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27

Get the Posts on Your iPhone

Category: Apps, Tips 'n Tricks
Posted by Jim M.

Posted by Jim

Well what is the easiest way to get these posts automatically on you iPhone?  The answer of course is to install a RSS Reader app on the phone and then subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog!

For a RSS Reader I chose Free RSS Reader.  Just do a search on the App store for this exact title and you will see a free and purchase version.   I chose the free one of course since after all it is named FREE RSS READER.  Following is a screen capture of the App search within iPhone.

Free RSS Reader
Once you have the RSS reader, there are two pertinent RSS feeds:

  1. the blog posts are at http://iphones.blogs.sowingcircle.org/feed/
  2. the comments to the posts are at: http://iphones.blogs.sowingcircle.org/comments/feed/.
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Get the Posts on Your iPhone

  • Jim's Blog | June 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    Changed post to add link to the comment feed.

  • Sowing Circle iPhones Blogs » How to Get an iPhone Screen Capture | June 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

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  • frank | June 30th, 2009 at 10:31 am

    Hi Jim from Frank
    I looked at the RSS reader you recommended, and was a little put off by their recommendation to reboot your iphone after the install. Firstly, I don’t know how to do that!

    So I checked a few more in the APP store, and found one called NetNewsWire, that had a higher star rating. It also syncs with NewsGator.

    Maybe we can compare notes!

    I downloaded NetNewsWire, which requires a free account at a website called newsgator.com. That alone was interesting, since it comes with 5 preset feeds from MacWorld, etc, with reviews of interest to users of Firefox, Twitter, iphone, etc.

  • frank | June 30th, 2009 at 10:51 am

    I like NetNewsWire (using the free version).

    I was able to go to newsgator.com online, and subscribe to your feeds, rename their default names, add other feeds, etc. Once done, I go into my NetNewsWire app on my iphone and it automatically sync’d with all my changes.

    Just a fyi in case the other doesn’t do this.
    Frank

  • Jim | June 30th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    Hi, I installed the NetNewsWire reader as well. At first it seemed ok. But then as I renamed things on the Newsgator site it got messed up in the syncing and deleted the feed from the iPhone.

    The Free RSS Reader allows you to rename the feed and the sort order right within the iPhone app, you don’t have to go anywhere else. Also, if you like the newsgator feature, you can set that up in the FreeRSS Reader as well (under settings).

    I’ll play with both but right now I’m leaning towards Free RSS Reader.

    BTW: when it says to reboot, it just means to power cycle the phone. Also, I read some stuff that says anytime you use a graphics intensive app (such as Penguin or Zippo, etc. ) that you should power cycle to get back more memory, etc.

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