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Reading a lot of blogs can be tough to manage without an RSS news reader, which consolidates everything you read in one place. While there are plenty of news readers on the Mac, Reeder wins our hearts thanks to its beautiful and simple interface, thorough integration with social features, and fantastic customizability.

Reeder

Platform: OS X
Price: $5
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  • Syncs with Google Reader
  • Beautiful interface
  • Syncs (and fully integrates) with Readability
  • Post articles directly to Instapaper, Delicious, or your blog
  • Gesture support
  • Customizable shortcuts
  • Send to QUOTE.fm Read, Instapaper, Pocket (formerly ReadItLater), and Readability
  • Save to Pinboard, Delicious, Zootool, and Evernote
  • Post on App.net, Twitter, Facebook (posting on Facebook requires OS X 10.8.2)
  • Open articles with Instapaper Mobilizer and Google Mobilizer
  • You can disable Flash (and other plug-ins) if you want
  • Support for retina displays

Where It Excels


Reeder first entices you with its beautiful and simple interface but keeps you around with its solid list of features. Despite Reeder's simplicity, the app manages to pack in quite a bit. One of the biggest highlights is that Readability—the service that converts web pages into more readable pages of text—is a part of the app. If a news feed contains an article that needs a little touching up, you can click the Readability button and make it a lot cleaner. Reeder also provides tons of ways to share and save articles you find in your feeds. It integrates with several services, such as Instapaper and Pocket. You can also pin articles to Pinterist, save them to Evernote, share them on Twitter or Facebook, and much more. A very comprehensive preferences pane allows you to customize your entire experience, from shortcuts to gestures to the app's appearance. Reeder offers solid performance on its own, but you can make it run exactly the way you want with a few simple tweaks.

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Where It Falls Short


Reeder offers few downsides, but it does lack subfolders. Rather than displaying any subfolders you may have in your Google Reader account, Reeder simply lists them without any hierarchy (i.e. it displays 'News — Finance' instead of listing Finance below the News category). If you don't have a ton of feeds, this isn't a big deal. If you do, however, you'll find it a little annoying and wasteful. Reeder also costs money. While $5 is a pretty fair price for a really great news reader, its primary competition—NetNewsWire—costs nothing. While we like Reeder better, if you're frugal you're simply not going to choose it when an app that's nearly as good costs absolutely nothing.

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The Competition

NetNewsWire (Free) was once our top pick, but over time it has come to feel a bit outdated. That said, it's still a remarkably powerful news reader with lots of great features. It's also free, so if you don't want to cough up $5 for Reeder you can get yourself a great alternative at no cost.

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Cream ($4) offers a more compact experience than Reeder's default view and costs a little less. Reeder, however, can shrink down to the same size. Cream is fairly new and still has a ways to go before it's truly a serious competitor, but it's definitely a news reader to watch.

Pulp ($10) costs more than anything on this list and doesn't offer a ton of advantages. That said, if you'd like to read your news feeds in a traditional newspaper format you'll want to check it out. It offers a very different interface from all the other apps and seeks to show you news you'll actually like rather than just everything (by default).

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Gruml is another free RSS news reader much like NetNewsWire, but in my few months of use I found it wasn't quite as stable. On the positive side, it does have greater support for external services (like ReadItLater). It may have features that are important to you, and if so it may be worth trying, but despite being a pretty solid app it just doesn't measure up when you're actually using it.

There are a lot of other news readers for Mac but these three offer the most notable, worthwhile differences. If you have a favorite that was pass over or overlooked, please mention it in the comments.

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Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is a two-step process. First you download the installation package, and then you install Acrobat Reader DC from that package file. You do not have to remove the older version of Reader before installing Acrobat Reader DC.

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Before you install, always make sure that your system meets the minimum system requirements.

You need Mac OS X 10.9 or later to run Acrobat Reader DC. If your operating system is older,
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Not sure which version of Mac OS you have? Click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner of your screen, then choose About This Mac.

  1. Go to the Adobe Acrobat Reader download page and click Install now.

    Note:

    You need Mac OS X 10.9 or later to run Acrobat Reader DC. If you're running Mac OS X 10.8 or older, the Adobe Reader download page looks like this:

    You can install an older version of Acrobat Reader. For instructions, see Install an older version of Adobe Reader on Mac OS.

  2. When asked whether to save the .dmg file, select Save File.

    Note:

    If you do not see this dialog box, another window could be blocking it. Try moving any other windows out of the way.

  3. Double-click the .dmg file. (If you don't see the Downloads window, choose Tools > Downloads.)

  4. Double-click Install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to start the installation.

  5. When asked if you are sure that you want to open the file, click Open.

  6. When prompted, enter your macOS user name and password.
    In case you do not remember your password, refer the Apple document: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202860

  7. When you see the confirmation message that the installation is complete, click Finish.

  1. Go to the Adobe Acrobat Reader download page and click Install now.

    Note:

    You need Mac OS X 10.9 or later to run Acrobat Reader DC. If you're running Mac OS X 10.8 or older, the Adobe Reader download page looks like this:

    You can install an older version of Acrobat Reader. For instructions, see Install an older version of Adobe Reader on Mac OS.

  2. Double-click the .dmg file. (If you don't see the Safari Downloads window, click Finder > (User Name) > Downloads.)

  3. Double-click Install Adobe Acrobat ReaderDC to start the installation.

  4. When asked if you are sure that you want to open the file, click Open.

  5. When prompted, enter your macOS user name and password.
    In case you do not remember your password, refer the Apple document: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202860

  6. When you see the confirmation message that the installation is complete, click Finish.

  1. Go to the Adobe Acrobat Reader download page and click Install now.

    Note:

    You need Mac OS X 10.9 or later to run Acrobat Reader DC. If you're running Mac OS X 10.8 or older, the Adobe Reader download page looks like this:

    You can install an older version of Acrobat Reader. For instructions, see Install an older version of Adobe Reader on Mac OS.

  2. When the file appears at the bottom of the browser, click the file. (If you don't see the file, choose Downloads from the Chrome menu.)

  3. Double-click Install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to start the installation.

  4. When asked if you are sure that you want to open the file, click Open.

  5. When prompted, enter your macOS user name and password.
    In case you do not remember your password, refer the Apple document: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202860.

  6. When you see the confirmation message that the installation is complete, click Finish.

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