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Softonic Rating:
Very good:8/10
License:
Evaluation
Added:
December 18, 2006
Updated:
June 12, 2008
Publisher:
Website
File size:
2.2 MB
Downloads:
49
Cyril Roger

“RSS news for everybody”

by Cyril Roger

Newslife is a minimalistic RSS reader with a number of exciting features. We like how the view displays the custom icons for each of your feeds. You can create folders to store feeds around a same topic. The right side of the interface includes a handy search tool and you can quickly view all feeds for the day or all unread ones. Another way of filtering posts is by clicking the source or published date on any post.

The newsbin section is the feature that stands out the most in Newslife. This is where you'll store all notes that you find of interest. Newslife lets you use these notes in a number of ways. You can send them by mail, digg them or post them on del.icio.us. Newslife also allows you to post feed items to your own blog, but you'll need to have an external blog editor like ecto, Feeder, Marsedit or Xjournal installed. Another cool feature is how, using the Mac Text-to-Speech function, you can listen to any note that you've put into your news bin.

We were a bit put off by the small font used in the menus and some buttons, especially in the menu on the right, are for some reason, difficult to press. It's also a bit disappointing that, despite all the advanced features, Newslife does not allow you to toggle feed views that much. On the whole though, Newslife is a solid offline RSS reader with some exciting sharing and organizing tools.

Languages:

English

Limitations:

Nag screen

OS requirements for Newslife:

  • OS: Mac OS X

Minimum requirements:

  • Processor: PPC/Intel MHz
  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Pros
  • News bin
  • Design
  • Good filtering
  • Search tool
Cons
  • Small font
  • Menu buttons sometimes hard to press
  • Can't toggle view
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Newslife Softonic Rating: 8Featured program

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From the publisher of Newslife

Your news life is all the time you spend surfing the web following up on world events, your favorite blogs, checking sports scores and so on. NewsLife lets you take control of this and streamline your web viewing to save your valuable time and make the whole experience more fun and rewarding.

It's pretty simple, NewsLife lets you organise all the websites and blogs you get your daily news fix from just like a list of bookmarks. It then goes off and checks the news feeds of those websites and downloads all the headlines and presents them to you - sans ads and clutter so you can pick what you want to read quickly and easily. You can usually view a summary of each headline - or with some sites you can view the whole story without even having to visit its website - neat!

Most RSS aggregators, as they're known, are aimed at geeks - they're full of features and complexity that either gets in the way or isn't useful to you if you've just got a handfull of blogs you want to keep an eye on. NewsLife has been designed from the ground up to focus on being genuinly easy to use - it doesn't try and replace iTunes or your web browser, it's designed to fit seemlessly into your Internet experience, and to make it better.

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