On my weblog I posted an update: what I’ve been doing and what’s the plan.

NetNewsWire 1.0 for iPhone! I never expected to ship another NetNewsWire 1.0, but here it is. ;)

It’s available on the iPhone App Store. It’s free, and it syncs with NetNewsWire for Macintosh, FeedDemon, Inbox, and our browser-based reader.

The idea is that NetNewsWire for iPhone is a news reader — for those moments when you have a minute to kill in the grocery store or whatever. It doesn’t do all the heavy lifting of subscription management — it’s all about showing you the latest news items, and making it easy to go through them. (You can also clip news items to save for later.)

cameron i/o: “Bullit is the style I developed to read my RSS feeds on NetNewsWire. Clarity and readability were the most important factors.”

Nick Bradbury: “NewsGator has partnered with ReadBurner, and as a result, it’s now dead simple to share your NewsGator clippings with ReadBurner. This means that FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator Inbox and NewsGator Online customers can easily share their clipped articles with ReadBurner.”

Here’s how to share clippings in NetNewsWire. Once you have a clippings feed, you can go to ReadBurner and add it. (See Nick’s post for more details.)

AisleOne: “Version 2.0 features a design very similar to this blog, extending the visual experience of the site into your RSS reader. It’s simple, clean and easy to read.”
08 May 2008 11:11:41 am #

MacTips: “One of the greatest things about the greatest RSS reader on the Mac, NetNewsWire, is how many things it can integrate with. It can go hand-in-hand with your blog, your Twitter account, your Del.icio.us account and many others because of its scriptability.”
12 Apr 2008 04:15:30 pm #

Pragmatos: “Mailx is a simple NetNewsWire style based on Chris Clark’s Mail style, with readability enhancements.”
28 Mar 2008 12:14:22 pm #

FutureMac: “I’ve modified existing NetNewsWire to Del.icio.us Applescripts to save the currently-selected news item to Del.icio.us with the tag ‘toread.’ You can easily change this tag to whatever tag you use to mark items you wish to read later on.”
16 Mar 2008 01:45:14 pm #

Adam Behringer: “I just released another update to Bee Docs' Timeline last night. One of the new features is NetNewsWire integration!”
14 Mar 2008 02:16:53 pm #

Oliver Boermans: “It’s been a long time cooking, but I am finally taking version 6 of Ollicle Reflex out of the oven.”
13 Mar 2008 11:59:00 am #

Stefan Seiz: “For your Enjoyment, here’s a little AppleScript which plays the Enclosure (type Video/QuickTime or Audio/Mpeg) of the current selection in QuickTime Player. If you’re like me and don’t automaticaly download enclosures, this helps you save the hassle of Copying the URL and pasting it into QT Player or such.”
28 Feb 2008 10:59:47 am #

ollicle: “This stylesheet for NetNewsWire loads the linked web page instead of displaying the feed itself.”
13 Feb 2008 07:08:12 pm #

David Chartier writes about using NewsGator’s subscribe-to-feed bookmarklet instead of having to launch NetNewsWire: “Major bonus points are awarded for the bookmarklet’s subscription process, as it allows feeds to be added directly to a folder.”
13 Feb 2008 10:08:18 am #

NetNewsWire 3.1.3 rolls back a change in the behavior of folders and the Latest News subscription. The change triggered a crashing bug for some folks, so we rolled it back. (We’ll get back to this issue with the next release—step one was to deal with the crashing bug.)
06 Feb 2008 03:37:16 pm #

Greg Reinacker: “I’ve noticed a few posts around the web (here’s the latest) expressing a bit of confusion about how NewsGator (and NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go!) subscriber counts are reported. So here’s the skinny.”
03 Feb 2008 09:27:35 pm #

Nice post from Peter Rukavina: “Let me briefly sing the praises of the combination of NetNewsWire, my longtime RSS newsreader for the Mac, and NewsGator Mobile for the iPhone, a web-based application to which NetNewsWire automagically syncs.” He notes how clipping something using the iPhone reader causes it to appear in NetNewsWire.
03 Feb 2008 01:39:36 pm #

Bruce Walker: “Here’s a little script to post the currently selected headline in NetNewsWire to your ‘instapaper’ account.”
01 Feb 2008 02:13:57 pm #

NetNewsWire 3.1.2b2 fixes some syncing bugs and a bug with folders and the Latest-News subscription dropping read items too quickly.
01 Feb 2008 05:20:50 am #

Me on inessential.com: “This should be the last of the things-you-may-not-know-about-NetNewsWire posts... This one’s just misc. stuff, in misc. order.”
30 Jan 2008 09:16:10 pm #

zachholman.com: “NetNewsWire has an OPML export option, and I’m sure other readers do, too. I figured, hey, let’s just try to see if I can parse that export to see which of my subscribed feeds have WebClips.”
30 Jan 2008 09:14:16 pm #

macosxhints.com: “Here’s an Applescript that sends the currently selected headline from NetNewsWire 3.1.1 to Tumblr.”
29 Jan 2008 08:08:20 pm #

Me, writing on inessential.com about NetNewsWire, this time talking about the subscriptions list.
29 Jan 2008 05:57:45 pm #

Me on inessential.com: “The space bar scrolls the current item. If there is no more to scroll, it goes to the next unread item. This way you can read all of your news with coffee cup in one hand, while the other taps the space bar.”
28 Jan 2008 11:37:06 am #

Disruptive Conversations: “What’s very cool is that if you select/highlight a block of text before clicking the button you get only that part brought across into MarsEdit. So if there is a paragraph you want to include in your post, simply highlight the paragraph, click the button and you’re off and blogging.”
27 Jan 2008 03:46:32 pm #

Me on inessential.com: “Normally this is kind of a boring thing—not one of the exciting features, not necessarily worth discussing. But since this is an example of a hybrid app with an online component, I thought it might be interesting to other developers of hybrid apps.”
26 Jan 2008 01:59:50 pm #

Me on inessential.com: “The most common feature request in the feedback I read today is that NetNewsWire should play video, Flash, YouTube, etc. It does. It’s turned off by default, but it’s easy to turn on.”
25 Jan 2008 10:20:52 pm #

Me on inessential.com: “If you use NewsGator syncing, you can share your clippings folders as feeds. In other words, you can make a clippings folder that other people can subscribe to.”
24 Jan 2008 02:05:18 pm #

This is just a reminder for NetNewsWire Lite users: we released the full version of NetNewsWire for free. You can upgrade and get all the features of the new version. And all the bug fixes. It’s a better NetNewsWire.

