind has nowadays…
Greg Reinacker says:
It is possible, in NetNewsWire for Mac, to have feeds that are not synchronized, and some feeds that are. The non-sync’d feeds can be manually refreshed at any time…
December 4, 2008, 04:572ni says:
Hm, haven’t found out how to do that so far… I have no “Sync this feed” checkbox on the “subscribe sheet” (found at http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3473)
December 4, 2008, 10:342ni says:
Ah, found out. You first need to have the “sync using newsgator” selected in the settings. When adding a new feed you’ll see the following screen:
There’s no way yet to edit a feed afterwards or to somehow see which feeds aren’t synced. It seems to be on their todo list. If you want to edit an already subscribed feed, you need to unsubscribe and resubscribe it.
December 4, 2008, 10:47