Free news reader for the Mac that is actually decent: NetNews Lite available via:
http://ranchero.com/software/netnewswire/ It gives you news headlines and a capsule summary of the story. If you want to read more, click on the provided story link and it opens up in your default browser (and yes, it is possible to make Mozilla your default browser in OS-X. -- just check to see that the setting sticks after a restart). The reader pulls info very quickly from sites that have RSS feeds attached to / coming from them (many, many sites that offer news these days actually have RSS feeds -- more than one might guess... Jerry The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