(We noticed a few folks still running Lite in our logs, and we wanted to make sure they got the news about the free upgrade.)
24 Jan 2008 10:35:15 am #

Ode to Apple: “Here, let me summarize various settings which have worked good for me so far. I urge you to try them, enhance them and change them to suit you best.”
23 Jan 2008 06:55:33 pm #

Capn Design: “More than anything, I wanted a design that stayed out of the way. Reading posts via feeds instead of actual sites lets me consume more data. Having a simple, highly legible style makes it much easier.”
23 Jan 2008 06:27:27 pm #

Mac Tips, Miraz Jordan: “Would you like to easily follow any mentions of the iPod touch, or perhaps Lhasa Apso dogs, in the RSS feeds you’ve subscribed to? Or how about mentions of your favourite sports team, or a certain politician?”
23 Jan 2008 01:32:14 pm #

Me on inessential.com: “One of my favorite features of NetNewsWire is how it works with a bunch of other desktop apps. The idea is this: news comes in to NetNewsWire, and then you route stuff to wherever it should go.”
22 Jan 2008 09:30:06 pm #

justinwr: “This lil Ruby-OSA script will allow you to import your ‘Flagged Items’ in NetNewsWire as Web Archive Items in Yojimbo. Thus allowing you to save RSS articles for off-line viewing/storage.”
21 Jan 2008 07:04:35 pm #

Earlier today we released NetNewsWire 3.1—and announced that it, along with other RSS readers from NewsGator, are free. See my post on inessential.com for more info.

There were a couple bugs that weren’t found until after shipping 3.1, so we released a public beta of 3.1.1b1 on nnwbeta.com.

It fixes a crash-at-startup bug a few people reported, and it fixes a bug where the description view could disappear. (Otherwise 3.1.1b1 is the same as 3.1.)
09 Jan 2008 08:50:38 pm #

Miraz Jordan writes about how, in NetNewsWire, “it’s easy to add photos from RSS feeds to iPhoto: Control click on the photo and choose Add Image to iPhoto Library from the contextual menu.”

One of my favorite parts of working on NetNewsWire is the connection to other apps: weblog editors such as MarsEdit and ecto, Apple apps like iPhoto, Address Book, and iCal, and apps like VoodooPad and Twitterrific, from my fellow Mac developers.
08 Jan 2008 03:35:10 pm #

Shawn Blanc: “NetNewsWire is arguably the most popular desktop feed reader on the planet.”

Great review—I’m flattered and pleased. Shawn will also be doing reviews of other Mac apps (MarsEdit, Transmit, and others). Coming soon.
09 Dec 2007 07:15:37 pm #

NetNewsWire Lite 3.1b1 is the first 3.x public beta of NetNewsWire Lite, the freeware version of NetNewsWire.

This version fixes some Leopard compatibilities and adds a Date column and Dinosaurs report.

See nnwbeta.com for the download and see the announcement on inessential.com for screenshots.
06 Nov 2007 08:27:30 pm #

NetNewsWire 3.1b21 includes a new Combined View, Leopard changes and fixes, and a bunch of bug fixes.

The new Combined View is designed for better readability and skim-ability. It also breaks lots of news items up into pages, so that performance doesn’t suffer when trying to load hundreds or thousands of items at once.

Leopard changes include things like using the new folder icon in the subscriptions list and using the new dock badge standard.

See nnwbeta.com for the download and more in-depth change notes. (Yes, NetNewsWire betas now have their own domain name. ;)
01 Nov 2007 11:39:42 am #

Richard Keen: “The script takes the front-most Safari URL (the current tab or window), adds this to NetNewsWire (it will be started in the background if not running) and confirms this via a Growl notification if you have Growl installed.”
28 Aug 2007 03:17:51 pm #

Oliver Boermans: “Some of you love the image resizing feature of my NetNewsWire style Ollicle Reflex, but would rather see it in a different style, perhaps one with your own particular CSS tweaks? If this sounds like familiar I’ve made a new NetNewsWire style package especially for you.”
17 Aug 2007 11:27:12 am #

raoli.com: “Mail Headline is a plain-text replacement for the Mail Contents of this News Item command that’s capable of supporting multiple email clients. The contents of the news item are processed with Aaron Swartz’ html2text and converted to Markdown-formatted text. The currently supported email clients include Mailsmith, Entourage, and Mail (if you prefer plain text over rich text for emails).”
15 Aug 2007 07:36:46 pm #

NetNewsWire 3.0.1b7 addresses the top-priority bugs from the 3.0 release.

- Smart lists and searching no longer use Spotlight, which wasn’t working for some people. (However, you can still search news items via the system’s Spotlight search.)

- The Combined View is now based on the version that was in 2.x, since that version doesn’t rely on JavaScript and thus doesn’t crash. There is more to do with the Combined View: pagination (for performance) and UI (to make titles easier to read and make it look cooler).

We’re working on other bugs, too—but these are the highest-priority items.
08 Jun 2007 04:17:34 pm #

NetNewsWire 3.0 has been released. New features include Spotlight searching; integration with iCal, Address Book, Twitterrific, and other apps; Growl notifications; clippings (synced or not-synced); tabs-with-thumbnails; microformat detection; automatic update checking; and plenty more.

And, inevitably, we’re already at work on 3.0.1, and will post a beta probably later today. ;)
05 Jun 2007 02:59:50 pm #

NetNewsWire 3.0a8 has bugs and unfinished features, but it’s getting closer to shipping. If you’re comfortable running pre-release software, you can download it.

The change notes page lists what’s new since 3.0d62, the previous sneak-peek release.

Highlights include clippings, going back/forward through news items, hiding read items, a send-to-Twitterrific command, attention report, smaller/bigger text commands, support for microformats (contacts and events), and plenty more (including performance enhancements and lots of bug fixes).

(The change notes page is, as usual, rather long. Some people write novels, others write change notes. ;)
14 May 2007 05:58:09 pm #

A cool update to a NetNewsWire style: ollicle reflex now “displays a del.icio.us Tagometer Badge for each viewed news item. This shows you how many del.icio.us users have tagged the news item you are viewing and the top ten tags they used.”
27 Apr 2007 08:50:58 pm #

cleverdevil: “For a while now I have been itching to create a custom stylesheet for NetNewsWire, and I finally found the time to do it. So, I am proud to introduce ReadLight—a NetNewsWire style that attempts to feel like reading from a gorgeous hardcover book.”
22 Mar 2007 04:54:45 pm #

We just posted a new sneak-peek release of NetNewsWire 3. It’s still not even a beta—it’s still dangerous. You can download it from the beta page. (But really, it is dangerous, and if you’re uncomfortable with unfinished software, please wait for now.)

