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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: October 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 17,919
- Downloads last week: 241
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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:
Tabs- Cmd-W closes the current tab, if a tab is displayed, instead of closing the window. Fixed a bug where where the highlighting in vertical tabs table could be off sometimes. Fixed the fuzzy close buttons for vertical tabs when running on Snow Leopard. Restored Post Tabs to Weblog and Export Tabs commands (see bottom of Tab menu, same place as in 3.1).
- Hopefully worked around a PubSub crash. Fixed -- probably -- a crashing bug getting the unread count of... see all new features
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Version: NetNewsWire 3.2.2
"www.google.com/reader works better"
Pros: none that I can think of
Cons: no added value over www.google.com/reader
Summary: don't spend the money to buy this product
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