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NetNewsWire - 3.1.5

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Version 3.1.5: Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version: 3.1.5
Release Date: 2008-04-14
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 3.1.5): 1,792
Downloads (all versions): 123,556
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..
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What's new in this version:

  • French Localization
    • This version includes a French localization.
  • Save Image As… command
    • There is now a Save Image As… command when you ctrl-click (or right-click) on an image in an HTML view. Does what you expect - gives you a save dialog so you can save the image on disk.
  • Thrill-seekers bookmarklet support
    • For thrill-seekers - not a full UI treatment.

    Bookmarklets are files that end with .js. They live in the same place AppleScript scripts live - choose Open Scripts Folder from the scripts menu to open the folder.

    To run a bookmarklet, just choose it from the scripts menu.

    (If a bookmarklet doesn't work - please let us know what happened. The source of the bookmarklet would be useful too, of course.)
  • Info window and multiple subscriptions
    • Fixed a bug where the Info window would be empty when multiple subscriptions are selected. Now it says "(Multiple subscriptions selected)." (Which is better than being empty, though I of course recognize it would be cool if the common attributes were editable. But that's a much bigger job.)
  • Info window open/close
    • If the Info window is open, and you type cmd-I (or choose Window > Info), then the Info window closes. (This seems to be a standard for pallette windows.)
  • Updated error page
    • Brian Warren updated the browser error page - it's more liquid and handles long URLs.
  • Combined View fix
    • If you're on a page after page 1, and you're on the first item, and you up-arrow to go to the last item on the previous page, the Combined View will now scroll to that last item (rather than scroll to the top).
  • Focus and tabs
    • Fixed a bug where sometimes clicking on a vertical tab wouldn't make the webview first responder - so hitting the space bar would go to the next unread, rather than scrolling.
  • AppleScript: "icon URL" fixed
    • You can now get the icon URL via AppleScript. (It was broken.) In earlier versions of NetNewsWire, this was the URL of the image specified in the RSS feed. Now it's the favicon. (Which may be specified in the feed, in the case of Atom feeds.)
  • Bad public wifi redirects
    • Added the strings "login" and "authentic" to the bad-permanent-redirect list. (If a feed URL is permanently redirected to a URL that contains a string in the list, it's treated as a temporary redirect. This is because some hotel/coffee-shop/etc. systems do permanent redirects - very, very wrongly - before you login to their system.)
  • Crashes
    • Flagged-items crash
      • Fixed a crash some people were seeing when NetNewsWire rebuilds the list of flagged items.
    • Crash reports
      • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused me to get two copies of a single crash report.
    • Cache cleanout on crash
      • If NetNewsWire finds that there was a crash, then it cleans the WebKit cache. Sometimes chronic crashes are fixed by emptying the cache - this just makes it automatic.
  • NewsGator syncing
    • Downloading feeds at startup
      • Fixed a bug where all feeds were being downloaded at startup. It now downloads only feeds with changes. (When using NewsGator syncing.) Way more efficient. More efficient read/unread/flagged status syncing The call to get and set read/unread/flagged status was using the wrong sync token, which caused the server to return a bunch of status info that NetNewsWire already knows about. This should make syncing a little faster. (Especially the status sync that happens on shutdown.)

      Also, now using a new read-state-syncing method (UpdatePostMetadatav3!!!1!) which is more efficient. Less traffic over the web and less work for both NetNewsWire and the server.
    NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES) syncing

    Note: NGES is NewsGator's behind-the-firewall server for business. If you're using it, you know you're using it. The rest of the changes apply to NGES only.
    • NGES: no shutdown read-status sync
      • The shutdown read-status sync never worked - it just hung - when using NGES. The hang appears to be unfixable, so I've just had it stop trying to do the shutdown read-status sync (when using NGES).
    • Feedback/forums/etc. links removed if NGES
      • If you're syncing with an NGES server, then feedback and forums links are removed.
    • NGES and clippings
      • You can turn on/off sharing for the top-level clippings folder, but not sub-folders. (When running against NGES.)
    • NGES and merge-async
      • Fixed a bug where NetNewsWire was calling the asynchronous version of MergeSubscriptions when running against NGES - but that method doesn't exist (yet) on NGES. This could cause subscriptions to not get merged. (When running against NGES.)
    • NGES and changing configurations
      • If you switch your NGES server, or switch from NGES to online (or vice versa), then NetNewsWire will detect the situation. Next time you refresh, it will treat it as a first-sync.
    • NGES: Synthesize URLs
      • The URLs for downloading feeds are synthesized based on the URL given in the config file. (This works around the issue where the server thinks it's at an in-house URL but you're using a public URL to get to it.)

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

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.0
  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.2
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS Classic

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NetNewsWire CommentaryA reason for NNW - Version: 3.1.7b1, 6/25/2008 12:12AM PST

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morepowerfulastronaut
In response to a recent post:

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.
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NetNewsWire ReviewNice 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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NetNewsWire ReviewGood 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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