I was amazed at the interface and reliability of Newsfire about 2 years ago. Now, the product is starting to show its age and the lack of feature additions in the updates doesn’t help matters. So, as of late, I have been on the lookout for a new RSS reader. I gave Newslife a spin back in the beta days and wasn’t too impressed. However, the 1.0 release shaped up to be a big affair and I’ll be taking another look at this software shortly. From the press release:

ThinkMac Software is excited to announce the immediate release of NewsLife 1.0. NewsLife is a super easy to use RSS news aggregator for Mac OS X.

NewsLife is a shareware product priced at €12 ($16) and is available to buy from our website. NewsLife requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and is a universal binary.

Product Overview

NewsLife’s simple interface, composed of three panes, is intuitive and easy to use. The source list lets you organise your feeds however you want. The content area presents each article to you complete with thumbnails, quick navigation links and more. The side bar contains useful features like a search field, quick view buttons, filtering controls and the news bin, which acts as a scrapbook for any articles you have dragged into it — allowing you to quickly email these items, Digg them, post them to your weblog editor or have them read aloud by your Mac.

Simplicity

ThinkMac has been developing RSS solutions for the Mac since 2002. Macworld UK awarded 4 stars to our NewsMac Pro software, and our photo gallery program, InstantGallery, earned 5 stars and a Choice award from MacFormat magazine.

Our customers have taught us that they want a program that does what it’s supposed to do, and doesn’t try and be all things to all people. Our users already have great web browsers and media players – they don’t want their RSS reader to try and usurp them. We designed NewsLife to be their companion, an application that fits into your existing Internet workflow – your “news life”.

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