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newsfire
This is why I have come to love Macs and all things Mac. For some reason the Windows people have never been able to get the idea of elegant apps that perform a single function really well. This is a news reader called Newsfire. It has a beautiful, simple, and dare I say it, elegant, layout. Yet, it does everything you could possible want a newsreader to do. If you've got a Mac, you should give it a go. You will not be disappointed. If you have a WinTel machine, bad luck.
mr mcmuffin on 10 Sep 2004 @ 09:26 PM ✲ Permalink
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Thanks for pointing this out. I've tried Net Newswire, but felt it just did more than I needed. Newsfire is very simple indeed and does the one single thing I want a news reader to do: I reads news feeds for me. It's earned a place in my dock, and could possibly become a "can't live without it" application (like Quicksliver - http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/).
PS--Turn on HTML in your comments!
Posted by: Dave | 11 Sep 2004 04:29:01
Never seen QS before. Very nice. The poor developers must be kicking themselves. All that work for nothing. I wonder if they will have it finished before 10.4 appears?
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 11 Sep 2004 07:54:00
Ooops...HTML now switched on. No reason for it not to be.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 11 Sep 2004 08:07:22
But software is software irrespective of the platform it runs on. No reason why it shouldn't look and behave the same on any platform, it's just down to design and not (I think) PC vs Mac. And who wants that for a newsreader anyway? It's nowhere near as beautiful as Katie Derham!
Posted by: Steve | 11 Sep 2004 13:49:16
That's true, sort of...The OSX platform offers a far superior graphics engine thingy in the form of Quartz. This is way ahead of anything that WinTel machines are capable of using at the moment. Although I imagine it, or something like it, will be introduced with Longhorn. You can read about here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme/
It's a tradition with Mac that things have to look nice. That's just not the same with Windows stuff, where the pretty program is the exception.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 11 Sep 2004 14:09:09
Yes, yes. But what about Katie Derham??
Posted by: steve | 11 Sep 2004 17:01:49
Never heard of her. I still hanker after Anna Ford, old and wrinkly as she is.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 11 Sep 2004 17:08:18
i love my mac. mmm... new programs.
Posted by: ethan | 12 Sep 2004 10:58:25
