#Netnewswire os x mac

For that reason I’d have to call a tie between Google Reader and NetNewsWire, which is the best of the list in my opinion - especially now that it’s free.

I use Google Reader myself these days, so it gets my vote, but it was a long and hard struggle to give up the comfort of a good desktop app. I’ve been a bit unfair by throwing Google Reader into the mix it’s not fair on the desktop applications to be compared to a web service and it’s not fair on a web service to be compared to desktop apps. The Trends screen lets me know that my most frequently checked feeds are those pertaining to the forums or blog at the sites I manage and edit, which I’m sure will be happy news for my employers if they’re reading this. It features a Trends screen that lets you peruse your readership statistics, but no smart foldering or statistical sorting as yet. It’s the only reader I’ve used that has a social aspect - you can share items, and if you’ve conversed with someone via Gmail you’ll see their shared items too. It does work well and the bugs aren’t serious enough to be worried about. Sounds like an awfully negative review for the reader I’m actively using right now, eh? I suppose it’s all about convenience.īut it is good. When Google Reader isn’t being a pain, it’s great being able to fly through your feeds with just your scroll wheel - items are marked as read as you scroll past them - but more often than not this doesn’t work out. NetNewsWire, one of the most popular RSS apps ever made for the Mac, has just opened up a beta version of its upcoming 4.0. You can separate your feeds into folders, though creating and maintaining them is tedious. Google Reader is a good web-based feed reader, though not without its quirks (sometimes I’ve seen duplicate items I’ve already read in the All items view, and sometimes things just get stuck and items won’t get marked as read). Unless reviewing the stuff is your job, there’s no sense in spending more than a small amount of your time doing this. In my opinion if you want to be a productive person, that’s a habit you should also develop - too many so-called “personal productivity enthusiasts” spend half their time looking for new software. I like to find something that works well, lets me get my job done the quickest, and get on with life. I’m not the kind of person to spend countless days and weeks trying out new applications.

#Netnewswire os x mac

In fact, I’ve only tried a few of the most popular. A slowdown of your Mac after removal due to the leftovers of the unwanted application Remnant files about the removed application can be found The application. There are probably a whole lot of RSS readers for the Mac I haven’t tried them all and I won’t claim too. I won’t name any names, though you can probably deduce their identities by ruffling through some articles I wrote before I switched to a decent web-based solution (not all of us are able to resist the tides of trends and time, y’know). There was once a time when my favorite RSS reader cost a fair but not insignificant price and the open source alternative wasn’t up-to-snuff.