I’ve used NewsFire for all my RSS needs for a while now. I don’t really like the fact that I had to pay for it, but I understand that there’s very little incentive for a developer to do a good job (or do anything) when he is not compensated for his work. So I paid for a license. Why? Because it looks great and is drop-dead simple to use (space bar and enter key are almost all you need), and none of the free alternatives worked as well, as much as I might have liked them to.

A feature that was added recently is the ability to watch video podcasts from within the app. So what? I don’t watch any - oh wait, I do watch Ze Frank. Hey that’s pretty cool! I can make it bigger without the silly cmd+opt+8 trick, and the space bar works.

If you’ve been itching to drop NetNewsWire Lite and go for a better app, this weekend people who buy NewsFire will get Inquisitor for free. And those who blog about the promo will get Inquisitor free too ;) .