The change notes page lists what’s new since 3.0d46 (released a month ago). Highlights include automatic updates via Sparkle, choice between vertical and horizontal tabs, tabs export command, hide/show tabs, easy crash reporting, restored enclosures and dinosaurs features, memory use and performance enhancements, cache cleanups, removal of the Bonjour feature, bug fixes, and more.
17 Mar 2007 05:55:37 pm #

David Chartier, The Unofficial Apple Weblog: “The TUAW Podcast is upon us, and for #21 I decided on a screencast of that NetNewsWire 3 beta sneak peek released a couple weeks ago.”
08 Mar 2007 10:36:12 am #

We just posted a sneak-peek release of NetNewsWire 3 today. It’s not even a beta yet, and it has bugs, unfinished features, unstarted features, and it still needs more polish and testing. All that said, you can download it from the beta page. ;)

The change notes page lists what’s new since 2.1.1. Highlights include Spotlight searching, new Combined View, feed ‘cover art’, full screen mode, Growl notifications, tabs with thumbnails and animations, the ability to choose a folder when subscribing, hiding/showing the subscriptions list, and lots more.

I’ll be writing more about it on inessential.com. Here’s the initial post and here’s a post on a hidden pref for a monochrome toolbar.
16 Feb 2007 03:00:28 pm #

BrokenLogic: “There are two variations of FeedLight, one for use with the Aqua Mac OS X appearance, and another for the Graphite appearance.”
11 Feb 2007 05:38:30 pm #

Wolf: “Much to my surprise, my favorite NetNewsWire style is Spotlight... Since I’ve been happy with the Spotlight style for so long, and it looks like this relationship is a long-term one, I decided to put some time into enhancing it a mite: Spotlight+wrap.nnwstyle.”
11 Feb 2007 05:35:17 pm #

Micah Laaker: “Now, when I find an RSS feed item or browse to a page that I want to save to one of these services, I can simply select my script in the NetNewsWire script menu.”

Two scripts: one for adding to MyWeb, one for Bookmarks 2.0.
01 Feb 2007 04:33:18 pm #

Takaaki Kato updated the Samurai Coder NetNewsWire style: it’s more compact and includes ad-blocking code.
20 Jan 2007 12:19:17 pm #

ollieman.net: “Lucida Complete does two things: it presents the reader with absolutely nothing but text in a drastically-simple, attractive format; and shows the complete breadth of information available from NetNewsWire (feed info).”
16 Jan 2007 05:02:47 pm #

Just a reminder: NewsGator products (including NetNewsWire) are $10 off through the month of December. December is almost over, and I don’t want anyone thinking of buying to miss out on the sale—hence this reminder. ;)
30 Dec 2006 12:02:02 pm #

Oliver Boermans: “This style is designed to maximise legibility rather than add distracting ‘style’ to your feed reading. Those who like a bit of colour and visual impact in their feed reading will appreciate it’s smart handling of full size photographs and comics.”
24 Dec 2006 10:26:49 am #

rentzsch.com: “Since I’ve been happy with the Spotlight style for so long, and it looks like this relationship is a long-term one, I decided to put some time into enhancing it a mite: Spotlight+wrap.nnwstyle.”
24 Dec 2006 10:25:00 am #

Samurai Coder “is quite simple a style with no graphics. Every meta content (such as source, poster’s name, tags/categories/subject and a link to comments) is located on top, packed in a compact yet readable space.”
21 Dec 2006 11:37:19 am #

Hawk Wings: “On the Yojimbo mailing list, Dylan Damian shared two applescripts that help to integrate the new tagging feature of Yojimbo 1.3 with del.icio.us and NetNewsWire.”
21 Dec 2006 10:45:20 am #

NewsGator Daily: “To take advantage, all you have to do is enter the promo code NGHoliday in the shopping cart, and you’ll get $10 off any NewsGator product, including the new version of FeedDemon and NewsGator Go for Windows Mobile, throughout the month of December. Buy two and you get $20 off.”

The sale includes NetNewsWire too, of course: at $10 off it’s just $19.95.
10 Dec 2006 12:14:38 pm #

David Teare: “1Passwd version 2.1 was released today sporting a new logo, NetNewsWire support and a tonne of new features and improvements.”
07 Dec 2006 08:54:50 pm #

mere cat: “I’ve been using this thing for a while to build my blogroll and thought I’d share. An AppleScript reads your feeds in NNW and creates an unordered list for each group of feeds (if any), nesting them as required.”
09 Nov 2006 04:18:44 pm #

See inessential.com for a super-early sneak peek release of NetNewsWire 3.0. It’s not even a beta yet—it’s definitely a work in progress, with a bunch of features and bug fixes still to come. But it has a rewritten Combined View that is very much an improvement over the old one. (NetNewsWire 3.0 will be a free upgrade.)
05 Aug 2006 04:42:32 pm #

nnutter.com describes how to edit your Subscriptions.plist file so that each subscription sorts its news items by date. (Note: definitely make a backup before trying anything like this!)
15 Jul 2006 02:35:34 pm #

ChunkySoup.net: “I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest little hack for adding microformats support to NetNewsWire (not lite)—Extract Microformats v0.5.”
15 Jul 2006 10:44:47 am #

Peter Rukavina: “Because NetNewsWire lacks any mechanism for storing XFN information itself, I crafted an AppleScript-based solution that stores my relationship to each feed’s author in a SQLite database. You can download my Define XFN Relationship script and try it for yourself.”
11 Jul 2006 09:46:10 am #

Octoberland: “Response was very positive for my first NetNewsWire style that I thought I would try another. This one is more of an Autumnal feel, and includes better handling for the widescreen view.”
03 Jul 2006 11:56:43 am #

NetNewsWire Lite 2.1 has been released!

This release of NetNewsWire Lite includes NewsGator syncing—for free, with a free NewsGator account. Other new features include posting to del.icio.us and printing. It’s a universal binary and includes lots of performance enhancements and bug fixes.

Read the change notes for details on all the changes since 2.0.1. (The change notes include full-version-specific changes too, so not all of it applies. But it includes all the Lite version changes.)

You can download NetNewsWire Lite 2.1 via the NetNewsWire Lite home page. Scroll down to “NetNewsWire Lite 2.1 Now Available.” (Don’t click “Download Trial”—that’s for the full version.)

NetNewsWire Lite is freeware. A feature comparison chart shows the differences between the Lite and full versions of NetNewsWire.
30 Jun 2006 11:09:32 am #

CASE Apps: “Apple ships a Remote Control with any new Mac. The pre-installed functionality is limited to control just a couple of applications. Sofa Control breaks this limit. With Sofa Control you are able to control any application on your Mac and trigger the actions you like.”

Sofa Control comes with built-in support for NetNewsWire—you can control NetNewsWire with your Apple Remote Control.
24 Jun 2006 11:42:09 am #

Octoberland: “Just created a style template for those of you using NetNewsWire (NNW). It is based off of the look / feel of this site.”
19 Jun 2006 04:55:03 pm #

We’re running a short survey for people who use one or more NewsGator products. It helps us know how to continue to improve our software. All feedback is appreciated—and kept confidential.
06 Jun 2006 03:43:27 pm #

On inessential.com I write about how NetNewsWire 2.1 reads feeds. The short answer: if you use NewsGator syncing, it downloads feeds from NewsGator. If you don’t use syncing, it downloads feeds from the original sources, just like always. You choose.

