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Times Reader comes to Mac OS X (finally) and now you can enjoy reading NYTimes on your desktop

Reading a newspaper online can be difficult and not pleasant because of the web pages design. But now The New York Times offers an alternative to Mac OS X users: Times Reader Mac OS X Application (download it here). And it's a whole new way to enjoy NYTimes articles!

Times Reader was already available for Windows users and now comes to Mac OS X. It is a desktop application that lets you read NYTimes online or offline, in a paginated format as opposed to scrolling down a web page. It is NOT free: it costs $6,95 a month (or $69,00 a year). But the Mac OS X beta version of Times Reader is indeed FREE. All you need is a NYTimes account, that you can create here at no cost.

With Times Reader the reading experience is really really cool: you can browse the first page (is it technically a homepage?) of the newspaper, click on headlines, browse by sections and flick through pages. The application weighs only 1.5MB and is based on Microsoft Silverlight, which is required (download it here). The texts are anti-aliased and well-readable, and the speed of the tool is ok on Intel Macs (Silverlight runs really good on new Macs). I suggest you to give Times Reader a try and let me know what you think. Or maybe you can add a comment to NYTimes post on Mac OS X Times Reader.

» download TImes Reader for Mac OS X desktop applications

New Killer Application on Facebook: Blog It lets you post on multiple blogs!

There's a new cool Facebook App called Blog It: it lets you post on multiple blogs (all main blogging platforms are supported) while remaining on Facebook.

Blog It is a whole new way to post on your blogs: it connects with your blogs directly and lets you post on multiple blogs at once, even if they're hosted on different platforms! Blog It is terrific for intensive and professional bloggers, because you can use it to replicate the content you post on different blogs. It's also a killer application for compulsive amateur bloggers :-D

But the most innovative thing is that you can post on your blog without leaving your Facebook profile pages: Blog It is in fact a Facebook Application developed by TypePad™, and is completely free!

As you can see in the image above the supported blog platforms are TypePad (of course!), Wordpress (both .com and privately hosted versions), Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Pwnce, Tumblr, Twitter, Vox and Facebook profile status and The post editing interface is really simple and you cannot upload images: but I'm sure it's a limit that will go away with future versions.

Click here to install Blog It Facebook Application »
(Facebook account is needed)

BTW: if you're on Facebook, add me (Pasquale Borriello) to your friends!