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Although it didn’t quite set the web on fire like proponents thought it would, RSS is nevertheless the secret sauce behind a wide range of iPhone and iPad apps, such Pulse, SkyGrid and Flipboard. Put the fire hose on your Mac, too, with this easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader — it’s the fastest way to get up-to-speed.

NewsGator has released NetNewsWire 3.2.8, which comes to market as a 64-bit application. Big deal? Well, that should help keep Flash from crashing it so often.

• Toolbar icon and button for sending to Instapaper

• Send to Instapaper now appears in contextual menu when you click on a link in a description or web page

• Swapped out the send-feedback system for a link to NetNewsWire’s UserVoice page

• Tab thumbnails are now loaded as needed, instead of all at startup

• Improvements in proxy authentication

• 64-bit — Might not have much of an effect, except for one big thing, when Flash crashes, which is the single biggest source of crashing in NetNewsWire

Get your copy of NetNewsWire 3.2.8 here (5.8MB)

[u] NetNewsWire 3.2.11 (MacUpdate) is now available and it addresses a crashing bug related to NSURLConnection — by switching back to NetNewsWire’s previous http client.