But of course I go into more detail. (Plenty more! I may be in a long-winded mood.)
16 May 2006 09:09:46 pm #

ollieman: “mint is pretty much the best thing to happen to websites since sliced bread. In addition to the wonderful features it sports, it’s also got one killer look. And I like that look a lot, so much that I decided to pay it an homage.”
12 May 2006 04:39:36 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.1 has been released!

This release of NetNewsWire includes new features such as NewsGator syncing, posting to del.icio.us, sending articles via email, printing, and sorting subscriptions by attention. It’s also a universal binary and includes lots of performance enhancements and bug fixes.

Read the change notes for details on all the changes since 2.0.1.

You can download NetNewsWire 2.1 via the NetNewsWire home page. This is a free upgrade for everyone who already bought a NetNewsWire license.

(Note to Lite users: NetNewsWire Lite 2.1 is still in beta; you can download a beta via the betas page.)
09 May 2006 06:32:52 pm #

NetNewsWire Lite 2.1b37 has been released!

This release gets NetNewsWire Lite caught up with the current beta of the full version, including syncing fixes and enhancements and a few smaller fixes.

Read the change notes for more details.

You can download NetNewsWire Lite 2.1b37 via the NetNewsWire Betas page.
03 May 2006 05:12:24 pm #

filipp: “ReadItYourself! is a simple AppleScript for NetNewsWire (tested with 2.1b33) that exports the unread headlines of a selected subscription to your iPod.”
03 May 2006 03:46:47 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.1b37 has been released!

This release encrypts your subscriptions list using https, adds French localization, and probably fixes a crashing bug usually related to downloading favicons.

Read the change notes for the full scoop.

Download NetNewsWire 2.1b37 via the NetNewsWire Betas page.

The full version remains on sale for $19.95 until 2.1 ships. Here are more details on the sale.

(NetNewsWire Lite users: we’re working on a new beta for you, hopefully later today or tonight.)
03 May 2006 10:22:42 am #

Code Sorcery Workshop: “Fire it up and within seconds you can easily post to one or more del.icio.us accounts. Drag a URL from any browser, open a URL shortcut file on the desktop, or drag a URL right onto the dock icon.”

It works with NetNewsWire—if you’re using a 2.1 beta, you can choose Pukka as your post-to-del.icio.us application.
02 May 2006 09:42:38 am #

NetNewsWire 2.1b36 has been released!

The main point of this release is to make sure that, if you have NewsGator syncing turned on, you still get news even if there is some kind of problem connecting to NewsGator (server or local or remote network).

Read the change notes for more details.

You can download NetNewsWire 2.1b36 via the NetNewsWire Betas page.

Reminder: the full version remains on sale for $19.95 until 2.1 ships. Here’s the full scoop on the sale.

(Note to NetNewsWire Lite users: we don’t have a new beta for you yet, but we’re working on it, of course.)
01 May 2006 03:24:34 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.1b33 (full and Lite) has been released!

This release includes several bug fixes: see the full version or Lite version change notes for details.

You can download NetNewsWire 2.1b33 via the NetNewsWire Betas page.

This beta will get existing users of the full version of NetNewsWire their two years free NewsGator premium subscription and two years of NetNewsWire updates. (For people who didn’t already do this in 2.1b32.) (If you have questions, please contact the support folks at support at newsgator dot com.)

Reminder: the full version remains on sale for $19.95 until 2.1 ships. Here’s the full scoop on the sale.
24 Apr 2006 10:29:23 am #

NetNewsWire 2.1b30 has been released!

This release includes fixes and enhancements for NewsGator syncing—including better error reporting and handling of authentication errors. See the change notes for details.

You can download NetNewsWire 2.1b30 via the NetNewsWire Betas page.

Reminder: the full version remains on sale for $19.95 until 2.1 ships.
19 Apr 2006 01:51:33 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.1b28 has been released!

Highlights of this release include fixes and enhancements for NewsGator syncing—including removing the sync-at-shutdown sheets introduced in the previous beta. See the change notes for more details.

You can download the latest betas via the NetNewsWire Betas page.

Both full and Lite 2.1b28 betas are available. The full version remains on sale for $19.95 until 2.1 ships.
09 Apr 2006 05:48:29 pm #

Greg Reinacker: “We now have both SOAP and REST versions of the NewsGator Online API available. The SOAP version has been around for a while, and is used by our own products. The REST version is brand new, is documented here, and enters a public beta today.”

NetNewsWire uses the NewsGator Online API (of course)—it uses some SOAP calls and some REST calls. (I’d convert entirely to using the REST version, stop using SOAP entirely, were it not for the fact that you don’t fix what ain’t broke.)
07 Apr 2006 12:57:12 pm #

NetNewsWire Lite 2.1b24 has been released!

This release includes lots of bug fixes, a major performance enhancement in the RSS parser, and 10.3.9 compatibility fixes. Read the change notes for more details.

You can download it via the NetNewsWire Betas page.
05 Apr 2006 06:41:49 pm #

Hot on the heels of 2.1b23 comes NetNewsWire 2.1b24!

It fixes a bug introduced in the previous beta where, in some circumstances, with some feeds, you could get duplicated items when you refresh.

You can download it via the NetNewsWire Betas page.

P.S. We have a beta of NetNewsWire Lite coming soon-ish, too—today or tomorrow.
05 Apr 2006 04:03:06 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.1b23 has been released!

Highlights of this release include lots of bug fixes, a major performance enhancement in the RSS parser, AppleScript read/write access to each feed’s attention rating, and 10.3.9 compatibility fixes.

Download it via the NetNewsWire Betas page.

Read the NetNewsWire 2.1b23 change notes for the full scoop.

Reminder: NetNewsWire is on sale for $19.95 until NetNewsWire 2.1 ships. It will be a free upgrade for all current NetNewsWire users.
05 Apr 2006 01:20:26 pm #

Special sale! You can buy NetNewsWire for $19.95 from right now until NetNewsWire 2.1 ships.

Or you can buy the NetNewsWire/MarsEdit bundle for just $29.95, which is an even better deal.

This sale means you save $5 on NetNewsWire, or save $10 on the NetNewsWire/MarsEdit bundle price—$20 less than if you bought them separately at regular price.

If you’re a NetNewsWire Lite user, this is a great time to upgrade.

If you’re curious about what’s in the full version that’s not in Lite, the list looks like this: searching, browsing, persistence, smart lists, flagged items, tag subscriptions, widescreen view, scriptability, HTML differences, podcast downloading, and, well, more.

