Sommige dingen zijn dusdanig banaal dat een genie ze echt niet meer aan kan.

There are a lot of RSS readers out there, but since I have little requirements I just stick with reading my RSS feeds in Apple Mail. A few weeks ago the products of Newsgator got my attention.

The application for the Mac looks pretty standard. Multiple feeds organisable in folders, three panes, the usual. The two things I like a lot after using it for a few weeks are the a build-in browser so you don’t have to switch back and forth between your browser and news reader and the support for HTTP digest authentication which is used by Livejournal to gain access to the feeds of livejournals including the protected posts (if your LJ account has access to those).

The iPhone application is okay, haven’t used it that much.

But the good part is, besides the fact that these are both free applications, that they sync with each other via a free account at newsgator, so when I read a post on my mac the same post isn’t marked as unread anymore on my iPhone and vica versa. They also provide a web-based RS reader when you login to Newsgator which is a nice extra which I probably won’t use. It only seems usefull when I have some time to kill somewhere when I’m around a computer with internet access and without both my laptop and phone. But it’s a nice extra.

Some error messages just do not display the way the developers intended them to.

And sometimes being right is wrong after all.

I’m no fanboy per se, I just happen to like my MacBook and iPhone a lot. But not today, as today the battery of my MB broke down and my phone just crashed while making a photo. Also while rebooting I held both keys down to power down the thing which it didn’t respond to until after booting up and showing my background and asking for my passcode just for a second. Of course the timing could also just be a coincidence.

Same thing as the posts about my MacBook customisations, usefull for me, not for you readers.

Settings

• Sync calendar, mail and contacts with iTunes
• Manually sync music (so you can just drag whatever you wish)
• Add a Dutch keyboard, it’s the same as the English one, but the auto-correct now uses a Dutch dictionary.

Issues

• colors of calendars do not match with iCal. Solutions: MobileMe or edit MySQLite database (jailbroken)