I had been struggling on with the truly dreadful syncing and broken flag/stars in NetNewsWire, believing it would get fixed "soon", but it wasn't, but there were no better alternatives - Gruml was too slow and other apps didnt work like I wanted. I read your comments on NetNewsWire with interest. I’m counting on Black Pixel to help keep it Google Reader app is better, and on my Mac, NNW is better. Google Reader in the browser is a pretty sweet way to motor through feeds. That would be: “Do we need apps at all, or can we live entirely in theīrowser?” Feed reading throws this into particularly sharp relief, because The left column scrolls automatically so that I can always glance over there Us that the ' key does what I want.] And finally (this is more of a bug-fix) make sure [Update: Brent, in the comments below, advises That does what command-slash does: wherever you are, leave there and go Next, I want a one-finger keyboard shortcut The big one is to do likeīrent said: abandon the other code bases and built everything on NNW Lite 4.0.įeels like a no-brainer. I have one big and two small feature requests. Interview, has a clever feature proposal: some feeds that sync and some that In a DEC network, and so on let’s please not go back. By “insane” I mean “like before the Internet”.Ĭonnect all your IBM computers in a IBM network, and your DEC computers The notion of syncing all your devices, but only if they’re fromĪpple, is insane. everyone) could play along with NetNewsWire. Since Black Pixel is proudly Apple-only, I don’t suppose they’re going toīuilding mobile clients for me. Or a train or a plane waiting to take off.Īs of this week, I guess apps on Apple platforms are supposed to sync with each otherĪutomagically that’s a good thing. In particular, I use my phone, or Galaxy Tab, inĬircumstances where you don’t want to unfold a computer: say, on a bus But I would really like it to work, because I use a variety of I guess syncing with Google Reader must be hard, because I’ve never seen itĭone well. Speed and polishĪnd good defaults win how many times do we have to re-learn this? What fields you display in the articles-in-a-feed readout. Another is the loss of the fine-tuning for Title and you can’t re-sort manually a case where removing choices There’s only one level of foldering no biggie. Is visually tasty, and the number of keystrokes to do anything is always It does less than NNWĬlassic, but for the basic routine of plowing through a lot of feeds to see Brent has said repeatedly that he thinks “LiteĤ.0” is his best code ever, and I agree. Silently dropping a few feeds I really care about.Īnyhow, I’m glad I switched. But then, NetNewsWire classicĭoesn’t really, either the syncing was buggy and, I eventually realized, was That’s the label attached to Brent’s most recent iteration, now in the handsīecause it doesn’t sync with Google Reader. Since that time, it has not failed to be a part of my daily routine. Included two that mentioned NNW, including Matters because the app matters it’s one of the better reasons to use aįebruary of 2003 and had built a backlog of articles for launch day it NNW’s future is a moving target, and that He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.The news recently. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.
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