Go to our online store to buy NetNewsWire or the NetNewsWire/MarsEdit bundle.

When NetNewsWire 2.1 ships, the price for NetNewsWire will be $29.95, and purchasers will get a one-year NewsGator Online subscription along with all NetNewsWire updates for one year. (NetNewsWire will continue to work if the subscription lapses, though in stand-alone mode.)

Existing users—people who already bought NetNewsWire or who buy NetNewsWire through this sale—will get a two-year NewsGator Online subscription for free, as well as all NetNewsWire updates for two years. (And, again, the software doesn’t stop working if the subscription lapses: you’ve bought the software.)

MarsEdit will remain $24.95. There will no longer be a special NetNewsWire/MarsEdit bundle price.

Which is all to say: this sale is a good deal, and it ends when NetNewsWire 2.1 ships (within the next few weeks). So please take advantage of it now!

If you don’t already have a copy of NetNewsWire, you can download it from the NetNewsWire home page—or check out the latest beta of NetNewsWire 2.1.
24 Mar 2006 03:43:50 pm #

Mike Harris: “Now that NetNewsWire 2.1b17 has gone into public beta, I can reveal a neat little geekery tidbit. I have a preference named after me in NetNewsWire.”
22 Mar 2006 11:56:34 am #

NetNewsWire Lite 2.1b18—the first public beta of Lite 2.1—has been released!

It’s a Universal binary, of course. It has the same changes as the full version, except for the things that don’t apply.

New features in Lite 2.1 include NewsGator syncing, printing, and posting to del.icio.us.

Read the NetNewsWire Lite 2.1b18 change notes for the full scoop!

You can download it from the NetNewsWire betas page. (Just remember that it is a beta: it’s not finished software and it will have bugs.)

NetNewsWire Lite is freeware.
22 Mar 2006 10:51:25 am #

Andy Fragen and Steve Kirks wrote an AppleScript script for making “Quick Links” text from NetNewsWire.
21 Mar 2006 10:16:35 am #

On inessential.com I posted a list of things you may not know about NetNewsWire.
19 Mar 2006 11:55:31 am #

On inessential.com, more about NetNewsWire 2.1: sorting subscriptions by attention, performance, and a couple little things.
18 Mar 2006 04:51:00 pm #

Fraser Speirs: “Also, a couple of scripts there for taking the front tab in Safari or the selected headline in NetNewsWire, archiving and flagging it in Yojimbo. Nice for when you hit an item you want to read in-depth but not immediately, or you’re trying to rapidly accumulate research material on a particular topic.”
18 Mar 2006 03:33:21 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.1b17 fixes a few bugs found since the public beta release earlier today...

- It now runs on 10.3.9.

- Fixed a bug where, for some people, the refresh commands would never appear and feeds would never refresh.

- Fixed an issue with long startup times (the first time you ran it) for some people.

You can download it from the NetNewsWire betas page. (Just remember that it is, still, a beta.)
17 Mar 2006 05:24:53 pm #

Code Sorcery Workshop: “We’re happy to announce that the latest NetNewsWire Beta has added support for a del.icio.us posting client in addition to a normal external blogging client. What’s more, Pukka is on the official list of supported del.icio.us clients!”
17 Mar 2006 02:51:04 pm #

We have found some bugs in the NetNewsWire 2.1 beta just released today. Which is completely expected, and just proves that it’s a beta.

Here are the two main ones, just so you know we know about them...

The first is that it doesn’t run on 10.3.9. It was working on 10.3.9, but a recent change stopped it from working. We’ll get it fixed for the next release.

The second is that, for some people, they can’t refresh at all. (We have a lead on the cause, but we’re not positive yet of the fix.)

We’re working on both bugs, of course, and there will be new betas.
17 Mar 2006 02:28:36 pm #

On inessential.com I’ve been writing more about NetNewsWire 2.1: on NewsGator syncing, the new Post to del.icio.us command, and printing. (More to come!)
17 Mar 2006 02:16:09 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.1b16 has been released!

Highlights of this release include NewsGator syncing, performance enhancements, new commands for emailing, printing, and posting to del.icio.us. It’s a Universal binary.

Read the NetNewsWire 2.1b16 change notes for more (lots more) details.

Some screen shots: NewsGator syncing, refreshing plus XML source window, crazy colors, choosing post-to-del.icio.us app, Print command, sort-by-attention command.

NetNewsWire 2.1 is a free upgrade for all current users.
17 Mar 2006 09:47:35 am #

Red Sweater Blog: “NetNewsWire, RSS, and AppleScript to the rescue! Since Netflix is hip enough to provide several RSS feeds for its savvy customers, I just grabbed my friend’s Netflix queue RSS feed, and subscribed with NetNewsWire. Then, after selecting the subscription, I typed the following into Script Editor:”
15 Mar 2006 09:15:16 pm #

Mac OS X Hints describes how to set the minimum font size in NetNewsWire’s browser.
09 Mar 2006 02:10:05 pm #

logan design: “nnw unread menu is a simple menu bar application which can provide you with a quick and easy way to see how many headlines are marked as unread in the popular rss reader netnewswire. not only can you view the total number of unread headlines right in the menu bar, but with one click, you can view which subscriptions are unread and how many articles are in each. nnw unread menu also provides growl notification for netnewswire, instantly notifying you when new headlines are available.”
06 Mar 2006 09:06:42 am #

On inessential.com, Brent talks about NetNewsWire 2.1. Currently in private beta testing, the next version will include NewsGator syncing, performance enhancements and bug fixes, some small new (and often-requested) features, and will of course be a Universal binary.
02 Mar 2006 03:07:29 pm #

ollieman: “And so I present to you, the oven-fresh new style: ollieman. It’s fitting that this style be self-titled; I feel that this new design is the truest expression of my design-style to date. It’s the first time I have really expressed something thru code, and I’m happy to share it with you.”
13 Feb 2006 03:23:40 pm #

John Warne: “This is my first attempt at a style for NetNewsWire, an RSS and Atom Newsreader for Mac OS X. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!”
07 Feb 2006 08:57:19 am #

Oliver Boermans: “Armed with a copy of the wonderful DOMscripting I decided to tackle this problem from a different angle. Perhaps the images could scale to fit the available space.”
06 Feb 2006 11:04:36 am #

In case you haven’t seen these before: we have pages (and feeds, of course!) for NetNewsWire tips, scripts, and styles.
04 Feb 2006 12:48:48 pm #

macosxhints: “I was able to build an AppleScript which creates a new iWeb blog entry from the currently-selected NetNewsWire (NNW) news item.”
04 Feb 2006 11:59:59 am #

Celsius1414: Anentry is a “simple AppleScript to send an email via Mail based on the currently selected headline in NetNewsWire.”
01 Feb 2006 10:29:59 am #

