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NetNewsWire for OS X and iPhone Officially Released

Written on September 24, 2009 by Andrew Bednarz and 11 people have commented

NewsGator released todayNetNewsWire 3.2 for OS X. At the end of July, NewsGator announced the ending of its news feed subscription service and released a beta version of NetNewsWire 3.2 with Google Reader synchronization.
The way NewsGator handled the ending of its service and migration to Google Reader left a lot to be desired. After sending out [...]

Get Your Google Reader Fix Natively

Written on September 17, 2009 by Alfredo Padilla and 19 people have commented

Although much has been said about the death of RSS I, for one, still get most of my news via RSS feeds every day. I find Twitter to be filled with too much extraneous junk, and services like Friendfeed and Facebook still don’t offer the feature set I want from my daily news aggregator. My [...]

Five Ways to Become a Mac Minimalist

Written on August 11, 2009 by David Klein and 40 people have commented

My interpretation of minimalism in the home office is removing all distracting items that are not constantly utilized. For software, this is both easy and cheap. Becoming a hardware minimalist is slightly more expensive and time consuming and I recommend reading Apartment Therapy’s Unplggd for recommendations.
Minimal Mac
I recently discovered a website called Minimal Mac, and [...]

NetNewsWire 3.2 Beta: Google Reader Replaces NewsGator

Written on July 31, 2009 by Andrew Bednarz and 13 people have commented

The folks over at NewsGator have seemingly given up on consumer news feed syncing and have ceded to the superiority of Google Reader.
First it was NewsGator’s Windows syncing feed reader Feed Demon that got the switch from NewsGator syncing to Google Reader syncing. Now its the Mac client’s turn and the esteemed reader NetNewsWire has [...]

Hackintosh Dell Mini 9 OS X: Is it Worth it?

Written on May 19, 2009 by David Klein and 61 people have commented

With the help of a friend who already successfully completed the process, I managed to install OS X on my new Dell Mini 9. This was my first and, hopefully, my last Dell purchase. Sorry, Apple. I became too curious. Everyone appeared to love their hackintosh netbooks, so I decided to [...]

Byline 2.0 iPhone Feed Reader Now Available

Written on October 15, 2008 by Matthew Bookspan and 6 people have commented

Amidst all of the hubaloo around Apple’s announcements, one of my favorite iPhone apps was updated to v2.0 today. Byline, by Phantom Fish is an RSS reader application. It’s big claim to fame is the synchronization/support of the Google Reader API. However, 2.0 has some other great new features.

A new interface and icon
Syncs with folders [...]