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Tickershock - A non-standard RSS reader
Authored by: leenoble_uk on Oct 27, '04 11:46:13AM

I use NNW Lite and I NEVER look at the main window. I find it a pain having to keep moving up to the toolbar to mark headlines as read and then back down to the sources to choose the next site.
What I do use is the contextual menu in the dock. I only need click on the dock icon when I can see there are new headlines to read. I quickly scan the list from top to bottom selecting those I want to read which will nicely open up in Safari whether it's in the foreground or not. Then I mark all the rest as read from the dock menu and flick to Safari to read the ones I was interested in closing the tabs as I go.

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NNW
Authored by: taran on Oct 27, '04 11:56:48AM

I bring the app to the front and use the space bar to go from one article to the next unread article. Each article is marked read as I select it (on rare occassions this is annoying, but almost always how I want it). Manually changing sources and articles is done with the arrow keys. My hands never leave the keyboard.



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NNW vs. TickerShock
Authored by: tjarrett on Oct 27, '04 01:41:22PM

I have been using NetNewsWire since its first release. I am currently subscribed to 272 syndication feeds. There may be a causal relationship between these two statements.

Seriously, NNW makes it possible and easy to subscribe to and read large numbers of feeds in a way that I haven't seen with any other newsreader on any platform. This is where a tool like TickerShock would fall down for me. I think it would probably take more than an hour (my default refresh) to get through all the headlines that I would want to read, in a speed that would allow me to read them. Plus context is important--if I read a headline, I may interpret it differently if it's from a blog than if it's in the New York Times.



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NNW vs. TickerShock
Authored by: robg on Oct 27, '04 02:37:02PM

Clearly this wouldn't work for you :).

For me, on a 'good' day, I'd bet I read maybe 15 news articles...

-rob.



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