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Great quote from the developer of the fantastic NetNewsWire.

A third thing is that, at heart, I’m an extreme minimalist. An anti-pack-rat. NetNewsWire has a bunch of features, yes, no doubt — but were I not compelled by my temperament to prune and cut and simplify obsessively, it would be, well, a very different app.

I was using it before Google Reader got so good. Now don’t get me wrong, NetNewsWire still beats the pants of any other news reader I tested, including Google Reader. My personal problem is that Google Reader spoiled me into the habit of reading news whenever, wherever and on whatever. And although I have tried many many times, I can’t get used to its online syncing buddy, Newsgator Online.

BRENT: As a NetNewsWire user, my favorite feature is a very simple thing — the way the space bar works. I can read all my news just by hitting the space bar. (For those who don’t know: the space bar scrolls the current news item. If there’s nothing more to scroll, it goes to the next unread item.)

Mine too! And that’s why I don’t like Newsgator Online. With Google Reader, it’s j-j-j all the way to the bottom. Just like the spacebar in NetNewsWire. Last time I tried Newsgator Online it still required marking articles as read, either one by one or per page.

But I’m ready to give it another shot.

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