NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS news reader for web sites. NetNewsWire uses a familiar three-paned interface - like that of Outlook Express to display websites and their news.

The Weblog Editor allows one to post to Radio, Blogger, Movable Type, and other types of weblogs.

NetNewsWire works with most of the popular weblog systems.The Notepad is an outline, a place to take notes and store headlines, subscriptions, URLs, and files.

The Find command looks for specific text in headlines.AppleScript support allows one to get and set information about headlines and subscriptions.

The Scripts menu runs your AppleScript scripts from within NetNewsWire. Headlines are now stored between runs, which means you can download the news and then read it on the train or anywhere you don't have web access.

Here are some key features of "NetNewsWire":

· Spend less time surfing. Let NetNewsWire do the work for you, as it gathers your news and tells you which items are new. Subscribe to feeds from all over the web and from the built-in list of thousands of feeds in the Sites Drawer.
· Open web pages in NetNewsWire's browser, and see them the same as in Safari, but with the convenience of staying in the same window. NetNewsWire remembers tabs between launches, so you come right back to where you left off last time.
· Search your news items with a standard Apple search widget in Mail and other applications.
· Automatically download podcasts and enclosures. Send podcasts to iTunes with with your choice of genre and playlist.
· Gather news from all your feeds based on your criteria. It's like smart playlists in iTunes only for news instead of music.
· Mark items that you want to keep they stay forever or until you mark them as unflagged.
· Keep your subscriptions, news item status, and even browser tabs synchronized between two or more computers.
· Read your Bloglines feeds with NetNewsWire for the best of both worlds, a rich desktop client and acessible-anywhere server.
· Make special subscriptions that display results from search engines like Yahoo, Feedster, and Daypop, or from keyword searches at Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Technorati. Easily keep up with topics that interest you.
· The three-column view is perfect for laptops and today's monitors that have more horizontal space.
· Tell NetNewsWire how long to keep news items, so you can still read them even after they disappear from the feed.
· Control NetNewsWire with AppleScript and with Automator too, if you're running OS X 10.4 or greater. Add commands to NetNewsWire via the scripts menu.
· Generate custom RSS and Atom feeds via AppleScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, and other scripting languages.
· Track changes in news items as they're edited and updated.
· Stay in control as NetNewsWire shows you exactly what it's downloading.
· Find feeds that haven't updated in a long time via the Dinosaurs window.
· Show summaries and datelines in the headlines list to make skimming faster and easier especially for the widescreen view.
· Add date, subject, and creator columns to the headlines list and sort on any of these columns.
· Change the fonts in the subscriptions and headlines lists, turn on and off the unread count in the Dock, download files, and more.
· Sync with Google Reader account

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This is just a quick-fix build for people who use Google Reader syncing who've recently found that NetNewsWire may stop downloading feeds after a while.
· (Well, it also includes a minor performance enhancement: it uses gzip compression when talking to Google Reader, so feeds download faster.)
· There is a much bigger update in the works, with more performance enhancements and bug fixes. This is not that update -- this is just a quick fix to get people back up-and-running.

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