NetNewsWire 2.1.1b1 review
DownloadNetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS news reader for web sites.
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NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS news reader for web sites.It uses a familiar three-paned interface -- like that of Outlook Express or Mailsmith -- to display websites and their news.
Features include:The Weblog Editor allows one to post to Radio, Blogger, Movable Type, and other types of weblogs.
It works with most of the popular weblog systems.The Notepad is an outline, a place to take notes and store headlines, subscriptions, URLs, and files.
The Find command looks for specific text in headlines.AppleScript support allows one to get and set information about headlines and subscriptions.
The Scripts menu runs your AppleScript scripts from within NetNewsWire.Headlines are now stored between runs, which means you can download the news and then read it on the train or anywhere you don't have web access.
Here are some key features of "NetNewsWire":
News comes to you
Spend less time surfing. Let NetNewsWire do the work for you, as it gathers your news and tells you which items are new. Subscribe to feeds from all over the web—and from the built-in list of thousands of feeds in the Sites Drawer.
Tabbed browser
Open web pages in NetNewsWire’s browser, and see them the same as in Safari, but with the convenience of staying in the same window. NetNewsWire remembers tabs between launches, so you come right back to where you left off last time.
Searching
Search your news items with a standard Apple search widget—as in Mail and other applications.
Podcasts and enclosures
Automatically download podcasts and enclosures. Send podcasts to iTunes with with your choice of genre and playlist.
Smart lists
Gather news from all your feeds based on your criteria. It’s like smart playlists in iTunes—only for news instead of music.
Flagged items
Mark items that you want to keep—they stay forever or until you mark them as unflagged.
Synchronization
Keep your subscriptions, news item status, and even browser tabs synchronized between two or more computers.
Bloglines syncing
Read your Bloglines feeds with NetNewsWire for the best of both worlds, a rich desktop client and acessible-anywhere server.
Search-result subscriptions
Make special subscriptions that display results from search engines like Yahoo, Feedster, and Daypop, or from keyword searches at Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati. Easily keep up with topics that interest you.
Widescreen view
The three-column view is perfect for laptops and today’s monitors that have more horizontal space.
Persistence
Tell NetNewsWire how long to keep news items, so you can still read them even after they disappear from the feed.
Scripting and Automator
Control NetNewsWire with AppleScript—and with Automator too, if you’re running OS X 10.4 or greater. Add commands to NetNewsWire via the scripts menu.
Scripted feeds
Generate custom RSS and Atom feeds via AppleScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, and other scripting languages.
HTML Differences
Track changes in news items as they’re edited and updated.
Activity window
Stay in control as NetNewsWire shows you exactly what it’s downloading.
Dinosaurs
Find feeds that haven’t updated in a long time via the Dinosaurs window.
Inline summaries and datelines
Show summaries and datelines in the headlines list to make skimming faster and easier—especially for the widescreen view.
Versatile headlines list
Add date, subject, and creator columns to the headlines list—and sort on any of these columns.
More...
Change the fonts in the subscriptions and headlines lists, turn on and off the unread count in the Dock, download files, and more.
Limitations:
Fully functioning 30 day demo.
What's New:
Combined View - Fixed a spacing bug some people were seeing in the Combined View.
Enclosures - Fixed bug where enclosures could be re-downloaded in certain circumstances. When downloading an enclosure, if the name of a feed starts with a ., don't use the . in the folder name, since that makes it invisible.
File Downloads window - Instead of a gear menu is a Clear button, since that's what people keep asking for. (And it's a good idea. And it's what browsers tend to do, so it's familiar, hence "intuitive.") If you click Download in an enclosure view, and the file downloads window is already open, it will not force itself to the front.
Subscriptions list - It's now written to disk at shutdown no matter what--because there are little things (like expansion states) that may have changed but that don't otherwise mark the subscription list as dirty.
Traditional View - When the tabs bar is hidden or shown, the horizontal splitter separating the table from the description pane now doesn't move, which feels nicer. In a related change, the splitter no longer creeps downward every time you restart (when you have one or more browser tabs).
Email Contents command - This menu item is now permanently disabled on 10.3.9, since it doesn't actually work on 10.3.9. (It relies on a feature that was added to Mail in 10.4.)
Browser - Fixed a bug where sometimes a redirected page would not be reflected in the browser URL field.
.Mac/FTP syncing - Fixed a bug where syncing might not work because the prefs could appear on (sync subs list, sync news items, sync tabs) when they were in fact off. Fixed by setting default prefs for these items.
NewsGator Sync Error sheet - If the sync error sheet is already showing, and another error happens, don't try to show it again, since this can cause hangs and confusion.
Post to del.icio.us - Added WebnoteHappy to list of apps you can use for post to del.icio.us. (It should work to send items to WebnoteHappy Lite too, though the Lite version doesn't post items to del.icio.us. Yes, the menu item "Post to del.icio.us" is increasingly inapt, but it's still the best name. For now.) (Yes, adding WebnoteHappy is actually adding a small new feature, but, really, wasn't it a bug that WebnoteHappy wasn't included in the first place? ;)
Send to VoodooPad - If you have VoodooPad installed on your system, there is a Send to VoodooPad command (with a keyboard shortcut) in the News menu. The command should work with VoodooPad Lite, the full version, and the new (in beta) Pro version. (Okay, this for sure is a new feature rather than a bug fix. But, really, 2.1.1 is about bug fixes).
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