Netnewswire for my money is almost a perfect app for browsing information quickly and efficiently. It is oddly more maclike than even many of Apple's apps.
Netnewswire has many similarities to Entourage and there are a couple of places where Entourage could improve with some creative cribbing. 1. When Netnewswire is in 3 column view analogous to Entourage's 3 column view scrollbars disappear when they are unneeded replaced by a simple clean line instead of an empty scroll bar well. For those of us with big screens or without too many folders in our folder column, eliminating the scroll bars when they are not needed is not needed would give a cleaner less busy window. In my case I would probably never have to look at scroll bars except with rare very long emails. 2. NetNewsWire allows navigation between panes with the arrow keys. While tabbing between panes is logical, it forces a person to cycle between panes whereas the arrow keys are a natural and logical way to move around the window. 3. When scrolling through a list of unread feed titles NetNewswire never misses marking feeds as read. In Entourage even if 'Mark Message as Read after displaying for 0 Seconds' is set, scrolling too fast skips messages (Mail.app is even worse at this forcing you to release the down arrow after each message to get it marked as read). rg . . . . . . text: http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast image: http://www.mexicanpictures.com/projects
