Comments on: NewsFire 1.1 beta (v31)

By: Al

Al — Thu, 05 May 2005 01:25:45 +0000

I’ve noticed that audio playback from the podcasts window cuts out when NewsFire is busy checking feeds. This is a minor issue, but I thought I’d mention it.

By: Karl Bolser

Karl Bolser — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:47:21 +0000

I admit it… I’m a freeloader…., but not for long. I usually try software for a quite a while to see if I really like it; is it really what I want? I’ve been using it for “just” news feeds for a few months and I’m ready to pay up just for that, but now I figured out that it handles podcasts as well. This not only gives me my news feeds VERY easily, but also gives me my podcasts as well – 2 functions that are actually so similar that they should be combined in one easy to use product – NewsFire. Don’t get me wrong, there are still enhancements that I would like to see, such as conversion of podcasts to bookmarkable files, but this is the best that I’ve seen for handling either type of feed.

Thanks for some very nice work!

By: Ashley Penney

Ashley Penney — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:19:57 +0000

I wanted to email you, but I’m stupid and couldn’t find an email address.

I just wanted to thank you for NewsFire. I’m a recent mac convert of about four days now, and previously I used a combination of Windows/Linux stuff. I tried several RSS readers but they just seemed to be really clumsy and awkward, and I just gave up on the whole idea.

That was until I tried NewsFire. I downloaded it last night, ran it for about six hours, and registered it this morning, it’s that good. Coming from the Linux world I’m not used to paying for software, so it’s incredibly rare for me to splash out on software.

Thanks again for writing it.

By: Edd

Edd — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:12:15 +0000

I was one of the whiners who emailed to ask for this, it’s only fair that I post to say how much I appreciate it! Good feature well implemented, thanks.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:37:36 +0000

Is there an option to have a smart feed that contains all audio/podcasts? I can’t figure it out.

By: Keegan Jones

Keegan Jones — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:48:28 +0000

This update is really close to getting me to switch from NetNewsWire to NewsFire. One feature that I like about NetNewsWire is the ability to set the genre for the podcast. In iTunes I basically have a smart playlist that shows me all my podcasts, newest on top, so that I can easily get to them on my iPod.

By: Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:39:08 +0000

Superb! A very neat way of dealing with audio content. I know its a difficult balance between features and bloat, but this is most welcome.

Also, I’m not sure if it’s this release or 10.3.9, but it feels much snappier. Before NewsFire was lagging quite a lot.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:37:34 +0000

Good work, this is a nice, slick approach… one request though, could you add an option for playlist with the “add to itunes library”?? i’ll never even see these podcasts if they aren’t in a playlist…

By: Alf Watt

Alf Watt — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:53:21 +0000

Support for Appcasting would also be nice, for other types of enclosures. For e.g. iStumbler’s news feed has the application enclosed as an ‘application/x-tar’. There’s more details at http://www.speirs.org/appcasting/

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:15:25 +0000

What are the odds that we could see some RSS+BitTorrent integration in the future like what you’ve done in 1.1 for podcasting? I currently monitor multiple BitTorrent “podcasts” and have no interest in audio enclosures.