NetNewsWire-Misc.

Demo Video - NetNewsWire Timelines

Brent Simmons — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:16:53 GMT

Adam Behringer: “I just released another update to Bee Docs' Timeline last night. One of the new features is NetNewsWire integration!”

NewsGator subscriber counts

Brent Simmons — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:27:35 GMT

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.”

On the design of NetNewsWire’s first-run assistant

Brent Simmons — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:59:50 GMT

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.”

Last Days of $10 off Sale Price

Brent Simmons — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:02:02 GMT

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. ;)

Holiday discount: $10 off NewsGator products

Brent Simmons — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:14:38 GMT

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.

Confidential NewsGator Survey

Brent Simmons — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:43:27 GMT

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.

How NetNewsWire 2.1 Reads Feeds

Brent Simmons — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:09:46 GMT

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.)

NewsGator REST API

Brent Simmons — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:57:12 GMT

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.)

NetNewsWire Sale! Just $19.95

Brent Simmons — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:43:50 GMT

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.

More about NetNewsWire 2.1: attention, performance, little things

Brent Simmons — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:51:00 GMT

On inessential.com, more about NetNewsWire 2.1: sorting subscriptions by attention, performance, and a couple little things.

Just to prove it’s a beta...

Brent Simmons — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:28:36 GMT

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.

More about NetNewsWire 2.1

Brent Simmons — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:16:09 GMT

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!)

Where we are with NetNewsWire 2.1

Brent Simmons — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:07:29 GMT

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.

iTunes, NetNewsWire, podcasts

Brent Simmons — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:20:09 GMT

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.

More on the ‘feed’ URL bug

Brent Simmons — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:10:18 GMT

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.

Safari 1.3 and feed URIs

Brent Simmons — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:40:56 GMT

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.)

Embedded browser changes

Brent Simmons — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:05:04 GMT

More details about the embedded browser changes in 2.0b37 was posted to inessential.com.

Pricing clarification

Brent Simmons — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:37:20 GMT

This is just to clear up some confusion about pricing that people have...

NetNewsWire 2.0 (in beta at the time of this writing) is $24.95. Once it ships, it will still be $24.95—this is its normal price.

MarsEdit is a separate product: it also costs $24.95.

You can buy NetNewsWire and MarsEdit together for $39.95, which saves about $10.

To be clear:

NetNewsWire 2.0..............$24.95
MarsEdit 1.0.................$24.95
NetNewsWire/MarsEdit bundle..$39.95

(NetNewsWire 1.0.8, which is still for sale for now, costs $39.95. I think that’s where the confusion comes from. The older version of NetNewsWire costs more because it includes a weblog editor as well as the aggregator.)

If you have any questions about pricing, please send email to info@ranchero.com.

Serialized eBooks via RSS

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:36:01 GMT

Russell Beattie: “Many of us are too busy to read classic books out there, instead choosing ‘page turners’ or books that are more applicable to our every day lives (like a some new marketing book). But we do have time to zip through our aggregator daily, right? So by taking a 500 page novel and distributing it, a few pages at a time, via RSS, we could read a new book in a month or so without even trying.”

NetNewsWire, MarsEdit Questions Answered

Brent Simmons — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 05:25:14 GMT

On inessential.com we posted answers to some frequently asked questions about the public betas of NetNewsWire and MarsEdit.