#NETNEWSWIRE LITE FOR MAC#
You can download the beta of NetNewsWire for Mac now.
It will be interesting to see how NNW evolves over this beta period, and how well the iOS versions of the app stack up - and sync - when compared to its successors. NetNewsWire, which essentially defined the RSS reader breed, has its work cut out for it if it wants to not only compete but become that gold standard again. There are cross-platform competitors like Reeder, which have embraced the single-to-multi-column interfaces of apps like Tweetie or Tweetbot. Of course, the landscape is a lot different now than it was back in 2011. It’s also a very capable local RSS reader and aggregator that does not require Google Reader to function and store your items. Yes, this latest version of NetNewsWire isn’t as feature rich as, say NNW 3, but it’s definitely more robust than the last official ‘lite’ version.
#NETNEWSWIRE LITE FREE#
Users can pre-order NetNewsWire now for half off the regular price or simply keep using the open beta releases as they come free of charge for now. That new solution, which they aren’t talking about yet, is what the sync for NetNewsWire for Mac, iPhone and iPad will use to communicate with one another. In that post he notes that they spent a year trying to get iCloud to work properly before deciding to drop it and build their own solution.
Launching a lighter-featured version now allows people to download their Reader archives and feeds and have a nice local repository for those until the firm can get the iPhone and iPad versions fit to ship.Īlong with those other versions will come sync, something that has been a bit of a hot button topic since Pasco opened up about how rough the Core Data component of Apple’s iCloud was for developers. I asked Black Pixel founder Daniel Pasco if the timing was about the Google Reader cutoff and he said yes, absolutely.
#NETNEWSWIRE LITE FULL#
The trial period will be extended outwards until it’s time to ship the full version. This means that anyone can download it in order to give Black Pixel the feedback they’ll need to refine it. The first version of NetNewsWire that’s being released today is in open beta. You can also bookmark anything from articles to sites as your favorites to find easily later, and all of those items can be searched. One of the nicer options for article reading is the ability to keep multiple items open in their own ‘tabs’, which adds to the staid ‘one piece at a time’ model that most readers still honor. You can, of course, download your Google Reader feeds to get you started, or NetNewsWire has a list of suggested sites and feeds that you can subscribe to. Support for other read-later services like Pocket will be welcome, but I’m sure they’ll come as the beta evolves. Sharing options allow you to send articles out via email, Twitter, Facebook or save them to Instapaper for reading later. The interface is patterned around the relatively monochromatic scheme used by Mountain Lion’s Finder sidebar.
#NETNEWSWIRE LITE ZIP#
The basic keyboard shortcuts are all here, letting you zip through articles as fast as you like. There aren’t a ton of bells and whistles, but it’s fast, and the article rendering is sure handed and superb. The new NetNewsWire is as good a reader experience as any I’ve tried lately. In the wake of the announcement that Google Reader is done for, the lack of a modern, updated NetNewsWire for Apple’s various devices has become even more of a thorn.
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