What’s New in NetNewsWire 2.0
You can download NetNewsWire 2.0 from the NetNewsWire home page.
Streamlined
NetNewsWire 2.0 is more focused on reading news, with lots of new newsreading features and without the weblog editor.
(MarsEdit is our new weblog editor: it’s a complete overhaul, very different from the one that used to be in NetNewsWire.)
A good illustration of how we streamlined NetNewsWire is a screenshot comparing the menus of NetNewsWire 2.0 to NetNewsWire 1.0.8. The menu in 2.0 is shorter.
New features
| Tabbed browser Open web pages in NetNewsWire’s browser—and see them the same as in Safari, but with the convenience of staying in the same window. NetNewsWire remembers tabs between launches, so you come right back to where you left off last time. Read more... |
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| Searching Search your news items with a standard Apple search widget—as in Mail and other applications. |
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| Podcasts and enclosures Automatically download podcasts and enclosures. Send podcasts to iTunes with with your choice of genre and playlist. Read more... |
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| Smart lists Gather news from all your feeds based on your criteria. It’s like smart playlists in iTunes—only for news instead of music. Read more... |
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| Flagged items Mark items that you want to keep—they stay forever or until you mark them as unflagged. Read more... |
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| Syncing Keep your subscriptions, news item status, and even browser tabs synchronized between two or more computers. |
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| Bloglines syncing Read your Bloglines feeds with NetNewsWire for the best of both worlds, a rich desktop client and accessible-anywhere server. Read more... |
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| Search-result subscriptions Make special subscriptions that display results from search engines like Yahoo, Feedster, and Daypop, or from keyword searches at Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati. Easily keep up with topics that interest you. Read more... |
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| Persistence Tell NetNewsWire how long to keep news items, so you can still read them even after they disappear from the feed. Read more... |
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| Automator Actions Control NetNewsWire with Automator if you’re running OS X 10.4 or greater. |
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| Scripted feeds Generate custom RSS and Atom feeds via AppleScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, and other scripting languages. Read more... |
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| Activity window Stay in control as NetNewsWire shows you exactly what it’s downloading. Read more... |
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| Dinosaurs Find feeds that haven’t updated in a long time via the Dinosaurs window. Read more... |
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| Inline summaries and datelines Show summaries and datelines in the headlines list to make skimming faster and easier—especially for the widescreen view. |
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| More... Built-in styles, subscription list sorting, external weblog editor support, Atom feeds, user interface make-over, per-feed refresh schedules, errors window, and more. |
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Upgrades are free
If you bought NetNewsWire 1.x, then all versions of NetNewsWire 2.x are free upgrades for you—and all versions of MarsEdit 1.x are free too.
Lower price: $24.95
NetNewsWire 2.0 is $24.95. The NetNewsWire/MarsEdit bundle is $39.95.
For more details, see Licenses and Upgrades.
About NetNewsWire Lite
NetNewsWire Lite remains freeware.
It doesn’t have all the new features that the full version has, but it has some of them—including a post-to-weblog button that sends your post to a weblog editor. There is no difference between NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite when it comes to weblog editing.
This features chart lists the differences between full and Lite versions of NetNewsWire.
