ranchero.com: NetNewsWire-Tips

NetNewsWire/iPhone FAQ

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:59:24 -0700

Answers to frequently-asked-questions about NetNewsWire 2.0 for iPhone.

Using Readability with NetNewsWire

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:31:25 -0700

Rob J Wells: “Most of my heavy reading takes place in NetNewsWire, so I’ve coupled up Arc90’s Readability bookmarklet with the application.”

ClickToFlash + NetNewsWire

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:02:11 -0800

wurzelfoo: “In NetNewsWire, i had plug-ins disabled in news items, as it dramatically slowed down my feed-reading workflow. That, obviously, enforced me to open a browser-tab to view embedded videos. Not anymore, with ClickToFlash I have speed and convenience.”

10 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for NetNewsWire

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:35:28 -0800

Ken Clark: “I believe that if you only use these ten keyboard shortcuts, you will be blazing through your news feeds in record time.”

RSS Feed Reader Productivity with NetNewsWire on the iPhone

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:46:40 -0800

DIGTD: “The cool little feature is the ability to choose what feeds you show on the iPhone. Simply, swipe across the feed that you do not want to show on the iPhone and select delete. You now have the option to remove the feed for good, or to just remove it from the iPhone.”

Five Things You May not Know About NetNewsWire

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:24:19 -0700

Me, writing a guest post for the NewsGator Widget Blog: “NetNewsWire was designed to be read with a cup of coffee in one hand while the other drives the keyboard.”

Share Your NewsGator Clippings with ReadBurner

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:10:32 -0700

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.)

Using NetNewsWire with Your Blog, Twitter, and Del.icio.us

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:15:30 -0700

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.”

Use NewsGator’s bookmarklet to subscribe

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:08:18 -0800

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.”

Things you may not know about NetNewsWire 3.1 (part four: misc.)

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:16:10 -0800

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.”

Parsing your OPML for Touch and iPhone WebClip icons

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:14:16 -0800

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.”

Things you may not know about NetNewsWire 3.1 (part three: subscriptions list stuff)

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:57:45 -0800

Me, writing on inessential.com about NetNewsWire, this time talking about the subscriptions list.

Things you may not know about NetNewsWire 3.1 (part two: reading stuff)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:37:06 -0800

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.”

Selected text in NetNewsWire + MarsEdit

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:46:32 -0800

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.”

Things you may not know about NetNewsWire 3.1 (part one: browser stuff)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:20:52 -0800

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.”

How to share clippings

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:05:18 -0800

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.”

Ode to Apple’s NetNewsWire Tips

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:55:33 -0800

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.”

Focus with NetNewsWire smart lists

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:32:14 -0800

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?”

NetNewsWire desktop app integration

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:30:06 -0800

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.”

NetNewsWire + iPhoto

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:35:10 -0800

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.