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Current Version:	1.6 (v76)
Release Date:	2009-02-17
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	1,479
Downloads (all versions):	49,114

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Product Description:

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a booming technology for sharing information on the web. Popular news sites like Yahoo!, BBC News, The New York Times, CNET and Wired, along with tens of thousands of personal blogs and independant media sites all publish RSS feeds that you can subscribe to.

Naturally, the volume of information being published every second is hard to grasp and keep abreast of. If you had to visit each site and click 'Refresh', you'd never get anything done. Enter NewsFire, which is like a turbocharged bookmark menu for your news sites. NewsFire constantly checks for freshly published news from your list of news feeds and notifies you. There's even some eye-candy involved - NewsFire's list of news feeds is animated just like iChat, so feeds swoop around as news is discovered.

There's a variety of RSS readers on Mac OS X, but none offer the style of NewsFire. NewsFire is brimming with Aqua-beauty and a rich, dynamic user experience. The others feel aesthetically unpleasant, bloated, and stuck in an interface paradigm that makes no sense for RSS. The kitchen sink is deliberately not included in NewsFire - it is intensely focused on simplicity. It snubs complexity for a minimalist interface that is intuitive, unobtrusive, and a total joy to use.

NewsFire supports the two major feed formats - RSS and Atom. It also imports and exports OPML, a standard bookmark-like file format for news feeds. Importing your feeds from another newsreader is dead-simple!

What's new in this version:

Similar to Safari140, NewsFire now supports direct posting to Twitter, using the same hotkey shortcut and interface.

In addition, NewsFire 1.6 has an updated visual design and now has built in auto-updater support (via Sparkle) for pain-free upgrades.

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

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Save rather annoyed, use freeware - Version: 1.6 (v76), 2/18/2009 03:24AM PST

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nobody2007

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17557

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27372

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24799

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Save rather annoyed, use freeware

Avoid. - Version: 1.5 (v74), 12/6/2008 10:37AM PST

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versiontracker2007

Avoid David Watanabe products at all costs. Because it will cost you, and more than just the shareware fee.

NewsFire is dead as a duck anyway, which is business-as-usual for Watanabe: steal code, slap a UI on it, sell it at 2 x the going rate, promise bug fixes, don't deliver (due to the stolen code either not being fixed or having its license adjusted to prevent it being stolen), discontinue product without publicizing as such, so that any poor sap who stumbles over it and doesn't know better will hand over money for a dead, abandoned product.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawn_grimes/511696579/

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Avoid.

Avoid.

Targeted Feeds - Version: 1.5 (v74), 9/29/2008 01:18AM PST

heyjed_dotmac

Although the current version no longer has a wizard for creating user selected topics it is still very easy to create a custom RSS feed about any topic you want.
If for example you want to create a custom feed for news about cats from Google you would create a new feed and enter:
" http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=cats&ie=UTF-8&output=atom " (do not enter quotes) and name it Cats (or whatever you want)

or if you wanted to find out current news about the All Blacks on Yahoo you would enter:
" http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=All%20Blacks&ei=UTF-8 " name it and you are away.

These are in essence searches conducted every time the feed updates but very handy nevertheless. The only drawback is some times for searches with multiple terms a random article that has them in it will show up but overall a really hand feature and a reason I enjoy using Newsfire.