NetNewsWire

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NetNewsWire
Basic data

developer Black Pixel
Publishing year July 12, 2002
Current  version 4.0.5 ( iOS )
December 4, 2015

6.0d17 ( macOS )
May 25, 2019

operating system macOS, iOS
programming language Swift
category Feed reader
License WITH
German speaking No
netnewswireapp.com

NetNewsWire is a feed reader for macOS and iOS that has an interface based on Apple's mail . When it was first published on July 12, 2002, it was one of the first available feed readers.

Features of NetNewsWire, in addition to being easy to use, include the ability to adapt the view to your own habits and to synchronize feeds across different computers. The program supports both RSS - and nuclear - Web feeds and podcasts , as well as is a good working relationship with Spotlight and integration with iCal , iPhoto , the macOS Address Book, VoodooPad, MarsEdit and Growl optimized to.

history

NetNewsWire was initially developed as shareware by Brent and Sheila Simmons for their company Ranchero Software . On July 12, 2002, a free lite version was initially released , which lacked some more advanced features compared to the regular version presented later. NetNewsWire 1.0 was released on February 11, 2003 and version 2.0 was released in May 2005.

In October 2005, Ranchero Software and NetNewsWire were acquired by NewsGator. Version 3.0 was released on June 5, 2007. Starting with the release of NetNewsWire 3.1 on January 9, 2008, NetNewsWire was offered free of charge in order to serve as an advertisement for further software offerings from NewsGator. NetNewsWire Lite was discontinued at the same time.

Since May 2008 the program has also been available in German.

Since version 3.2, which was presented on September 23, 2009, NetNewsWire has synchronized itself with Google Reader and can send articles to Instapaper . In addition to a free, but ad-financed version, there was now again a paid, ad-free version of the program.

On March 2, 2011, NetNewsWire Lite 4.0 was released. As before, it is an advertising-free version of the program, but it lacks essential features. This is based on a completely newly written code base , which should also be used in the future for the paid version as well as for the iOS versions of the program.

On June 3, 2011, the sale of NetNewsWire to Black Pixel was announced. Above all, this was a reaction to the greatly increased development effort, which could no longer be achieved alone. In the course of the sale, the lite version was discontinued. Since then, NetNewsWire is only available in an ad-supported version. Advertising can be switched off by purchasing a license.

In June 2013, a beta version of NetNewsWire 4 was released.

Since Brent Simmons bought back the rights to the program in August 2018, he has been developing it "out of love, not for money", building the application from scratch. On May 25, 2019, he announced the release of NetNewsWire 5.0d17, the first version to be feature-complete . At least macOS 10.14.4 is required . The program is under MIT license .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ github.com .
  2. ↑ NetNewsWire Lite Public Beta. Brent Simmons, July 12, 2002, accessed June 12, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Glenn Fleischman: NewsGator Acquires NetNewsWire. In: TidBITS. Adam C. Engst, October 10, 2005, accessed May 30, 2007 .
  4. ↑ Scott McNulty: NetNewsWire 3.0 now available. In: TUAW. June 5, 2007, accessed June 5, 2007 .
  5. ↑ NetNewsWire 3.1 is free. Brent Simmons, January 9, 2008, accessed June 12, 2011 .
  6. ↑ sociosemantics.net
  7. ↑ NetNewsWire 3.2 for Mac and 2.0 for iPhone ship. Brent Simmons, September 23, 2009, accessed June 12, 2011 .
  8. ^ The return of NetNewsWire Lite. Brent Simmons, March 2, 2011, accessed June 12, 2011 .
  9. ^ Daniel Pasco: Black Pixel acquires NetNewsWire . Black Pixel blog on June 2, 2011, accessed April 24, 2014.
  10. ^ The Future of NetNewsWire: An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel's Daniel Pasco. John Gruber, June 3, 2011, accessed June 12, 2011 .
  11. ^ "NNW Lite was published by NewsGator, but they've taken it down." Tweet April 26, 2012, accessed June 23, 2012.
  12. ^ Daniel Pasco: NetNewsWire 4 Open Beta . Black Pixel blog on June 24, 2013, accessed April 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ Brent Simmons: NetNewsWire 5.0d17. In: Ranchero. May 25, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .
  14. ↑ NetNewsWire 5.0: New edition of the popular RSS reader is making progress. In: MacGadget. May 28, 2019, accessed June 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ NetNewsWire. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .