NetNewsWire

Okay, I can’t help it. I have to share just one more application I started using this weekend. I’ve been using Safari’s RSS feed for several months now, and though I’ve found it convenient for grabbing RSS feeds, I’ve never liked the interface. It took too long to get through my feeds in one setting. I would have to ignore many of them because of the time it took to pull them all up.

But when I found out that NetNewsWire was on sale for twenty bucks, I thought it might be a great to time to upgrade from NetNewsWire Lite. With the upgrade, I’ve been happier all weekend. Not only did the upgrade help me clean out feeds I’m no longer interested in, but I can simply get at my feeds faster with a better streamlined interface than what Safari has to offer.

If your RSS feeds are growing more and more each day, you have to get NetNewsWire. Another version of it will be produced in a couple of weeks, so the folks over at Ranchero.com have made a special sale of $5.00 off until the NetNewsWire 2.1 is released. You can also purchase it bundled with their weblog editor, MarsEdit 1.1.2. And here’s the deal: “Existing users” people who already bought NetNewsWire or who buy NetNewsWire through this sale’”will get a two-year NewsGator Online subscription for free, as well as all NetNewsWire updates for two years. (And, again, the software doesn’t stop working if the subscription lapses: you’ve bought the software.” (I wish Apple would do the same for iLife.)

NetNewsWires has too many features for me talk about in this blog posting, but essentially it works through Safari to grab feeds, organize them according to your set up, and keep you posted when your feeds are updated.

With the New Items Subscription selected, I can quickly preview a stack of new articles or posts, open selected ones in NetNewsWire or Safari , or flag particular feeds for later reading.

NetNewsWire also makes use of Smart Folder and tagging technology so you can, say, designate particular tags (key words) that you want to search and download

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It also includes built-in styles that you can change or create for yourself. My feminine side has caused me to use the “curlypaws” style this weekend, but you know it’s a male thing to prefer “Red News.”

With a dozen or more styles that come installed with the program and lots more posted on a website feed, you’ll sure to find a style fits your true self.

Anyway, check out NetNewsWire. There’s no use wasting time any longer with Safari’s RSS system.