News Explorer 1.8.8

News Explorer is a full-featured yet easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom and Twitter newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

FULL ICLOUD SYNC

• News Explorer syncs your RSS, JSON, Atom and Twitter subscriptions, folder setup, news items, read statuses and favorites across all your Apple devices.
• Synchronisation is based on iCloud, so there is no need to login or to sign up into any other service, it just works out of the box.
• Builtin high speed RSS and Atom engine.
• Supports Twitter user and hashtags timelines.
• Enhanced support for YouTube feeds.
• Supports Podcast RSS feeds.

PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE

• Clean, stylish and distractionfree user interface.
• Article list with thumbnails, adjustable in size and alignment.
• Builtin browser for viewing inline links and other references.
• Themes, adaptable to your taste and mood.
• Font of the news article body and header are adjustable.

STREAMLINED READING

• Smart filters
• Read your news offline.
• Use Reader view to download and read the full version of articles in a clean and easytoread format.
• Mark items as favorite for later reading.
• Navigate with one click to the original content.
• Reply, retweet and like tweets in Twitter feeds without leaving the app.
• Timeline view shows your news items in an attractive newspaperlike way.
• Full text search.
• Full keyboard navigation.
• Builtin image viewer to browse through all images of news items.
• Full window YouTube videos
• Builtin support to share news items with Instapaper and Pocket.
• Share news items via email, Messages, Twitter, Facebook and other sharing services.

EASY CONFIGURATION

• Add new RSS, Atom, JSON, Podcast and YouTube feeds directly from Safari, using the ‘Add to News Explorer’ share extension.
• Add RSS and Twitter feeds via the builtin search form.
• Support to add manually RSS, Atom, JSON and Twitter feeds.
• Feed extension support let you open RSS news feed URL’s.
• Group your subscriptions by using folders.
• Rename and reorder folders and subscriptions, using draganddrop.
• OPML import and export.
• Feed manager let you manage the feeds that should be displayed in the Notification Center.

USABILITY FEATURES

• Assign keyboard shortcuts to sharing services, including Instapaper and Pocket.
• Simply hit the spacebar to open the next article or to scroll the article when needed.
• Global filters let you filter all subscriptions and related news on unread items and favorites.
• Support for enhanced arrow key navigation with auto expand and collapse of the sidebar and the builtin browser.
• With full Touch Bar support you have quick access to all essential functions.
• App icon badge with unread items count.

STATE OF THE ART

• Supports RSS 2.0, RDF, JSON Feed, ATOM and Twitter news feeds
• Supports feeds with Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication.
• iCloud sync based on CloudKit
• Touch Bar
• Spotlight Search
• Handoff, pick up where you left off
• Notifications with images
• Retina support

MULTI-PLATFORM

You only need to buy two apps to cover all Apple platforms:

• News Explorer for Mac is available on the Mac App Store.
• News Explorer for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV is a universal purchase app, available on the App Store of the mentioned devices. Universal purchase allows you to purchase News Explorer once, and then access it on all connected platforms.

Compatibility: macOS 10.12.2 or later 64 bit

Web Site: https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html
Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/news-explorer/id1032670789?mt=12

What’s New in News Explorer 1.8.8

• Behaviors preferences tab with lots of new useful settings
• Articles are now also searchable via Spotlight Search
• Strongly improved sidebar, with unread badges on folder level
• Sharper text in the inapp browser thanks to subpixel antialiasing
• Implemented Next and Previous menu items for articles, with short cuts J and K
• The feed icon can now be adjusted via feed context menu
• Inapp browser options like private inapp browsing
• Option to delete the inapp browser cache
• Support for opening YouTube video’s full window, in all feeds
• Support for the system sidebar icon size setting
• Option to cancel syncing when the apps is terminating
• Option to automatically limit ui updates during sync, based on CPU usage
• Option to block updates during feed downloads
• Option not to automatically focus the viewer when using the Enter key
• Timeline items can be opened with the spacebar, or with shift + spacebar, to open the Reader view
• Added a Folder Manager, accessible via the Window menu

IMPROVED

• Support for opening bookmark links
• Improved resizing of the article list
• Enhanced correction of incorrectly encoded feeds
• Added support for feeds with dates with two digits year numbers
• Extended support for RDF feeds
• Feeds with too many white spaces in URLs are now also supported
• An activity indicator is now visible during the rendering of the Reader view
• Improved persistence of the last selected folder in the Add new feed dialog

TWEAKED

• Feeds are now downloaded in order of type and last publication date
• Simplified the Mark as Read and Mark as Favorite context menus
• Handling of key presses in the inapp web browser has been extended, to prevent problems with input controls
• When there are more than 10 operations during closing of the app, the sync is canceled
• Animated change of global content filter
• Updated Readability engine
• Images in article viewer are now only using 100% width when the image is large enough
• Improved twitter setting, it shows now the correct status, even when there is no any twitter feed defined
• Removed support for force touch in the articles list and Timeline view
• Share menu will now try to share the current presented URL

FIXED

• Fixed a printing issue which resulted sometimes in an empty output
• Solved a crash when exporting to PDF via the print dialog
• Fixed the ‘Download replies’ Twitter setting

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