NewsGator Turns NetNewsWire Into a Freeware Application

I have seen a lot of programs turning from freeware to commercial ones, but only a few times I saw this happening the other way around, and since we're not talking about just "another program", my joy is even greater, because I have to tell you that one of the highly acclaimed RSS readers for Mac turned from commercial to freeware, its name being NetNewsWire!


When it appeared in July, 2002, NetNewsWire was one of the first desktop RSS readers on any platform, and since then, it was released as a shareware program with a 30 days demo period, and a free to use "Lite" edition. Version 3.0, released in June, 2007, was still distributed this way, but version 3.1, announced yesterday, is available free of any charge, and comes with free synchronization capabilities with various news services.

Last version of this program updates the UI with new toolbar icons, improves performance and memory consumption and, most important of all, comes with a new HTML Archive feature, which allows you to save news items as HTML files on disk.

Using a three pane interface similar to Apple's Mail client, NetNewsWire features an improved combined view, synchronized clippings, automatic updates, smart news lists and more. To download it, simply click here.