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NewsFire 1.4

There are two types of Mac RSS geeks: those who use NetNewsWire and those who use NewsFire. NewsFire 1.4 might finally be the version that I, an admitted feed junkie, can actually use. It seems that NewsFire 1.4 has many performance improvements including much better handling of a large number of feeds (I have about 700 at the moment). Amongst the other new features are:
  • Status sort
  • type ahead discovery in feed selection
  • improved media player that supports video
NewsFire 1.4 is a free upgrade for all licensed users while a brand new copy costs $18.99.

There are two types of Mac RSS geeks: those who use NetNewsWire and those who use NewsFire. NewsFire 1.4 might finally be the version that...
 

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Joel

It's endo for me. Great caching (useful for Flickr feeds), color coding of feeds, and convenient built-in del.icio.us support, and seamless ecto posting.

I've tried them all and I always end up with endo.

July 25 2006 at 11:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mahalis

Another vote for Vienna. It's not as pretty as NewsFire, but open-source = modifiable = can be made as pretty as you want.

July 25 2006 at 11:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chase

You can add me to the list of Vienna users as well. I've used NetNewsWire, Newsfire, Endo, Safari RSS, Firefox RSS, etc. And I still think that Vienna is the best. Its clean, simple, fast, and best of all, free.

July 25 2006 at 10:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sjk

Vienna is arguably the nicest freeware newsfeed reader though it's certainly no NetNewsWire (non-Lite shareware version) replacement for me. Unfortunately the NewsGator assimilation/synching is the only significant NNW development over the past couple years so it seems overdue for other enhancements.

July 25 2006 at 8:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ele©tro

Add me to the list of Vienna users. It's simple, clean, FREE and gets the job done more than adequately.

July 25 2006 at 6:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mayo

There are also endo users out there .... ha!

July 25 2006 at 5:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kzar

After some experimentation, I have settled on Endo as my RSS reader. It is finely crafted (by the same developer as ecto), and elegant to use.

July 25 2006 at 5:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel

What about the Flock? I tried a slew of readers, but they all seemed like an arbitrary wall between different portions of the same type of content. Flock deals with the 40 or so feeds I follow very well, in addition to all of the other groovy features... further shrinking the number of apps I feel the need for. Since most folks do most computing through their browser anyway, having a non-browser in my dock to read web pages seems silly. Go Flock!

July 25 2006 at 3:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Str

I hope I'm not the last to say "Uh, Vienna?!" ...

July 25 2006 at 3:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike Nagy

Vienna stomps on the Terra, and the price is right (free).

July 25 2006 at 2:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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