NetNewsWire Tips
I posted a number of NetNewsWire tips on inessential.com recently: some keyboard tips, a Dock menu tip, more keyboard tips, and easy subscribing from within Safari or Chimera and so on using the Services menu.
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Subscribing to a site from within Safari
Posted on my personal site is a two-line AppleScript script that shows how to subscribe in NetNewsWire to the frontmost window in Safari. It should work with slight modification with other browsers.
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Inside WebCore
Dave Hyatt has posted some early drafts of documentation on WebCore, Safari’s rendering code.
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RSSClipboard Suite for REALbasic
The folks at PostalCode have put together REALbasic code that handles the RSS Item and RSS Source clipboard formats used by NetNewsWire and other applications. (For the curious: here’s a write-up on those formats.) This means you could write an app in REALbasic that accepts drags of RSS headlines from NetNewsWire, for instance.
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tar-gzip script for BigCat
Michael Conrad Tilstra has published a bash script for compressing files via the BigCat contextual menu plugin.
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Blosxom for Mac OS X Released
Rael Dornfest released Blosxom for Mac OS X, “the GUIest way to install the Blosxom weblog application on your OS X desktop or laptop.”
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Carbon vs. Cocoa: The Speed Issue
A post at Unsanity.org is bound to stir up the holy wars.

My personal opinion is that Cocoa and Carbon don’t matter that much, it’s apps that matter. Good and bad apps can be written in both. That said, NetNewsWire is a Cocoa app, and I prefer to write in Cocoa.
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Speed Up Your Site
It’s a new book on a subject near to my heart: speed.
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NetNewsWire Press Release
“Ranchero Software proudly announces the release of NetNewsWire 1.0.” Etc.
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NSSchizophrenicControls
The Irate Scotsman rants about UI inconsistency. It’s funny, a must-read. “Meantime, last but certainly not least, I’d like to introduce you to NSSchizophrenicTextFieldAndProgressIndicator, as seen in Safari.”
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NetNewsWire 1.0
Thanks to all the beta testers and folks who’ve helped along the way—NetNewsWire 1.0 is now shipping!

Get it while it’s hot!
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NetNewsWire 1.0fc1
This is the first final candidate release. Changes include a new pref for automatically saving drafts and a fix for a case when unread counts could go wrong. See the change notes for details.
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