HistoryHound and NetNewsWire 2

One downside of browsing via NNW is that now my web browsing history is divided between two apps. Worse, NNW doesn't offer a browsing history feature (though I suppose you could argue the RSS feed list itself is such a "history").

Fortunately, it's really easy to instruct HistoryHound to index NNW's cache. Just hit the prefs, hit the white plus button to add a new location to search, add "~/Library/Caches/NetNewsWire" as the path and set "Choose how it should be interpreted" to "Safari Cache". Since NNW uses WebKit, the cache format is already understood by HistoryHound -- you just have to point the way.

Update: HistoryHound 1.7 adds support for NetNewsWire 2 and PulpFiction, basically building-in the technique described above.

Wednesday, September 29, 2004
12:00 AM