How can I read protected LiveJournal feeds?
How can I read password-protected feeds?
How can I open tabs in the background in NetNewsWire?
How do I open pages in new tabs in my web browser?
How do I unsort? I sorted the headlines table, and I canÕt get back.
Can I subscribe to a feed by dragging a link to NetNewsWireÕs Dock icon?
Does NetNewsWire support Atom feeds?
Which syndication format is best? When I have a choice, which should I use?
Does NetNewsWire support gzip compression and conditional GET?
Does NetNewsWire support https?
If you want to subscribe to a protected feed, subscribe to a URL of this form:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/USER/data/rss?auth=digest
Change USER to the userÕs name.
NetNewsWire will prompt you for username and password when it reads the feed.
For more information, see this page on the LiveJournal site (online).
If you subscribe to a password-protected feed, NetNewsWire will prompt you for a username and password when it reads the feed. You can optionally store this information in your keychain, so NetNewsWire wonÕt have to ask in the future.
You can tell your web browser how to open links from other applications.
For instance, in SafariÕs Preferences window:
Other browser have similar preferences.
Sorting works this way: click once on a table column to sort. Click again to reverse the sort order. Click a third time to unsort.
You can also choose to return to default sorting.
Unfortunately, no. ItÕs a limitation of the Dock itself that it doesnÕt understand drags of links.
WeÕve put in a feature request to AppleÑso, hopefully, one day this will work.
The weblog editor was moved into MarsEditÑa brand-new application with many more features than NetNewsWireÕs original weblog editor.
We did this in order to make both the newsreader and the weblog editor better, and also to provide choice for NetNewsWire usersÑyou can use other weblog editors with NetNewsWire. See Weblog Editing for more information.
Everybody who bought NetNewsWire 1.x gets all releases of MarsEdit 1.x as free upgrades.
The Notepad is disabled by default in NetNewsWire 2.0. In a future version it will be removed. Read moreÉ
Yes. It even does auto-discoveryÑwhen looking for the feed for a site, it may find an Atom feed. NetNewsWire uses whichever feed it finds first. (It doesnÕt prefer one format over another.)
Some people strongly prefer one format to another. Most people donÕt care: they just want whatever will work best.
Our advice: use either the highest-version-number RSS feed a site makes available or use its Atom feed.
ExamplesÉ
If a site has RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0 feeds, then use the RSS 2.0 feed, since itÕs the latest version.
If a site has Atom and RSS 2.0 feeds, itÕs a toss-up. If you lean toward one format, then choose that. Or flip a coin, or subscribe to both and keep the one you like better.
Yes. Choose to see statistics for the current session on gzip compression and conditional GET.
Yes. You can subscribe to an https feed just like any other feed.
You may run into situations where NetNewsWire canÕt read feeds that use self-signed certificates. ThereÕs a hint on MacOSXHints (online) that explains how to tell the system about self-signed certificates.