Filed under: iPod Family, iTS, Cool tools, Blogging, iTunes
iFeedPod - a free OS X RSS aggregator for the iPod
iFeedPod from Carnglas Software is a free, handy and straight-forward utility for downloading RSS feeds to your iPod. It supports importing OPML files (with updated support for Bloglines OPMLs) and grouping various feeds into one, making it easier to get through a lot of content from multiple feeds. Setup is pretty short and sweet, with a simple window for entering a feed's URL and name, along with the option of grouping it. To run iFeedPod you'll need either Tiger or OS X 10.3.9.With the incorporation of podcasting into iTunes as well as all the RSS utilities out there for the iPod, I'm kinda surprised Apple hasn't pounced on this. How handy would it be to have simple functionality like iFeedPod built into Safari or iTunes, so when you hook up your iPod you can automatically sync your Safari RSS feeds (or at least headlines) along with everything else? No fuss, no muss, and no maintaining multiple RSS collections that are lying around everywhere.
*Sigh* A blogger can hope I guess. One last thing: as with so many of these other RSS utilities, there's no mention anywhere on the site as to whether iFeedPod is compatible with the iPod shuffle.
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Jordan Running said 1:10AM on 11-27-2005
Not owning an iPod maybe I'm missing someting here, but how would you use this with a Shuffle? The site does say "Requires an iPod, iPod mini or iPod Nano with Notes facility," and I'm assuming that, having no screen, the Shuffle doesn't have Notes functionality.
Anyway, I agree that this is kind of a no-brainer of an idea and I hope Apple catches on soon.
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Geoff said 5:39AM on 11-27-2005
I use RSS heavily, and a lot of the feeds I use also reference other site by links. I'd miss out on a lot of information by reading on my iPod.
I much prefer to read RSS on a computer.
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yonatron said 10:30AM on 11-27-2005
Besides Apple, I'm wondering when NewsGator is gonna bounce on this. Now that my NetNewsWire license givs me a NG subscription (well, whenever the next NNW rev arrives), it would make sense for them to really cover all the bases of getting all your subscriptions everywhere. There is in fact some other Mac feed reader that lets you sync selected feeds to an iPod (or a Palm, for that matter), but I never liked the interface on the big screen much.
I do agree with Geoff that there are drawbacks to reading RSS on an iPod (especially those fools who insist on non-full-text feeds), but it'd certainly be handy for some stuff. I read plenty of blogs/news sites from which I only occasionally follow links.
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William Bright said 10:40AM on 11-28-2005
What I'd like to see would be a Podcasting program that will take RSS feeds of PhotoBlogs and put them in your iPod's photo album. I think THAT would be supercool.
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