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4 Best RSS Reader for Your iPad

October 17, 2024 Tech Review
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Before starting our topic, let me ask you a question: What is RSS feeds? You know, in the past years when mobile technology was backward, we mainly got news from newspapers, magazines, and television. Obviously, there was inadequacy: limited sources, a delay between the event and coverage, for example, you could not read the firsthand news but had to wait one day after in the case of newspapers. But now, the story has a happy ending thanks to the RSS Feeds which brings various updated news, information or data straightly to your desktop or portable smart phone devices like iPad. With an RSS account, you can enjoy your own real-time, personalized news feed. In order to properly read the feed, an RSS reader is needed. Again, here comes another question: what are the good RSS readers for iPad?

Here, we are specially listing 4 best iPad RSS reader apps for your easy reference. Each of them has got distinct functionalities. Kindly read the below details.

1.The Feed.

The Feed is loved by lots of iPad users thanks to its stunning features—simple UI with basic and high end options, making it extremely easy for you to start the feeds, tailor news on your iPad or share with friends. Besides, you can also see the contents that your friends shared with you. However, there is sap: no social network integration is available. To sum up, The Feed is an good choice for the users who just want to keep up with their feeds on the go.

1.Feeddler RSS Reader for iPad

If you are a Google Reader fan, I think this app will be your best choice. Why? It syncs with your Google account, so that you can get the feeds from there easily. It also contains some Google Reader extras, for example, sharing and adding stars. Remarkably, you are able to share the feeds on Facebook directly, but unluckily, you cannot share them on Twitter, if you really need to, you can share your article via emails.

3.Flipboard.

Flipboard is a pure eye-candy app which is best suitable for those who emphases on the user interface a lot. It allows you to follow the blogs and websites that you love. You can pull stories from those sites as well as the accounts you follow on Twitter for sure. Besides, you can share articles with friends/followers on SNS circles (Facebook and Twitter only) or by emails. As great as it is, this app also has got the drawbacks. For example, the syncing is not available, that means, you have to add the feeds manually. Besides, on the Facebook/Twitter, you will not get the whole post but the excerpt or first few paragraphs of an article on the app. If you want to get the whole story, you need to open it on the Safari web browser.

4.Read Square.

Like Flipboard, the Read Square allows you to read the automatically updated RSS feeds from your Google Reader account. You can also add your Twitter and Facebook accounts to follow articles shared by people you follow and by friends. The social integration is available, enabling you to share stories on Twitter and via email. The only fly in the omit of this app is that, it takes you quite a while to fully load the articles and various sources. So, you need to be more patient. Regardless its weakness, the Read Square is somehow worth trying and you will get a different experience using it.

So, which app do you think suits you the best? Get your favorite iPad RSS reader from the App Store and start your RSS feeds reading journey freely.

The Launch of iPad Mini 2 Would be delayed Because of the Shortage of Retina Display

July 25, 2024 Tech News
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Back to about three months, the rumors excited lots of Apple fans and caused a lot of buzz, claiming that Apple iPad Mini 2 would be available by the end of April, 2013. The most long-awaited point is that iPad Mini 2 would come with a 7.9-inch high-resolution Retina display screen as well as the high efficiency A6X processor. Then, a month later, another piece of news reported that there would be two versions of iPad Mini 2: one with the Retina display screen while the other one hasn’t. As to the prices and other details such as the features of the rumored two versions, there’s not any information provided.

However, as the saying goes “Good times do not last long.” On July 13th, 2013, it was reported that the launch of Apple iPad Mini 2 would probably be put off to the first quarter of 2014. The reason for the delay is due to the shortage of the great Retina Display panels. Actually, back in June this year, the analysts of NPD DisplaySearch predicted that a much thinner iPad Mini without Retina Display would be repleased by the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant this year. Moreover, the updated version of iPad Mini 2 with the Retina Display would be available in the early of 2014. “Apple is expected to refresh its iPad mini in the second half of the year. The new iPad mini will continue to use a 7.9-inch display with a 1024×768 resolution, but it will use the iOS 7 operating system and an A6 processor, in a slimmer design than the current generation,” Richard Shim of DisplaySearch blogged. “Another iPad mini is also planned for production but not until early 2014. That device is expected to feature a QXGA (2048×1536) resolution display and the iOS 7 operating system.”

Furthermore, according to the Taiwanese publication called DigiTimes, the fifth-generation iPad(most likely to be called iPad 5) would be released by Apple Inc. in September this year, “Apple is still thinking about whether to feature iPad Mini 2 with the Retina Display Screen or not.”, said DigiTimes.

If what DigiTimes proved to be correct, the iPad Mini 2 with HD Retina Display Screen would be adapted the same double-resolution approach as the current Apple devices, say iPhone and the full-size iPad. “That would mean the iPad mini’s 7.9-inch display would need to pack in the same 3.1 million pixels into a panel nearly two inches smaller in diameter.”, said Apple Inside