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NetNewsWire - 3.1.6

RSS & Atom newsreader

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All Time:	(4.7)
This Version:	(4.0)
Current Version:	3.1.6
Release Date:	2008-05-07
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,418
Downloads (all versions):	106,483
Price:	Free

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Product Description:

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.

CNET Editor's Review:
Like any Web news reader, NetNewsWire hardly qualifies as sexy software. But it's hard not to fall for an app that saves you this much time getting your daily news fix. Using a familiar three-pane interface (think Mail or Outlook), NetNewsWire lets you quickly fetch and digest news from thousands of RSS feeds..
Read the entire review.

What's new in this version:

fixes a memory leak affecting some users (particularly new users) and fixes a bug downloading new enclosures.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Nice software but why? - Version: 3.1.6, 5/8/2008 04:01AM PST

(0 of 1 users found this comment useful)

summerstormpictures

I've been tooling around with NNW for about 2-months now but I really don't know why I need an extra piece of software just to read RSS feeds. I use something called RSS Menu, which monitors feeds in the menubar so you can just read them in your normal browser, negating the need to have a whole extra set of cookie preferences and so on. You can even set the updates for individual feeds from 5 to 10 to 30 to 60 minutes -- even to 6 and 24 hours. Much less overhead. No extra software running. Life is too busy to have to deal with something this involved to do something that can be done in existing software with just a little utility in the menubar. Nothing against NNW other than that -- but for those of the KISS (keep it simple) philosophy, I heartily recommend RSS Menu (it can be found on VersionTracker).

Good choice - Version: 3.1.6, 5/8/2008 01:56AM PST

prLAB

Vienna is good. But NewsWire is better for me with an easier way to create folders and mark unread articles as read. Just depends on your needs.

If you're looking for the free Panther version... - Version: 3.1.5, 5/1/2008 11:01AM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

hoodsmommy

http://support.newsgator.com/Individual/NetNewsWire/default.aspx
is the Newsgator page that has the current versions and some older versions, and very importantly, version 2.1.5, the free version Newsgator recently made for Panther.