NewsFire RSS reader now free on the Mac

I regularly visit tons of Web sites every day for the latest software updates, blog page posts about cool gadgets, and other news sites. But of clicking through bookmarks in my Web Browser instead, I like the ease and convenience of a RSS reader. I put together a collection of RSS readers for Windows recently, but I just found out only a few days ago the developer of one of the best RSS readers for Mac decided to release its product for free. Once you've set up your feed list, getting the news is extremely easy NewsFire is a full-featured RSS reader with an easy-to-use interface so you can get your news just how you want it. Simply hit the " " key in the lower left of the NewsFire interface and type in the address of your chosen news site. NewsFire will quickly scan the site for a feed link and add it to your list. Once you have all of your preferred sites listed, hit Shift-Command-R to refresh all NewsFire and feeds will gather all the latest stories and posts for you. Now when you want to read the latest news, all you have to do is launch NewsFire and click through the sites on the left to bring up all the available stories on the right. What could be easier? Look under Open Web Browser to switch the browser window behavior. My one complaint about NewsFire is a tiny one, but it's easily fixed. When you click on a news story, the page is launched in your default browser behind the NewsFire window. Ideally a newsreader will offers its own window to display stories without leaving the interface, but the way NewsFire launches in the background is not my idea of intuitive. To make it launch the browser window on top of NewsFire when you click on the link, go into the NewsFire preferences, click on the Interaction tab, and click the radio button below the section Open Web Browser, which reads "In front of the NewsFire Window." After setting this up, once you discover a whole story you want to read, clicking the link will bring you right to the article.