Comments on: NetNewsWire for OS X and iPhone Officially Released

By: Lui-g

Lui-g — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:53:14 +0000

I agree with Andrew – I use the star to ‘bookmark’ an article I’d like to refer back to one day – I keep unread items that I’ve not read.

Two completely different functions.

By: Andrew Bednarz

Andrew Bednarz — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:04:43 +0000

Pressing star ‘flags’ the item. It does not mark it unread. They do different things.

I often start reading an article on the iPhone but don’t get a chance to finish it. So I mark it unread so its back in my normal unread list when I get back to my Mac. I don’t want two lists (unread and flagged) when one suits me fine.

I’m glad you find it comical though. Glad to amuse.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:09:05 +0000

“The biggest missing feature, which is a deal-breaker for me, is being able to set an article’s status as unread. In the FAQ, they recommend using the ’star’ function to flag the article instead of a ‘mark as unread’ function, but that doesn’t suit my workflow.”

Haha. What if the application put the word ‘unread’ by the star? It doesn’t fit your workflow? If you want to mark threads as unread, it does the exact same thing. Unless you’re using the star for some other reason, it’s a pretty comical complaint.

I’ve used greader until today. This is what I’ve been waiting for. Great job by brent.

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:53:36 +0000

I’ve looked at a couple of other RSS readers, but they have very annoying defects in how they function.

1) In Vienna, space bar scrolls down, but if you are at the end of the article it doesn’t go to the next article.
2) In NewsFire, articles are always arranged newest one first, and Next Article always goes to the next earlier one.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:53:14 +0000

It depends on the number of feeds you have. If you have a lot of feeds, it’s easier to organize them in one of the feed readers.

By: no name

no name — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:51:33 +0000

this “upgrade” was the biggest FAIL in the history of mankind.

Many of us already paid for NNW. Twice. Then it went free, and not they want us to pay again just to remove the ads? Screw that.

I switched to Google Reader and never looked back. I am not willing to support developers who do this.

By: AndrewC

AndrewC — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:17:29 +0000

Forgive me back tracking for a moment, but what are the benefits to using a standalone RSS reader app over simply reading RSS in the mail app?

By: JayW

JayW — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:48:44 +0000

Newsstand is the best iPhone RSS app I’ve found. I doubt if I’ll ever go back to NNW for the iPhone. For OS X, I’m considering switching over to Gruml, but I might just pay for the NNW license.

By: JohnB1985

JohnB1985 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:58:24 +0000

News Feed is a better app than this.

By: Wilder212

Wilder212 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:14:56 +0000

I downloaded the new iPhone update yesterday and now I can’t log into the Google Reader. For some reason it doesn’t recognize my name and password anymore. Strange, because my desktop client works/syncs just fine.

Anyone else have this issue.