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DESCRIPTION
NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface - similar to Apple Mail - can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news. Features include:
- A tabbed browser lets you read web pages with the convenience of staying in the same window.
- Search your news items with a standard Apple search widget, like in Mail and other applications.
- Downloads podcasts and enclosures, and sends podcasts to iTunes with with your choice of genre and playlist.
- The flagged items feature lets you mark items that you want to keep -- they stay forever or until you mark them as unflagged.
- Mac OS X 10.5 compatible, and includes Automator actions to control functions in NetNewsWire.
- Other features include syncing, smart lists, search subscriptions, built-in styles, and AppleScript support.
- Includes a built-in categorized list of feeds that can be easily subscribed to.
- If NetNewsWire Lite is already running, quit it before running NetNewsWire.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.2.3: - Fixes a bug validating some serial numbers in certain conditions.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| NetNewsWire User Reviews (126 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 27 2009 |
OSP Still one of the best news readers available for the Mac. No matter if you follow just one blog or 200 blogs NetnewsWire does the trick for you. The user interface is built to cope with hundreds of news. As a long-time user it bothers me that I have to buy a new license to get rid of the ads. But this is really the only thing.
(Version 3.2.3) | |
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 | Oct 26 2009 |
MHOUTMAN no problems here with 3.2.3 on 5 macs (intel/ppc)
(Version 3.2.3) | |
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 | Oct 25 2009 |
SCOTT_M29 Version 3.2.1 was working for me. Version 3.2.2 repeatedly crashed on my MBPro/SL yesterday, even after tossing out the .plist file. Today 3.2.3 does the same repeated crashing on a MacPro/SL. Seems to be trying to reload all the subscriptions all over again. I can go back and run version 3.2.1 fine still.
(Version 3.2.3) | |
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| Oct 26 2009 |
JAZZYGUY That is what is WRONG about this app.FORGET about whether the developer is a GOOD GUY or bad the darn thing takes too long a time to update if you have a large amount of RSS updates whereas other readers update instantly or in a few seconds.GoodGuy don't cut it!
(Version 3.2.3) | |
| Oct 24 2009 |
JAZZYGUY Correction: NetNewsWire is SLOW updating the RSS Feeds! Shrook is slower and NewsFire is a little faster but NewsLife updates them immediately! (just like NewsMacPro but is unavailable) Believe me Updates will NOT cost more!
(Version 3.2.2) | |
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| Oct 24 2009 |
JAZZYGUY Folks if you can't get NewsmacPro which loads the RSS feeds IMMEDIATELY with NO TIME LAG as NetNewsWire does then go for THINK MAC's new application NewsLife. It also IMMEDIATELY loads the new RSS feeds without waiting as NetNewsWire does as well as NewsFire(a little slower)and Shrook (real slow)
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| Oct 22 2009 |
JAZZYGUY I purchased this RSS reader years ago.I also purchased NewsFire as well as NewsFan and NewsMacPro. First the developer made this reader free. Then it went to Ads unless you pay up. The other 2 have NEVER asked for more money and in fact Newsfire is free as well as Shrook which shows the AVARICE of this developer. Good Bye NetNewsWire! Hello NewsMacPro which actually is BETTER than this cockamamee RSS reader.In addition NewsMacPro has a free version NewsMac! NewsMacPro will automatically import your Safari Rss as well as Bloglines and NewsFire and NetNewsWire without an OPML file! All you have to do is mark what you want in the preferences!This junk about needing more money for development is pure junk! Don't buy this app for these spurious and fallacious reasons! The other Developers keep their RSS Readers up to date and improve it without asking for more money!
(Version 3.2.2) | |
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| Oct 22 2009 |
SJK ThinkMac stopped NewsMac(Pro) development years ago in favor of the NewsLife, which costs $18 and hasn't been updated in over a year. Good luck with that.
(Version 3.2.2) | |
| Oct 22 2009 |
JAZZYGUY BUT IT WORKS!!! ....AND I HAVE LUCK WITH THAT!!! As a matter of fact SJK it runs fast and runs better than NetNewsWire. I guarantee that the new version of this RSS Newsreader will not ask for more money as it goes through different stages of devealopment. NetNewsWire was PAID FOR by myself and others. GET A LIFE! We paid for it and supported it and then it went "free"for a little while and now has ads and asks for more money! Shrook and NewsFire don't do that after they become free apps.I think it is a disgusting avaricious act and OTHERS HERE feel the same!BTW the "old NewsMacPro that you disdain even has skins and does it better than NetNewsWire.....and as for their iPhone app! Forget it if you have a load of RSS that you want to appear on your iPhone. That iphone app is absolutely useless unless you want to wait all day for your RSS news to appear. BTW Good luck to youand the horse you came in on!
