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A reason for NNW - Version: 3.1.7b1, 6/25/2008 12:12AM PST
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morepowerfulastronaut
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- A reason for NNW
Nice software but why? 
- Version: 3.1.6, 5/8/2008 04:01AM PST
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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).
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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.
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If you're looking for the free Panther version... - Version: 3.1.5, 5/1/2008 11:01AM PST
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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.
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.
NewsFire's Replacement! - Version: 3.1.6b1, 4/20/2008 09:48AM PST
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MAC_1984
NetNewsWire became my news reader replacement after dealing with David Watanabe's unethical behavior with his applications, and after using Watanabe's NewsFire application (even licensed it for family and lifetime upgrades). I never thought anything would beat NewsFire, but I was wrong— NetNewsWire far exceeds NewsFire.
NetNewsWire has a cleaner interface, includes a browser, and works very well. Excellent support, and constant revisions won me over.
NetNewsWire has a cleaner interface, includes a browser, and works very well. Excellent support, and constant revisions won me over.
At last this works on Leopard - Version: 3.1.2, 2/4/2008 12:00AM PST
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Digital Dude
Well done guys, seems to be working great now, this RSS newsreader is the best
Nice that it’s now freeware, but... - Version: 3.1, 1/10/2008 04:51AM PST
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Charles Newbury
A bit of a slap in the face for those of us who had to pay for the 2.0.1 version.
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Amazing features and classy support. - Version: 3.1b38, 1/6/2008 07:18AM PST
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viands
This product has been around for a long time and leads the rss pack in features and stability. Tech support is the best.
Activation wizard doesn't recognize your account & license # - Version: 3.1b31, 12/2/2007 08:44AM PST
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chastwock0
I was having problems entering my license # for NNW v. 3.1b31. Had a pre-existing account for 1-year subscription. Did a clean wipe of hard drive to install Leopard & downloaded current version of NNW. After entering username & password from pre-existing account, NNW's activation wizard stated that no record of my account was found. My trial period of NNW v. 3.1b31 was almost up & app wouldn't accept my license #.
Remembering my past experiences (June '07) where NNW provided excellent support services for same problem on older version... I tried emptying the Web cache (not sure if that option was in earlier versions?) from the NNW menu (right beneath the Preferences menu). Voila! I'm able to register the license # for the app. Safari is my default browser for NNW; I didn't rigorously test whether having Safari's cookies activated was part of the activation success or not. I keep cookies turned off & deleted as much as possible.
Love the NNW app! Industrial-strength RSS reader as I'm a heavy feedster... the Find function is worth the subscription. Don't believe Lite versions don't have Find function. Version 3 is much more stable. Occasionally NNW 2. would crash when I was scrolling my 1500 feeds from many del.icio.us tags. No crashes in v. 3.
Would like clearer instructions when activation wizard won't accept your info... such as "Try emptying the NNW Web cache."
Remembering my past experiences (June '07) where NNW provided excellent support services for same problem on older version... I tried emptying the Web cache (not sure if that option was in earlier versions?) from the NNW menu (right beneath the Preferences menu). Voila! I'm able to register the license # for the app. Safari is my default browser for NNW; I didn't rigorously test whether having Safari's cookies activated was part of the activation success or not. I keep cookies turned off & deleted as much as possible.
Love the NNW app! Industrial-strength RSS reader as I'm a heavy feedster... the Find function is worth the subscription. Don't believe Lite versions don't have Find function. Version 3 is much more stable. Occasionally NNW 2. would crash when I was scrolling my 1500 feeds from many del.icio.us tags. No crashes in v. 3.
Would like clearer instructions when activation wizard won't accept your info... such as "Try emptying the NNW Web cache."
I find NNW useful even though I'm not syncing between multiple devices for the simple reason that it lays out the different feeds and headlines in a manner that is far better and more customizable than typical web browser RSS readers, especially for handling a large number of feeds. It's far easier to browse headlines and summaries and see the number of updates associated with all your feeds in NNW than in Safari, for example. For RSS feeds that provide the whole article in the feed, you can browse the headlines and get the article on the bottom half of the screen rather than just having a huge page in your browser with all the articles. I don't use NNW's built-in browser when I need to open a web page because I hate having to view web pages without ad blocking. It would be nice to have this included, but otherwise I find NNW an excellent application.