NetNewsWire 3.1 Released as Freeware

Posted by Gregoire on 01/10/08 in Internet, News, Organization, Web

The 3.1 version of NetNewsWire, the well-known RSS reader, has just been released. Along with new features, such as a new view mode, HTML archiving, and performance enhancements, the major change in this new version is that the application is now totally free.

Newsgator, the company that bought the application decided to drop the paid model for a totally free model. This application which used to cost $30, is now totally free. The Lite version of NNW has suitably disappeared but note that people who purchased NetNewsWire in the past 30 days are entitled to a refund.

But this new version also brings other welcome changes which I mentioned above. First, the interface has been updated and now has some new toolbar icons. There is also a handy new feature I really like: HTML Archiving - so yeah you can now archive articles by saving them as HTML files. Useful too: the possibility of selecting several news items and execute actions for all of these items such as flag, mark as read, etc.

NetNewsWire in action

Finally, my favorite feature included in this new release is the new combined view. This new view mode includes a pagination system so you don’t have to scroll so much. I noticed only 20 news items (you can change that number) are displayed and if you want to see the next or previous ones, you simply have to change the page.

NetNewsWire can be downloaded for free on NewsGator’s website.

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Pemmax said on

January 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

It`s great news. But for me better is Endo and it`s free too Please check it - http://infinite-sushi.com/software/endo/
Best regards!

Insomnic said on

January 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

I kept trying NetNewsWire Lite and ultimately returning to Vienna. I’m curious to see if the “full” version will finally steal me away.

Superdotman said on

January 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

I kept using Vienna because it had an inline browser, but recently the browser has been losing my tabs when Vienna crashes. I was about to switch to NNW Lite, and lo and behold, I can have the fancy version! I’m typing from it right now.

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kanny said on

January 11th, 2008 at 12:47 am

i still don’t understand why would i want to change from Safari as rss reader ? It does manage the feeds nicely and really there doesn’t seem to be any motivation to go to any of the rss readers except may be for the journalists/news-people who have to manage thousands of feeds to keep track of latest events etc. i have around 100 bookmarks-cum-rss and even that i can’t attend on a daily basis. sorry guys !

Dhruv said on

January 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am

@kanny,
There are several reasons. One, you can see your feeds from another computer because this syncs with their online service.
Two: If you have multiple computers running NNW, it’ll sync between them
Three: It has more advanced feed options and sorting than safari