newsfire 0.2

i can hardly remem­ber the last time i blogged about new soft­ware i installed on my trusty ibook. now news­fire 0.2 (!) gets the honor to be fea­tured here.
since i dis­cov­ered the beauty and sim­ple­ness of read­ing most of the web via rss i’ve been using net­newswire lite for all my rss-needs.
(btw: xeni jardin (of boing­bo­ing–fame) explains the whole rss-thing it nicely in her arti­cle for WIRED 12.04).

since two of my fafourite mac-blogs (fsck­log and powerbook-blogger) seem to like it, i thought i’d give it a go and installed that impres­sive piece of soft­ware. i can hardly believe that the ver­sion num­ber is 0.2!

the pure sim­plic­ity got me really hooked, all you need to read all your feeds is the space­bar and the enter key. all your feeds are orga­nized in the left col­umn and the post you’re read­ing is in the right frame. no third pane needed. (which only now strikes me as com­pletely use­less any­way :-) as you read a post you press enter to visit the post on the web or press the space­bar to read the next unread feed. sim­ple and easy.
and there’s even some ichatesque eye-candy included, which means you should def­i­nitely give it a go!

ps: oh, and newsfire’s (nifty) icon doesn’t sport an “unread mes­sage” count as netnewswire’s onde does, which means some more pro­duc­tive time on my hands, because i won’t notice if there’s only one of all the feeds on my list which is updated and i have to go and check to see if it’s worth read­ing that post. give it a go! it’s well worth it.

(and sorry, only and purely avail­i­able on os x)

Sep 09, 2004 by habi Trackback
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