![]() ![]() We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site-we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. It’s a stable, practical application for those of us who have a significant list of RSS feeds we check on a daily basis.All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. NetNewsWire is not a new kid on the block. Given the labor involved in developing, maintaining, and supporting applications like these, I think the price is warranted. However, the $10 price tag may make some customers hesitant to upgrade. Overall, NetNewsWire's clean interface and easy navigation will be appealing to new and existing users of the reader. The update syncing process doesn’t work instantly or automatically all the time, but this is not a huge problem. So when you mark all articles as read in the mobile app, those updates are made on the Google Reader side, and vice-a-versa. I don’t use the desktop version of NetNewsWire instead, I use Google Reader, which syncs with the mobile app versions of NetNewsWire. ![]() You can also email them, post a link to Twitter, open them in the Safari Browser, or send them to Instapaper-another excellent application that has been optimized for the iPad. In both viewing positions (I find the vertical view the easiest and fastest way to navigate through feeds) you can star articles as favorites or for later reading. There are arrows at the top of the menubar that navigate previous and next articles in the feed. This is also a little annoying but understandable. In the vertical position, you need to click the feed button to access the list of feeds and articles. It should be a simple one-click button as in the iPhone version. The process requires two clicks, which I find annoying because if you have lots of feeds, you’ll no doubt be using this "mark as read" button a lot. The little check button on the top of the feed panel is where you click to mark all articles as read. Other feeds show you a summary of the selected article, and you must click again to read the full version. With some feeds, the full version of an article appears in the main section of the app, which means one less click to start reading the article. With the additional screen space, the list of articles for each feed is always visible in the horizontal position of the iPad. The new NetNewsWire interface takes great advantage of the iPad screen, which makes for a better reading experience of downloaded articles and blog posts. Like other leading app developers, NewsGator overhauled much of its application for the iPad. Enlarged, they are okay, but the pixilations of text and graphics can be a little annoying. Viewed at their regular iPhone size, they look too small to read. They don’t of course take good advantage of the larger screen real estate of the iPad. Here’s how phone version looks on the iPad.Īs I‘ve written before, iPhone applications simply do not look appealing on the iPad. ![]() ![]() I‘m not sure if it’s the best RSS reader on the market, but I use it because it syncs with my Google Reader account.īefore I realized that NewsGator had posted its app for the iPad, I had downloaded the iPhone version to my iPad. For the most part, NetNewsWire has worked fine on my iPhone. I review stories before taking my children to school, and read longer stories throughout the day. As part of my weekday morning routine, I fire up NetNewsWire on my iPhone and let it update my RSS feeds. Maybe it’s because of my increasingly poor eyesight or the hype of a new toy, but many of the larger, redesigned apps designed for the iPad are simply awesome!Īmong the first iPad optimized apps that I wanted to download is NetNewsWire. Until I got my hands on the iPad, I could never have imagined how much better applications look and feel than on an iPhone or iPod touch. ![]()
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