[譯]5 Mac OS X RSS Readers Worth Giving a Shot

5 Mac OS X RSS Readers Worth Giving a Shot

 

 

Mac OS X 下5款值得關注的RSS 閱讀工具

 

There was once a time when my favorite RSS reader cost a fair but not insignificant price and the open source alternative wasn’t up-to-snuff. I won’t name any names, though you can probably deduce their identities by ruffling through some articles I wrote before I switched to a decent web-based solution (not all of us are able to resist the tides of trends and time, y’know).

 

 

價格不厚道但又無法用開源軟體來替代的RSS 讀取程式已經成為我的最愛很久了。我不會把它們的名字說出來，但是你們完全可以通過我在換用基於web的解決方案之前寫的文章聯想到它們是誰（不是我們所有人都能拒絕潮流和時間 ）。

 

There are probably a whole lot of RSS readers for the Mac; I haven’t tried them all and I won’t claim too. In fact, I’ve only tried a few of the most popular. I’m not the kind of person to spend countless days and weeks trying out new applications. I like to find something that works well, lets me get my job done the quickest, and get on with life. In my opinion if you want to be a productive person, that’s a habit you should also develop — too many so-called “personal productivity enthusiasts” spend half their time looking for new software. Unless reviewing the stuff is your job, there’s no sense in spending more than a small amount of your time doing this. That is what articles like this are for.

 

可能有很多的RSS 讀取程式支援Mac；我不想也不主張把它們挨個試一試。事實上，我只嘗試過其中少數比較流行的。我不是那種用幾天甚至幾周來體驗新軟體的人。我樂於找到一些實用的，使用快捷的，這是一種你也值得試試的好習慣－很多所謂的“效率狂人”浪費他們一半的時間來找新軟體。除非歸類檢查是你的工作，否則用把富貴時間浪費在這事兒上沒啥意義。這就是這篇文章的宗旨。

NewsFire

NewsFire has been around for quite some time. It’s a free download from the NewsFire website. NewsFire sports a very simple two-pane view, with feeds on the left and feed items on the right. That said, it’s attractive and easy to read from. It doesn’t make use of tiny fonts by default like one or two readers I’ve used in the past. Search is fast and will run your query through every feed you’re subscribed to pretty much instantly.

NewsFire已經面世很長時間了。它可以在這裡免費下載。NewsFire有一個準備簡潔動感的兩欄視圖，左側是源列表，右側是源內容。可以說，他易於讓人們用來閱讀。就像我曾用過的一兩款閱讀器一樣，它不預設使用小字型。搜尋很快，而且查詢你所有的訂閱也是速度飛快。

 

 

If you’re a chronic sorter, then you might find NewsFire falls a little short. You can create smart folders, but you can’t use labels or tags to organize certain items or feeds. Its organization features are good enough for most users. Where it falls down for me the most is the lack of synchronization.

 
如果你是細看一下，你會發現NewsFire有些缺點，你可以建立智慧資料夾，但是你不用標籤或標記來組織某些項或源。其實它的組織特點對大多數人來說已經足夠了。對我來說他致命的缺點是同步的太慢。

 

Shrook

Shrook is an interesting application. It’s free, but the look and feel of the application is — to my eyes — very dated. I found the website to be much the same. Evidently Shrook’s founders are function over form types (like all programmers, right?). Looks aside, it has some really interesting features. Instead of setting up smart folders based on keywords, Shrook will use Bayesian statistical filtering to pick out items of interest, and you teach it by picking out examples. It’s a learning RSS reader. It also uses a Distributed Checking mechanism to keep you as up-to-date as possible with new feed items; when one copy of Shrook checks a feed and find new items, it broadcasts the presence of a new unread item to other copies of the application around the world.

 

 

Shrook 是一個很有趣的程式。它是免費的，但是它給人看起來的感覺——在我看來——太過時了。我發現它的網站也是一樣。顯然Shrook的創始人認為功能比外表重要（就像所有的程式員一樣，對吧？）另外，他也真有一些有趣的功能。代替了用鍵盤來設定智慧資料夾，Shrook使用貝葉斯統計學方法來過濾並挑選出你感興趣的東西，而且你可以通過拿出一些例子來教它。它是不斷學習的RSS閱讀器。它還使用分布式的檢查機制，來讓你的源可以隨時得到更新 ; 當一份 Shrook檢查一個源並找到了更新的時候，它會把這個未讀項廣播給世界上期貨使用它的人。

 

 

Shrook features synchronization by way of Shrook.com, a web-based version of the reader that will sync with copies of the app on various computers.

 

 

Shrook的同步功能源於Shrook.com,是一種基於web，將副本同步給各種電腦的閱讀器。

 

 

NetNewsWire

Maybe you don’t need to go checking my ancient articles after all. Before I moved to Google Reader, I was a NetNewsWire user. I was happy to pay for the software because it’s great. I can still get through all my feeds in NetNewsWire faster than any other reader, including Google Reader. NetNewsWire is now completely free, so there’s no obstacle to trying it out — just go here. NetNewsWire features a variety of views, a bunch of keyboard controls that don’t require contortionist acts and let you fly right through your feeds, detects microformats allowing you to quickly add data to iCal or Address Book, and has a tabbed browser right inside. All very cool.

