Cameron’s Blog

Recently I bought an iPod touch, in anticipation of the “late February” SDK, and I wanted to make my email and my RSS feeds accessible from it, without doubling anything up.

For my email I used IMAP, which allows you to have two or more devices accessing an email account without the pain of reading an email on one device and having the email still show up as unread on the other device. Setting up IMAP on the iPod is very easy, and in Mail.app it is even more painless. Problem 1 solved: I read an email on my iPod touch and it shows up as read on my iMac, or the other way round.

Since upgrading to Leopard I have been using Mail.app for my RSS feeds as well. I really liked the integration with RSS feeds in Mail.app, like being able to send an article to a friend in 2 clicks. Unfortunately there was no easy way to have my RSS feeds in 2 places using Mail.app. My only option was to use an online RSS aggregator like Bloglines or Google Reader. I decided on Bloglines both because it has been recommended to me several times by different people, and because it has an iPhone/iPod touch interface. The only painful part of setting this up was adding all my RSS feeds into it, as it could not import from Mail.app. So now when I want to read my RSS feeds I can either go to i.bloglines.com on my iPod touch or go to beta.bloglines.com on my computer (I found that the beta interface is much nicer to use). Problem 2 solved: I read an RSS article on my iMac and it shows up as read on my iPod touch, or the other way round.