are the versions you have to look for, respectively.
Similarly, you can also use an older (pre‑2.4) version of Vienna - see here for a list of downloadable versions.Ī nod to those who still use Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: NetNewsWire 2.1.5 and Vienna 2. Although it isn’t developed anymore, it’s stable, free, without ads, and runs smoothly on my Cube (a G4/450MHz machine). The last version supporting Tiger is 3.1.7 (you can download it here). If you’re not interested in syncing your feeds with Google Reader, then in my opinion and experience your best option is to use an older version of NetNewsWire. Another well-known RSS reader which has gone Mac OS X 10.5 or higher is NewsFire. It’s wrong, they won’t even open under Tiger.
If you search for them in other Mac software download websites, you may encounter misleading pieces of information, for example that they require “Mac OS X 10.4 or higher”.
Therefore, it makes sense for me - and for other people who use a similar setup - to worry about Mac OS X 10.4 support in the third-party applications I use.īack to RSS readers, my two favourite ones, NetNewsWire and Vienna have both dropped support for Mac OS X 10.4 in their latest versions (3.2.7 and 2.5.x respectively), and now they require at least Mac OS X 10.5 to run.
I also use it to check a couple of low-traffic email accounts to open additional browser windows in Safari when the browsers I have open on my main MacBook Pro get too crowded to listen to music (I have a separate iTunes library on the Cube entirely dedicated to classical music) and of course to check my Twitter stream and the RSS feeds. With the vintage but still beautiful acrylic 22-inch Cinema Display attached to it, the Cube is perfect for displaying information I want to glance at while I work. I have a few of these Macs in my home network, and they still serve me well, especially the PowerMac G4 Cube at my side. Typically these Macs are old PowerPC G4s which do not support Mac OS X 10.5 or, when they meet the minimum requirements for running Mac OS X 10.5, they do so at the price of poor, disappointing performance.
I know, some people’s reaction may be Who cares about Mac OS X 10.4? Upgrade your Mac, already! It’s not a matter of upgrading: for instance, my main machine is only one year old and fully upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6, but there are many Mac users who have slightly older machines that aren’t obsolete yet and can still perform a lot of other duties. Are there still standalone applications supporting Tiger for RSS feed management? Web: Google Reader, Bloglines, FeedZilla, NewsGator, My Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Browser: Mozilla Firefox.Recently, on Twitter, my friend Brando asked about the state of RSS readers on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.Windows: Newz Crawler, FeedDemon, Awasu.Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer. There are a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time. If you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader, or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader. Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by choosing the relevant RSS feeds below. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.
This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. In order to access the RSS feeds, you need a news reader. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to see when JOC has added new content.