NewsGator shares details on upcoming NetNewsWire 3.2, 4.0
May 5th, 2008 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |(Via Ars Technica.)
Brent Simmons of NewsGator gave Ars the scoop about some interesting updates on the way for NetNewsWire, the company’s premiere RSS reader for Mac OS X.
In January NewsGator announced that all of its consumer products, including NetNewsWire, were going free. NetNewsWire 3.1 was released that same month, but Brent isn’t one to let a version sit for very long. Citing NewsGator’s new focus on “[taming] the information overload problem,” Brent is working on NetNewsWire 3.2 and 4.0 almost in tandem, with a decent set of changes and new features already lined up for both.
In NetNewsWire 3.2, Brent has rewritten the RSS parser he’s been using more or less since NetNewsWire’s debut in 2002 (yep, NNW was slinging RSS before you learned the meaning of the phrase “feed syndication”). This and other fixes should let NetNewsWire 3.2 consume one-third the memory, especially for heavy feed users who can’t stop clicking “subscribe.” Brent said he’s shooting for a July release date, possibly sooner, but we aren’t allowed to hold him to that.
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