A new beta of NetNewsWire (a very fine RSS aggregator or news reader) has been released .

The updated beta (2.1b32) offers registered users a free two-year subscription to Newsgator’s syncing service, which is a third option alongside syncing with your .Mac account or FTP server for synchronising your news subscriptions between multiple Macs.

If you don’t already have a Newsgator account (free), the beta will guide through the process of creating one.

NewNewsWire is also currently discounted (USD 19.95 instead of the normal USD 24.95), an offer that will stand until version 2.1 is officially released.

Endo looks very pretty and Vienna is getting better, but NetNewsWire stands head and shoulders above the pack for stability, grunt and features.

I couldn’t do Hawk Wings without it. There’s no other way for me to get across all the information I need to see more efficiently and reliably.

If you’ve been waiting for a good time to register the full version, the time is now.

UPDATE: David Chartier at TUAW provides a list of the extra features included in the Newsgator subscription, which I should have done, but didn’t.netnewswire, rss, news feeds, news aggregator, newsgator, efficiency, productivity

Brent Simmons is an Architect of Client Products at NewsGator Technologies where he works on NetNewsWire , an RSS aggregator for Mac OS X.

HW: How long have you been using Mail.app? What other clients have you used (and why did you stop)?

BS: I currently use Entourage mostly, because it works much better than Mail.app with our Exchange system.

I’ve used Mail.app in the past, though — along with Eudora, Mailsmith, pine, and mutt.

Actually, I do use Mail.app exclusively with my .Mac email address. And of course I use it as a developer (figuring out how to make it so you can send email from NetNewsWire via Mail.app).

HW: What plugins and extensions do you use to make your email experience better?

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