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A visual history of NetNewsWire

by Mike Schramm (Apr 19th, 2011)

NetNewsWire is, as Second Gear's Justin Williams says, "the elder statesman of the Mac OS X platform." Brent Simmons' newsreader has appeared on countless "must-have" app lists, and it was one of the most treasured pieces of Mac software since even before anyone outside of Cupertino knew the ...

TapLynx media-based iPhone app builder from NewsGator released

by Jason Clarke (Oct 16th, 2009)

The iPhone app platform TapLynx from NetNewsWire was released yesterday, after months of anticipation. TapLynx provides you with a way to build media-rich iPhone applications without having to write any code. It's basically NetNewsWire's way of leveraging their RSS expertise along with their iPhone ...

TapLynx - Create iPhone focused newsreader applications without programming

by Jason Clarke (Jun 23rd, 2009)

Users of NewsGator's NetNewsWire iPhone news reader have been waiting with bated breath for the next iteration of the application, with the promise of the ability to mark news items unread and send articles to InstaPaper Instapaper, amongst other enhancements. As time has gone on, it became clear ...

Shawn Blanc interviews Brent Simmons

by Mike Schramm (Aug 27th, 2007)

Brent Simmons, creator of the beloved NetNewsWire RSS app, is a talkative guy. We've chatted with him quite a few times about various Mac issues, and late last week he gave another interview to Shawn Blanc over at his website. The interview is mostly about NetNewsWire-- the inspiration for its ...

WWDC Video: TUAW interview with Brent Simmons

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 21st, 2007)

Brent Simmons has earned a spot in our docks for years now with NetNewsWire, perhaps the premiere RSS reader on the Mac. But Brent loves developing Mac apps, and he's a big fan of the platform in general. Funny how that works. Mr. Simmons was kind enough to sit and chat with Scott about the WWDC ...

MacTech's 25 most influential, version 2007

by Mike Schramm (Jun 7th, 2007)

MacTech has released their MacTech 25 for the second year in a row-- it's a list of the top 25 most influential people in the Mac community (as selected by the community itself), and it reads like a who's who of people doing great stuff : John Gruber, the suave-looking Aaron Hillegass and Brent ...

MarsEdit 1.2 lands with Growl, Picasa and Vox support

by David Chartier (Jun 5th, 2007)

Making good on his word after purchasing MarsEdit from Brent Simmons, Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software has quickly taken up development of the blogging client. Today Daniel released MarsEdit 1.2, a minor update that brings some great features like Growl support (when publishing, refreshing ...

5 questions with Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire

by Scott McNulty (Jun 5th, 2007)

Hot on the heels of releasing NetNewsWire 3 Brent Simmons, developer and creator of said program, sat down with me in the virtual HQ of TUAW (a.k.a. the Internet) and answered my questions five. Read on to hear what Brent has to say about NNW's new UI, the feature he would have liked to have ...

TUAW Interview series: Brent Simmons on the Leopard delay - does it change anything?

by David Chartier (Apr 20th, 2007)

Apple's announcement that Leopard has been delayed until October was quite the shocker, especially since we apparently have the iPhone to thank. This of course elicited nearly every response you can think of from every walk of life, but we don't often hear from what I feel is one of the most ...

TUAW Podcast #18: Macworld interview with Brent Simmons and Paul Kafasis

by David Chartier (Jan 18th, 2007)

On Friday of last week at Macworld 07, Brent Simmons (of NewsGator/ NetNewsWire/ MarsEdit fame) and Paul Kafasis (of Rogue Amoeba/Audio Hijack/Airfoil fame) were kind enough to unite their powers and sit down with me for an interview. For just over 20 minutes we discussed Macworld, the iPhone, the ...