Programs for iPad: Early Edition - effects and perhaps effective

In the continuation of Topics RSS-reader. Probably many of our readers have tried RSS-aggregator Times for Mac OS. This reader suggested watching the news in the form of a newspaper. Interaction with the Times did look impressive, and the program for some time supplanted the competitors in my daily work. However, a few weeks later Times gave way to more practical RSS-reader with a classic interface is similar to a mail client.

Glasshouseapps of developers have realized a similar idea with the Times in the application for reading news Early Edition for the iPad. The main emphasis is on the visual component of the interaction with the program, which provided a fairly large amount of positive feedback on the first version, but functionally she was poor and could not satisfy all needs. With the release of the latest version, Early Edition found the missing features and is ready to compete for a place on the screen of your iPad.

Early Edition design is really impressive, the combination of elements from the paper and wood give a sense of the morning newspaper on the summer table, lacking only a cup of strong coffee. In the horizontal position, in addition clippings left is the source control panel. Feeds are placed in categories and can be minimized to the headers as needed, which is very convenient when large quantities.

Unlike many of his colleagues, Early Edition the most pleasant in portrait mode. On the electronic origin of the content resembles a slider at the bottom of pages, and a small line on the top options.

This line contains three options filtration. «Last fetch» ​​shows the posts published just a few minutes ago, if the number of large sources, such treatment is very exciting. «Today» displays all posts on the current date. Accordingly «All dates» displays all the news feed. These filters act as across multiple sources and in playback mode a news feed.

Also on the panel is the calendar button for advanced filtering for the past week. There is also a manual update, access to «Feeds» background information and a menu that requires a closer consideration. «Feeds» serves primarily selection panel to read the tape, as well as their management tool. Hence imports carried feeds from Google Reader, OPML-file or add them to a manual mode for web-address.

Go directly to viewing the news, "tapnuv" Title. Fonts look good and long-term problems with reading have not caused. Somewhat lacking options change the size of text, it is sometimes necessary to make it slightly larger or contrast. To the right are «View Original» to view the news in the web-form, «Done» button to go back to the layout of the newspaper and call up the menu icon or send the link via e-mail or directly to the Instapaper.

Over some disadvantages, developers will have to work more. While there is no synchronization with Google Reader. No story read the news, but the developers assure us that work on convenient and appropriate implementation of the interface of this function. It would be nice to increase the speed of page turning animations, carried out gestures.

Despite these disadvantages, Early Edition looks pretty good from the competition. This is the finished product, which can meet the aesthetic and performance needs of the user.

Page Early Edition in the AppStore (4.99 $)