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A friend has sent you a link to the following NoodleMac article: http://noodlemac.com/index.php/mac/articles/65/ Despite the internet and RSS feeds, the newspaper is not dead. Yet. Add Times to your Mac and you get RSS feeds, headlines and summaries, stuffed into a digital replica of a newspaper. Times is like reading The Times. It’s an onscreen digital version of a newspaper with all the news you want. Throwback I don’t read the newspaper much these days. Most of my news comes from an RSS reader which lets me scan a couple of hundred sites for updates in just minutes. I can’t say that I miss the daily newspaper read, but that doesn’t mean scanning a newspaper-like utility on my Mac is a bad thing. That’s what Times is. Instead of treating news like email (as most RSS readers do), Times presents you with headlines and photos from a variety of sources all in one place, letting you more easily discover the news you want to read. Like your own personal newspaper, you can put feeds into separate areas, create pages for different subjects, and more. Interesting concept, no? Times looks like a digital newspaper complete with headlines, summaries, photos, and a curled page when turned. Start Up Getting started with Times is easy enough. Download, drag and drop into Applications, double-click. Preferences are delightfully few and simple. RSS feeds can also be set in Preferences to check every so many minutes and alert you to updates. A Newspaper? Times looks more or less like a printed newspaper. That’s not all bad. In fact, it’s rather like a comfortable throwback to the past, yet wholly digital and updated for the Mac’s screen. What’s the point of a news reader if you’re forced to read the actual articles in your web browser? Times shows you the entire story regardless of source1, with every article formatted identically for easy reading. Times can be stretched to fit your Mac’s screen, just like any Mac window. Drag the corner. Notice the section headings across the top? Click one and the page slides away revealing the new section (click the image for a close up view). It’s like a newspaper without the paper and all the advertisements. Turn The Page Navigating around Times is simple, too. Click on a headline and the front page peels forward to reveal the complete article behind. A sliding bar appears for longer articles. Because Times divides news into pages, you can browse the updates only in the subjects that matter most to you at that moment.