How will I surf the web in a year or two? The application I will use will be a browser, with tabs, history, bookmarks, pop-up blocking and what-have-you, but also with souped-up feed management and display tools much like what NNW2 and Shrook 2 offer today.īoth these newsfeed readers now let you toggle between the stripped down version of a story and the much prettier browser version, rendered inside the application. NNW2 is so good that I can now see how I will surf the web in a year or two it’s just that it’s not quite there yet. NNW2 has quirks too, and it is still beta, but the frustrations I have with this application are of a different kind. Instead, I returned to hunting and pecking at websites with my conventional browser, these days Camino. While I was impressed by the features of Shrook 2 when that application came out, I found it to have too many quirks for me to use it as the predominant way of being apprised of what’s new on my favorite sites. A site’s newsfeeds are updated whenever the site is updated they come in standardized formats (such as RSS), and are fetched regularly by the newsfeed reader, making it possible to keep tabs on hundreds of websites automatically, instead of having to visit these sites individually to see what’s new. For the last few days I’ve been playing with the public beta of NetNewsWire 2, the successor to the first popular newsfeed reader for the Mac and new competitor to Shrook 2, the current favorite in the field A Newsfeed reader lets you collect, manage and display newsfeeds, which are stripped-down versions of the most recent stories published by websites such as newspapers, wire services and blogs.
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