The information in this article applies to:
How can I read protected LiveJournal feeds?
If you want to subscribe to a protected feed, subscribe to a URL of this form:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/USER/data/rss?auth=digest
Change USER to the user’s name. NetNewsWire will prompt you for username and password when it reads the feed. For more information, see this page on the LiveJournal site.
How can I read password-protected feeds?
If you subscribe to a password-protected feed, NetNewsWire will prompt you for a username and password when it reads the feed. You can optionally store this information in your keychain, so NetNewsWire won’t have to ask in the future.
How can I open tabs in the background in NetNewsWire?
- Choose NetNewsWire > Preferences.
- Click on the Browsing toolbar icon.
- Uncheck the box next to Select new tabs as they are created.
How do I open pages in new tabs in my web browser?
You can tell your web browser how to open links from other applications.
For instance, in Safari’s Preferences window:
- On the Tabs preferences pane, make sure that tabbed browsing is enabled. Also choose whether or not to select new tabs as they are created.
- On the General preferences pane, tell Safari to open links from applications in the current window.
Other browsers have similar preferences.
How do I unsort? I sorted the headlines table, and I can’t get back.
Sorting works this way: click once on a table column to sort. Click again to reverse the sort order. Click a third time to unsort.
You can also choose View > Sort By > Arrival Order to return to default sorting.
Where is the weblog editor?
The weblog editor was moved into MarsEdit—a separate application with many more features than NetNewsWire’s original weblog editor.
We did this in order to make both the newsreader and the weblog editor better, and also to provide choice for NetNewsWire users—you can use other weblog editors with NetNewsWire. See Weblog Editing for more information.
What happened to the Notepad?
The Notepad was removed in NetNewsWire 2.1. More info…
Does NetNewsWire support Atom feeds?
Yes. It even does auto-discovery—when looking for the feed for a site, it may find an Atom feed. NetNewsWire uses whichever feed it finds first. (It doesn’t prefer one format over another.)
Which syndication format is best? When I have a choice, which should I use?
Some people strongly prefer one format to another. Most people don’t care: they just want whatever will work best. Our advice: use either the highest-version-number RSS feed a site makes available or use its Atom feed.
Examples…
- If a site has RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0 feeds, then use the RSS 2.0 feed, since it’s the latest version.
- If a site has Atom and RSS 2.0 feeds, it’s a toss-up. If you lean toward one format, then choose that. Or flip a coin. Or use the eeny-meeny-miney-moe technique.
Does NetNewsWire support gzip compression and conditional GET?
Yes. Choose Window > Show Bandwidth Stats to see statistics for the current session on gzip compression and conditional GET.
Does NetNewsWire support https?
Yes. You can subscribe to an https feed just like any other feed. You may run into situations where NetNewsWire can’t read feeds that use self-signed certificates. There’s a hint on MacOSXHints that explains how to tell the system about self-signed certificates.
