River of News - simple and elegant [Program for the iPad]

For a long time we did not touch topics RSS-reader. For two months in the AppStore, there were several interesting releases. Take for example the River of News from Idyllic Code, than not a competitor to the same Reeder, And the concept is similar.

Let's start with the very name of the program - "News Feed", more correctly multiple news streams. RSS-feed in the application are categorized, each category can contain several tapes of one subject, in Posted in General surprising, all this we have already seen more than once. The fun starts when looking through the news themselves, they really are a continuous stream, which can only customize the flick of a finger. This form of interaction convenient and easily understood, there is no need to jump between news, pushing back / forward / rewind. Bothered article squandered on - that's all.

Yes, such a function in the same Reeder, you say. Yes there is, but, unfortunately, developers have spoiled her inability to scroll through the news without stopping. You must stop and wait until the shooter roll over and only then will make the leap to the next post - it is easier to do once back / forward, but it is also unnecessary movements.

River of News, in contrast to the same Early Edition, It is ground to a greater extent to work in the horizontal mode. Of course, there is also a portrait, but lately more iPad more often it is in a position "on the side" in order to reduce pressure on the wrist and hand.

In addition to the categories and streams are common filters in the River of News. Unread displays have not read the news, All allows viewing of all available records. Starred filter allows you to add articles to your favorites and read them later. Unfortunately, in the absence of connection to the Internet content Starred N. Without Instapaper here do not exactly get along, but access to it can only be obtained in three "tapa" that much.

Let us turn to the standard attributes of a modern RSS-reader. Loading feeds from Google Reader - there are two types of font - there are (classical and modern), scalability font (small, medium, large) - is, sort news by date and time (New records above / below the belt) - ie, the option "mark as read in the scrolling time" - ie, the function "mark all as read" for all records or one of the categories - there is. In general, all that is necessary for comfortable reading of news there.

classic font - the main font River of News

modern font is not too bad

Interface River of News is not trying to present the paper or sheet Paper the, here everything is quite restrained and does not distract from the main thing - a newsreader. At the same GUI is not without a certain elegance. What touches at once, so it is the disappearance from the list on the left has been read categories, the decision certainly right, because some tape rarely updated and occupy a useful place to them completely necessary. The reproach River of News can only deliver mediocre icon, which is no longer any desire to be dragged to the "first screen." As it was not a good interface, equally important component is speed. The debut release from this had a small problem with the release 1.0.1 scrolling does not bring more problems owner, he was smooth, pages load quickly, switching occurs by categories for a second, not more.

River of News is a good alternative to the annoying Reeder, it is for those occasions when you want drag the sofa in a different angle or change application, the now standard and do not lose in the details. Version 1.1 is already being approved by Apple and adds synchronization with Google Reader and some other innovations.

application page in the AppStore (2.99 $)