Hacking the iPod nano

I hacked together a little Python script that scrapes Atom feeds and transforms them to iPod "contacts" allowing me to read blog posts from my nano. It uses html2text right now but a lot of entries with embedded HTML come out looking pretty weird. I'll post the script once I clean up the text generation.

I managed to get a couple of the vCalendar features working and found out that even though Apple says you need iSync or iCal to use the nano to add TODO items, you can just add standard vTodo objects to a vCalendar stream and it works just fine.

Also, the rdate property is what controls repeating tasks/events - not any of the other ones that purportedly serve the same purpose.

Now it's time to go to bed...