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Shrook now free

by Scott McNulty Apr 25th 2006 at 2:00PM



Shrook, a full featured RSS reader for OS X, is now freeware according to Shrook developer Graham Parks. In an email to TUAW he assures us that development of Shrook will continue, the only thing that has changed is the price. Why the sudden change to freeware? To quote Graham, 'to piss off Brent Simmons if nothing else.'

Hey, I'm all for spite creating freeware, though I think I'll stick with NetNewsWire myself.

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Dastardly Dan

It's all in good fun, I'm sure.

I'm going to check it out, but Vienna has been good to me so far.

May 08 2006 at 4:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Reid Ellis

Steve, Bill: Why use a browser like Safari when you can read everything in NewsFire?

April 26 2006 at 1:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ex MSFTer

uh, firefox?

April 26 2006 at 12:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

Shrook seems cool and the best part is that its free. However, I'd go for NewsMac Pro, while NetNewsWire just plain sucks!

April 25 2006 at 10:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
R Muffet

Can you elaborate? Why would Graham Parks want to piss off Brent?

Is this some sort of petty jealousy over failing to take any of NetNewsWire's massive marketshare, or is there personal animosity between the two people?

April 25 2006 at 7:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
superpixel

Bill, my experience has been no one reader does it all. NNW comes close, but I'm just now trying Shrook. Safari kinda chokes on some things, or a lot of feeds... Besides, I like having a list view of threads, and be able to pop into a browser to see the pages.

One thing: my online Shrook account is supposed to expire in 2 weeks... what then?

April 25 2006 at 3:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve Denton

I'm with Bill. I use the Safari RSS in appropriately named files up in the Bookmarks Bar there. Surf around, Safari checks every half an hour, RSS come in, number goes up, I check 'em. Perfect.

April 25 2006 at 3:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bill

This might sound a bit n00bish, but what's the real advantage to using a stand-alone (read: one-trick pony) RSS reader as opposed to, say, using the built-in RSS feature of Safari?

April 25 2006 at 3:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RedDrumMaster

Just started to use Vienna, which -I think- is the best RSS viewer.

April 25 2006 at 2:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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