Need RSS app that reads authenticated feeds AND syncs

[annathepiper]

Help me, fellow Apple geeks!

I have a whole helluva lot of RSS feeds I want to keep track of. Ideally, I would like to be able to sync reading these feeds between my computer, my phone, and my iPad, so that if I read an article on any of these objects, it updates the others as soon as I sync.

The problem is that quite a few of the feeds I want to keep an eye on are friends-locked accounts on either LJ or Dreamwidth. And the vast majority of iPhone/iPad apps I’ve found for RSS reading work by way of syncing with Google Reader–which is lovely and all except for the part where Google Reader doesn’t talk to authenticated feeds. :/

I do NOT want to use a third-party service (such as FreeMyFeed) to unlock those feeds and plug them into Google Reader, on the grounds of that would violate the privacy of those feeds. What I’d like to do instead is either a) let my Mac do the actual grabbing of authenticated feeds, and just sync that content down to the mobile devices, or b) find an iPad app that can talk to authenticated feeds locally, and just read RSS exclusively on that device.

So, do any of y’all have suggestions for how I can solve this problem? Let me know in the comments!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is it possible to generate LiveJournal reminder e-mail for friends-locked posts on LJ? Then you could just keep track of those posts (and comments on them) through e-mail synced across devices.

One reason I don't use LJ much anymore is that I never found an acceptable solution for viewing authenticated RSS feeds. Without RSS, I just forget to read friends-locked posts. The non-locked ones show up in my feed.

[annathepiper]

My current solution for grabbing LJ posts is that if you're a paid user, you can generate a custom style that gives you an RSS feed of your entire Friends list. I use this, and since it supports authentication, I can plug it right into my Mail.app on my Mac.

However, what I haven't figured out yet is how to get that properly synced to the mobile devices. There would be extra hoops I'd have to jump through. The RSS articles don't get automatically treated as mail by Mail.app so I'd have to use a rule to copy them into an IMAP mail folder. Which, while doable, would still be kind of a kludge. It'd only get me stuff to read on the devices whenever I open Mail on the laptop.

Also, this doesn't address the question of Dreamwidth, since that custom style is an LJ-only trick. I have to pull down feeds of friends-locked Dreamwidth journals individually.