NetNewsWire and NewsGator
I was oh so happy a little while back that NetNewsWire was released for free (as in beer). I liked NetNewsWire before but didn’t think that it was worth the $30. Well, now I can still use it! It’s fast (yes faster than Bloglines, Google Reader, etc) and you can post to del.icio.us straight from there, save archives, etc. Very nice indeed!
On of the features of NetNewsWire is that it syncs your feeds (what you read, etc) with NewGator – an online reader. This seems ideal for me — a client-app at home, and a web-based one for work, on the road, etc. But this is where things go wrong.
NewsGator is slow, updates rarely, doesn’t generally do what I tell it to. For example, when I mark a whole feed as “read”, it locks up my FireFox while doing and, when it finally comes back, those articles aren’t usually marked! Whereas NetNewsWire is a fantastic app, NewsGator blows.
Is NetNewsWire good enough to use NewGator during the day? For now, yes. But they need to make many improvements soon or I will dump both of them and go back to my old standby, even though NetNewsWire kicks it.