NewsGator Go! - Trimming the Fat
October 17th, 2006
One of the issues that power users face when trying to consume their RSS feeds on mobile devices is the sheer volume of data… A typical power user may have hundreds of feeds and thousands of unread articles. On a side, I recently heard Guy Kawasaki say that he has 21K RSS feeds – Wow!
Now, I have built NewsGator Go! in such a way that it can handle this load. But the fact of the matter is that if you have this much data, it is going to take time to fetch and it is going to take time to load. This is a result of slower networks and limited device memory which forces me to do some creative File I/O (expensive on mobile) in order to handle large amounts of data.
But do not fear, there is a way to address this issue. Like I said, if you want all your feeds pumped to your device you can do that, but it may make sense to whittle down your mobile feed set to something that is more manageable. This is a piece of cake with NewsGator Go! It is all based around NewsGator locations!
Here is what you need to do:
   1. Go to NewsGator Online and sign in
   2. Go to My Settings | Edit Locations
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   3. You will see a NewsGator Go! location that gets automagically created for you. The name will look like this NGMobile-yourdevicename
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       a. There is a great option here to enable/disable automatically include new feeds to this location that you should be aware of (I prefer to have new feeds added to my mobile and I can remove later if necessary)
       b. More importantly, you can modify the feed list. By default all your existing feeds get added to this mobile location so all you have to do is uncheck the feeds you don’t want to show up on your mobile and you are good to Go!
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This feature kicks butt! Check it out.
Entry Filed under: Mobile