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Old 10-20-2007, 09:57 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by arivero View Post
BTW, I think that a nice point of the jailbreaking is that, after you load the BSD tools and the terminal application, you could in theory to add tasks to the cron. So the ipod can awake at 6 am, download from your home wifi the newspapers of the day, and store them to be read in the tube. Same with daily podcasts and videocast. In fact the later is such obvious an utility that one wonders how it is that it has not been incorporated in the main OS.
Could be done very easily using the Feedbooks API, this way you'd have RSS feeds in a custom PDF that fits the iPod/iPhone screen: http://www.feedbooks.com/help/newsstand_api

.epub support would be even sweeter, the creator of Books.app already said that he would like to add epub support: http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7207#comment-565684
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