Need to get your news instantly, no matter where you are? Good news is there are a number of great RSS readers for your iPhone, one of them being NetNewsWire.
Setup NetNewsWire, and you can read news from any site that publishes an RSS feed. NetNewsWire also syncs with all of NewsGator’s free RSS readers (NetNewsWire for your Mac!) so when you read a news item on your iPhone, when you get back to your Mac, the news item will be marked as read.
If you ever find the need to save a news item for later, you can do so using the ‘clippings’ feature. Any item you clip will become available on your other computers. Handy when you simply don’t have time to check it out… so it saves it for when you have more time.
I’ve used NetNewsWire a bunch in the past (for the Mac), and some others as well (namely NewsFire). Both of these perform well. I’ve found it really comes down to personal preferences… So my advice would be to try this one out, and if you don’t like it, try another 
Many bugs and fixes have been addressed in the latest release… And for the price (FREE), it’s worth it for anyone that enjoys reading news via a solid RSS reader.
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Get for FREE at the App Store: NetNewsWire
More Info: NewsGator
For all you news reader lovers out there, one of the bigger mac readers has been updated.
Two main issues have been fixed in this latest update, NetNewsWire 3.1.6bi. The first update corrects a memory leak that affects some users. Plus, loading news clippings at app startup is reportedly faster.
Personally, I’m still using NewsFire and it is working well, without a hitch. I used to use NetNewsWire (for quite a long time) until I started encountering refresh issues, and some other small glitches that I wasn’t too pleased about. I can only imagine that the bugs have since been fixed, but I am quite happy with NewsFire for the moment
You can download NetNewsWire 3.1.6b1 from the developers website.
I would love to hear about your experiences with NetNewsWire and/or NewsFire.
[via Yahoo! News]
Today I just learned that NewsFire RSS news reader is available for free for Mac OS X. When I read this a smile came to my face…
I’ve been a longtime user of NetNewsWire… But the release of the free version of NewsFire couldn’t have come at a better time for me. I’ve been having some issues with NNW… namely feeds disappearing from my list… and the occasional syncing error. I’m going to take this opportunity to export my subscriptions from NNW and try importing them to NewsFire. We’ll see what happens!
Off I go now to install NewsFire. From what I’ve seen I love the look/feel of the app, but we’ll see how it performs once I jam all of my subscriptions into it
To learn more about NewsFire, visit the developers’ site. You can get your free copy of NewsFire here.
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