NewsGator and your Pocket PC
September 15th, 2003 by gregr
I’ve often thought my customers are smarter than me…and today, one of them proved it yet again!
I had always thought ActiveSync could only sync up your Inbox and subfolders…but it turns out, if you know what you’re doing, you can sync any folders…including your NewsGator news folders. To do this, do the following:
First, from ActiveSync, right-click on Inbox and click Settings… (this is the part I didn’t know about!):
You’ll then get a window where you can select the folders you want to sync. Select your NewsGator news folders:
And there you go! All of your RSS feeds, automatically synchronized with your Pocket PC. It doesn’t get any cooler than that! :-)
Many thanks to the person who pointed this out to me, and who painstakingly sent me screenshots when I repeatedly didn’t get it. Unfortunately, this person asked to remain anonymous…but I’m sure if you leave your lavish praise in the comments here, he’ll read them. ;-)
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September 15th, 2003 at 7:05 pm
Time to spend a little money….[more]
September 15th, 2003 at 9:17 pm
Ya that customer is one smart cookie!
September 15th, 2003 at 9:56 pm
Heh, I feel smart now since I knew that, but I’m wondering why “Six Log” isn’t checked in the screen shot? :)
September 15th, 2003 at 10:03 pm
Heh – sorry Anil! I don’t have a good explanation for you on that one…rest assured it’s checked in “real life”. :-)
September 16th, 2003 at 10:17 am
Now if there was only a way to post using ActiveSync…
Any ideas?
November 3rd, 2003 at 8:37 am
After trying to make this work for a long time I realized it only works on Pocket PC 2002.
March 1st, 2004 at 5:44 pm
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March 16th, 2004 at 8:56 am
Anyone have any ideas on how to synch files on a pocket pc memory card?
March 24th, 2004 at 12:47 pm
I keep my RSS feeds in a dedicated PST file–too much data to keep in my Exchange mailbox. I don’t believe ActiveSync provides the ability to sync a PST file in this way.
If I *wasn’t* in an Exchange environment and configured my Inbox to be in a PST file, I’d have to keep the RSS feeds in the same PST file–since, similar to the above, I don’t believe ActiveSync provides the ability to sync a PST other than the one that contains the Inbox.
June 3rd, 2004 at 6:04 pm
Sync’ing NewsGator feeds to your Pocket PC…[more]
December 22nd, 2004 at 4:11 am
That makes sense and I’ve got it working now!
Do you know any way of getting the
Today Screen to indicate that newsgator has got new news for you tho?
Darned if I can figure it out…