![]() He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. A lifetime one-time unlock option is also available for $39.99. A monthly payment of $1.99 is offered, while those paying annually pay just $9.99. The premium features are behind three different payment options. Support the development: your purchase supports the continued development of ReadKit.Upcoming new features: access to all upcoming premium features.Import and export OPML: import and export of feed subscriptions via OPML.Themes and app icons: unlocks all themes and allows you to select a custom application icon.Image cache: caches images from articles for offline reading.Reader mode: displays the full text of article, even if it's not included in the feed source.Manage folders and tags: allows to organize feeds and read-later articles into folders or tags.Unlimited feeds: unlocks the limit of 20 feed for the built-in RSS service.Allows you to save articles from RSS feeds to read-later accounts. The Best Free Feed Readers for Windows, Mac and Linux RSSOwl Probably the most popular downloadable free open source RSS reader, nice clean interface. Multiple accounts: use it with two or more accounts at the same time.See the local time in different time zones around the world or set an alarm that plays a custom alert at a specific time. Universal purchase: all premium features are available on both iOS and macOS with a single purchase. The Clock app you know and love from iPhone and iPad is now on Mac.(Note that this is a system-wide setting, but other browsers may not use it Firefox has its own way of setting up such apps, for example. In the New RSS Feed window that pops up, enter the feed address of the website or blog that you want to follow, then click Add. Sure enough, when I now click on an RSS link, Safari asks if I want to open it in News Explorer, and all is well! ![]() I went into the URI Schemes tab, added an entry for ‘feed’, and set that to point to NewsExplorer.Immediately appealing due to its open source nature, NetNewsWire is both fast and free. Having always been at the forefront of RSS reader apps for macOS, Reeder 5 is a standout option for RSS. I went into the Internet tab and changed the RSS setting to point to NewsExplorer, and then 5 of the Best RSS Reader Apps for macOS 1.It then appears at the bottom of System Preferences, and in my case: Otherwise, you can install it following instructions on the site. If you have Homebrew installed, you can get it easily withīrew install -cask swiftdefaultappsprefpane It’s written in the Swift language, and so is called SwiftDefaultApps. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in recent MacOS versions due to changes in the support for Objective-C - the language in which it was written.Īll of which is background information to the fact that Gregorio Litenstein has created a handy new Preference pane that allows you to change these mappings. Well, there used to be a utility called RCDefaultApp, and if you search for solutions to this problem, you’ll find many references to it. So how could I tell Safari (and the Mac more generally) that I now wanted RSS and Atom feeds to be handled by a different app? It’s not exposed in the settings of Safari, and not available in System Preferences. At some point in the past, I must have registered Reeder as my default news feed app, though I can’t remember whether the app did it directly or whether I used the facilities in earlier versions of MacOS or a third-party app to make the association. In my case, it starts up ‘Reeder’ a fine app, but not one I currently use, having switched to News Explorer a few years back. On the Mac, it’s pretty easy to change the default browser, the default email program, and the app that gets fired up when you double-click on a particular file type in the Finder.īut when you’re in Safari and you click on a link to an RSS Feed, what happens then? This is one of those ‘in case you’re Googling for it’ posts.
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