03-13-2007, 06:00 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Modern Nomads Reviews RSS Reader Choices for Windows Mobile
"RSS readers are by nature reasonably good applications: they allow you to download your news when it is convenient for you (i.e. using a cheap connection) and allows you to read it when you can spare the time to do so. Most good RSS readers also make sure that only new articles will be shown to you, reducing the overhead for you and allowing you to watch many sites without being bothered with reading the same information twice."
This article takes a look at 19 different news readers and provides very short, high-level assessments of each along with the vendor's website and the registration price (note that some are freeware). Though I would have preferred to see the information in a more tabular format, this article can nonetheless serve as a great launching point if you're in the market for a mobile RSS solution. Enjoy!
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03-14-2007, 03:41 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I'd been looking for an RSS aggregator for some time since Google Reader just wasn't cutting it, and I just downloadd NewsCopier on the recommendation of that site. Thanks for the article!
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03-14-2007, 05:06 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Ekkie,
Until reading the article, I had no idea there were so many RSS readers! I use one off an on. I guess I just got info-overload and started deleting feeds. 
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03-14-2007, 05:10 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Yeah... this article definitely covers more readers than I ever wanted to know about! Who knew!? 
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03-14-2007, 05:15 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Not being an RSS pro, what's the best way to sync your feeds with multiple readers so that if I read a feed on my desktop, I can tell on my Pocket PC (if there even is a way)?
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03-20-2007, 10:40 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
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I'm a kow-nowt with regard to RSS feeds as well. Would anyone mind confirming if I've understood that article correctly - some RSS readers only download the headlines, and you have to go online to read the arrticle, and some cache the whole thing so that you don't need to go online?
The latter would be really handy for keeping up to date with forums without annoying the boss! 
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03-20-2007, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Ratel10mm
...online to read the arrticle, and some cache the whole thing so that you don't need to go online?
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From my understanding, it depends in part on the way the feed is set up. Some are coded to only present so much text, while others have the full article. Secondly, some readers can take that instruction and download just the feed, or do the equivalent of following the link and download the full page, albeit like the full webpage with layout, graphics, etc. I use PocketRSS which does this. It's kind of a hit-or-miss proposition for me, depending on the feed.
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03-20-2007, 03:30 PM
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Ponderer
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Thanks Paul, I'll give Pocket RSS a go.
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03-20-2007, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Ratel10mm
Thanks Paul, I'll give Pocket RSS a go. |
It's cheap at about $5, but the "clue" to getting a full feed is to check Extended Info or something similar, both for the individual feed and at the master options level. Try it w/o the extended first as it may be enough and takes up less room.
That said, I'm sure some of the other RSS readers can do similar things, that's just what I happened to use and have been using for a while. The product page doesn't list WM5 compatibility, but it works fine for my Dell X51v.
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04-16-2007, 11:58 AM
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Ponderer
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Well, I've tried that one and a couple of the others, but keep getting a message that says 'Cannot parse the feed'. Unfortunately Pocket RSS tech. support has not asnwered the question (so far).
So, can anyone tell me what the messaage means & how to fix it?  ops:
It comes up on some websites that I try to add (and yes, they do have feeds! ), but not for PPCThoughts, a couple of others, or the 'built in' feeds. :?
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