After months of beta testing, David Watanabe has released NewsFire 1.0, a stylish RSS news reader for Mac OS X. NewsFire sports a “gorgeous animated interface” with “design cues from iChat and Safari,” according to the developer. NewsFire features: support for all major syndication formats; feed discovery interface; user-controlled smart feeds; instant search of local and remote feeds; support for embedded audio content; multiple display options; external blog editor support; import/export of feed collections; and powerful keyboard navigation and shortcuts. NewsFire is US$19.99 shareware.