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I already wrote about tiny tiny RSS (tt-rss) in this article.

So far, the login-mechanism of tt-rss was used. However, tt-rss also allows to use authentication mechanisms of an webserver, which allowes the usage of htAccess and htUser-Files.

The Horde framework is a great tool if you need a collaboration suite which is accessible from all over the world. In newer versions, Horde provides an rpc service which can be used to sync calendar-entries, contacts and notes.

I use a Nokia 5230 with an Symbian S60 5. Edition. It gives me the opportunity to sync my contacts, calendar and notes via SyncML. Wouldn't it be great to sync these with horde, so you have always the same calendar, even if you're offline?

Basically, all you have to setup is this:

• open Menu > Settings > Connectivity > Data transfer > Sync (Menü > Einstellungen > Verbindungen > Datentransfer > Sync in German)
• add a new sync profile with
• name: Horde
• version: 1.1
• channel: Internet
• connection: default
• server address: https://path/to/horde/rpc.php
• port: 443
• username: your horde login name
• password: your horde login password
• contact database: contacts
• calendar database: calendar
• notes database: notes
• (keep the default values for the rest)

Well, I would not blog about it, if it worked in the first try. My Phone said "connection error" ("Verbindungsfehler" in German). I google'd a few hours and found out only one important note: If you create a directory /tmp/sync, then horde will log some debug-output there. Horde did, and as far as I understood the files, they looked okay.

It was rather an accident that I found out what the problem was. It seems, by cellphone can't decompress HTML-Streams. In the horde administration, select "configuration" and open the "Horde (horde)" settings. Make sure that in the "general"-Tab in the "PHP Settings" section there is no tick at $conf[compress_page]. After I removed the settings, my cellphone was happy. And me too

Tiny Tiny RSS (aka "tt-rss") is a very nice tool if you read many rss feads from various devices. It's an alternative to Google Reader and runs on your own server. You only need a database (MySQL or Postgres) and PHP.

One of its features is a mobile view. This allows you to read news from you mobile phone. You just have to append /mobile to your url on your iWhatever (iPhone, iPad, iPod), or /mobile/classic on other mobile browsers.

A few hacks help to make the easier-to-read™ iPhone view available to other browsers. I tested it with Opera Mobile.