Daedale MacReporter 2.5 review

MacReporter pioneered the desktop news reading market for Mac OS X back in 2001.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Daedale Buy Now Price: $24.00 Updated: 26 May 2006

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MacReporter pioneered the desktop news reading market for Mac OS X back in 2001. It allowed users to quickly get notified when new articles were published on their favorite web sites, and read those articles without having to navigate deep inside web sites. It used a very simple yet unobtrusive Dock menu based interface, and remained silent when nothing was worth mentioning so that you could go on with your daily duties.

Over the years, desktop news reading became a big phenomenon, seeing the rise of standards such as RSS and Atom. Since it debuted while those standards where still in their infancy, MacReporter had been using its own way of proceeding, allowing it to fetch news from just any site, not only the web sites that provided RSS feeds, which was pretty powerful for the time being.

A new era has now begun, and it needs a next-generation MacReporter to give you full power over the ever-increasing mass of available information. Effortlessly reading news has never been so easy and productive at once.

Here are some key features of "Daedale MacReporter":
Full support for RSS, Atom, Backslash & HTML feeds.
All-new user interface sporting an advanced article browser.
Smart News Feeds: Display articles matching your habits and expectations.
Recent articles: You read about it but you can't find where it is anymore? MacReporter will show it to you.
Articles search: Instantaneously find the articles you are looking for.
News Feeds Search: Discover sites matching your tastes using keywords.
Articles sharing: Let your friends or colleagues know about the latest pieces of news.
Hot news: outline important articles to either share them or keep them at hand until you don't need them anymore.
Highly customizable user interface to get the news you want, the way you want it.
One-click subscription to feeds directly from your favorite web browser.
Dock Control: Read all your news using the Dock just like back in MacReporter 1!

Limitations:
Two weeks trial.
After the trial period of two weeks, MacReporter will only display half of the articles.

What's New:
MacReporter is now Universal: run it natively on the new Intel Macs.
Tabbed browsing: Read several articles at once without ever losing track.
Navigation Bar: Navigate through articles as easily as with your favorite web browser.
Hierarchical folders: Quickly sort information as you need it.
A sleek new look: Never feel ashamed of using it alongside iApps.
Import your existing News Feeds straight from every major news reader on the Mac & OPML files.
Authenticated News Feeds: A must-have for professional users.
Full keyboard navigation: Leave your shiny new Mighty Mouse in the dust.
Many, many refinements and improvements all over the application to make it a lot more efficient to use.
Fixes for all known issues & performance improvements.