Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 at 12:07 AM
I’ve been a long time NetNewsWire fan and have readily dismissed most other RSS readers in favor of it, however I just tried out NewsLife, and I’m quite impressed with it. While it doesn’t sport all the bells and whistles of NetNewsWire, NewsLife has just the right feature set, making it seem more of a NetNewsWire Elementsâ„¢ application.
Working on only one Mac now (with Core 2 Duo hopes for 2007), I no longer require NetNewsWire’s great syncing abilities, and I never really used the built-in browser tabs. I tend to browse straight through the news list, opening any interesting links in the background, and rifling through the pages after they’ve all loaded. NewsLife works with me in this fashion, offering a News Bin, where I can store pages to-be-read-later. Stories in the News Bin persist across application launches, meaning what you put there stays there until you remove it. It’s a clever little concept I find very useful, especially when just skimming the news with little time to spare right then.
Like NetNewsWire and a few others, NewsLife is a uniquely Mac application (you can tell from the screenshot alone) which combines the best of NewsFire and NetNewsWire, making for an RSS reader that may actually win me over. I’ll be using it throughout the next week or so to see if it really holds up.
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I found NewsLife to be really buggy and it’s lacking a few important features for me. I like the interface and stuff but I won’t switch from NNW just yet. I’ll be watching it though since it seems promising.
NetNewsWire has the same thing as the “News Bin” pretty much but it’s called flagging. Go to View > Show Flagged Items Subscription and then press the F key on any story, it flags it for later viewing.
This is just a bad rip from NewsFire…Still buggy as NewsMac Pro…Silly navigation…The search column just drive me nut. I definetly won’t buy this piece of shareware.
I tried it and found buggy (try to delete a long list of feeds or import an ompl list with groups). Not for me yet.