Looking for an easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac? You've found it! The Eddy award-winning NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs.
New Version 3.1! Bring the power of RSS right to your Mac OS X desktop
- New! UI update with new toolbar icons.
- New! Performance and memory enhancements including an improved Combined View which uses multiple pages to display long lists of items.
- New! HTML Archive feature - saves news items as HTML files on disk. These files are compatible with any web browser.
- Desktop integration – Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, Growl, Twitterrific and more.
- Great new look – improved Combined View, feed "cover art", full-screen mode, and tabs with thumbnails and animations.
- Synchronized clippings – read your saved articles from the web or another NewsGator reader.
- Microformat detection for contacts and calendar events.
- Automatic checking for newer versions of the software.
- Automatic download of podcasts and transfer to iTunes.
- Smart lists to aggregate news from your feeds based on criteria.
Lite Version
NetNewsWire is now free! You can get all the cool features of NetNewsWire at no cost.
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Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.4 or greater. Universal binary
Reading Feeds
- New! HTML Archive feature - saves news items as HTML files on disk. These files are compatible with any web browser.
- New! Performance and memory enhancements including an improved Combined View which uses multiple pages to display long lists of items.
- Desktop integration: Spotlight, Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, Growl, Twitterific and more.
- More viewing options: Combined view, feed "cover art", full-screen mode, and tabs with thumbnails and animations.
- Sort by attention: NetNewsWire now tracks more information about what you do and can tell which feeds are most important to you.
- Printing: Page Setup and Print commands have been added to the File menu.
- Emailing: Two new commands appear in the File menu: one for emailing the contents of the news item or page, the other for emailing a link to the news item or page.
- Post to Del.icio.us: In the News menu is a new command: Post to del.icio.us. It works with the selected news item or the frontmost browser tab.
- Tabbed Browser: Open web pages in NetNewsWire's browser and see them the same as in Safari 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.
- Three-Paneled Interface: The widescreen, three-column view is perfect for laptops and today's monitors that have more horizontal space.
- 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.
- 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.
- Persistence: Tell NetNewsWire how long to keep news items so you can still read them even after they disappear from the feed.
- Dinosaurs: Find feeds that haven't updated in a long time via the Dinosaurs window.
Finding Feeds
- News Comes to You: Subscribe to feeds from all over the web - and from the built-in list of thousands of feeds in the Sites Drawer.
- Searching: Search your news items with a standard Apple search widget - as in Mail and other applications.
- Search-Result Subscriptions: Make special subscriptions that display results from search engines or from keyword searches.
Other
- Podcasts and Enclosures: Automatically download podcasts and enclosures. Send podcasts to iTunes with your choice of genre and playlist.
- Synchronization with NewsGator Online: Keep your subscriptions and news item status synchronized between NewsGator Online and NetNewsWire. New! Now NetNewsWire synchronizes your clippings with the NewsGator Online web-based reader and other NewsGator readers.
- New! Automatic checking for newer versions of the software.
- 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.
The new Combined View provides an easy way to read your news.
The traditional, three-pane view is just like reading email but now optionally includes summaries in-line with the titles.
The widescreen view gives you another option to fit your reading into your desktop.
Using the vertical tabs with thumbnails makes it easy to see the site you’re reading.
The horizontal tab view makes browsing within NetNewsWire a breeze.
NetNewsWire now detects microformats, so you can add events to iCal or contacts to Address Book with just a click.
ARS Technica says: "All in all, the years of development behind NetNewsWire show. It shows itself as a very well-rounded and extremely powerful newsreader."
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Upgrading NetNewsWire:
Eligibility
When you purchased NetNewsWire, it included a NewsGator Online Premium Package. You are entitled to free upgrades of NetNewsWire as long as your Premium package is still active when the NetNewsWire version is released. You can check your account status by logging in with your NewsGator online username and password and going to the Account tabs in the reader. If your Premium Package has expired, you can renew it from these tabs and you will be eligible for the upgrade at no additional fee. Purchasing any other NewsGator reader will also get you one year of Premium status.
Process
You will need to download NetNewsWire and copy the application to your Applications folder, replacing your current copy of NetNewsWire.
When you first run NetNewsWire 3.0, you will see the activation assistant.
- NetNewsWire will display your serial number at the start of the activation assistant.
- If you already have a NewsGator Online account, choose I have a NewsGator online account and enter your account credentials.
- If you don't have an account, choose Create a NewsGator online account for me and the activation assistant will walk you through creating one.
Support
If NetNewsWire did not display your serial number or you have any other problems with activation, please send an email to NewsGator Technical Support. Please be sure to include your NewsGator account name, and the exact text of any error messages you receive, if applicable.
