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NewsMac Pro 1.2.5 - RSS News Feed Reader

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

NewsMac Pro - RSS News Feed Reader

NewsMac Pro - RSS News Feed Reader

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
NewsMac Pro is a well-organized and easy to use news reader. It's a pity the smart folders offered by NewsMac Pro can only aggregate feeds and not individual news items.
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Pros
  • NewsMac Pro is well organized and easy to use
  • You can group feeds in smart folders and use search to find items fast in NewsMac Pro
  • NewsMac Pro can sync headlines and stories with Bloglines, iPods and Palms
Cons
  • NewsMac Pro could offer more flexible flagging
  • Smart folders in NewsMac Pro do not aggregate news items and cannot learn from example
  • NewsMac Pro could download and handle podcasts and other enclosures better
Description
  • NewsMac Pro is an RSS and Atom feed reader.
  • You can organize feeds in folders or smart folders using criteria to collect feeds automatically.
  • NewsMac Pro comes with a number of pre-categorized feeds, and a Feed Finder makes adding feeds easy.
  • Using user-defined keywords, NewsMac Pro can highlight matching headlines.
  • NewsMac Pro can produce HTML output for iPods and Palms and synchronize headlines with them.
  • Fast search lets you find items, and NewsMac Pro lets yo search for related items quickly, too.
  • News can be read either per item or in an newspaper layout using many varied display styles.
  • NewsMac Pro supports Mac OS X 10.2+.
Guide Review - NewsMac Pro 1.2.5 - RSS News Feed Reader
NewsMac Pro makes you keep things organized. Greeted with a handsome and flexible interface, you can browse and read the latest news — NewsMac Pro comes with a nice directory of pre-set feeds — in just the manner and style you prefer.

Fast search lets you find items fast and NewsMac Pro can highlight using a keyword filter. Unfortunately, the smart folders you can set up in NewsMac Pro only collect feeds using criteria, not matching items from all your subscriptions.

All feeds you subscribe to in NewsMac can also be read on an iPod or a Palm thanks to NewsMac's smart sync feature, and integration with Bloglines lets you take your NewsMac Pro subscriptions with you, in a way.

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