Mac: If you love saving articles to Instapaper or ReadItLater but don’t like using the web site to view them, ReadNow solves that problem by offering a native desktop experience on your Mac. It provides a familiar news reader-esque interface for browsing your saved articles and read them offline in a variety of styles. More »
Thumbing through the newspaper over your morning coffee and a few minutes of chitchat at the water cooler used to be all it took to stay up-to-date on your world. Now we’re faced with a constant flow of information from the internet that often feels overwhelming. The crop of iOS apps dedicated to bringing you a curated, customisable, and attractive stream of content is one way to combat the information overload. Much more than simple RSS readers, these digital digest apps cull stories from across the web and your social networks and wrap them into an iPad friendly and design-forward package. Here’s a look at the two leading options. More »
iOS/Android/WP7/Playbook/Web: Previously mentioned News360, one of our favourite curated, personalised news services, aggregates the top news of the day based on your likes, interests, Facebook profile, Twitter stream and other social services. Today’s update now allows you to tie your preferences in news content to a News360 account on all of your devices so they’ll follow you when you stop reading on the web and pick up your smartphone or tablet. More »
Google rolled out a new Google+-inspired interface for Google Reader yesterday, and the reaction so far from long-time users has been, for the most part, deeply unenthusiastic. There’s always an element of “I hate it because it’s new” in any redesign, but there are some specific changes Google has made which I wish it would ditch. More »
Google Reader is following in the footsteps of Gmail, Docs, and Voice with a clean new interface, that’s easier to use and contains integration with the Google+ social network. More »
Earlier this week, The Australian added a paywall to its site which means you can’t read most articles without a paid subscription. While there’s a three-month trial, it’s relatively easy to work around the paywall if you want to just get to a single article. More »
iOS/Android: Taptu is a news reader for your mobile device that blends your favourite feeds, your social networks, and a curated news experience powered by real people behind the scenes that help you discover, read and share news that actually interests you. More »
The dismissal of three Channel Nine employees and the resignation of its Queensland news director after fake footage of a “live cross” was broadcast is a timely reminder that television news often ranks being accurate and relevant fairly low on its list of priorities. This is why watching broadcast news is generally a waste of time. More »
iOS/Android/WP7/Playbook/Web: personalised news app News360 uses your Facebook likes, Twitter profile, Evernote notebooks and Google Reader subscriptions to deliver highly personalised news to your desktop or mobile device, regardless of which one you are carrying. More »
