![]() ) Newsgator writes that existing NetNewsWire full-version customers will receive a few 2-year subscription to NewsGator Online and that more details about the acquisition will be spilt when the next version of NetNewsWire comes out. "But they didn’t have a Mac client! So it was a perfect fit, and we couldn’t be more excited. oh wait!:Īfter hearing so many NetNewsWire users ask for synchronization – not just between copies of NetNewsWire, but with their PDAs, with newsreaders on Windows, with a browser-based service – we thought about how to make this happen, and found that NewsGator had the technology already in place," said Brent Simmons, co-founder and partner of Ranchero Software. If I can keep my subscriptions and read/unread counts synchronized between two aggregators on different operating systems (Windows and OS X) I'll be the happiest man alive. This can only mean awesome things for cross-platform compatibility between RSS aggregators. ![]() We’re very excited to integrate our advanced synchronization and other capabilities into the product and roll it out to our combined customer base. "NetNewsWire is the dominant RSS application for the Mac OS, and was an obvious choice for us. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh U Intel Mac OS X 1055 en-us) AppleWebKit. Many of our online customers who are Mac users have asked if we had plans to extend our product platform to the Mac desktop," said Greg Reinacker, founder and CTO of NewsGator. RSS/Atom newsreader for Mac OS and iPhone. Remembers which items you’ve read, and lets you know when there are new items, so you spend less time surfing. It is an RSS reader, but unlike all of the others that have been released on Windows and the Mac it does the job superbly. There’s a whole world out there.NewsGator, probably the biggest commercial pusher of RSS on the Wintel side of things has announced that they've acquired the hallmark RSS application for OS X, NetNewsWire, sorry I mean, NetNewsWire: NetNewsWire on the Mac OS X has become on of my most used applications. And if you want to break free of Facebook, reading self-published websites via RSS will make things easier. So, if you’re looking for a high quality, free RSS reader for your Mac, NetNewsWire is an excellent choice. First released in 2002, its deep feature set and continuous innovation have garnered widespread. A lot of the authors weren’t white, straight men. NetNewsWire is the premier news reader for Mac OS X. It comes with 20 or so feeds, all from the tech/Mac/web world and mostly interesting. In the old days of the web, to keep track of updates on a website you had to bookmark. On the other hand, this client-based approach is perhaps part of the attraction. The one downside was that, unlike Reeder, it doesn’t log into Inoreader, a cloud based service, which means I can’t use several readers across devices that all hook into the same source. Importing an OPML (an open format for sharing RSS feeds and other content) file was simple, and it automagically detected feeds living on my Mac (presumably from Reeder). NetNewsWire is quick, stable and looks and behaves like a proper, working-with-the-grain OS X app it feels right and is easy to learn. NetNewsWire uses a familiar 3 column layout, which makes it easy to navigate lots of RSS feeds with a keyboard Technical information about the Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh Intel Mac OS X 1084) AppleWebKit/536.30.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) NetNewsWire/4.0.0 user agent. ![]() ![]() I’ve been using it for a day or two instead of my usual app, the also excellent Reeder, which I bought back in 2015. It’s been around for 17 years, much longer than Twitter, Facebook et al, and got a major new release this week. ![]() It’s free and open source (which is laudable) and a joy to use (even better). NetNewsWire: Free, open source (and very good) RSS reader for Mac NetNewsWire: Free, open source (and very good) RSS reader for Mac – This day’s portion Skip to content ![]()
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