No, I didn’t buy that Creative thingy-ma-bob. I’m talking about my new favorite “piece of software I should have discovered a long time ago instead of making this incredibly long and useless sentence about it.” Its called “NetNewsWire” and it can be downloaded, learned about, and eventually test-driven over at ranchero.com/netnewswire/.

I would love to write a little review about it, But I feel somewhat disinclined considering this is in no way a “new” piece of software. It is however ONE OF THE BEST NEWS READERS FOR ANY PLATFORM EVER! I love my powerbook. I love my desktop PC. I use both pretty regularly. I have always considered my rss news reading and aggregating to be a “Windows” oriented task. I (happily) use FeedDemon (feeddemon.com/feeddemon/) to fulfill my needs. I do, in fact, still use and will always recommend FeedDemon. [There has been some concern in the among FeedDemon users lately since Bradsoft was bought out by NewsGator (No way related to Claria, the Ad/Spyware company behind Gator)] I really do admire the things Nick Bradbury and his people are doing.

However, NetNewsWire takes the FeedDemon idea and premise, and BIG FAT HEAVES IT OVER THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Ok, I may still be under the effect of those “first impression” jitters, but I know good code when I see it. Everyone who owns a Mac and is breathing should check out this piece of software. If you do not own a Mac (shame) or you do hate me (i hate you to) please look into FeedDemon. Both are great products. And if you do not know what news reading, rss, xml or even the concept of aggregation is, please feel free to bang your head against the nearest desk then go here: wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS.