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Mar 28, 2003. Brent Simmons is the author of NetNewsWire, the runaway smash-hit RSS news aggregator for Mac OS X, and the founder of Ranchero Software, which he runs in partnership. We've sent them a list of pre-calculated serial numbers, so when you buy NetNewsWire you get your serial number right away.
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with 20 posters participatingAlmost two months after NewsGator announced that it was ditching its own feed syncing platform in favor of Google Reader, the company (and its prolific developer, Brent Simmons) has released an official update to their Mac and iPhone-based RSS readers. NetNewsWire for Mac is now at version 3.2, while the iPhone version has gotten a full bump to version 2.0.
With the update comes the return of the free and paid software tiers—something that NewsGator had decided to forgo in January of 2008 in favor of an all-free lineup. At that time, the company felt that giving away its software would ensure a larger user base and more companies paying for its enterprise services. With the transition to Google Reader for syncing, those plans have changed slightly. 'We've seen other apps trying the ad-support and premium model, and thought the time was right to try it in NetNewsWire,' developer Brent Simmons told Ars.
(Don't fret, though—the new free version of NetNewsWire 3.2 has all the same features as the $10 paid version, but with a small ad box on the bottom left corner. And, let's face it: the old paid version of NetNewsWire used to be $30 and we still thought it was pretty good back then. $10 is a great deal by comparison.)
Aside from the full, 100 percent official support of Google Reader syncing that was introduced in the betas in August, NNW 3.2 can also sync starred/flagged items between Google Reader and the software client, and it can send RSS items to Instapaper for reading while offline. The 2.0 version for iPhone is even more impressive—it comes with a completely made-over UI, is much faster than the previous version, and (of course) also syncs with Google Reader. It, too, is available in both free (ad-supported) and $1.99 paid versions.
Though we can't attest to being heavy RSS readers while on our iPhones, we admit that the changes make such an activity quite a bit more appealing. The UI updates alone make it much more Google Reader-like, but in a good way—it's not just an iPhonified version of NNW for the desktop. We asked Brent what his favorite parts were, too: 'The geek in me loves the under-the-hood parts. It uses Core Data, which is new on the iPhone with OS 3.0,' he told us. 'But the user in me loves the expanding/collapsing folders. I'm a sucker for animation.'
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Hey, you kids with your fancy Apple News and Flipboard apps: Get off my damn lawn! Back in my day, we had to manually seek out RSS feeds for each and every web favorite whenever we wanted to collect and organize Internet news into a single convenient location.
Whether you refer to it as “rich site summary” or “really simple syndication,” RSS suffered a setback in 2013 with the demise of its biggest proponent, Google Reader. That news sent the third-party client applications dependent upon it scrambling to come up with other reliable methods for syncing feeds across devices.
Although a number of services like Feedly stepped up to the plate over the last two years in Google’s absence, one of the original Mac news aggregator applications instead got caught with its pants down. After being shuffled to new owners three times over a six-year period before dropping entirely out of sight for two more, NetNewsWire resurfaced in open beta mere days before Google Reader took its final bow.
RSS-urrection
Flash-forward two more years, and NetNewsWire 4 is finally available for OS X and iOS. Eschewing its shareware and free “Lite” roots, these paid-only updates have been completely rewritten from the ground up for maximum performance with a fresh new look across both platforms. The result is a welcome return to form, despite the rebooted editions missing some of the niceties we’ve come to depend on from rival apps.
On Mac, NetNewsWire has adopted the familiar three-pane user interface made popular by Reeder and others, with list of news sources at left, feeds in the middle, and articles to the right. Nba 2k12 download android. There’s also a fourth panel to view thumbnails for open browser tabs, which automatically comes and goes; this feature can optionally be switched to always-on from the Tab menu, and for now is exclusive to Mac.
The iOS app instead uses a row of five tabs across the bottom to switch between Sites, Unread, Today, Bookmarks, and Favorites views. That last one is strictly for frequently accessed sites, added by swiping left across the site name—a gesture also used to mark an entire source as read—or by dragging the desired site into the Favorites section on OS X.
Get in sync
Version 4.0 is particularly noteworthy for the debut of NetNewsWire Cloud Sync, a free (and completely optional) service used to sync added sites, bookmarks, read articles, and more across platforms. While this is a welcome and quite overdue new feature, it’s also a bit of a head-scratcher, since no other sync services are supported yet.
This decision means that new users will likely have to start completely from scratch by adding their favorite news sources. To help facilitate this, NetNewsWire now includes Popular Sites, a hand-picked selection of popular outlets from a variety of categories. Although many of my frequently-visited destinations can be found there, a great many others are missing entirely, including this very website. (Ahem.)
Thankfully, URLs that didn’t make the cut can be added by copying and pasting those web addresses when adding a new source. The downside is, many websites are not compatible with this method, but when all else fails, traditional RSS links work just fine. On the Mac, you’ll also have the option to import from OPML or the previous NetNewsWire 3, should it still be installed on your computer.
Light or dark
Seizing on the latest trend in news reader apps, both desktop and mobile flavors of NetNewsWire 4 offer support for light or dark themes, although the latter is somewhat tucked away on OS X, accessible via the Article > Style menu or a toggle switch in the font settings on the toolbar at top.
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Speaking of fonts, size and style options only apply to the article itself—there are no view settings for the feed list, aside from how many lines (up to three) of an article can be previewed. The text in this list is a little small for my aging eyes, even on my 27-inch Thunderbolt Display; there’s also no support yet for Apple’s new default San Francisco font in OS X El Capitan and iOS 9.
Although these are solid updates and lay the groundwork for a bright future ahead, they feel a little underwhelming considering how long they’ve taken to arrive. On Mac, sharing is limited to a mere handful of services—email, Facebook, Twitter, App.net, and Instapaper—despite the iOS app taking advantage of Apple’s built-in share extensions. Although native iPad support didn’t make the cut for launch, Black Pixel rectified this quickly with the release of version 4.0.1, which also adds landscape viewing on iPhone 6 Plus, as well as 1Password integration for login and account creation.
Bottom line
NetNewsWire 4 makes a triumphant return on OS X and iOS, but the limited source and feed view options, as well as a mere handful of sharing services on Mac add up to a cautious recommendation for all but veteran users at the moment.
Black Pixel NetNewsWire 4 for iOS
Black Pixel NetNewsWire 4 for Mac