NetNewsWire-Tips

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

Brent Simmons — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:15:30 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:08:18 GMT

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.)

Brent Simmons — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:16:10 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:14:16 GMT

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)

Brent Simmons — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:57:45 GMT

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)

Brent Simmons — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:37:06 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:46:32 GMT

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)

Brent Simmons — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:20:52 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:05:18 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:55:33 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:32:14 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:30:06 GMT

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

Brent Simmons — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:35:10 GMT

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.

1Passwd 2.1 Brings Support For NetNewsWire Browser

Brent Simmons — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:54:50 GMT

David Teare: “1Passwd version 2.1 was released today sporting a new logo, NetNewsWire support and a tonne of new features and improvements.”

Sort All Subscriptions By Date Trick

Brent Simmons — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:35:34 GMT

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!)

Sofa Control

Brent Simmons — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:42:09 GMT

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.

Pukka 1.0

Brent Simmons — Tue, 02 May 2006 16:42:38 GMT

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.

Things you may not know about NetNewsWire

Brent Simmons — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:55:31 GMT

On inessential.com I posted a list of things you may not know about NetNewsWire.

Pukka + NetNewsWire

Brent Simmons — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:51:04 GMT

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!”

Set minimum font size in NetNewsWire’s browser

Brent Simmons — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:10:05 GMT

Mac OS X Hints describes how to set the minimum font size in NetNewsWire’s browser.