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I’ve been using NetNewsWire as my RSS feed reader for a while … maybe a year or more. Prior to that I’d tried Vienna and another reader (NewsFire, I think). Vienna was OK, and it was free, but then they changed the interface and it got fugly fast, and since I’m a type-A personality and can’t stand applications with ugly interfaces, I bailed (I’ve dropped iGTD in favor of the much-cooler Things for the same reason … I loved it at first, but then the author went tab-crazy, and it looks like a bad dream.). NewsFire was better … but I never could get into it.

So today, as a result of my hard drive failure on my Mac, I’m finding myself having to work in a Windows world. Living without the RSS reader has been interesting. If I hadn’t spent the whole day getting thisyer Vista machine up to speed so I could use it, I would have been more productive, probably. But, on the other hand, I do get ideas for what to blog about from the ninety-six feeds I subscribe to now. Plus, I miss some of the specialty news sources I subscribe to.

A few minutes ago, I remembered something … when I set up NetNewsWire, I had to register for an account at NewsGator. Plus, every time I shut it down it pops up some message to the tune of “We’re saving changes to your NewsGator account …”

Hmmm.

Maybe there is a way I can read my feeds online?

Why yes there is! Sweet!

So now I’ve got my RSS feeds back. This will keep me busy for the next few days while I’m waiting for my new and improved 7200 RPM laptop drive to arrive …

I loved NetNewsWire yesterday. Now I love it even more. If you’re in the market for a RSS reader for the Mac, NetNewsWire is the hot shizzle. Plus, it’s free now, so you don’t have to pay for it like I did … not that it bothers me at all that I paid for it an it’s now free … in fact, I think it’s fantastic!