News reader Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Pulse News updated with source syncing

by Chris Rawson (Oct 12th, 2011)

Apple Design Award-winning Pulse News has been updated with Pulse Sync, a new feature that allows for instant syncing of sources across devices for anyone with a free pulse.me account. In my case, I have Pulse News on both my iPhone and iPad; adding a new source to my news feed on the iPhone will ...

Reeder for Mac now available on Mac App Store

by Chris Rawson (Jun 9th, 2011)

Reeder, a popular Google Reader client on iOS, is now out of beta and available on the Mac App Store. While the beta version of Reeder for the Mac was free to test, the 1.0 release will set you back US$9.99, more than twice the price of the iPad version. That $9.99 offers syncing with Google ...

Ongo for iPad is a good start, but it's far from a home run

by Mel Martin (Jan 27th, 2011)

We told you yesterday that Ongo was on the way to the iPad. It's now on the App Store, and I've had some time to play with it. Ongo is a joint venture by several newspaper companies to create a paid, ad-free news aggregator that is easy to use and will appeal to the news junkie. After some hours ...

Ongo News app coming to iPad

by Mel Martin (Jan 26th, 2011)

Ongo is something new for news consumers. It just launched on the Web this week and has just been released for the iPad late this afternoon. It's a collaboration between The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today and others to provide a subscription news service for US$6.99 a month. The ...

Is the Apollo News Reader defunct?

by Mel Martin (Nov 22nd, 2010)

I liked the Apollo New Reader for iPad. It allowed you to read RSS feeds full screen, something that the Pulse news reader doesn't do in landscape mode. Another advantage was that it could usually play video from within the app. Note: One of our sharp commenters notes that you can play a video in ...

Pulse News Reader for iPad update makes you a news editor

by Steven Sande (Aug 3rd, 2010)

A new update to Pulse News Reader for iPad now lets you mash up your own mix of news for others to subscribe to. The update to version 1.1.4, which went live last evening, provides each user with their own "pulse" if they so desire. What's a pulse? It's actually a Posterous blog (with a ...

Pulse News Reader now in convenient smaller size for iPhone, iPod touch

by Steven Sande (Jul 2nd, 2010)

The Pulse News Reader for iPad (US$3.99) gained some notoriety last month when the stylish app was released, then promptly yanked from the App Store by Apple at the behest of The New York Times. The Times did not want their RSS feed featured in Pulse; changes were made and the app has been back ...

BuzzVoice reads aloud to you almost anywhere

by David Winograd (Oct 1st, 2009)

BuzzVoice can most simply be described as a talking reader for over 1400 blogs, but saying that doesn't begin to do it justice. It's not just an iPhone/iPod touch app, although BuzzVoice provides one [iTunes Link]. It's a platform that can be enjoyed on a variety of devices including any iPod or ...

Fluent Mobile releases the first news aggregator iPhone app

by David Winograd (Jun 30th, 2009)

Fluent Mobile has released an innovative news oriented iPhone app that may be a game changer. The Fluent Mobile app aggregates mobile ready content from multiple content providers. According to M:Metrics in January of this year, mobile news sites were visited over 63 million times and the number is ...

TapLynx - Create iPhone focused newsreader applications without programming

by Jason Clarke (Jun 23rd, 2009)

Users of NewsGator's NetNewsWire iPhone news reader have been waiting with bated breath for the next iteration of the application, with the promise of the ability to mark news items unread and send articles to InstaPaper Instapaper, amongst other enhancements. As time has gone on, it became clear ...

endo: powerful RSS reader updates for Safari 3 beta

by David Chartier (Jun 28th, 2007)

Since Adriaan Tijsseling makes one of the Mac's best blogging clients, it only makes sense that he also has a slick RSS newsreader called endo that we honestly don't stay on top of as much as we should.With features like a custom Growl-like alert window which allows you to read snippets of feed ...

Widget Watch: iActu

by Dave Caolo (May 14th, 2007)

Today's widget is quite nice. iActu USA pulls news feeds from six American newspapers. You can browse the first few lines of each article, jump to any section of the paper, select one of sixteen available skins and specify the source for the ticker at the top of the widget. Of course, the full ...

NNW booted from my Dock, long live endo!

by David Chartier (Mar 8th, 2006)

Scott posted on endo yesterday, and today I am happy to report that NNW has gone to that giant "poof" in the ex-Dock sky. Sure, endo has some minor "it's a 1.0 release" quirks, but this is the newsreader I've been waiting for. After putting it through its paces last night I was ...