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.
I think the term "freeware" is misleading, as your data is collected in return:
"And second, we want to collect “attention” data (actually I like to call this activity data, but everyone else in the world calls it attention) and use it to make everyone’s experience better. If there is a specific feed you love, and you’re constantly emailing its articles to friends or saving articles in your clippings, that’s interesting…and if there are a lot of people doing this, it’s probably a good indicator about the “relevancy” of that content for other users. Similar with individual articles that are getting a lot of attention from users. Basically, by using your data, in combination with aggregate data from other users, we can deliver a better experience for everyone. And that’s a good thing - both for us and for you"
from: http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2008/01/09/newsgators-rss-clients-are-now-free/
Please bear no mind to my previous comment, I was still fuming from my misadventure. That, and was in rotten mood. I should have waited a while to cool off, and communicate with the developer via the Customer Feedback page (https://www.newsgator.com/feedback.aspx?product=netnewswire) to see if it's an issue which can be dealt with more efficiently.
Mod my previous comment down, to oblivion. I would, if I could.
NetNewsWire will put a bullet through your whole folder's worth of fresh unread posts if you accidently type some characters. I thought the focus was on my Adium window. and learned it the hard way. Even Google Reader never did something this destructive.
Would implementing a confirmation dialog REALLY kill you Mr. Simmons, before nuking my unread posts?
I think I'm going to transition to another software, or perhaps go back to Google Reader.
The default toolbar button "Mark all as unread" is also a very bad idea, since there is no confirmation or undo.
(As an aside note, the one big reason why I despise Google Reader is that when you resize your browser window, it will change the focus to another post, which is even worse when you set it to auto-check posts as unread to read).
NNW is free now... and wants your data in return. The CTO of the company producing NNW said, on his , that the privacy sensitive stuff can be turned off, but as soon as I launch the new , free version, Keychain asks if I'll allow NNW to use the data it keeps for logging in to some website, unrelated to NNW. Why? That smells a bit like malware. I am not even given the chance to go to the prefs and turn those big brother features off!
Opinions:
I think the term "freeware" is misleading, as your data is collected in return:
"And second, we want to collect “attention” data (actually I like to call this activity data, but everyone else in the world calls it attention) and use it to make everyone’s experience better. If there is a specific feed you love, and you’re constantly emailing its articles to friends or saving articles in your clippings, that’s interesting…and if there are a lot of people doing this, it’s probably a good indicator about the “relevancy” of that content for other users. Similar with individual articles that are getting a lot of attention from users. Basically, by using your data, in combination with aggregate data from other users, we can deliver a better experience for everyone. And that’s a good thing - both for us and for you"
from: http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2008/01/09/newsgators-rss-clients-are-now-free/
i recommend vienna instead.
download link is broken. It is the cat's ___ (literally). Here's the new one...
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/Downloads.aspx?product=NetNewsWire
it's really good it became free, I didn't use it before (I used Mail.app for rss) but NNW is probably RSS reader out there
Please bear no mind to my previous comment, I was still fuming from my misadventure. That, and was in rotten mood. I should have waited a while to cool off, and communicate with the developer via the Customer Feedback page (https://www.newsgator.com/feedback.aspx?product=netnewswire) to see if it's an issue which can be dealt with more efficiently.
Mod my previous comment down, to oblivion. I would, if I could.
Please disregard my comment, below. I didn't think.
If you use an iPhone or an iPod Touch, this is the Reader to go. Just sync to Newsgator online and check your feeds via http://m.newsgator.com. Sweet.
Version 3.1 is free as of today. Read more at http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3461
NNW today decided to reset my hundreds of feeds to the start up feeds. Im switching to something else.
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