 

 

也許你不過去查我過去的文章了。在投奔Google Reader 之前，我是一個NetNewsWire使用者。我樂於付錢，因為它很帥。超過包括Google Reader在內的所有其他閱讀器，我可以用NetNewsWire飛速的瀏覽我所有的源。NetNewsWire 現在已經完全免費了，所以嘗試它已經沒有任何障礙啦——點這裡嘗試。NetNewsWire 具有多種視圖，不用費勁研究，你就能用一堆快速鍵來飛快的來回切換於眾多的源中，你可以用縮圖快速的添加資訊到日曆或者通訊錄上，還支援標籤瀏覽。這一切都太帥啦。

 

 

 

Additionally, NetNewsWire’s owners Newsgator own a web-based reader, a Windows reader and there’s a version of NNW for the iPhone. The web-based reader acts as a synchronization server. If you want synchronization between just about every device you’ve got, try this app.

 

 

此外，NetNewsWire的主人Newsgator還有一款基本web的閱讀器，支援windows並且還有支援iPhone的NNW版本。基本web的閱讀器就像一個同步伺服器。如果你要讓你所有裝置同步，試試這個軟體吧。

 

Vienna

 

Vienna is the only open source reader on this list, and as far as I know the only open source RSS reader for the Mac that’s currently worth looking at.

 

 

Vienna是這些中唯一開放原始碼的閱讀器，而且是我所知道的開源閱讀器中唯一值得關注的一款。

 

These days, Vienna looks a fair bit nicer than when I used it for a good six months a few years back. I haven’t been able to stress-test it though, but in times past it really suffered under a heavy load and got quite slow. Vienna’s got a nice quick filtering bar on launch that enables speedy research and trend monitoring, blogging app integration, and a bunch of helpful but pretty standard features. It has certainly come a long way over time.

 

 

這些天來，Vienna看起來比前幾年我一直用了它6個月那時候漂亮了一點。我不得不強調的是，原來那時候它載入很多東西並且擷取非常緩慢。Vienna在快速搜尋上也有一個很不錯的過濾工具條，整合部落格，很多有協助的準系統。它未來很有很長的路要走。

 

Google Reader

 

Google Reader is a good web-based feed reader, though not without its quirks (sometimes I’ve seen duplicate items I’ve already read in the All items view, and sometimes things just get stuck and items won’t get marked as read). You can separate your feeds into folders, though creating and maintaining them is tedious. When Google Reader isn’t being a pain, it’s great being able to fly through your feeds with just your scroll wheel — items are marked as read as you scroll past them — but more often than not this doesn’t work out. Sounds like an awfully negative review for the reader I’m actively using right now, eh? I suppose it’s all about convenience.

 

 

Google Reader 是一款優秀的基於web的源閱讀器，但還有一些問題（有時我會看到我已經讀過的重複的項還在全部視圖中，還有時會卡住或不能設定已讀）。你可以分開把你的源放到檔案夾中，儘管如此建立並保持它們也是很無聊的。當Google Reader不是一種痛苦，你只用滾輪就能穿梭在你的源中——你瀏覽過它們時，項目會自動被標為已讀——重要的是你不用做任何的動作。聽起來這對我正用著的閱讀器是個消極的評價，哦？我認為它這都是為了方便。

 

 

 

But it is good. It does work well and the bugs aren’t serious enough to be worried about. It’s the only reader I’ve used that has a social aspect — you can share items, and if you’ve conversed with someone via Gmail you’ll see their shared items too. It features a Trends screen that lets you peruse your readership statistics, but no smart foldering or statistical sorting as yet. The Trends screen lets me know that my most frequently checked feeds are those pertaining to the forums or blog at the sites I manage and edit, which I’m sure will be happy news for my employers if they’re reading this.

 

 

但是它很優秀。它工作的足夠好，而且BUG也遠遠沒嚴重到讓人擔心的程度。它是我可以用於社交方面唯一的閱讀器——你可以共用項目，而且如果你也可以看到與你Gmail交談過的人的共用項目。它有一個走勢圖來統計統計你的閱讀數字，但是目前為止還沒有歸類和排序的功能。走勢圖讓我們知道我們最關注的源是哪些網站中的哪些論壇或部落格，我確信如果他們也可以讀到這些，對我的僱員來說是個好訊息。

 

 

I’ve been a bit unfair by throwing Google Reader into the mix; it’s not fair on the desktop applications to be compared to a web service and it’s not fair on a web service to be compared to desktop apps. I use Google Reader myself these days, so it gets my vote, but it was a long and hard struggle to give up the comfort of a good desktop app. For that reason I’d have to call a tie between Google Reader and NetNewsWire, which is the best of the list in my opinion — especially now that it’s free.

 

 

我覺得把Google放到這篇文章有點不公平;與一種網路服務做比較，對傳統型應用程式不公平;同時與傳統型應用程式做比較，對網路服務來說也不公司。我自己用了Google Reader一些天，所以我投了它一票，但是它在舒適度方面長久以來都與傳統型程式存在很嚴重的爭議。基於這個原因，我只能將Google Reader與NetNewsWire並列，他們都是我認為最好的——特別是他們現在都免費。

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玉米寄語：沒想到翻譯文章這麼難，哇，不行了翻譯完自己重讀一遍的信心都沒了，這篇短文我用了2.5小時才翻譯完，還大量的使用了google translate ……排完版已經過去了3個小時。上帝啊，看來我差的太遠了，不過不影響 ，我會堅持的！