OS X app of the day: NetNewsWire
Posted on September 17, 2004
Filed Under Computing |
A new feature column here on Mark.Pavlidis.org is my Mac OS X application pick of the day. (mind you, it won’t be a daily feature…) The apps will be ones that I have started to use regularly since migrating to OS X about a month ago.
The first recommended application is NetNewsWire Lite. It is an RSS aggregator, of news feeds, weather reports, or any other piece of useful or useless information that is fed via the XML format.
So gone are the days of having to visit a list of 100 bookmarked sites and blogs to see if the content has been updated. With the RSS Aggregator NetNewsWire, the new posting and its summary comes to you. Saving you the time of polling, and instead provides you with an interrupt indicator (updating the icon in the toolbar with the number of unread headlines).
There is a “pro” version for a cost that adds some features. I find that the “lite” version has all that I need. Seeing that the 1.0 Firefox and the Safari that will be included with Tiger (OS X 10.4) will have RSS aggregators built in, I would wait before purchasing this aggregator.
Overall: 5/5 apples
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