NewsFire is an

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newsreader developed by David Watanabe for

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. It supports

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, RSS, and

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ing. NewsFire features groups, labels, smart groups, search, and integration with

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, Spotlight, and weblog editors. NewsFire can also import and export a

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from and to OPML; however, it cannot import Google Reader OPML at this time due to a known bug. On March 1, 2008, NewsFire became

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, but since the release of NewsFire 2.0 to the Mac AppStore on February 3, 2011, NewsFire is not freeware anymore. NewsFire 1.3 requires Mac OS X v10.4. NewsFire 1.1 was the final version supporting

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Developer's blogMacWorld reviewA Feb. 2008 blog post where Watanabe discusses the Google Reader bug in the comments
* with last freeware version 1.6 v84 MacOS-only software Atom (Web standard) News aggregators Shareware {{network-software-stub

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