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NetNewsWire + NewsGator Mobile

Brent Simmons — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:39:36 GMT

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.

Shawn Blanc reviews NetNewsWire

Brent Simmons — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:15:37 GMT

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.

NetNewsWire 3 beta screencast

Brent Simmons — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:36:12 GMT

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.”

My Small Claim to GeekFame

Brent Simmons — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:56:34 GMT

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.”

Macworld: 2005 Eddy Awards - NetNewsWire 2

Brent Simmons — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:12:51 GMT

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.

Macworld readers’ choice voting

Brent Simmons — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:14:38 GMT

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!

The Life

Brent Simmons — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:25:30 GMT

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.”

CocoaRadio interviews Brent Simmons

Brent Simmons — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:43:48 GMT

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.”

MacZealots: Top 10 Shareware Apps of 2005

Brent Simmons — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:46:28 GMT

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.”

ATPM reviews NetNewsWire 2.0

Sheila Simmons — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:37:59 GMT

Eric Blair reviews NetNewsWire 2.0 in the latest edition of ATPM (About This Particular Macintosh), giving it an Excellent rating. Thanks!

Let RSS Go Fetch

Sheila Simmons — Sat, 28 May 2005 00:09:41 GMT

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.”

A Guide to Using RSS, Which Helps You Scan Vast Array of Web Sites

Sheila Simmons — Sat, 07 May 2005 00:04:50 GMT

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.”

Make Need-to-Read Blogs Even Easier to Find

Brent Simmons — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:39:22 GMT

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.”

Inside Ranchero with Brent and Sheila Simmons

Brent Simmons — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:39:50 GMT

The DrunkenBlog interview on NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Apple’s dark years, frisbees, user interface, and coffee.

How to Create an ‘App of the Year’

Brent Simmons — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:04:53 GMT

Daring Fireball: “Making an app scriptable isn’t just a check-off feature—it’s about allowing users to check-off their own individual customized features.”

RSS Market Share

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:34:42 GMT

The FeedBurner folks report on the current state of RSS market share: “Of the feeds that we currently manage, in aggregate, RSS circulation is growing by about 1% every weekday.”

Interview with Brent Simmons

Fri, 07 Jan 2005 23:19:09 GMT

Jeff Harrell interviewed Brent Simmons about NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, syndication, and Macworld Expo rumors.