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![]() NetNewsWire - Free RSS News Feed Reader Related Guide PicksNetNewsWire 3.1 - Free RSS News Feed ReaderGuide Rating - ![]() The Bottom LineNetNewsWire is competent and flexible RSS feed reader that combines Mac elegance with smart tools that help you follow news updates efficiently. Fast Spotlight search and smart folders make getting to the important updates a snap and reading news in NetNewsWire is a pleasure indeed. Pros
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Guide Review - NetNewsWire 3.1 - Free RSS News Feed ReaderNetNewsWire is a versatile news tool. Not only does it make reading news pretty, easy and comfortable, NetNewsWire also lets you use what you have just read.
First, NetNewsWire helps you find the interesting stuff, not only with fast as-you-type search (integration with Spotlight would be nice) but also with smart folders that automatically aggregate matching news items. NetNewsWire lets you subscribe to (blog) search engine results easily, but it cannot incorporate these results with other feeds or relate news items to each other. In general, NetNewsWire is not picky about what to display: you can also subscribe to local files, tags (Flickr and friends), and just about anything else using scripts. Naturally, NetNewsWire can download RSS enclosures and podcasts. It's easy to flag items in NetNewsWire and save them for later as clippings, but custom (color) labels that could be used in smart folders might be even better. It's nice how you can make NetNewsWire draw attention to feeds and folders you use (flagging or mailing items, following links, posting to del.icio.us) most often. Integration with blog editors makes reacting to posts a snap. Integration with other readers from the NewsGator family works perfectly and you can easily track your Bloglines feeds, too. Related Guide Picks |
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