I’ve been a big fan of NetNewsWire since Steve introduced me to it at Blog Business Summit Seattle last October. It’s a very flexible newsreader and a lot of fun to work with, but there’s one little quirk that sometimes makes me nuts, very occasionally when you cut and paste a link into the “add subscription” window, NetNewsWire can’t find an RSS feed and labels the feed as “Untitled Source.”
When this happens, I use my Safari browser to surf to the site I want to subscribe to and click on the blue “RSS” marker in the far right hand side of the address bar.
I then copy everything after the word “feed” and go back into NetNewsWire. There, I right click on the feed in question and select “Show Info.”
I replace the feed URL that NetNewsWire has derived from the site with the feed URL from Safari. The I right click on the feed again and select “Refresh.”
And presto! Healthy feed.
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