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I ♥ NetNewsWire

I've posted before about my love of NetNewsWire (and if you missed that, note the button on the sidebar there), but now that NNW 2.0 is out (even if it's just a beta for the time being), it's worth mentioning all over again, because it's actually gotten even better.

The list of changes in NetNewsWire 2.0 is pretty extensive, but the whole program has gotten much, much better from top to bottom. Incredibly, one of the things I like most about it is the decision to split the program in two. Whereas before NetNewsWire had a solid, but somewhat limited blog posting component, it's now been spun off into MarsEdit, which is a full-featured (and very, very cool) blog poster. If you already own NNW, MarsEdit is free, but if not, you now have the option to use an external program like BBEdit instead.

MarsEdit has everything I wanted out of NNW's blog posting software -- it now lets you preview the extended versions of posts, you can set it to nag you if you try and post without setting a category, you can even monitor and edit trackbacks from within the program. Plus the preview function's gotten better too.

It's been a while since I posted that list of my favorite OS X apps, and some of the things on that list are a bit out of date. I still use most of those religiously, although with Watson coming to an end in the relatively near future, I've learned to live without it. Also, MenuMaster is my new favorite Haxie of the moment, as it allows me change keyboard shortcuts with just a few key presses. But NetNewsWire just keeps getting better. And while I would have happily paid to upgrade, the fact that all this stuff was free is just icing on the cake. If you own OS X, download it.

Posted by jason at October 4, 2004 09:51 PM | TrackBack | Read more: Apple , Geek Culture