Day: July 15, 2003

Now it’s time to figure out how to effectively use two computers together, for everything from email to blogging to music to photos. It may be time to dig beneath the OS X covers (uh oh), since Unix plumbing is intended for this kind of usage. Any sites with compelling details of how to successfully integrate two Macs?

Over at About.com, Heinz rates his top 10 Windows News Aggregators. I didn’t read carefully enough, so I was looking for NetNewsWire, and was disappointed/surprised. Of course, NNW is only for MacOS, so it didn’t make the list.

I haven’t tried more than three on MacOS X.

1. NetNewsWire – Written as if the developer was watching how people consume information, and understood that every extra keystroke (and I do mean keystroke) is cause for frustration. Slick, slick, slick.
2. NetNewsWire Lite – Honestly, I used NNW Lite for months and months, and the only reason I upgraded to NNW was to show my gratitude for NNW Lite. I rarely use the blogging parts of NNW, and I haven’t found myself using any of the extra features of NNW.
3. Radio Userland – I used it briefly for RSS feeds, and I still use it for blogging (pretty happily), but the web browser interface isn’t fast enough for volumes of information.
4. All the others that I haven’t tried… and I’ve barely heard of (iBlog?).

Point being, everyone on MacOS X that I can think of uses NNW or NNW Lite. Please point me to worthy competitors, because I don’t know them. Doesn’t mean I’ll have time to try them, because I’ll be flipping through my 53 subscriptions in NNW (and I think that’s a low number from what I’m reading elsewhere).