phil.im » mail http://www.phil.im Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:01:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Software I Use On My Mac http://www.phil.im/2009/08/17/software-i-use-on-my-mac/ http://www.phil.im/2009/08/17/software-i-use-on-my-mac/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:56:22 +0000 Phil http://www.phil.im/?p=276 I use a Macbook Pro for my laptop when i’m on the move, and my main desktop machine is an iMac.

Below you will see the software i use on both machines including the free software that comes built in with Mac OS X and also free downloads and paid applications.

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For example…… I add a new RSS feed to “Mail” on my macbook pro, and straight away there are 5 unread RSS updates for that new feed. I dont read any of these new RSS updates. I then go onto my iMac and do the same, by adding the same RSS feed to “Mail”. Like when i added the feed on the macbook pro, there are 5 unread RSS updates for this new RSS feed. Now while still on the iMac, i read one of the RSS updates, so now there are only 4 remaining unread RSS updates. But if i now go back to the macbbok pro, and look at the RSS updates on “Mail”, it still shows 5 unread RSS updates, even though i have already read one of the RSS updates on the iMac. What i want, is for the RSS updates to sync between computers, so if i read a RSS update on one copy of “Mail” on one computer, then it will be marked as “Read” on all my other copies of “Mail” on my other computers.

This is when Google Reader could come into it and help. This is how i would love it to work. I add all my RSS subscriptions to Google Reader, but every time i add a new subscription, i am given a new unique RSS URL from within Google Reader which i can then add to “Mail” on my mac. So when i read the “RSS” updates on my mac “Mail”, the google reader server is told that i have read the RSS update on my computer, so the next time this google reader RSS URL is loaded on another copy of “Mail” on another computer, it is automatically marked as “Read”.

I have a feeling that this wont be entirely possible without Apple making some changes to “Mail” to allow this to work, but i would love to have some kind of “Imap Style RSS” which i can sync over multiple copies of “Mail” on my different macs.

I know there are stand-alone RSS readers out there which will sync my RSS updates between computers, but i only want to use “Mail” to read my RSS feeds, as i have a minimalist approach to using my computers, by that i mean, i’d prefer to use 1 piece of software that does 2 things instead of using 2 separate pieces of software. Thats just how i am.

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