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Lesson learned: It’s not enough for an iPhone app to sport an iPhone-optimized user interface. And the read/unread status of the feeds I’m following on the iPhone still sync to my Mac. The result is that NetNewsWire on my iPhone launches faster, loads less data over the network, and pretty much only shows me stuff I really might want to read.
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Rather than going through my full list of feeds and turning some off, I turned them all off, then went through and re-enabled about 20 feeds - the ones I like best, with the highest signal-to-noise ratios, and which would be most enjoyable in those I’m bored, give me something to read moments. So what I did last week was start over from scratch on the iPhone.
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What I want in an iPhone feed reader isn’t just a little bit different than what I want in a Mac feed reader, it’s a lot different. I used this feature to turn off a few dozen particularly noisy feeds for my iPhone location, but for me, I think that was the wrong way to use the feature. Having it hold onto items for a long time. All you need to give is the site’s URL like cate.blog or. To add a feed directly in NetNewsWire NetNewsWire will look at any web page and try to find the feed’s address for you. When you’re using Safari, tap to add a feed using the Share Extension.

1 The idea is that NewsGator’s online account system supports “locations”, and each location can show a specific subset of your full list of subscribed-to feeds. to The iPhone just shows unread and recent items - the idea is that it's more for reading new things than for saving them. NetNewsWire can help you find the address automatically.
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So by default, the iPhone version of NetNewsWire does the obvious thing and shows you the same list of subscriptions you use on the Mac (or with any other NewsGator client software, like their web app or the Windows client, FeedDemon).īack in July, NetNewsWire developer Brent Simmons posted an extremely useful tip regarding how to set certain feeds only to appear, say, on the Mac, but not on the iPhone. The integration between the Mac and iPhone versions of NetNewsWire goes through NewsGator: with syncing turned on, you get the same list of subscriptions, and the read/unread state of each item is synced. But I found that over time, I was using the iPhone version less and less.Īs you might imagine, I subscribe to a relatively large number of feeds - 155 as of today - some of which I read religiously, but many of which I only scan, looking for anything that stands out. I’ve been using NetNewsWire to read feeds on my Mac ever since it debuted in 2003, and I started using the iPhone version of NetNewsWire as soon as it appeared, too. And if you’re at a loss for which sites to follow, a Popular tab shows you all the best sites across a number of interests, including tech, science and sports.NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data Wednesday, 21 January 2009 But NetNewsWire will find them for you all you have to do is punch in the homepage address. The classic RSS button has largely been replaced with Like and Follow buttons. However, finding the RSS feed can be a little difficult.

But if you really want to read everything a website publishes (or at least every headline), an RSS reader is still the easiest way to do it. With Facebook bringing an outsized portion of eyeballs to websites, and Twitter filling another big chunk of traffic, an RSS reader might not seem like an important app. And with Black Pixel’s syncing engine, it’ll always match what you see on your iPhone. After all, if a user doesn’t find the relevant option then he will move to a rival service.
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The new NetNewsWire brings the familiar icons you’re used to in native Mac apps to your RSS feed. Download NetNewsWire for iPhone User Interface User Interface plays a major role in an RSS reader app. The desktop app is even more at home in the Apple ecosystem. Choose the type settings you're comfortable with. With a small stickiness to the end of each article, you don’t have to worry about scrolling too far, either. App Store NetNewsWire focuses on content in a way browsers can't. Instead of going left and right, which many apps use to switch between stories and I often activate on accident, you just long-drag up or down. My favorite feature is the way you can scroll between stories. Simple gestures let you quickly mark stories as read, bookmark for later, or share. The universal iOS app is pretty great for getting through your news on the go.
