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Price: $3.99

Category: News

Updated: Apr 28, 2010

Version: 1.2.3

Size: 0.8 MB

Language: English

Seller: Instant Voodoo Magic

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later


Customer Ratings

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(45 Ratings)

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(276 Ratings)



Newsie Google Reader Client by Instant Voodoo Magic

Newsie Google Reader Client Screenshots



Description

Newsie is a finely crafted Google Reader client for social newsies. FEATURED on the App Store Nov 10, 2009. HIT TOP TEN in the News category Nov 16, 2009

Newsie requires a FREE Google Reader account. You can get one at http://reader.google.com, or by tapping the "New Account" button on the Log In screen.

NewsGator users: with the integration of NewsGator and Google Reader, you can use Newsie to access your feeds!

Dig for cool news. Share it with your friends. Newsie works with your Google Reader account to deliver fresh news to your iPhone or iPod Touch. In Google Reader, you can sign up to receive automatic updates from:

All your favorite blogs
The New York Times
The Huffington Post
The Wall Street Journal
CNN
Fox News
Gizmodo
Ars Technica
Many, many others basically any blog or major news source!

When you find items you're interested in, read them with Newsie's built-in web browser, "star" or send them to Instapaper for later reading, instantly share them with the built-in emailing panel, or tweet them using Tweetie or Twitterrific.

Unlike other news readers that leave you staring at a blank screen while it "syncs" in the background, Newsie fetches news items immediately. So if you have a minute while you're standing in line at the grocery, or if you've just got a moment in the elevator, go ahead an reach for Newsie.

Newsie works with Google Reader to ensure the news you're viewing is the same as you'd see on the web, so you can seamlessly switch between your desktop and your iPhone/iPod Touch. Any changes you make to an item's status, including "star", read/unread, and "shared", is quickly synchronized.

Newsie not only saves articles for off-line reading, it also saves a news item's original web page when you "star" it. With this feature, you can quickly build a reading list for off-line reading on an airplane.

Check out the following features and more on Newsie's web site: http://instantvoodoomagic.com/newsie

Fast, attractive, "river-of-news" style interface
Screen rotation lock for easy bedtime reading
Landscape mode enlarges an article's font for people without perfect vision
Preference for automatically going full-screen when viewing web sites
Google Mobilizer support on 2G/3G networks
Efficient "marking menu" -- just slide a an item in the news list to the right to quickly mark an item read/unread or starred
Syncs read/unread/shared status of news articles with Google Reader continuously*1
Immediately caches the web page associated with items you've starred so they're ready to go when you're offline
Send to your Instapaper account if you prefer it for offline reading
Context Bar quickly switches between new news, starred & shared items, and annotated news items
Never lose your place Newsie remembers where you were in your reading list, and which article you were last reading, even if you quit
Add notes to your favorite articles and access them anywhere, at any time, on any machine with a web browser
Filter your "river-of-news" by source feed, tag, or folder
Read summary descriptions of a virtually unlimited*2 number of news items, even when offline
Browse and email articles without exiting Newsie
Newsie supports Twitterrific and Tweetie for tweeting news articles

*1 needs an Internet connection
*2 limited only by available memory on your iPhone/iPod Touch

What's New in Version 1.2.3

Fixed a bug that prevents flags (read/shared/starred/notes) from being synchronized with Google Reader.

Customer Reviews

Good reader, but no updates in 1.5 years (3 stars)
This was the best newsreader going for awhile but with no updates in 1.5 years I think it has suffered. Every once in awhile it crashes. Sometimes after weeks/months of use it will auto-crash on startup until you delete the app, reinstall it, and then you have to re-enter your Google credentials.

So, 3 stars for the clean interface and for the good memories of when it worked better, but if it keeps being Crashy McCrasherston, I'm go

feed navigation not intuitive (2 stars)
While this app has some nice features like the sharing options, the fundamental way you navigate among feeds is completely different from Google Reader itself or 2 other iPhone Readers I've tried (NetNewsWire, Feedler).

In this app, they've completely separated individual feeds from folders. As a result, you have to shuffle between 2 separate lists of feeds - one that gives you a list of folders and one that gives you a list of alp

Newsie App (4 stars)
I LOVE this app! My only problem with it is that one can not save files and photos from Newsgroups ie google yahoo ect ect

I would like to see this fixed as I get ALOT of files and photos and it would be nice to be able to save the pictures at least to the ipod photo library.

Otherwise this is a really good app!

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