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Berry Bloglines
Berry Bloglines is a free RSS Reader optimized for reading news feeds and blogs on the Blackberry. It builds on the Bloglines service you can access from your PC.Though other mobile RSS readers exist, Berry Bloglines has the advantages of being totally free, of offering full PC integration, and of optimized linked content for the Blackberry.
Berry Bloglines reformats full pages from the New York Times, BBC, ArsTechnica, BoingBoing, and other popular sites, eliminating unnecessary menus so that they can be read conveniently on the Blackberry. You can read not just the blog entries but also the full articles that they link to.
You can do all of your subscription management on the PC. Also, when your read a message on your Blackbery, it will show up as read on the PC, and vice versa.
Using Berry Bloglines
- First, you'll want to visit Bloglines.com on your PC and create an account there if you haven't done so already. Any subscriptions you choose here will be visible on your mobile device.
- New: Install the Berry Bloglines launcher for one click access from your start screen. Go to http://www.thebogles.com/berrybloglines.jad for over-the-air installation on your blackberry, or download the Application Loader zip
- Alternatively, point your browser at http://www.thebogles.com/showfeeds.py, either by emailing a link or entering it manually into your mobile browser.
- Finally, when you visit the web page on your mobile device, log in with the email name and password for your account on Bloglines. The rest of the interface should be self explanatory.
Source Code Download
The source for mobile bloglines is available under the Apache 2.0 license.Download source
Thanks
I must thank the following individuals and companies for doing the heavy lifting that made this an easy project:- the Bloglines Web Services,
- Michael Josephson's PyBlogLines, and
- Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser.