After the Zinio freebie deal for the iPhone,
there's even mo' better reading available for Mac users.
The NY Times rele
ased the beta version of the Times Reader for the Mac a fe
w days ago. It's a good standalone offline reader, and I get mileage out of it
on the occasions when that sneaky wifi signal is hiding from me. I can now just
read the newspaper, so to speak.
The Times Reader is an app that runs well on its own without t
he help of a browser, downloading and formatting the day's issue in a clickable
faux newspaper layout. Being a beta, it has its quirks. Mine has the irritatin
g habit of zapping back to the first page of an article when you try to read be
yond the first page. It's an intermittent glitch though. Another niggle I find
is that you can toggle a 7-day archive of past issues, but of the four days of
downloads I've had so far, I can only access the current newspaper; the past fe
w days just seem to disappear. (Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.)
The sections of the paper are aligned on top for quick access. So you don't get
lost wandering in all the verbiage, it helpfully grays out articles that you'v
e already read, and if you've ever tried reading the New York Times, that's an
awful lot of text indeed, and a gray-out feature like that is really useful.
The only part that doesn't sit well with me is that it insists on installing Even more reading
After the Zinio freebie deal for the iPhone,
there's even mo' better reading available for Mac users.
The NY Times rele
ased the beta version of the Times Reader for the Mac a fe
w days ago. It's a good standalone offline reader, and I get mileage out of it
on the occasions when that sneaky wifi signal is hiding from me. I can now just
read the newspaper, so to speak.
The Times Reader is an app that runs well on its own without t
he help of a browser, downloading and formatting the day's issue in a clickable
faux newspaper layout. Being a beta, it has its quirks. Mine has the irritatin
g habit of zapping back to the first page of an article when you try to read be
yond the first page. It's an intermittent glitch though. Another niggle I find
is that you can toggle a 7-day archive of past issues, but of the four days of
downloads I've had so far, I can only access the current newspaper; the past fe
w days just seem to disappear. (Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.)
The sections of the paper are aligned on top for quick access. So you don't get
lost wandering in all the verbiage, it helpfully grays out articles that you'v
e already read, and if you've ever tried reading the New York Times, that's an
awful lot of text indeed, and a gray-out feature like that is really useful.
The only part that doesn't sit well with me is that it insists on installing No TrackBacks
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Eve though I like the NYT a whole lot (I check it a couple of times a day), I'v
e been fighting off the urge to install the beta precisely because of the requi
site Silverlight installation.
Has it been behaving well for you?
PS I havenât installed Office since I got my MacBook 3.5 months ago. I do just
fine with the bundled Text Edit, the free Bean, and the pretty Pages.
@Jason: Hasn't given me grief yet. Not unless the glitches I wrote about are be
cause of Silverlight and not the NY Reader being a beta.
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