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December 08, 2004 at 1:32 pm
NewsFan...
I just downloaded and tried the latest version of NewsFan — yet another RSS aggregator/web browser vying for “market” popularity.
NewsFan is OSX-only (like NetNewsWire). This may be it’s only major short-coming (if you’re a multi-OS user such as myself), as my initial usage of the program was very positive. NewsFan is designed around a typical three-paned GUI and is very clean and quick. RSS feeds that reference Style-Sheets look great (aside from a few html inconsistencies that will probably be worked out at some point) and making feed text zooming is easy via Command+/-.
But, I said that NewsFan was an aggregator/browser, right? (This is similar to how Tickershock works.) While this isn’t a major issue by any means, it is a little annoying to me. The web browser functionalities in NewsFan work well, but I would much rather have my links and thumbnails trigger FireFox that open inside the aggregator itself. That being said, there are a couple of cool web browser-ish features, though, such as “History” and “Bookmarks” menus.
Overall, I think that NewsFan is more like NetNewsWire than any of the other RSS aggregators I’ve tried. And this is not a bad thing. While NetNewsWire is the cream-of-the-crop in the RSS-reading world, competition like NewsFan will do it good.
How?
Here are few NewsFan specific features:
- News Ticker
- Transmit News to iPod
- Transmit Audible News (convert text to audio)
- News Clippings
- Export Headlines
- Import from NetNewsWire
- Find more RSS sites (iTunes, Syndic8, etc.)
- History
- Bookmarks
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