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- Price: Free to try $9.95 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.6
- Date added: September 25, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,312
- Downloads last week: 103
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on October 21, 2009
NetNewsWire is a serious RSS newsreader, a feature-filled desktop app specifically designed for voracious news consumers who want more RSS features than Safari and Mail provide. Recent updates leave the interface largely unchanged but notably add the ability to sync with the popular Google Reader service, while eliminating NetNewsWire's old NewsGator service.
This app's three-paned, Mail-like interface presents a shallow learning curve, with an intuitive system for flagging, organizing, and reading news feeds--as simple previews or as full articles with NetNewsWire's integrated browser (or you can set articles to open in your preferred browser). The interface supports tabs, gives you copious options for sorting and managing your feeds (manually or using "smart" settings), and provides navigation that can be as simple as clicking through all your news with the space bar. Not surprising for a power-user app, NetNewsWire also comes with many more advanced features, such as automatic downloading for podcasts (with import to iTunes), flexible "clippings" (to save articles for later, even in different categories), search-engine subscriptions (basically, persistent self-updating searches), and more.
You can pay for an ad-free version, or you can get NetNewsWire for free with a small ad on the lower left side of your interface. Combined with a companion iPhone app, NetNewsWire is an excellent option for news junkies, especially for Google Reader users.
Publisher's description
From NewsGator :NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom news reader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface -- similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express -- can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.
What's new in this version:
No new version notes for version 3.2.1 were available at the time of posting.Version 3.2:
- Ads are back - but now taking up half the space: 90 pixels tall rather than 180 pixels. Layout works better at different widths, too.
- You can buy NetNewsWire and enter a serial number - commands are in the NetNewsWire menu.
- Additional but super minor tweaks to improve Google syncing efficiency and accuracy.
- Now sending feed IDs when marking read/unread/starred/unsta... see all new features
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Version: NetNewsWire 3.2.1
"Was my RSS news reader of choice in the past. Not now!"
Pros: Good interface with Snow Leopard, intuitive, fast, easy to add new RSS subscriptions.
Cons: Now has advertisements again. Developer failed to acknowledge the monetary contributions of past paying customers by recognizing the 'old' serial numbers.
Summary: I paid $40 bucks for this app back when it was shareware. Subsequently, it was released as freeware. Now the shareware version is back again (if you don't want to see advertisements) but my old serial number won't work on this version. That just tot... read more >>
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