NetNewsWire 3.2 beta

Marc A. Price — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:02:39 +0000

I’ve always wanted a proper desktop app for feeds but like the fact that I can read my them on my iPhone. I don’t want to have to maintain two lists of news feeds. So I need something that can sync to Google Reader on the Interweb. Luckily, NetNewsWire has just released an update that syncs (almost) effortlessly with Google Reader. OK it is a little buggy but it is a beta version in fairness.

I’ll see how it progresses but I’m happy with it so far.

nnwbeta.com beta releases of NetNewsWire/Mac NetNewsWire 3.2 beta

NetNewsWire 3.2b6 syncs with Google Reader, adds a new Send to Instapaper command, and shows off a brand-new app icon by RogueSheep.

Those features are, not coincidentally, among the top feature requests.

It’s still a beta, though: it’s unfinished software, with bugs — known and unknown — and incomplete features. We say this not to scare you off but to inform. NetNewsWire has a seven-year-long tradition of doing public betas because we know there are lots of folks who like to help — and we appreciate the help.

Download
NetNewsWire 3.2b6 (4.5 MB)

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Before running, it’s a very good idea to back up your current NetNewsWire preferences and data, in case you have to go back. They’re here:

[home folder]/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/ [home folder]/Library/Preferences/com.ranchero.NetNewsWire.plist The main point of 3.2 This is supposed to be a minor upgrade. And it is, largel [From nnwbeta.com: NetNewsWire 3.2 beta]

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Blogging Made Easy

Marc A. Price — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:14:15 +0000

I guess that I can be kind of lazy sometimes. So when I come across a tool that it supposed to make life easy how can I not give it a try? I am something of a geek when it comes to gadgets so when learned that the old Firefox blogging aid Performancing had been renamed and relaunched as ScribeFire I had to give the fella a try.

So far so good, it seems to play a lot nicer than the old plugin. Formatting the page is made so much easier. Particularly if, like me, you use a CMS like Drupal that can sometimes be a little painful to use. I rejoice at having smart tags and the ability to add images and Technocrati tags and Del.Icio.us bookmarks and trackbacks and so on. That said I haven’t tried to add images just yet. As I am such a fickle beast I may change my mind rapidly.

Today, as yesterday, I have been off work with a shitty horrible cold. It seems to be clearing up now but the extra time at home has given me the opportunity to play with this thing a while.

What other developments? Well, I have been populating my usually barren site with news from around the Internet by turning feeds from other sites into posts on mine. Cheating! No! The idea is to have content on my site that I want to read as well as my stupid and sometimes inane ramblings. The idea was to get me inspired to write something again after quite a long gap. Anyway, I use the Leech module for Drupal. This is how I can get such luminaries as Neil Gaiman to write for Bigger on the Inside. It is indeed comforting to know that wonderful writers such as Mr G also write ludicrously short blog posts.

So now I have no excuse to have good content on my site…right?

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NetNewsWire 3.2 beta

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