News Explorer 2.2 brings improved support for Google News feeds, hashtag timeline feeds for Bluesky and Mastodon, sharing to Raindrop, and some other useful improvements and fixes.
Google News RSS feeds offer nicely aggregated article selections, but can be unattractive to use in a RSS reader because of the lack of preview thumbnails and full-text support. The article links in Google News feeds are indirect links, that only open the original article after being processed by Google.
News Explorer 2.2 pre-opens each Google News article visible in the List or Timeline view, so that the original article link becomes available. This makes it possible to retrieve thumbnail metadata and to download the full-text version of articles. Of course this pre-open processing works a bit slower, but you are being rewarded with nice preview thumbnails and full-text support for most articles.
Movie Explorer Pro 2.7 introduces editions for files and discs, like ‘Director’s Cut’ and ’Special Edition’, functions to import discs from other movie catalog apps, support for filename tags and identifiers, and a few other useful improvements.
Special editions of discs or files like ‘Director’s Cut’, ‘Ultimate Edition’ or ’Final Cut’, can now be labeled with an edition tag. These editions are presented in a new ‘Editions’ section in the All Info and Production Inspector panels of the Movies view.
The support for editions includes the following additional features:
News Explorer 2.1 brings support for Bluesky feeds based on the official API, a large collection of Shortcuts actions, sharing to Readwise, and some other useful features and improvements.
From now on, Bluesky account feeds are natively supported based on the Bluesky API.