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I’ve been using NetNewsWire for about 3 weeks now. I’m still enjoying the speed advantage that a desktop RSS reader gives you over its online brethren. However, I was recently at a friends house and got the itch to feed my RSS addiction but had no way to read my precious news! I still had my Google Reader account, but it was missing all the feeds that I subscribed to in the last 3 weeks, and worst of all the unread counts were through the roof :(

I have been putting off trying to get NetNewsWire to sync with NewsGator for quite a while now. Mainly because setting up syncing often turns into a headache. But, finally my addiction overcame me.

I was surprised at how simple setting this up turned out. In the matter of 5 minutes I was reading all my NetNewsWire subscriptions online with NewsGator.

I started out by signing up for a free NewsGator account. This didn’t take long and was hassle free. Next I opened NetNewsWire and went to the Preferences ( Keystroke: Apple+, ). I selected the syncing page followed by the “Account ” button. I clicked the check box that says Sync using NewsGator and then entered my username and password that I signed up to NewsGator with. That’s it! I clicked the “Sync Now” button and was good to go.

I’ve had about an hour or two experience with NewsGator and it seems to be working well so far. I’ve only thought of one feature that I’d like added to NewsGator (maybe its there, I just can’t find it). Normally I have NetNewsWire setup to sort my feeds by the unread item count. This is nowhere to be found in NewsGator :( Other than that I’m pretty impressed at how quick and easy it was to get this up and running. I can’t wait to give NewsGator a real test next time I venture off without my own computer.

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