NetNewsWire is the one of the feed readers of choice for us MacUser bloggers, so it’s always nice to see an update to this fantastic program. The latest version is the 3.0d46 developer release. This first public release of the pre-beta version of NetNewsWire 3.0 is still very unstable and incomplete. But, it does offer some very attractive new features. These include Spotlight indexing of news items, feed “thumbnails,” tab previews (like in OmniWeb), full Growl support, and a new combined view. I briefly tried out the new version, and it looks very cool, but is still nowhere near ready for me to depend upon for day-to-day use. With that said, try out NetNewsWire 3.0 if you dare, but just make sure to back up first.
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It's perfectly stable for me, and good enough to have become my full-time RSS reader, replacing Vienna.
I'm typing this comment inside the beta, and it's been really great since yesterday. No data loss, no crashes, no bugs. Just a plug-in incompatibility with 1Passwd, which I don't need anyway.
I especially like the visual tabs and the new toolbar icons. The "Feed Artwork" is pretty nice too. A very positive experience for me. For now, the beta is my day-to-day reader.