This seems silly, as many other apps offer the ability to add / remove stars within a feed listing. You have to open the individual article and then star or un-star it. You cannot add or remove a star on an item within a feed’s listing of items. In fact, there are just about no settings or preferences at all that you can set for the app. There is still no way to choose not to see feeds that do not contain new (unread) items either. This is a feature that strikes me as important to many GReader users, and one that is offered by many other iPhone RSS apps, so I can’t imagine there is any issue with Google Reader that prevents this from being implemented in a more timely manner. That seems more than ample time to me to get round to adding a very basic feature like this one. NetNewsWire for iPhone v 2.0 came out last September, nearly six months ago. NNW still does not allow you to see or sync your GReader Shared Items. Very few crashes and speedy most of the time. The app has been pretty solid performance-wise. I find I often get badly behind on my feeds, so having the ability to just look at what is (relatively) fresh from across the board, before taking on the challenge of catching up on all, is a very welcome feature. I love the Latest News section, which contains only items added within the last 24 hours from across all your feeds. It handles inline video well also, at least when video is formatted in iPad-friendly ways. ![]() The icon for it is very sharp, and the inline browser is excellent and displays individual feed items very well. You can also share news items via email or Twitter, save them to Instapaper, or open them in Safari. This is because NNW does not yet support GReader shared items at all. You’ll notice there is not a Shared Items section listed above. I prefer all of mine in just one bucket, so all are shown just below the Latest News section header. The Feeds listing shows feeds in this order: Starred Items, Latest News, and then feeds by folder – if you have divided your feeds by folders within GReader. It displays well in both portrait and landscape mode – though I much prefer portrait because it lets me see more feeds / items at once in the listing. The view on opening the app defaults to showing the last individual article you were at when you last exited in the main (right-hand) pane, and the Feed list in the left-hand popover area. I have seen it be slow at times, but at least it lets you carry on browsing feeds and doing things while sync is going on. After that first launch, sync is mostly relatively quick. If you have a large-ish number of feeds (I have around 220) it will take a fair while for sync to occur on the first launch of the app. If you want to add or remove individual feeds, you can do do so via NNW’s desktop counterparts (or GReader itself) but not via the iPad app. I just enter my GReader account details, and it sets up sync for me. ![]() I have relied on Google Reader to manage my RSS subscriptions for a long time now, so for me setup of NNW is very easy. I’ve been using it for two weeks now, and have some thoughts on the app in general and how it lives up to its premium reputation and price. It was one of the very first major RSS apps to bring out a full iPad version (at or near launch day) – and I was very keen to give it a try. I’ve used it before on the Mac and the iPhone, and found it capable though at times frustrating. NetNewsWire (NNW) is among the best-known apps in the RSS reader category. Both desktop apps are free / ad-supported. On Windows the sync partner is FeedDemon. On a Mac it syncs with NetNewsWire for Mac. NetNewsWire for iPad is an RSS reader app for the iPad that provides sync with Google Reader and with a full-featured desktop app on Mac and Windows.
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