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Version: 3.1.7
Nice software but why?
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: summerstormpictures Thursday, May 08 2008 @ 04:01 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: NO
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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Nice software but why? - rrreed
How many feeds do you subscribe to? I subscribe to over a hundred, and it is impractical for me to wade through the typical thousand or so articles a day thus generated without the filter, search, display, and organizational capabilities of NetNewsWire. Not to mention the aforementioned synchronization with Newsgator; it means that NetNewsWire (or other clients that support Newsgator sync) doesn't always have to be running in addition to keeping one's articles up-to-date across multiple platforms.I'm not denigrating RSS Menu; it's just that it's too lightweight an application for my needs and those of others. YMMV.
Sunday, June 29 2008 @ 02:39 AM PDT
Nice software but why? - Rick Baumhauer
If you have multiple Macs, an iPhone, and perhaps a Windows PC at the office, NetNewsWire (along with NewsGator's web-based services) are indispensible, allowing you to keep all of your feeds in sync across multiple machines and platforms. I loved the open-source Vienna, but as soon as NNW went freeware, I switched - it's great not having to remember what I've read and what I haven't.That's why.
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Tuesday, June 24 2008 @ 09:33 PM PDT