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An easy way to import NetNewsWire feeds into Safari
Well color me surprised - after trying a few convoluted methods for exporting some of my NetNewsWire feeds in a format that Safari could import (as RSS, not HTML links to real sites), I finally realized that either Brent Simmons and/or Apple have already done some of the heavy lifting. If you toggle Safari's Show All Bookmarks view from the Bookmarks menu (or simply use ??B), you can simply drag and drop one or multiple selected feeds from NetNewsWire into Safari's bookmark editing window. Unfortunately, you can't drop a Group of feeds from NetNewsWire, but this trick should satisfy most users who need to get some feeds into Apple's browser.
When you import feeds into Safari like this, it won't recognize them as true RSS feeds (or begin downloading headlines and displaying unread counts) until you visit them at least once. After that you're all ready to roll with a few (or all?) of your favorite NetNewsWire feeds in Safari.
If you use a desktop-based RSS reader other than NetNewsWire, be sure to let us know if this same trick works for your reader.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff said 6:00PM on 7-30-2007
Wonderful tip! Trying to get feeds from NNW into Safari is normally a convoluted mess involving at least Safari, Firefox, some Firefox RSS manager, and NNW itself. This is excellent.
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MCasey said 6:11PM on 7-30-2007
This seems to work just fine in Vienna too, but I can't figure out how to do it with NewsFire
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Colin said 6:08PM on 7-30-2007
Works with Vienna, specifically version 2.2.0.2204 :)
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