rstevens ([info]rstevens) wrote,
@ 2008-05-03 20:44:00
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for the mac-using RSS fans out there
Found via Daring Fireball- Times is really quite a remarkable new form of RSS reader. It's kind of a cross between a Web 2.0 site and a paper newspaper. Elegant and fancy at the same time. Currently testing to see how perfectly I can configure it.

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[info]toonhead_npl
2008-05-04 01:19 am UTC (link)
Did you give NetNewsWire a try before? I love it. And now it's free.

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[info]rstevens
2008-05-04 01:53 am UTC (link)
NNW is a wonderful app, but I never quite got into it. I use Apple Mail RSS for a few things, LJ for some comics, still check most sites at random in a browser.

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[info]threeboy
2008-05-04 01:43 am UTC (link)
I kinda like the email approach to RSS - I don't miss anything that way :D

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[info]plaidrabbit75
2008-05-04 03:41 pm UTC (link)
Have you found any way to get the thing to let you re-arrange how the page is laid out? I was really looking forward to being able to have all the webcomics I read displayed just like they would look on a newspaper page, but it looks like you're locked into the three-area standard layout they've got. Neat idea, but its not looking like its going to replace NNW anytime (for me, anyway) until they fix that part. Nevermind that NNW is...well, free, and this is going to cost me $30 (ouch.)

I'm still kicking the tires on it, though.

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[info]rstevens
2008-05-04 04:49 pm UTC (link)
Hit the little pencil icon on the top right and edit mode WILL BE EN-ABLED.

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[info]plaidrabbit75
2008-05-04 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Okay, perhaps I wasn't clear enough - or this doesn't exist in the program. I would like to re-arrange the way things look - not just their content, or where that content is located. I don't like that the top left quadrant is only able to be made a quarter of the page or less - I like that particular layout, and would like it to be the entire left hand column. Or, I'd like there to be four vertical columns, like on a newspaper page.

Or, I'd like to be able to determine what's displayed - for example, some of the RSS feeds on comics are simple links to let you know they've updated. Some, like yours, show the actual picture. For those, I'd like to arrange it so they show the strip, and for the links, I'd like those to be in a sidebar.

It doesn't look like you can do any of these things, and they seem like they would have to be (I assume, not being a programmer) easy to implement. If the whole idea of the program is that its supposed to act and look like a newspaper, its not really all that newspaper-y.

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[info]ctakahara
2008-05-05 12:00 pm UTC (link)
Any word on how it handles boatloads of feeds? Like upwards of 100-150 feeds? I would think the layout would just get kind of stupid.

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