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By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:05:09 +0000

is there any rss reader which can save the webpages viewed through it automatically?

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By: SWGS

SWGS — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:41:40 +0000

I can’t believe you ding NetNewsWire because you can’t refresh feeds more often than 30 mins. You should not be refreshing ALL your feeds more than every 30 mins, its a waste, and puts a strain on the web server you are accessing.

Don’t waste more money with David Watanabe, who doesn’t ever seem to appreciate your business anyway.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:51:13 +0000

Great writeup. Personally I use NewsFire, and love it. There are some things that could’ve been better, but it looks great and I hasn’t crashed once.

NetNewsWire 3 looks promising though…

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:19:06 +0000

Vienna is by far the best in my opinion for free readers. I like newsfire but i dont want to pay for it.

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By: Ram Prasad

Ram Prasad — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:59:52 +0000

I bought (thorough the last macheist) Newsfire .. but I could not use it for more than a week (I was a NNW user before) because of no integrated browser. It gets painful when you need to open too many external browser windows. Also, Newsfire is not stable enough when loading (initially ) just over 20 feeds. (even later, it was too slow handling the feeds).

NNW is good, but sometimes might crash trying to sync to newsgator (and the newsgator subscription is not free for more than a year either, AFAIK).

I am using Google reader now, and it is pretty nice (see the feeds at work, and continue at home after). With the new Mac-like skin (digg), it is as good as using a desktop reader.

Vienna is the next best thing .. so here goes the ranking:

1. Google Reader (they still need to fix some minor issues with read/undread feeds)

2. Vienna

3. Netnewswire

(Sorry. Newsfire is not worth the money.)

By: skootn

skootn — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:43:33 +0000

I use netvibes.com via firefox with an advanced bookmark manager extension and delicous. werks gr8

By: Nick Cotton

Nick Cotton — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:24:30 +0000

I really like Google Reader, but the fact that it doesn’t have search (umm.. Google, that’s what you do!) is a killer for me.

By: shadownight

shadownight — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:39:56 +0000

I think NetNewsWire (or NNW Lite) is much more efficient that NewsFire. The fact that you see the headlines in a list above the viewing area lets you skim quickly through different headlines, while with NewsFire you need to click back and forth or use the spacebar to go through unread posts. For the casual reader, NewsFire is maybe better, but I find NNW better for efficient use.

By: Jon Kantro

Jon Kantro — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:18:49 +0000

I’m a fan of NewsLife. The latest beta works fine for me. It’s simple, has the nicest interface of the above listed reader imho.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:57:44 +0000

Also, some of you may want to try out Google Reader now that you can make it look like a native OSX app with this skin. Very cool.

By: E.T.Cook

E.T.Cook — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:13:14 +0000

No question NNW is the only choice. Newsfire is pretty, and has some nice features, but it handles my large RSS terribly. It will be unresponsive to the point that it crashes, especially during the initial import of my OPML of just under 500 feeds.

By: Miles Evans

Miles Evans — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:08:18 +0000

Consider this my vote for NNW. I’m not a big fan of a built in browser, and NNW seems to handle a large list quite nicely. Also for recent Windows switchers it operates quite similar to Feeddemon.

By: Yohannes Wijaya

Yohannes Wijaya — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:37:32 +0000

the only reason why i stick with NNW is its synchronization with newsgator online. otherwise, i would have gone w/ vienna for sure. newsfire has not integrated built-in browser up to today which is a shame, despite its sleek ui.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:00:50 +0000

like leebo, I use Vienna and love the integrated browser. Before I select an application that I will use regularly, I try demos of several and find which one I like best. I tried all the ones above and even more and preferred Vienna. Not having to leave Vienna to read more on rss items that interest me is awesome and helps with my workflow. I know newsfire is a favorite in the mac community, but I think a lot of people choose it more bc of the UI, which is no surprise considering it’s developed by Dave Watanabe.

By: Meane

Meane — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:51:33 +0000

Google Reader is great, but I haven't found the search yet (is this because I am stupid?) I use Peel daily. That, alongside The Filter are my favourite little OSX apps.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:37:30 +0000

I tried all of these a while back (Shrook included) when I got fed up with Flock and was forced to de-integrate all of its features using separate apps. (Of course, Flock, like Safari, has its own RSS aggregator built in too.) Initially, I went with NewsFire, but that was before I fell in love with Google Reader. Seriously, gReader is so much better than any of these, and contrary to what a previous commenter said, you can read news offline provided that you load all of the items before disconnecting (although the photos/videos won't show up).

By: leebo

leebo — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:45:25 +0000

AFter having a quick look at the Netnewswire 3 I can say that I was wrong. It seems to have everything I like about Vienna and elements of Omniweb too! Wonderful.
Its a shame that it will cost me so much to get but Im pleased that it blows Newsfire out the water , not from any App point of view but beacuse of Watanabe’s awful customer service attitude.
As for google reader it is a good RSS gatherer but Im not sure the Hicksdesign css that I tried out through Safari was that satisfactory. I think it still needs some glossing.
Anyway, its Vienna for me and maybe Netnewswire 3 when its out of beta.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:40:47 +0000

@gulup_jamun

Concerning Google Reader, it can be nice to have offline reading capability at times.

Also, I find it infuriating that there is no way to ’search’ your own feeds without resorting to a GreaseMonkey script. Google not having search built in to one of their products? That’s just silly.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:34:02 +0000

If you read a large number of feeds (think 100+) Newsfire doesn’t handle it gracefully (spinning beachball, unresponsiveness, etc). If you read a smaller number of feeds, though, it is a great app. I used it for almost 2 years before becoming fed up with the slowdowns it suffers from.

NetNewsWire has no issue with large numbers of feeds, and seems to be extremely stable. It is currently my preferred newsreader. I have only two issues with it. 1. There should be more granular control over where embedded attachments are saved. 2. I keep, at the top of my feeds list, a smart folder that displays all unread items from the other feeds sorted by source. When I ‘mark read’ items in that smart folder, I also have to manually ‘refresh’ the smart list for the items to clear from it. I wish there were a way to setup a key combo to combine those actions.

By: gulup_jamun

gulup_jamun — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:28:29 +0000

what about google reader (with the css design from hickdesign)? i’ve just switched from vienna to google reader, using the new css design and reader notifier.

By: Anthony Sigalas

Anthony Sigalas — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:19:49 +0000

The new NetNewsWire 3.0 beta has a lot of UI enhancements (like full screen mode), vertical and horizontal tabs, the new combined view (great for flickr feeds as it loads all the images at once), spotlight search and so on. It has successfully replaced Newsfie and Vienna as my RSS feed viewer of choice. I must say that I disliked NetNewsWire 2.1 look and feel, but I LOVE NetNewsWire 3.0 new look and feel. You can grab and try the 3.0beta, here: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/beta.php

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MACNOTES.DE » Notizen vom 18. April 2007 — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:50:43 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:30:25 +0000

Another reader you may want to consider looking at is Shrook which is free and has worked very well for me the past several months. Very simple interface, inline browser, limited feature-set (a good thing…)