Blogum: “A couple of days ago I posted code for an AppleScript application bundle which let you post entries from NetNewsWire to iWeb. But that code didn’t support NetNewsWire’s external weblog editor protocol, so it was a little fragile. Here’s a new disk image with updated code which does support the protocol.”
30 Jan 2006 10:16:53 am #

Brewed Fresh Daily: “Here’s what I’m using to send stuff from NNW to my del.icio.us account.”
30 Jan 2006 10:13:54 am #

The Macintosh Apple Tree: “With this, you will be able to send a text message with a keyword to your email address and it will send a list of the current headlines from NNW to a predetermined address (your cellphone).”
08 Jan 2006 10:40:39 am #

Dangergraphics.com: “This new style is based on Itunes new platinum look which I really like more so than the old brush metal look.”
06 Jan 2006 03:50:18 pm #

Kevin Ballard: “I wrote a ruby script that generates an RSS feed for all the Crash Reporter logs on your machine. Just create a New Special Subscription in NetNewsWire, point it at the script, and you’re all set.” We might add that it’s extra cool because it uses red text for the thread that crashed, making it easy to pick out. (And we’ll also remind you to make sure the script is executable so that NetNewsWire can run it.)
06 Jan 2006 09:40:07 am #

Jonathan Wight: “Well that didn’t take long! I can now perform spotlight queries in NetNewsWire.”
05 Jan 2006 06:13:03 pm #

Michael Conrad Tadpol Tilstra wrote a Ruby script which generates an RSS feed listing the core dumps on his machine. (!!!)
05 Jan 2006 11:34:49 am #

Daniel Jalkut: “I don’t want to be one of those nerds who leaves the Console window open all the time just waiting for junk to happen. I want to live! So I had an idea. I’ll track this junk the way I track all the other junk. With NetNewsWire!”
04 Jan 2006 10:44:44 am #

NetNewsWire won an Eddy in the category of Great Mac Tools! Our pals at Panic also won in this category for Transmit 3.2. Some of the other cool apps winning Eddys this year include Comic Life, TextWrangler, OmniOutliner, SuperDuper, and LaunchBar.
16 Dec 2005 10:12:51 am #

ollieman.net: “So, as a celebration of just how popular the styles on this site have become I’ve created what is, by far, my best and most complex style yet. It features the elegant, dynamic display of metadata so that it’s there when you need it and not when you don’t.”
12 Dec 2005 07:52:38 am #

Niall Kennedy: “I created a Simple Sharing Extensions exporter for NetNewsWire followed links as a proof of concept. The OPML SSE exporter is written in AppleScript. It iterates through each subscription feed and its items, outputting every feed and the descriptive data about the items you have opened in a browser.”
23 Nov 2005 09:28:47 am #

david’s brain blog: “Well, I had an unused wordpress.com blog and a morning free to do some applescripting so I knocked up a quick script to take the current post I am reading in NetNewsWire and post it (via Marsedit) to my wordpress.com blog.”
09 Nov 2005 11:32:46 am #

NetNewsWire, Comic Life, Audio Hijack Pro, Transmit, and other apps are nominees in this year’s Macworld readers’ choice awards. Go vote for your favorite app!
09 Nov 2005 11:14:38 am #

Oliver Taylor: “Typographer is a clean, minimalist theme that focuses on beautiful, readable text. The header font is ‘Hoefler Text,’ a wonderful typeface, and uses Baskerville as a body text. Instead of mimicking the look of a book, I decided to attempt to mimic the feel of an old book.”
08 Nov 2005 08:48:32 am #

Ditchnet.org: “Cocoa Cookies is a very simple Cocoa app that helps you to search for and delete HTTP cookies stored in the shared Cocoa cookies storage used by Safari, NetNewsWire, Shiira, and others.”
01 Nov 2005 09:56:28 am #

Ted Leung: “Here are two scripts for getting stuff from NetNewsWire to del.icio.us.”
27 Oct 2005 11:04:31 am #

moltenglobule.org: “Please go ahead and create further derivative works from my derivative work. It’s like evolution, except there’s no selection pressure and it’s Intelligent Design... so maybe it’s not about Evolution.”
23 Oct 2005 12:47:08 pm #

Oliver Taylor: “This theme for NetNewsWire was inspired by a bout of reading I did on one of my favorite directors, Stanley Kubrick (and has little to do with the Wordpress theme).”
18 Oct 2005 11:24:51 am #

By Jesper Lindholm, a “classy NetNewsWire stylesheet.”
17 Oct 2005 01:33:39 pm #

43 Folders: “I actually had a folder called ‘Sequester’ where I’d throw any feed that was starting to get on my nerves (too many [kitty photos | jokey memes | posts about the salvation promised by Longhorn/Vista]).”
14 Oct 2005 03:15:16 pm #

Daring Fireball: “Once a developer gets enough paying users to consider quitting his day job so he can devote full-time effort to writing code, he’s quite possibly got so many paying users that he’ll spend much of his time helping customers in ways other than writing code.”
14 Oct 2005 10:25:30 am #

Another NetNewsWire style: “A nagging desire to find a novel and useful application of the template.html file in a NetNewsWire style and thoughts regarding the limitations of web typography came together a few weeks ago while reading another of the many blog posts on the pros and cons of flexible vs. fixed width web layouts. Why not use a little JavaScript to make line spacing relative to line width?”
10 Oct 2005 03:15:50 pm #

We're pleased to announce that NewsGator Technologies, Inc. has acquired NetNewsWire, and that Brent Simmons is joining NewsGator as a product architect. We're thrilled to be joining the NewsGator team and look forward to an exciting future for NetNewsWire.

Be sure to check out the Q&A with Brent Simmons and Greg Reinacker for more details, as well as the official NewsGator press release.

Brent, Greg, Nick Bradbury, J.B. Holston, Sandy Hamilton and Brad Feld have also written about the acquisition on their weblogs. Also check out MacCentral, DrunkenBlog and The Unofficial Apple Weblog for more coverage.
05 Oct 2005 02:20:16 pm #

Ryan Prins: “I needed a way to update my blogroll on my site. So, I took my first foray into AppleScript and hashed out a simple little script to populate my blogroll page.”
30 Sep 2005 10:32:23 am #

Tech Goes Boom: “For those of us who can’t sync our NetNewsWire data over the web due to firewalls or other infonazi roadblocks, there is hope. I currently keep the contents of ~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire on my USB thumbdrive. It does slow things down a little bit, but nothing major, and it allows me to keep everything current.”
30 Sep 2005 10:30:17 am #

Deeje Cooley: “Here’s an AppleScript for NetNewsWire that allows you to tag whatever is currently visible in your main window. This means you can tag a blog entry, or tag a browser tab... the script just does the right thing for you.”
13 Sep 2005 09:41:12 am #

Jason Csizmadi: Dangergraphics.com: “This is a NetNewsWire Spotlight Style. It's inspired by a style that hicksdesign had created. It's clean simple and easy on the eyes.”
25 Aug 2005 04:31:33 pm #

CocoaRadio: “Brent talks about his path to becoming a Cocoa developer, use of the Cocoa frameworks, UI focused design, and offers some tips to those interested in learning Cocoa and Obj-C.”
23 Aug 2005 05:43:48 pm #

Brett Gross: “This little AppleScript will take your currently selected feed from NetNewsWire (paid) and save it to a folder in your Documents folder named 'RSS' You can change the destination folder or just make a folder named 'RSS' in your Documents folder.

