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I'm really liking NNW after a little over a week of use. The sync with newsgator.com works perfectly, which means that I can read my RSS feeds anywhere and not have to see the same ones again when my newsreader downloads them. Even better---there's a version of NNW for my BlackBerry. While it doesn't work as smoothly as NNW on my laptop, it works well enough for me to read my feeds wherever I am with my BlackBerry. My only gripe with the mobile version is that the unread list doesn't update itself automatically, although the individual threads automatically get marked as read when I read them.

Minor things on my wish list for NNW:

* Being able to flag and item or mark it unread by simply clicking on the flag or read status in the thread window (which can be done when using the Vienna RSS reader)
* For some reason, when I post to this blog and then refresh my subscriptions, I don't see my post in NNW. It comes much later, presumably at least 30 minutes later (the earliest NNW will automatically refresh itself) for some reason

Neither of these are major issues, just nice to have for a future release. So NNW has replaced Vienna as my default newsreader for now. I still keep Vienna handy only to get the URL of something I just posted, since it won't show up in NNW for awhile.

Posted: Sat - January 19, 2008 at 05:23 PM          

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