If I could have only one application on my iPad, it would be flipboard. I added it here under "rss apps" since it mainly reads rss feeds - but it can also read your twitter and facebook feeds. Flipboard sets up your feeds like a magazine that you can swipe to flip through and read. You can also set it up to send articles to ReadMeLater or Instapaper to review later. I keep up with both my technical and personal interests through various feeds, and have a list of favorite bloggers in the "Favorites" section so that I have everything that I track in one place. Now if Flipboard would only release an Android client for my phone...
I give Flipboard my highest rating - an indispensable app.
I happed to like Google Reader on the iPad. Yes, it's (web) online-only, and not an app. However, if you have tons of feeds, with 1000+ constantly-updating posts, it's the only way. I don't have to wait for long synchronizations, and I'm not wasting expensive (for me) 3G bandwidth, downloading articles that I don't read (I skim over most of the titles and blurbs, and only fully read maybe 5-10% of the posts).
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Tom Benton0
on Sep 6, 2011
If I could have only one application on my iPad, it would be flipboard. I added it here under "rss apps" since it mainly reads rss feeds - but it can also read your twitter and facebook feeds. Flipboard sets up your feeds like a magazine that you can swipe to flip through and read. You can also set it up to send articles to ReadMeLater or Instapaper to review later. I keep up with both my technical and personal interests through various feeds, and have a list of favorite bloggers in the "Favorites" section so that I have everything that I track in one place. Now if Flipboard would only release an Android client for my phone...
I give Flipboard my highest rating - an indispensable app.
-Tom
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AJ Robins64
on Sep 7, 2011
I happed to like Google Reader on the iPad. Yes, it's (web) online-only, and not an app. However, if you have tons of feeds, with 1000+ constantly-updating posts, it's the only way. I don't have to wait for long synchronizations, and I'm not wasting expensive (for me) 3G bandwidth, downloading articles that I don't read (I skim over most of the titles and blurbs, and only fully read maybe 5-10% of the posts).
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