It looks the same in portrait or landscape orientation, so flipping the device around isn’t a “mode switch ” it doesn’t significantly change how you’re interacting with what you see. I really do believe that the interface is worth studying anybody who’s considering making an iPad app should look at how Reeder does things and why they’re usually a good idea. I started gushing about it as soon as I tried it, but it’s really not an exaggeration to say that it’s turned the iPad from an overpriced novelty to a genuinely useful computer. The iPad version, though, gets just about everything right. I’d already been a fan of the iPhone version of Reeder, but reading lots of text on a cell phone is never going to be ideal. Reeder for iPad by Silvio Rizzi is exactly that. What I really wanted was something that would split the difference: good for reading single posts in detail, efficient for scanning through blogs that could have hundreds of entries, and a seamless way to switch between the two modes. It was kind of the opposite extreme to NetNewsWire: nice-looking, but not as efficient. There’s a separate app called Early Edition that compiles newspaper-style page views from your available RSS feeds, but it wasn’t quite what I wanted, either. With NetNewsWire, it meant a lot of flipping the device around - landscape to get through lots of posts quickly, portrait to read in depth - and forwarding the ones I wanted to read in greater detail to Marco Arment’s outstanding Instapaper app.
REEDER VS NETNEWSWIRE FULL
They claim that “it doesn’t matter” how you hold the iPad, but their own system of pop-ups and full page views ends up giving every app two modes: an orientation that’s efficient (usually landscape), and one that’s enjoyable to use (usually portrait). It understandably stays very close to Apple’s established UI for iPad apps, which is part of the problem: I don’t like the standards Apple’s put into place. It’s fast and efficient, but it just didn’t flow as well as it does on the desktop. The iPad version of NetNewsWire was released at launch (or maybe soon after), and I’ve been using it since then. Instead of getting up in the morning and immediately sitting in front of the computer to pore over news articles like a less effective Winston Smith, I could lean back on the couch like they show in the Apple ads, and develop some kind of “morning paper”-esque ritual that would make me feel more like a bonafide grown-up. One of the most important things I was looking for in the iPad was a way to make the whole feed-reading ritual more enjoyable and less like work. It’s so extensible and so efficient, it practically makes fun of you if you’re not keeping track of thousands of posts in hundreds of feeds. I blame NetNewsWire by Brent Simmons, which set the standard for how a desktop RSS feed reader should be written. I’m currently subscribed to 116 feeds (down from around 200 at my peak), and I start to feel anxious and disconnected if I go too long without sucking from the webtap. Please fix this, Pocket ! These days of open and inter-operable web services, users are only attracted by valuable functionality, clean UX design and no lockins.I’ve got a pretty nasty RSS feed-reading habit. This is deplorable, because otherwise, Pocket is a very polished and well-functioning piece of multi-platform and multi-device software/app/web service, with a very easy and well-designed and implemented user interface. no save dates nor any of your personally curated tags, nor any other useful meta-data. html file that Pocket generates currently included only the URLs themselves, i.e. Personally tested the export "feature" and the resulting. your bookmarks and tags), it is essential that a total, fair and open export (including all tags) functionality is provided. So, if you are going to invest a lot of your personal time and energy in curating your Internet findings (i.e. Kippt, Spingpad, Delicious (to some extent), etc.). Too many bookmarking and tagging companies have stopped or have gone bankrupt these last years (e.g. This is very sad, unfortunate and creates a no go decision for any seasoned user. Correct and open export of bookmarks and tags are not possible This means that Pocket is (currently) a total lock-in.
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