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Beta Beat: NetNewsWire 3.0 sneak peek

by David Chartier Feb 16th 2007 at 4:15PM


Brent Simmons has released the first public 'sneak peek' (note: it isn't even a beta) of NetNewsWire 3.0, a much-anticipated new version of his immensely popular RSS client which NewsGator acquired in 2005. Brent has made a brief announcement on his blog, reminding everyone that there's still a lot to do, but he also mentions he'll be writing more in-depth about what has changed in the coming days.

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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matt

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....??

March 08 2007 at 2:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jesse French

Sneak...*peek*, even?

February 19 2007 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Targuman

Am I the only one who doesn't like the new buttons? So much so that I would be tempted not to update?

February 17 2007 at 8:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sam

Can someone post a backup link to it because the download server is super slow ....
Thanks !

February 17 2007 at 3:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nathan Sweeney

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).

February 17 2007 at 2:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nathan Sweeney

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).

February 17 2007 at 2:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin Mcallister

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*

February 16 2007 at 8:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

#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.

February 16 2007 at 7:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
josue salazar

Link: http://www.fubitch.com/nnwfl.png

February 16 2007 at 6:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
josue salazar

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.

February 16 2007 at 6:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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