![]() Both can pull in RSS feeds (and Facebook and Twitter etc) - but they also adopt a learning approach which is more generalised, around topics of interest. There is another overlapping genre, in Magazine style apps like Flipboard and Zite. And it's slick - really, shiny, oily slick. but I've come to love the slightly more feature-rich and colourful interface. It addresses the one glaring deficiency of Reeder, which is a big plus. But I've been alternating between the two for the last week and Mr Reader has won out. In contrast to Reeder, it has quite a complex interface, needing just as much time to assimilate, for different reasons. Mr Reader is the latest 'best RSS reader that I've ever seen' £2 investment. Or you will, if you're me, because you're forever seeking a perfect and optimised experience in your hand/manbag sized computing environment. ![]() And you will buy whatever the latest and greatest is, because it'll cost you a couple of quid at most. If there's a single truth about iOS devices it's that, however much you believe you've found the perfect app for a particular function, it will be superseded by something better in a matter of months. That same place might well be a web-based newsreader, like Google Reader - probably the most widely used approach and the one I've favoured for general web access for a few years.īut when I say 'I've yet to find an app that I prefer to this'. In essence, RSS allows you to read everything you're interested in, in the same place. Depending on which browser you're using, you'll probably see the same logo in the address bar at the top somewhere: click on it to get some idea of how to get started. But so does just about everything on the web nowadays - there's an RSS feed on timmytime, hence the little orange logo at the top of the sidebar on the right. well, there's a brief guide on the BBC site, since the BBC carries feeds to all of its content. I won't witter on what RSS is about - if you know, you can skip a couple of paragraphs. As a result, pretty much the app I consider the most essential is an RSS reader. But I am going to allow myself the one diversion: iOS devices are fantastic for consuming stuff - and, for a long time, the majority of my targeted consumption has been of RSS feeds. There are enough people out there writing about apps, a lot of them quite badly, some of them so well that it seems pointless to attempt to pour more into the floodwaters of Applelove.
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