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NetNewsWire vs. Vienna

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Jan 10th, 2008

RSS (or Really Simple Syndication) is becoming an ever more popular way to read online content quickly and without having to visit individual websites. As RSS feeds becomes more popular, so do the RSS readers that allow you to access the feeds. In my opinion, the two best RSS readers on the Mac are NetNewsWire and Vienna. Now that NetNewsWire costs the same as Vienna (i.e. nothing), what better time to take a look at what each has to offer?

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Tags: feeds, NetNewsWire, News Gator, NewsGator, rss, speed test, SpeedTest, Vienna, xml

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

Vienna 2.2 is available

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Sep 10th, 2007

Just eight weeks after the teaser announcement, Vienna 2.2 has been released. I have been happily using Vienna for months. It's a light and simple RSS reader that's free and open. What more do you need? How about (new to version 2.2):

Snappier performance
Major UI improvements (no more brushed metal!)
Support for RSS/Atom enclosures, plus a new Enclosure panel for articles that contain enclosures.
Global search
Feed auto-discovery

There's a lot more to this major update, and you can read the full description here. Vienna is free, universal and requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or later.

If you like to travel light, check out Portable Vienna, which runs on a USB keychain drive.

Tags: atom, rss, software, vienna

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Open Source, Beta Beat

Vienna 2.2 being prepped for release

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Jul 6th, 2007

Vienna is a free, open source news reader that we like (we've written about it here); it's not as full-featured as NetNewsWire but it's a pretty slick app. The Vienna Development Team is preparing to release version 2.2, which will feature a huge list of changes and improvements, including:

A new UI (no more brushed metal!)
Russian localization
Improved drag-and-drop from Safari
Unsubscribe/resubscribe command added to the File menu
SQLite updated to 3.4.0

The full list of changes hasn't been released yet, but you can get a look at what we haven't mentioned here. In the meantime, you can check out the 2.2 beta. Just remember, it's a beta, so backup your stuff.

Vienna is free, universal and requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or later.

Tags: open source, OpenSource, rss reader, RssReader, vienna

Filed under: Software

Vienna 2.1 preview

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Jun 6th, 2006

Some people have given us flack for focusing too much on one particular RSS reader, so I thought I would help the Vienna 2.1 preview. Vienna is a full featured open source RSS reader for OS X (and you know what means, it is free).

2.1 brings with it a host of new features including:

A new 'Unified' layout
Filter articles by various criteria
Manual folder reordering

And many more bug fixes. Vienna 2.1 also features my favorite blog in its screenshots. Head on over and try Vienna 2.1 out (it was able to import all of my subscriptions without a problem, all 700 of 'em).

Thanks, Dave Jeffery.

Tags: newsreader, rss, rss reader, RssReader, vienna

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