Mac OS X RSS Readers
The rss reader scene on mac os x is getting crowded. Yesterday saw the public release of the netnewswire 2.0 beta. I’ve been a netnewswire lite user since i’ve switched to the mac and now with version 2.0 around the corner might as well be the right time to purchase the full version. Still my feedreader of choice on mac os x.
Newsfire got lots of positive press lately, though it strikes me as a more casual reader, not the right tool to keep on top of my currently 137 subscriptions. Yesterday i decided to give it a try. After importing my opml subscriptions list, newsfire went totally crazy and started fetching all feeds simultaneously, spawning connection after connection. Not very well behaved if you ask me and it also affirmed my previous assumptions that newsfire isn’t right for die-hard read-all news junkies.
And while i was trying out new feedreaders, i also took pulpfiction out for a spin. Besides the fact that i didn’t like this concept of one central inbox delivering an endless, incomprehensible stream of incoming news, the thing that bothered me most was the overwhelming graphical style of the app. Very orange, very green, and quite unnerving after a while.
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