The script will also automatically insert the following keywords in the HTML file: RSS, NetNewsWire, k_RSS, k_NetNewsWire. These keywords can be used as search criteria in Spotlight searches. For example, searching for 'k_RSS' will find all of these files no matter where they are.”
18 Aug 2005 05:38:16 pm #

Peter Rukavina: My Delicious NetNewsWire: “This week I found out that my RSS newsreader, NetNewsWire works really well with my OS X del.icio.us front-end Cocoalicious. So I decided to make a screencast to show how I use them together.”
16 Aug 2005 08:40:16 pm #

Michael Conrad Tadpol Tilstra: “Scrax is a scraper for converting html page archive data from web comics into RSS feeds. This is quite useful for tracking many web comics at once, especially those with odd update schedules.”
12 Aug 2005 05:29:27 pm #

Feed Your Reader lets you subscribe to a site’s feed in your default aggregator, such as NetNewsWire, using Firefox’s live bookmark icon.
04 Aug 2005 03:57:34 pm #

MacTips has posted tips for reading feeds in NetNewsWire, including use of the spacebar and enter key, organizing feeds into groups, flagging items, and more.
02 Aug 2005 04:30:02 pm #

Daniel Miessler describes his system for efficiently reading news using an RSS aggregator and a browser with tabs, based on David Allen's Getting Things Done.

“When you’re opening a myriad of websites and checking each at different times, there’s never an end to it. With this system there is. You check your reliable feeds, open anything of interest, read them all in turn, then you’re done.”
02 Aug 2005 04:18:20 pm #

Michael Manley has written an AppleScript that posts bookmarks from tabs in NetNewsWire to the bookmark management program SiteTagger.
02 Aug 2005 02:49:55 pm #

MacZealots: “Although Macs are great straight out of the box, third-party developers are the glue that holds Apple and its customers together. Developers continue to create freeware and shareware applications that allow Macs to perform at their very best.”
29 Jul 2005 08:46:28 am #

NetNewsWire 2.0.1 adds support for Atom 1.0 feeds, fixes a couple crashing bugs, and updates the Sites Drawer—read the change notes for the full scoop. Both full and Lite versions of 2.0.1 have been released.

Atom 1.0 is a new syndication format. NetNewsWire already supported Atom 0.3, an earlier draft of this format, and it will continue to support Atom 0.3 for the foreseeable future. (Just as multiple versions of RSS are supported.)

To learn more about Atom, see AtomEnabled.org and the Atom Wiki.
21 Jul 2005 02:46:32 pm #

On inessential.com we posted another list of NetNewsWire features you might not know about.
01 Jul 2005 05:24:33 pm #

On inessential.com we posted our thoughts about the new iTunes podcasting support and what it means for NetNewsWire. In a nutshell: iTunes is cool, and we’ll keep adding new podcasting and RSS enclosures features to NetNewsWire.
28 Jun 2005 03:20:09 pm #

On inessential.com we listed a bunch of other new features (aside from tag subscriptions) in NetNewsWire 2.0 that you may not know about.
27 Jun 2005 02:29:27 pm #

On inessential.com we wrote about tag subscriptions, a useful feature new in NetNewsWire 2.0 that you may not have run across yet. Tag subscriptions let you subscribe to feeds on a given topic from Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati.
27 Jun 2005 12:46:13 pm #

Nick Matsakis: “Preaggregator is a NetNewsWire add-on that groups together a feed’s unseen stories into a single headline. This is useful for feeds that add a great many headlines at once, but where you are more interested in the the fact that the site has updated than the individual headlines. Preaggregator supports all major feed types, including RSS 2.0 and Atom.”
13 Jun 2005 04:32:03 pm #

LittleAppleScripts: “FeedMailer is a little applescript application for NetNewsWire.
It gets your selected feed and/or headline and sends it directly to a new mail message.”
06 Jun 2005 04:16:37 pm #

Michael Rowe has written an AppleScript for the chat program Adium that inserts the URL of the currently active headline from NetNewsWire into an Adium message window as a link.
06 Jun 2005 03:02:18 pm #

Eric Blair reviews NetNewsWire 2.0 in the latest edition of ATPM (About This Particular Macintosh), giving it an Excellent rating. Thanks!
01 Jun 2005 05:37:59 pm #

TIME Magazine: “RSS allows you to play news editor and zero in on the information you really need, even as you expand the number of sites you sample. You can subscribe to just the parts of the Seattle Times, for example, that cover biotech and the Mariners.”
27 May 2005 05:09:41 pm #

Ian Lloyd: “NewsGrowl is a script for NetNewsWire 2 that displays a count of unread headlines via Growl. It scans NetNewsWire for groups and top-level subscriptions (subscriptions that are not in any group), which are then listed in the Growl Preference Pane.”
13 May 2005 12:08:16 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.0 streamlines the award-winning RSS and Atom newsreader by removing the weblog editor and adding many new newsreading features.

NetNewsWire 2.0 includes a tabbed browser so you can read web pages with the convenience of staying in the same window.

You can search your news items with a standard Apple search widget—as in Mail and other applications.

NetNewsWire 2.0 downloads podcasts and enclosures, and sends podcasts to iTunes with with your choice of genre and playlist.

The flagged items feature lets you mark items that you want to keep—they stay forever or until you mark them as unflagged.

NetNewsWire 2.0 is Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) compatible, and includes Automator actions to control functions in NetNewsWire.

Other new features include syncing, smart lists, search subscriptions, and built-in styles. NetNewsWire's built-in list of feeds, the Sites Drawer, has been updated to include new categories and over 1000 new feeds that can be easily subscribed to.

See What's New in NetNewsWire 2.0 for more features, details and screen shots.

The full and Lite versions of NetNewsWire 2.0 are available for download at the NetNewsWire home page.

NetNewsWire 2.0 costs $24.95 for a single-user license and $19.95 per person for multi-user licenses. It’s available bundled with MarsEdit 1.0 for $39.95.

NetNewsWire 2.0 is a free upgrade for licensed users of NetNewsWire 1.x. See the Licenses and Upgrades page for more information.