(Version 3.2.2) | |
| Oct 22 2009 |
Rant away, but I don't appreciate being falsely accused of disdaining NewsMacPro.
(Version 3.2.2) | |
| Oct 26 2009 |
DANA SUTTON Well, my friend, there's something in the world we can call avarice, and it's pretty easy recognize that when you see it. But there's also something called the need to eat. There are plenty of genuine greedheads in the world, why don't you save your bad words for them? Personally, I think the developer of this product is a pretty okay guy, and I bet most folks will agree with me. It's also, i. m. h. o., a damn fine product.
(Version 3.2.3) | |
| Oct 26 2009 |
JAZZYGUY That is what is WRONG about this app.FORGET about whether the developer is a GOOD GUY or bad the darn thing takes too long a time to update if you have a large amount of RSS updates whereas other readers update instantly or in a few seconds.GoodGuy don't cut it!
(Version 3.2.3) | |
| Oct 29 2009 |
JAZZYGUY Dana Sutton: You feel sorry for Newsgator! Aw they have to eat! Well this conglomaration of corporate control makes more money in one day than you make all year! We who supported NNW at the START got locked out when they ignored their LOYAL supporters and went FREE in order to LURE more users to their app.THEN they put the ADS in and asked for additional monies to remove them . You don't call that AVARICE! Well then you don't know how to recognize it as such. An App is either FREE or charges money for it! It can't be both! We who were locked out after all the years of supporting this app were ignored!
(Version 3.2.3) | |
| Oct 22 2009 |
IVANOVITCH Absolute shame about the adware built-in. Avid user for years, but now looking at Vienna and Shrook once again after latest more-aggressive adverts in places where I can do without the clutter. Why pay when you can find apps for free and without advertising?
(Version 3.2.2) | |
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| Oct 22 2009 |
JB4 I respect the developer's right to make money from his creation. Either I pay for the add free version, or put up with those relatively unobtrusive adds. It's always the user's choice and after using all the other RSS applications for Mac and waiting for all my feeds to load and sometimes watching the apps. crash trying to load them all, I wouldn't even think of switching.
(Version 3.2.2) | |
| Oct 22 2009 |
ROBOTANK I admit I was very annoyed when the ads first appeared in NNW, but I do agree with the above response. It's perfectly reasonable for NNW's developers to ask for money for their work. Moreover, they're only asking for $10, a very reasonable fee for a quality application. I absolutely refuse to use any kind of adware, but now that I have the choice in NNW to immediately purge the ads by buying the app, I have no further reason to complain about their presence. If you don't want to pay, then by all means explore other options, but to suggest that there's absolutely no reason to pay for something when a free alternative exists is a little silly. Sometimes the paid alternative is the better one. Up to this point, I've yet to encounter a news reader, free or otherwise, that lives up to NNW's standard.
(Version 3.2.2) | |
| Oct 22 2009 |
ICONZ113 Best newsreader out, google sync, rock solid, Never had an issue
(Version 3.2.2) | |
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| Oct 18 2009 |
BIGCLOITS Iâve been a heavy NNW user for a couple years now. I have basically never had one day of trouble-free operation. Almost all the problems concern feed management and syncing, and these problems have been remarkably persistent through all versions, including the most recent (3.2). There are many, many head-scratching moments with the syncing of feeds. Everything else about the application is basically fine, either âfineâ or even pretty excellent. But the syncing problems are so numerous and severe that I canât even begin to recommend the application. Letâs put it this way: I would not dream of recommending it to my mother ...
(Version 3.2) | |
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| Oct 17 2009 |
RIDOGI This drives me crazy too. I changed Command W to close tabs in keyboard prefs, but now if I am in the main window and hit Command W it closes a tab I am not looking at (which I can undo fortunately). This change is clearly a downgrade from the previous version where Command W would close the main window or a tab depending on where you were at the time.
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