Unlike many other iPhone apps, NetNewsWire doesn’t use Safari to view a Web page it provides its own Web-browser screen, so you don’t have to switch back and forth between NetNewsWire and Safari.
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Alternatively, if you want to view the full article, tap on its title on the summary screen. (One limitation here: if an article summary includes an image, NetNewsWire doesn’t scale the image down to fit the screen you must manually scroll around to see all of the image.) You can quickly move to the next unread article summary by tapping the Next Unread button. (You can’t invert the sorting so older articles appear first, a feature at least one Macworld editor wanted.) Tap an article title to view the article summary and any information about the article provided by the feed. Tap on a feed to view a list of articles in that feed, sorted by date with newest articles at the top (see below) unread articles are displayed with blue type, read articles with gray.
This check/sync process happens each time you launch NetNewsWire, as long as the previous check/sync occurred more than five minutes before. You can see the total number of unread articles at the bottom-left of the screen, as well as on the app’s icon on your iPhone’s Home screen.
If you’re online-via either WiFi or a mobile network-the program will connect to the Internet to check for new articles and to sync the status (read/unread) of articles.
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A setting to choose your preferred approach would be a nice addition.) In the screenshot here, you can see that some feeds are grouped under headings if you have feeds organized in folders on the Mac version of NetNewsWire, as I do, such groupings are synced to the iPhone version (more on that in a bit, as well). (The current version of NetNewsWire for iPhone, 1.0.7, shows only feeds with unread articles earlier versions showed all feeds. It needs iPhone-sized data, too.Once you’ve configured your feeds (more on that in a bit), launching NetNewsWire on the iPhone displays a list of those feeds, along with the number of unread articles in each feed. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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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. NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data Wednesday, 21 January 2009
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