Mac OS X news Freebies List

Description: A drag and drop application to post a folder or folders of files to specified newgroups using Thoth or MT-Newswatcher. Set your newgroup, news server, personality, and other options, and away you go.What's new in this version:Maximum part size increased to 10,000 for use with MT-NW.Links updated for new WBC web site.

Keywords: application folders server folder files news site 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 470 kb; Updated: 2008-08-26

Description: Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a booming technology for sharing information on the web. Popular news sites like Yahoo!, BBC News, The New York Times, CNET and Wired, along with tens of thousands of personal blogs and independant media sites all publish RSS feeds that you can subscribe to.Naturally, the volume of information being published every second is hard to grasp and keep abreast of. If you had to visit each site and click 'Refresh', you'd never get anything done. Enter NewsFire, which is like a turbocharged bookmark menu for your news sites. NewsFire constantly checks for freshly published news from your list of news feeds and notifies you. There's even some eye-candy involved - NewsFire's list of news feeds is animated just like iChat, so feeds swoop around as news is discovered.There's a variety of RSS readers on Mac OS X, but none offer the style of NewsFire. NewsFire is brimming with Aqua-beauty and a rich, dynamic user experience. The others feel aesthetically unpleasant, bloated, and stuc...

Keywords: information personal bookmark animated media .net news site 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 735 kb; Updated: 2008-07-26

Description: iAlarm is back and ready to compliment or replace your old alarm clock at home or on the go.iAlarm harnesses the power of your mac to wake you you up with your iTunes music, local weather, news podcasts like NPR, custom messages and even an old style beep.The new interface is simple to use, and advanced users can even create their own custom AppleScripts to be executed by iAlarm. Additionally, iAlarm can wake your mac from sleep to sound your alerts in the morning and is compatible with the Apple Remote. You can use the Apple Remote to snooze your alarm from your bed, adjust the volume or skip to the next track.What's new in this version:+ Apple Remote support lets you to snooze your alarm from bed or skip to the next track+ Podcast support to get you up to the minute news and entertainment+ New and improved user interface+ Complete Leopard compatibility+ Alarm presets+ Universal Binary2.03 Fixes three issues1) Crash on startup for users of OS 10.42) ZIP code support for US 5 digit zip codes that begin wi...

Keywords: advanced remote create clock music alarm sound news 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 557 kb; Updated: 2008-03-17

Description: Netscape Navigator 9.0 is a browser-only release. It does not contain an e-mail client, newsgroup reader, or HTML composer. Users of the Netscape 7.x suite may choose not to install Netscape Navigator 9 to avoid the loss of these features. You can have the best of both worlds by keeping Netscape 7.x installed for mail and news and installing Navigator 9 for browsing the Web.What's new in this version:Security fixes included in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 have been included in Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.An add-on has been included in this version to help users migrate to either Flock or FirefoxThe WeatherBug add-on has been removed from this version of Navigator.

Keywords: security browser e-mail client mail html news best 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 17306 kb; Updated: 2008-02-22

Description: NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom news reader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface -- similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express -- can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.CNET Editor's Review:Like any Web news reader, NetNewsWire hardly qualifies as sexy software. But it's hard not to fall for an app that saves you this much time getting your daily news fix. Using a familiar three-pane interface (think Mail or Outlook), NetNewsWire lets you quickly fetch and digest news from thousands of RSS feeds..Read the entire review.What's new in this version:Rolled back the change to folders and Latest News subscription behavior — it triggered a crashing bug. Rolling back the change gets rid of the crashing bug. We’ll revisit this issue in a future release.

Keywords: outlook folders editor mail time .net news easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5734 kb; Updated: 2008-02-07

Description: Shrook 2 is a next-generation news reader that offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. Some aren't available on any platform. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom. And it's all really easy to use, too. Feature highlights included synchronization, full podcast support, smart groups, built-in browser and innovative user-interface.What's new in this version:Numerous bug fixes and tweaks

Keywords: synchronization advanced browser news easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 938 kb; Updated: 2008-01-25

Description: Wired is an open, modern and free version of the BBS-style client/server system, providing chat, messaging and file transfers. Wired Server is a Mac OS X version of the UNIX server, with an easy-to-use System Preferences panel.What's new in this version:Mac OS X 10.5 supportFix a problem with displaying the log file in the preference pane the very first time the server is launchedFix a problem with posting longer news postsFix many problems with the transfer queue system that resulted in erroneous "Queue Limit Exceeded" errorsFix some localization bugs

Keywords: system server client free time news file easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 708 kb; Updated: 2007-12-10

Description: Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OSВ X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.A summary of some of its features:Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts.Simple and intuitive user interface.Built-in tabbed browser.Smart folders for organising related feed articles.Custom article display styles.Full AppleScript support.

Keywords: freeware download browser folders system source news code 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 1638 kb; Updated: 2007-12-03

Description: MiNews is a new RSS-based news aggregator application for Mac OS X. It provides a sortable table of news items, and contains built-in web browsing capability, avoiding the need to open a second application to view news links. It also allows integration with a user's address book to allow news links to be sent to selected users, via built-in email functionality. Feed icons aid quick identification of news sources.

Keywords: address book application address email table icons news book 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3; File size: 2662 kb; Updated: 2007-01-22

Description: BottomFeeder is an RSS and OCS News reader/aggregator.

Keywords: news 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1; File size: 18637 kb; Updated: 2006-11-06