Today NewsGator, the company that brings you NetNewsWire, has announced that all of its RSS products including synchronizing is now free of charge! That’s right! If you are currently a user of NetNewsWire Lite, time to update, that version has been discontinued and NNW 3.1 has been released. And yes my WIndows friends, one of the only RSS readers worth anything is also made by our good friends over at NewsGator and they have made FeedDemon free as well.
NewsGator Releases New Versions of Client Products; Best-of-Breed RSS Readers Now Free
January 9 2008 11:04 AM | Link
Free NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go! Benefit Consumers and Businesses
DENVER, Colo. — Jan. 9, 2008 — NewsGator announced today the general availability of NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0. The public beta of NewsGator Inbox 3.0 also began today. The award-winning products for PC (FeedDemon), Mac (NetNewsWire), Microsoft Outlook (Inbox), and mobile (NewsGator Go!) deliver a best-of-breed RSS reading experience that synchronizes through NewsGator’s online platform. All of the new product versions deliver a better user experience with the inclusion of significant performance, usability, and relevance enhancements.
NewsGator also announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge and include free synchronization along with other services. Users can now enjoy the great features and performance of all of NewsGator’s Web, desktop and mobile readers for iPhone, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry (powered by FreeRange), all synchronized to provide the same view of their RSS content no matter when or where they read it. Enterprise customers will continue to enjoy the extended value of having all these clients synchronize with NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES). The combination of innovative client reader features and the ability to leverage core platform data and capabilities have made NewsGator products dominant in the enterprise.
NeNewsWire has become my all time favorite RSS reader on any platform, and has become one of the most used applications on my Mac. I was once a Vienna user and that is a great free open source reader, but NNW provided a few things over Vienna that I had to have. One of which is speed. I do read around 100 different feeds and that number can grow to over 200 sometimes. Vienna has some massive improvements since 2.2 was release but NNW still beats it in the speed department. I also love the ability to sync my feeds to an online reader that also supports my iPhone. I am sure this is going to be a feature eventually added to Vienna, but NNW does it now and it works.
Anywho, before I go rambling on this is an announcement rather than a review. So go grab NetNewsWire now! It’s a great feed reader.
Thank you,
I downloaded it last night…. and I really like it!
Great news, I have always wanted a desktop feed reader that can sync with my online feed reader, except that I don’t use either windows or os x :(
Anyways, you have said “And yes my WIndows friends, … free as well.” twice, once before quote and once after that :P
Meganice9 paid $30 for this reader and loves it. I may make the switch now.
Sally, keep in mind NetNewsWire is for the Mac, if you are reading your feeds on Windows you will be using FeedDemon instead. unless of course you are taking Over parsnipper’s iBook, and in that case NetNewsWire is already on there. ;)