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Beta Beat: NetNewsWire 3.0 sneak peek
Adventurous users - remember: this isn't even a beta - can check out the change notes for this public sneak peek, and head over to the download page to give it a go. For a tasty primer, a lot is new: Spotlight searching, a much-requested new Combined View, a Full Screen mode, a tab bar on the right with page thumbnails (which can be condensed to mere text titles), the ability to chose a folder when subscribing (a lá Safari bookmarking) and much, much more. As a personal side note, it's great to see even that FeedLight style Brent found recently to make its way onto the built-in styles list.
A few words of caution from a blogger who's been testing this version for around a month (hint - that's me): back up your existing NNW support folder if testing software like this makes you queasy. NetNewsWire 3 makes significant changes to the way your data is stored, and you won't be able to run version 2.x without its old support folder after firing up v3. Surfing to ~/Library/Application Support, selecting the NetNewsWire folder and pressing cmd + d is a simple enough backup.
With that said, go enjoy a sneak peek of NetNewsWire 3.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ZX said 6:04PM on 2-16-2007
amaaaaaaaaaazing!!!!!
*one thing - please improve the 'white aqua' on the new Tabs sidbar window. it looks too gloosy and distracting.
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josue salazar said 6:55PM on 2-16-2007
This is not the first release of NNW 3.0. He had released 3.0d7 a while ago, here's a screenshot I took of it (of 3.0d7) yesterday actually, link.
It looks pretty much like 2.x. Anyway, the new release is pretty sweet.
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josue salazar said 6:55PM on 2-16-2007
Link: http://www.fubitch.com/nnwfl.png
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Dave Chartier said 7:16PM on 2-16-2007
#2: Yes, Brent released a really pre-pre-pre-version 3 a while ago on his personal blog, but there really wasn't much new in it. I blogged it here on TUAW, in fact.
The actual development has been in a private beta for a while now, on which I only hopped about a month ago after meeting Brent at Macworld. This is the first major public release that includes any of the actual new feature set Brent has planned for version 3.
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Kevin said 8:12PM on 2-16-2007
I'm REALLY sorry to be a boring pedant, but it's "à la" not "a lá". "A lá" would mean "(s)he/it has there"... if the accent on the 'a' was grave instead of acute [i.e. if it was going the other way].
Sorry.
*hides in shame due to own sad-ness*
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Nathan said 2:19AM on 2-17-2007
Ok, this may be a really superficial thing I have just discovered in NNW 3.0.
Double click an article in the list. Watch the awesome animation that ensues. I know, I know, but I just find little tweaks like that so great in enhancing the feel of apps, a reason I switched to Mac 2 years ago.
Once the final version of 3.0 releases, I may just finally have to bite the bullet and buy the full version of NNW (I have been using the free NNW Lite since I got my Mac).
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Nathan said 2:19AM on 2-17-2007
Ok, this may be a really superficial thing I have just discovered in NNW 3.0.
Double click an article in the list. Watch the awesome animation that ensues. I know, I know, but I just find little tweaks like that so great in enhancing the feel of apps, a reason I switched to Mac 2 years ago.
Once the final version of 3.0 releases, I may just finally have to bite the bullet and buy the full version of NNW (I have been using the free NNW Lite since I got my Mac).
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Sam said 4:00AM on 2-17-2007
Can someone post a backup link to it because the download server is super slow ....
Thanks !
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Targuman said 8:27AM on 2-17-2007
Am I the only one who doesn't like the new buttons? So much so that I would be tempted not to update?
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Jesse French said 5:04PM on 2-19-2007
Sneak...*peek*, even?
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chas said 2:05PM on 3-08-2007
is there any way for me to test this out while keeping my current nnw app installed? the sneak peek version has the same app name so it wants to overwrite my copy....??
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