There are many news readers on the market, but not very many for Apple Mac. Which is quite astonishing, considering How many news agencies use Mac's in the workplace. well this tip came thanks to Jemima Kiss from the UK Guardian newspaper, over her twitter feed http://twitter.com/jemimakiss.
It is for a program called Newsfire http://www.newsfirerss.com/ and as long as there's a RSS feed you can read the website content.
For somebody like me this is a godsend, for the simple reason, I've got too many bookmarks on Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/. So now I have one window and get to see all the relevant news on one window. Refreshes can be individually set for each feed, for example, because you know a particular only gets one refresh a day.
To add a feed you just go to a website with RSS either copy the Address directly out of the Address window, which when you use the plus at the bottom of the feed window, is automatically fed into the search window. Or you can right click on the RSS symbol and use "copy this link" option from the pop down menu.
Like I said there are not many RSS readers, and the bonus is this one is easy to use.
And while on the subject of easy to use. Safari 4, has some quirks which make it anything but easy to use. my to pet peeves are, it is supposed to be crash proof, but just trying to visit the Apple online store, causes a crash. And secondly why is it with my Bookmark Taskbar must I always click the next column of bookmarks to see it. It is very jerky and Untypical Apple that it should be like that. In Firefox I click one column and move my mouse over the rest when I wish to see them. Instead of Safari's click one column, unclick it then click the next, this flows about as much as a sudden stop, or driving straight into a brick wall, and does after a while of trying to surf bookmarks quickly become EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING !!!! I hope that Apple will sort this out to get the fluidity back, which is what one expects from them.
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