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Shrook 2.5 has been released and is now freeware, actually subscribtion based.

This isn’t a temporary promotion and this isn’t a sign of abandoning Shrook. I just want as many people as possible to be using it, because it is better than NetNewsWire and NewsFire and everything else out there. Shrook fans can now recommend it to their friends without requiring them to spend money.

Tags: Shrook, Mac RSS

The Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use organizer for all your favorite RSS feeds that integrates seamlessly with Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer and simplifies subscribing to and managing web site news feeds.

Each time you refresh your feeds Lektora presents you with only the latest news items, conveniently saving older news items in a daily archive that can be consulted at a later time.

NewsMac Pro 1.2.3 is now available for download. This new release contains a number of bug fixes, and many usability enhancements including a cool new combined headline and channel view layout.

Version 1.2 is a major new update to NewsMac Pro. It includes lots of exciting new features, some of which are listed below.

• Tabbed browsing, searching and channel viewing.
• Improved web browser with built-in Google search.
• Options to automatically open/play certain download/enclosure types.
• Feed groupings in imported OPML files respected.
• New channel directory for adding channels from the built-in selection to your library.
• New demo restrictions - the 30 day limit is gone, but until you register you can’t add more than 10 channels or folders.

The big new feature is Learning Groups, which learn by example. Drag items onto one and it’ll find similar items for you. While they work great for gathering items on the same topic, note that they are only based on keywords. If you create a “Stuff I’m interested in” group and just drag random items onto it, it probably won’t do anything useful.

Shrook is a next-generation news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else.

NewsMac Pro 1.1.1 has been released. This release adds a few new features and fixes a number of issues found in 1.1 and earlier.

• French localisation by Stéphane Carre.
• You can now choose between the new and old style window layouts from the View menu.
• Option to turn off the browser auto resizing feature.
• Option to turn off hiding of the headline summary when switching channels etc.
• Clicking the dock icon reopens in the main window if it has been closed.

Tags: NewsMac

This release fixes all of the major complaints about v2.3.

Shrook is a next-generation news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. Among other things, features online synchronization and notifications to Growl.

NewsMac Pro 1.1 is now available:

• Adaptive interface allows for more efficient workflow.
• New headlines item in the source list.
• Podcast player for playing downloaded podcasts without iTunes.
• New and update headline themes.

NewsMac is a versatile RSS news aggregator with Palm and iPod synchronization.

NewsMac 3.2 has been released featuring the following updates:

• Updated user interface with new icons and Tiger specific improvements.
• New RSS parser which supports RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0.
• Updated Traditional Chinese localisation.

Tags: NewsMac

FireANT is an RSS video aggregator and media player that can automatically download media content for you to watch and listen to.

FireANT lets you subscribe to any RSS 2.0 feed that supports enclosures or Yahoo! Media RSS. FireANT can playback any media format and syncs audio files with iTunes so you can easily add them to your portable MP3 player. FireANT can also transcode and sync video files onto the Sony PSP with a simple Right-Click.

Tags: FireANT, Videoblog, vlog