![]() ![]() I can certainly understand that as undesirable like I said, choice is better. I think, maybe, what you're worried about is if NNW dumps Google compatibility for iCloud-only syncing. No one will make you use it, right? If you need to sync with non-Apple devices, then you don't use iCloud. But you suggest that iCloud gives us a lack of choice. But there should also be OTHER apps that sync with the "other" services better. There will always be apps that sync better with some services compared to others. I think you're presenting a false choice here. Is that as insane as having only one company offer a decent feed-syncing solution, one where they watch your every move for advertising data? Since NewsGator's syncing service shut down, Google Reader has been the only game in town. By “insane” I mean “like before the Internet”. The notion of syncing all your devices, but only if they’re from Apple, is insane. It really does make such as difference when the syncing works seamlessly, without randomly not updating or getting stuck like NNW did.Īnyway, I'm very happy - there's still a couple of niggles like the search isn't great and the UI still feels a little alien, but over all, I'd definitely stay it is worth a go - and most importantly the syncing works brilliantly, proving it can be done well! The dev was very helpful, and sent me a beta link so I could try it for a few weeks. When I saw NewsRack (which I use on my iPad) was on the Mac App Store, I was keen to try it, but there was no demo. No sync wasn't really an option - I usually read on my iphone on my commute and star things to look at in more detail later on a Mac. 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 ![]()
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