ShanerDesign Modern Designs for a Modern Web http://shanerdesign.net/ Reeder Style for NetNewsWire , http://www.shanerdesign.net/posts/reeder-style-for-netnewswire NetNewsWireNetNewsWire has long been my RSS reader (Since 2004 I would guess). There are plenty of styles out there. Some of them are okay, some of them are ugly, but none of them that I've found are good. Hopefully this is something the studio BlackPixel addresses when they release an update to the program that they recent acquired from the original developer.

Here is a style based on the new Reeder program. Reeder is a great program in it's own right but the major advantage is the aesthetics. Reeder costs $10 however, and not everyone is willing to pay for a feed reader since NetNewsWire still works just fine. This style hopes to alleviate the aging aesthetics of NetNewsWire.

Reeder Style for NetNewsWire Widescreen View

The style is a semi-fluid style. It will take up 75% of the windows width but has a maximum width of 700 pixels. This maximum is useful when using the traditional view as legibility decreases when the width of the page is too wide.

Reeder Style for NetNewsWire Traditional View

I've also tried to tackle typographic orphans in the theme. It uses a threshold of word length on the final word of the heading, paragraph or list and then places a non-breaking space in-between the final two words. It won't catch them all because of poorly formed HTML in feeds, but you'll appreciate it when it does.

The last thing I did was to block ads with the css ad blocking code from floppymoose.com. The style works with both the full NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite. Download it now if you're a NetNewsWire user cause you won't regret it.

Download Reeder for NetNewsWire

]]> Alternate TextWrangler Icon , http://www.shanerdesign.net/posts/alternate-textwrangler-icon TextWrangler Icon Let me get this out first. I can’t stand the application icon for TextWrangler. TextWrangler has always been a little brother to BBEdit. After googling around I decided to take this upon myself.

Then yesterday Bare Bones released a new version of BBEdit which introduced a new icon(No more comic sans!). I decided to form the TextWrangler icon after it’s big brother and make it one big happy family.

Download Alternate TextWrangler Icon

To install:

  1. control+click on TextWrangler and select 'show package contents'
  2. navigate to contents » resources
  3. backup original icon named TextWranglerApplication.icns
  4. place new icon
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