This post originated from an RSS feed registered with .NET Buzz by Sascha Corti. Original Post: Reading RSS Feeds while on the Road Feed Title: Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); Feed URL: http://www.corti.com/WebLogSascha/blogxbrowsing.asmx/GetRss? Feed Description: A technology blog with a focus on the .NET framework, the Visual Studio .NET tools and the Windows server platform with of course the normal weblog-noise on what's happening in the industry and reviews of the latest geeky gadgets. Latest .NET Buzz Posts Latest .NET Buzz Posts by Sascha Corti Latest Posts From Console.WriteLine("Hello World");

I was recently asked how to read RSS feeds while on the road. This is my answer:

I am using NewsGator to read RSS on my Pocket PC Phone (Which is an XDA 2 from Orange at the moment):

I use a PC with NewsGator to synch all my RSS feeds to different folders that reside in my Microsoft Exchange 2003 server account (online, not a PST). I use my own Exchange server for that, but of course any corporate Exchange account would work as well.

I then use either Exchange 2003’s Mobile ActiveSync capabilities or IMAP4 to synch these folders to my Pocket PC Phone. Both variants allow me to select on a folder level, what gets synchronized and what doesn't. So I can choose to only take the most important blogs on the road. I am using a GPRS connection to synch while on the move.

Another option is to read the posts using the new "Mail folder tree view" of Outlook Mobile Access which is an enhancement introduced by the just released Exchange 2003 Service Pack 1. This allows me to drill into the mentioned RSS-feed-folders using any mobile device with Web access (HTML, WML, xHTML or cHTML), as Outlook Mobile Access is using ASP.NET Mobile Controls to render the pages according to the viewing device's capabilities.

Some of the major advantages here are that no software needs to be installed on the Pocket PC or SmartPhone, leaving more free memory on the device and that my "read posts" are always in sync, no matter where I read them (desktop pc or mobile device).

Of course, the obvious, possible draw-back is that a Microsoft Exchange server needs to be available for this to fully work.

Synchronized RSS folders in my inbox
OMA's new "Mail folder tree view"	Reading a post in OMA