TUAW reader digitalintrigue discovered a brilliant little hack to send RSS feed updates as SMS messages. He headed over to RSSfwd.com, subscribed to an RSS feed and sent the results over to his iphone-number@cingularme.com SMS e-mail address. Now when his RSS feeds update, he gets an instant message on his iPhone.
If you've got a lot of SMS messages on your iPhone plan, this is a great way to keep up on your most important feeds without having to check your email all the time. If you have limited SMS messages, maybe not so good. Digitalintrigue reports that if the blog post has too many characters for a normal SMS, the iPhone formats the multiple SMS messages into a single large text bubble.
The hardest part of the process is actually confirming your subscription. My confirmation email/SMS split across many messages--8 in my case--and the URL was split as well. I had to type it in by hand. Once confirmed, the SMS updates worked without incident. Make sure to copy the unsubscribe URL after confirming and keep it on hand in case you decide to remove the feed at a later date.
Thanks digitalintrigue.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-14-2007 @ 1:33AM
Joseph said...
i think all incoming SMS messages are free with AT&T, right? Wanna set-up my iPhone with this :))
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7-14-2007 @ 5:25AM
Matt said...
Are incoming texts not free in America? Wow, we may pay twice as much for electronics, but that really sucks.
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7-14-2007 @ 7:01AM
scott.cropper said...
You can also use this as the email address
your-iphone-number@txt.att.net
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7-15-2007 @ 4:32PM
Greg said...
Thanks for mentioning http://www.rssfwd.com. We love hearing about all of the various ways people are using the service.
- Greg
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