How to: Use a widget to push lots of RSS feeds to the Nokia N97 home screen

Published by Steve Litchfield at 19:29 UTC, July 12th 2009

Nick Anstee wanted to add a load of RSS news feeds into a single widget slot on his new (and seemingly much loved) Nokia N97. In this tutorial he shares how he did it, with the aid of a rather useful third party service from, somewhat surprisingly, Yahoo. See also his PS for an even quicker way of achieving the same.

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Platforms: S60 5th Edition

Categories: Software, Miscellaneous

News Discussion

Solnyshok
Is there any RSS reader on S60 that syncs "read items" status with google reader? (except for google mobile interface)?
Cuberob
or another one that works with bloglines. i like it better than google reader.

btw: i.bloglines.com (iphone version) works awesome on the n97
SHG
This must be some definition of "fun" of which I had been previously unaware.

I'd rather stab out my eyes with a fork than deal with this usability trainwreck.
j d
The problem with using something like yahoo pipes is that there is no cross platform service keeping track of what you have read on your computer.

Thats why I really want a google reader widget for the n97 homescreen. Does anybody know if its already possible?
Unregistered
The more excited I was to see this post, it all went down when I noticed that the content on homescreen is static and doesnt scroll. Does anybody know how to make it scroll ?
Artoisguy
yep ... I want one that scolls as well ... RSSmix is the nearest so far

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