The Early Edition 2

Rss reader application for iPad Recently, a very, very much. Conventionally, the most striking representatives, I would divide them into two camps: the classic app, like Reeder, Perfect Reader and applications with a fresh look at familiar reading the news, be it an unusual appearance or functionality, such as Pulp, Flipboard. That second category includes the hero of our today's review of The Early Edition 2.

The choice of news readers on the iPad app for me was very difficult. If your Mac and iPhone, I think the best choice Reeder, something on the iPad, for some reason, had to look for another option. Having tried a lot of applications, I did not find one you left off. In some, I do not like the look and ease of use (for example, Mr. Reader, Mobile Rss and Perfect Rss), another show no more than amusing applications to indulge in a couple of days (Flipboard, Pulse). The most appropriate option seemed to me Pulp, experience with which I was already on the Mac, but the lack of a full account sinhroniatsii with Google Reader I have a few did not like.

Finally, a couple of days ago, I remembered a very interesting application The Early Edition 2 from the developer Glasshouse. I must admit that my decision to purchase this application most affected video from the developer showing excellent appearance and excellent animations in the app.

Review of the first version of The Early Edition, you must have already read on our websiteBut consider first and the second version is almost like two different applications. Another reason for this is the fact that the second version - this is not an upgrade, but as it were a standalone application, for which the owners of the first version will have to pay separately. Developers on their website say that working on the second version for 12 menyatsev completely rethinking The Early Edition, virtually re-created.

As in 2010, in the case of the first version, The Early Edition 2 pedlagaet user extraordinarily beautiful appearance in the style of this newspaper, distinguishes it from competitors. Let's see what lies behind the visual side of the application, and how things are going from a functional point of view.

In The Early Edition 2 there are two modes of operation, is to synchronize with your Google Reader akkaunom and, say, the manual mode. In addition it is possible to add the subscription itself of the recommended.

I like that in The Early Edition 2 is not intrusive interface elements, they are usually hidden, but in order to access them, you have to swipe your finger from top to bottom.

The remarkable feature - image caching, because of this you will be able to read the offline subscription. With images has another great feature: if one of your subscriptions only izobazheniya example deviantart, double tapom on the picture to open a gallery of images. Thus, you can only view the images from the subscription, without any unnecessary text.

Of course, it is possible to observe interesting news to come back to read them later. Now this is nothing new, but it seems funny how it is implemented in The Early Edition 2. Swipe your finger up from the bottom, you'll see a box from under the shoe, which neatly folded stack of interesting news you.

Settings The Early Edition 2 is not much, but enough for comfortable use. You can choose the font, the font has a choice for English-speaking and non-English speaking subscriptions. If I'm not mistaken, in the first case it is Lucida Grande, in the second Helvetica. What about the readability of text in a particular language, I would argue - both the text perfectly legible so that there can be selected based on personal likes. It is strange that there is a family of fonts serif, serif fonts because, perhaps, more organic look in a newspaper layout news.

Tape as a whole, you can select the priority of the image, so depending on your choice of more articles will show the text or text and image. For a single subscription, you can specify display text and image, the image only or the image in the image frame.

One of the most memorable in The Early Edition 2 - a page turning animation. Page moving your finger just the way to do it actually. In general, the beauty of animation - this is probably the strongest side of the application. Very captivating is how the designers have thought The Early Edition 2, such that after its use in the majority of other similar apps do not want to watch.

It does not remain forgotten and the social component. You can use Twitter, Instapaper, Facebook, Delicous and Read It Later. Again, cool animation and design turned out.

For me personally, The Early Edition 2 is not enough only one that I could call it the perfect application for reading rss, there is no possibility of the whole article download in Pulp or Reader. It is strange that having done this work on ogromnub application developers did not care about such a necessary and useful functions. To read the full article, have to use the built-in browser, although, admittedly, it is quite easy to use. For the rest, I am more than satisfied with this application, and are unlikely to in the near future would trade The Early Edition 2 on anything else.

Download from the App Store: The Early Edition 2
Price: $4.99
website DeveloperGlasshouse
System requirements: IOS 5.0 and higher