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How to Use Bloglines with NetNewsWire

Overview

Bloglines is an online aggregator. With Bloglines you can read your feeds from any computer.

Using this feature, you can have the best of both worlds: the ability to read feeds from multiple computers while also being able to use NetNewsWire and get all the benefits of a desktop aggregator.

You could even use NetNewsWire in one location and another desktop aggregator such as FeedDemon (a Windows aggregator) in another, with both reading your Bloglines feeds.

Getting Started

If you donÕt have a Bloglines account, you can sign up for one at Bloglines.com. ItÕs free.

To add one or more of your Bloglines feeds to NetNewsWireÉ

  1. Choose File > New Special Subscription > BloglinesÉ
  2. In the window that opens, enter your Bloglines username and password. (Your password will be stored in the keychain.)
  3. Click the Download Subscriptions button to download your subscriptions list from Bloglines.
  4. Your list of Bloglines subscriptions appears. Check the box next to the ones you want to add to NetNewsWire. Click Check All if you want to check the box next to all of them. Click the Add button when youÕre ready to add to NetNewsWire.
  5. Close the window when youÕre finished.

The Bloglines subscriptions you chose have been added to NetNewsWireÕs subscriptions list. You can drag them anywhere, organize however youÕd like, just like with other NetNewsWire subscriptions.

More details about how it works

When NetNewsWire reads a Bloglines subscription, Bloglines returns the unread items for that subscription.

Items that NetNewsWire downloads are marked as read at Bloglines, so next time you use Bloglines you wonÕt see them as unread.

(Of course, items that NetNewsWire downloads are still unread in NetNewsWire until you read them, as with any other subscription.)

To add subscriptions to your Bloglines account, open Bloglines.com in your browser and use the standard Bloglines browser-based interface.

Note: NetNewsWire uses the Bloglines API, a set of services designed and run by the Bloglines developers. The API is new and thus supports just the basics so farÑit doesnÕt support things like having NetNewsWire tell Bloglines to add a subscription.

ItÕs entirely reasonable to hope and expect that the API will evolve based on your feedback. So, if there are features that youÕd like to have, please feel free to request them of usÑbut also send email to the folks at Bloglines, since they need to know what features youÕd like to see added, and they have the ability to add new features.