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I am always trying to stay in the know when it comes to technology. I just love reading about it everyday and seeing what is up and coming. This is where something like Google Reader comes in very handy. I can pull in all the news stories from all the different websites I read and have it all in one place. Definitely a great way to get your news if you get it from many different sources.
But this review isn’t about Google Reader, but an application that is very similar to it and yet offers a ton more features — Reeder for the iPhone. For those of you that don’t know, Reeder has been around for a couple of years now and I have used it on the iPhone for a long time. It’s a great app to use to browse the news and save for later reading when you are on a bigger screen.
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Recently, we posted a head-to-head match between Pulse and FLUD, two attractive and innovative new readers for the iPhone. Today we want to get your input on which unique news aggregator you like best.
Our contestants are Pulse News Mini, FLUD Mobile, Reeder, Taptu and News360. All of these are quality attempts at versatile, customizable and design-conscious news readers and all are free with the exception of Reeder.
Cast your vote on the right and tell us which app you think is the best, then leave a comment below ranking those that you’ve tried. Obviously, we couldn’t list every news reader on the App Store so feel free to write in your favorite if we missed it!
In the past we’ve given very positive reviews to both FLUD and Pulse as standalone apps. Both are innovative, attractive and just plain fun to use on the iPad and both have made the transition to iPhone.
The two readers are so similar to each other that it’s hard not to compare them and wonder which is the best. Today we’ll answer this question by tearing them both apart feature by feature to see which app is ultimately superior. Let’s get started!
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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Rainbow RSS Reader. The developer describes Rainbow RSS Reader as an easy to use newsreader app designed to make your information easy to understand and quick to get a hold of. It is wrapped around a single timeline that keeps all your information up to date and a very intuitive and comfortable way of reading single news items and moving between one item and the other.
Read on for more information and screenshots!
We all have a favourite News source. One that appeals to our political sensibilities, our sense of what is important, or simply our desire for readability. The most discerning of us probably check at least one more source (even if it is The Onion) and this can be a pain, requiring you to open a variety of Apps or, heaven forbid, a site on mobile safari…
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was an App that could amalgamate all your favourite News sources and present them to you in a supremely accessible form? ‘Yes’, I hear you say, ‘but it would have to be brilliant for me to actually change the way I get my news…’
I’ve got an App you might like. It’s called Pulse News Mini.
One of the most enjoyable aspects of the iPad for me has been the richly interactive new ways it has brought to consume content. There is simply no better experience for reading the news from your favorite sources than that provided by the host of innovative iPad apps.
Today we bring you just such an app. FLUD is a beautiful newsreader with a unique interface that’s catching the attention of designers and news addicts everywhere.
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I spend a lot of time on the Internet, and that means that I have dozens of bookmarks on various browsers, which can take me a long time to prowl through. One easy way to get through all of the sites is to use an RSS feed reader to comb through the text.
So how do you get those feeds onto your iPad? One option is PRO RSS FeedReader, a simple way to access all of your text with the convenience of Apple’s favorite tablet. But better yet, it does Twitter, too. Let’s take a moment and see what makes PRO RSS FeedReader the app to have.
In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting PRO RSS FeedReader. Developer description: “PRO RSS FeedReader as Getting your Feeds via PRO RSS FeedReader for iPad is easy.
Via the internal search system you can add a Feed from Google search, Twitter, any website with RSS Feeds and manually. PRO RSS FeedReader can be used online and offline. Don’t worry about a lost WIFI connection, your Feeds are still on your iPad. You can choose your favorite Feed and PRO RSS FeedReader will instantly update your Feeds.”
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If you read RSS feeds, chances are that you have downloaded at least one or two different iOS apps of this type. I’ve tried at least ten of them, and every time I see a review of a new app, I’m inclined to check it out just to see if it does a better job than any of the others. Until very recently, I’ve been using Reeder on both iPhone and iPad, and have been very satisfied with both versions of the app.
What’s changed recently is not my choice of app, but rather my behaviour: I’ve come to question how many short-form articles I’ve been reading – I think my attention span has shrunk! Consequently, I’ve actually stopped reading my RSS feeds this week to see how it feels. I just opened up Google Reader and saw that I have a little over 800 unread items since Monday – that’s a lot of information my brain has not needed to process!
While running this personal experiment, I thought it might be a good time to check out Times from Acrylic Apps. After the jump, I’ll talk you through the app’s features…
In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting My Newspaper for iPad. The developer describes My Newspaper for iPad as a brand new RSS Reader designed specifically for the iPad. It differentiates itself from others based on its full Google Reader integration, speed and newspaper-like design.
Read on for more information and screenshots!
