I’m sure you’ve all ran into this problem: You’re at work (or any other non-primary computer) and discover an RSS feed that you’d like to add to your growing collection of feeds.
If you’re willing to read all your feeds through a web browser, you’re done – just head over to Bloglines, get an account there, and collect all your feeds online.
On the other hand, if you like reading articles with a dedicated tool like NetNewsWire, you’ve got a bit of a problem – how to get the feed home? Up until now, I’ve simply e-mailed myself the link and then added it to my reader.
That interferes with my regular e-mail, though. And it’s a lot of work – entering a recipient, the wonders of copy&paste, e-mail filters on the way…. Until it finally hit me. I used to do the same thing with bookmarks, until I started using del.icio.us, an online bookmarking service. So I simply bookmark the feeds with a del.icio.us bookmarklet (it’s more or less a single click)
So far, no big improvement – but here comes the kicker: I tag those bookmarks with a separate “rssfeed” tag, and turn the list of those tags into a feed itself – that means that I get a list of new and interesting feeds whenever I actually read my news feeds.
I just love it when tiny tools combined suddenly take on a life on their own!
netnewswire lets you sync your subscriptions (if you buy the full version) it can work over ftp or to a .mac account
Hi there!
Nice to see you over here. I didn’t know you’re a Mac convert – when did that happen? Anyways – my problem is transferring feeds from a Windows machine to OSX, so NN doesn’t help me there. Maybe now that they’re together with NewsGator, there’ll be some crossplatform stuff…