NetNewsWire Lite is freeware. The Full Version Features page lists the features exclusive to the full version.
12 May 2005 01:15:05 pm #

The Wall Street Journal - Walt Mossberg: “Some RSS addicts regularly scan hundreds of such feeds each day. The news-reader software keeps scooping up the freshest headlines from the RSS feeds, and signals when new headlines are available.”
06 May 2005 05:04:50 pm #

backlon: “Here's an automator file that parses your NetNewsWire subscriptions into a nice HTML file, then uploads it to the server of your choice.”
04 May 2005 04:34:45 pm #

dashLicious is a Dashboard widget that “implements a post to your del.icio.us account on the fabulous web service created by Joshua Schachter. dashLicious is optimised for Safari and NetNewsWire users. When you enter into the dashboard dashLicious will automatically populate the url and description fields from either Safari or NetNewsWire (and will allow you to toggle between the two inputs).”
29 Apr 2005 09:19:05 pm #

NetNewsWire 2.0b45 adds Automator actions, supports Atom enclosures, and fixes a bunch of bugs. See the change notes for details.

(Automator is a new application in OS X 10.4 Tiger for automating repetitive tasks.)

You can download this release from the NetNewsWire betas page.

A new beta of NetNewsWire Lite has been posted too. Here are the change notes for the Lite version. (It’s also available from the betas page.)

(NetNewsWire 2.0 costs $24.95; NetNewsWire Lite is freeware.)
28 Apr 2005 10:18:18 am #

If you’re viewing news items, and you want to open the right-most tab—the tab you most recently created—then type shift-cmd-leftArrow. Or choose Window > Select Previous Tab.
23 Apr 2005 09:16:57 am #

Andrew Skinner presents version one of the Rizearch theme for NetNewsWire.
22 Apr 2005 11:49:13 am #

Jon Hicks has created a new spotlight-inspired style for NetNewsWire.
20 Apr 2005 10:31:02 am #

Surfin’ Safari: “The feed URL dialog that tells you 10.4 must be installed to view RSS feeds is simply a bug and not part of a master plan for global domination.”

We assumed as much, but it’s nice to hear it confirmed. The question is: will there be an update for Panther users? (A few other Safari and WebKit bugs have been noted in the 10.3.9 update.)

Despite the bugs, the update has some cool new features. Our favorite may simply be the better performance.
19 Apr 2005 10:10:18 am #

them.ws: “Continuing in my long line of creating Gundam themes for Mac OS X programs comes a Gundam view style for NetNewsWire.”
18 Apr 2005 04:20:38 pm #

Tim’s Bandwagon reports on how ‘feed’ URIs apparently don’t work in Safari 1.3, which came with the recent OS X update to 10.3.9. (We haven’t checked this out ourselves yet, but we’ve seen a number of reports.)
17 Apr 2005 11:40:56 am #

MacMinute: “URL Manager Pro allows users to store, manage, and organize bookmarks independently of their browser. Version 3.4.2 adds support for NetNewsWire, the RSS news reader.”
15 Apr 2005 08:54:28 am #

NetNewsWire 2.0b41 brings NetNewsWire 2.0 even closer to shipping. This release fixes a bunch of bugs—see the change notes for details.

You can download this release from the NetNewsWire betas page.

NetNewsWire Lite 2.0b41 has been posted too. Here are the change notes for the Lite version. (It’s also available from the betas page.)

(NetNewsWire 2.0 costs $24.95; NetNewsWire Lite is freeware.)
13 Apr 2005 11:14:25 am #

decaffeinated: “The sheet itself was for NetNewsWire; on a whim I’d decided to whip up a style to make feed items resemble email messages a la Apple Mail, and I liked what I saw.”
11 Apr 2005 01:28:32 pm #

Scott Laird: “I spent a few minutes cleaning out the cookie jar, and—amazingly enough—Safari’s a lot faster. I haven’t seen the beachball of death since I cleaned up the cookies; before I was seeing it every minute or so.”

Update: To be clear, the reason for pointing to this article is that cleaning up your Safari cookies can help NetNewsWire performance. NetNewsWire uses WebKit (the Safari engine) under the hood, which means it shares cookies with Safari.
09 Apr 2005 10:57:32 am #

These handy shortcuts work in both the subscriptions outline and in the Sites Drawer:

, - collapse, or collapse-to-parent
. - expand
; - collapse all
' - expand all

Note that these keys are right next to each other and that on laptops they’re close to the arrow keys.

For more keyboard shortcuts like this, choose Help > Keyboard Shortcuts.
08 Apr 2005 04:25:31 pm #

PCWorld.com - Mac Skeptic: “Though NetNewsWire’s interface looks more like that of an e-mail application than a Web browser, it’s easy to get used to its look and start browsing through feeds and news items... If, like me, you have a lot of subscriptions in Bloglines, you can set NetNewsWire 2.0 to monitor these as well.”
06 Apr 2005 10:39:22 am #

If you’re using NetNewsWire 2.0b37, and you used earlier betas, then you can delete the SearchIndex file.

It’s probably taking up a few megabytes of space on your hard drive. (Possibly quite a few megabytes.)

Here’s what to do:

1. Make a backup of your NetNewsWire prefs and data. (It’s always a good idea to make backups.) For more about making backups, open the Help book, click on “Contents,” then click on “Backing up your data.”

2. Delete the file at ~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/SearchIndex

This file is no longer used (as of 2.0b37) so it’s safe to delete.
06 Apr 2005 09:37:36 am #

To put the cursor in the search field in the toolbar, type cmd-opt-F. (If the search field is visible in the toolbar.)

Then to move focus back to the headlines table, type the Tab key.
05 Apr 2005 07:20:14 pm #

Coalmarch Productions: “This script [for NetNewsWire] allows you to subscribe to any number of mailboxes in Mail.app. Its main use is for dropping new unread messages from subscribed news groups (yahoo/apple, etc.) so I don’t have to switch to Mail when I want to be goofing off and reading news.”
05 Apr 2005 11:36:38 am #

You can set keyboard shortcuts for scripts—and even change the builtin NetNewsWire shortcuts. Here’s what to do:

1. Open System Preferences.

2. Click the Keyboard & Mouse icon.

3. Click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.

4. Click the + button.

5. In the sheet that opens up, choose NetNewsWire from the Application popup menu. Type the name of the menu item in Menu Title, then type the shortcut you want in Keyboard Shortcut. Click the Add button.

6. Restart NetNewsWire for the change to take effect.
04 Apr 2005 07:59:39 pm #

If you choose a news item from NetNewsWire’s dock menu, and hold down the option key, you will jump to NetNewsWire’s view of the news item rather than opening the page in the browser.
04 Apr 2005 07:54:11 pm #

Robert Daeley: “I set up a simple shell script to ask Mail and NetNewsWire for their current unread counts, th