iPod Touch as an offline RSS Reader - Quick How To

Posted on January 5, 2008
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Here is a simple how to explaining a pretty straight forward way to read your RSS news feeds offline on your iPod Touch.

Basically you will do the following.

Export your subscriptions from your web based or software RSS reader like MyYahoo, Google Reader, Bloglines or Vienna in the so called OPML format a simple XML format.

If you use MyYahoo! Simply click on this link and you will get an OPML file of your subscriptions.

If you use Google reader.

Go to your my Account page and click on settings next to the Google Reader link. On the next page you can choose to export subscriptions as OPML file.

Here is a little sample file with a couple of feeds about search, website marketing and gadgets I like to read.

On your iPod Touch, that you need to have jailbroken like explained here, you need to follow these steps to be able to continue.

On your iPod Touch home page click on the Installer button and select the following apps to be installed.

  1. Pure-FTPd in the Network folder
  2. MobileRSS in the Productivity folder

After installation of these two apps go to your iPod Touch Settings >> Click on WiFi >> click on the blue arrow button of the WiFi you are connected to >> on the next page you will see the IP address of your iPod Touch.

Note the IP address down.

Now go to your preferred FTP client. I use Cyberduck as mentioned earlier. Open a new connection and enter the IP address as the FTP host address. As username type in root and as password use alpine.

Now you can connect to your iPod Touch via FTP. Copy the OPML file in just the folder open after connecting.

Now go to your iPod Touch home page and click on the RSS button then click on settings >> and then click on import feeds.

You should see the file just uploaded via FTP on the next screen. Select it and the feeds will be imported onto your iPod Touch.

Mind depending on the amount of feeds this might take some time - just be patient.

Now you are done and you can read your news feeds without being connected through WiFi.

MobileRSS is not the quickest of all apps but it does the job.

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