Sent From My iPad

I am still looking for the perfect RSS reader, and it just isn’t out there yet but I have two “Newsrack” and “The Early Edition” that I have just recently switched my order of preference. I had been using “Newsrack” which is a very serviceable reader looking very much like the $5 more “Netnewswire” but reading in it instill a poke, poke, poke affair if you want to see the images that accompany the articles. That’s where today I decided to populate the “The Early Edition” (TEE) feeds with the same feeds as my other reader.

What a difference the presentation makes, TEE places all the articles in a format reminiscent of a real newspaper with images sprinkled liberally throughout the pages. See an article that looks interesting and poke it, then it opens up in a full screen view complete with all the images. Want to see it as it appears in it’s original page a button at the top of the page takes you to that. Too long or actually looks like reading you may want to do later, shoot it to instapaper. Then hit done and your back to the previous page, swipe from right to left and your on the next page. This is one area I wish I had some control over, it is a bit unresponsive thus far. I get trying to minimize errant swipes, but your not going to need to worry about that with the app currently, it should respond faster there.

Promised in the next release is googlereader integration, which will be great, but there is another bigger opportunity for the developer. Customized editions, let me group my feeds into folders that become editions. Currently my 30+ feeds are creating a 26 page paper, i might prefer to see that paired down a bit, or at least let me create sections of the edition so my bloggers aren’t thrown willy nilly in with my hard tech news, or friends blogs.

Rating:  

I like it already, if I could make the editions it would be a 5 star app.
$4.99 at time of purchase.

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