Showing posts with label rss. Show all posts
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December 30, 2012

Fluent News Reader App, deliver the latest news links for you to read on Google Android



Fluent News Reader is an App for Google Android which delivers the latest news in Full articles format from websites like Fox, BBC, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, ESPN, and Washington Post on different categories like Business, World, Science and Technology, Lifestyle, Entertainment, and more.

Fluent has a built in browser for displaying the mobile versions of News websites instead of the desktop version because the mobile version loads faster, and is easier to read on a phone or tablet without zooming in and out.

You can also share articles on Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, Google+, and view articles offline from the app without leaving the app.

Fluent news is easy to use since you don't have to set up a subscription to Google Reader, make an account, or pick categories and websites to subscribe to like other News Reader apps and websites. You just install Fluent News, and you are ready to read from different news sources on different categories.

To change categories/topics like Business, World News, and Life style, you just tap on the menu button on Fluent, or your phone or tablet if it has a physical menu button. After you tap on the menu button, Fluent will show you a list of categories you can read. You just tap on the category which you want to read and Fluent will display links to articles which you can read on the category you picked.

You click on the article link on Fluent to launch the article. When you are reading an Article, you can tap on the menu button to share the article by e-mail, and social network like Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter.

The App runs pretty fast on a Google Android Tablet, and the news is updated regularly. I like that Fluent News Reader uses less then 1 MB of space to install it. It also rarely crashes in my experience.

The best feature of Fluent News is everything is automatic, so there is no syncing with accounts like Google Reader, or loging in required like other news readers, and all articles being linked to on Fluent are full articles displayed on a mobile website template making it easier for people on tablets and smartphones to read the news.

December 29, 2012

gReader, Great third party Google Reader for reading your news on Google Android


  I have been using gReader (Google Reader / RSS) which is a free third party news reader app which let me log-in to my Google Reader account from the app, and quickly downloads and sync articles from my favorite blogs with a RSS news feed which let people subscribe with news readers.

I can also use my Google Reader/Gmail account to manage my subscriptions google.com/reader on a desktop computer, so I can easily subscribe to blogs and news sites I want to follow on gReader installed on my mobile devices like Tablets and Smartphones. Plus, I don't lose my subscriptions even if I lost my phone or tablet because all my subscriptions are saved on my Gmail account which I can access from almost any internet connected device.

I like using gReader because it let me easily keep up to date on my favorite blogs without opening a web browser, going into my bookmarks folder, looking for the link to go to blogs, browsing the website to look for articles to read, and zooming in and out of websites to read the text if the website is not a mobile website.

With gReader, new articles from blogs are automatically downloaded to my Tablet when it is on, so once I launch gReader all my subscriptions from Google Reader are ready for me to read even if I don't have internet on.

Plus, gReader have offline reading support, so I can still read while I am offline. Setting up gReader to get news from my Google Reader account is easy. All I need to do is login to my Google reader account from gReader to sync gReader with Google Reader. I can also use gReader to search for new blogs, and websites to add to my Google Reader/gReader profile from within the app.

I can also search for text within subscriptions, and articles to make finding articles easier from within gReader.

The reading experience from within gReader is great for tablets, and smartphones. I can easily adjust the font size, and theme to Dark or Black for better night reading, and back to bright for daytime reading.

Some blogs only send you a few sentences for you to read on Reader apps to make you visit the full website. When you open the full website where the article is hosted, gReader will format the article to display in Reader mode to make the article look like articles saved to gReader. Articles in Reader mode won't have banners, sidebars, and comments like the full website, but if you prefer the full website layout, you can click on the web button, or change the setting to web in the display settings for gReader.

It is also possible to show a thumbnail image of images within articles, and read the first few sentences of an article before opening it to see what it is about.

Articles which you read are mark as read, mark article as favorite, and there are options to save articles to read offline on your devices memory. It is also possible to use gReader to share articles by email, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and other social networks.

Once you are done reading an Article in gReader, you can swipe your finger to the left on your tablet, or phone which will tell gReader to load to the next article. You can also hit the back button on your mobile device to go back to the article list from the news source. There are also navigational buttons for scrolling and going back to the home screen on gReader sidebar.

gReader also has Widgets, Text-To-Speech, Podcast support (streaming), Mark read on scroll.

In my experience, gReader runs pretty well on my Asus Google Nexus 7 tablet. Articles load almost instantly, and gReader never freezes and crashes. The user interface is easy to use because it has the back, up and down scroll bar buttons, and toolbar buttons for doing common tasks, so I so not need to change the settings much.

gReader is one of the best third party Google Reader apps for Google Android, and it is also available in the Amazon App store, so Kindle Fire users can read their website and blog subscription from the gReader app instead of on a web browser which can be slow, and time consuming compared to using an app .

December 23, 2012

TapTu, Follow your news blogs in a news feed style Google Android App



Taptu is a free Newsreader RSS Feed Reader App which is used for reading news feeds from blogs, websites, online magazines, and your Google Reader account if you have one.

It can also be used to post, reply, and read status updates, and posts on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, and other social networks to read articles which friends posted to their social network profiles.

It is very easy to add new news sources to Taptu by searching for topics, website names, and feeds on Taptu built-in search engine to search for websites, websites on a specific category, or you can manually add websites your find in Taptu's categories . If you already have a Google Reader account, you can easily add   blogs, websites, etc which you saved to Google Reader, and add them to the TapTu app.

Connecting your Taptu app to its website is easy. You just need to use Taptu to login to your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin or Google account to sync Taptu to Taptu's online website, so you can use multiple devices running iOS, Android, Nook Color, Playbook, Kindle & Samsung Bada operating systems.

You can also use your account which you link to Taptu to read articles on Taptu.com on a computer with a web browser, and internet connection.

Taptu lets you merge multiple feeds into one feed to save screen space on phones and tablets.

You can also change the background color of the website or feed title to make finding them easier.

Browsing articles on a feed is also easy all you do is swipe your finger right to left, and Taptu automatically show you older articles in the feed. It is also very easy to change the font size and style, reading template like Bright, or Dark page, and picture size in articles, or hide articles to save bandwidth, and make article downloads faster.

I like that reading Articles in Taptu is like reading a Magazine

If you like the article, you can bookmark it to read at a latter time, or save it to Instapaper, and Pocket which are offline article readers which you can use to read your articles offline anytime you want even when there is no internet connection once you save the article to Instapaper, or Pocket.

Tatu also seems to freeze up less, and crash less then other newsreader apps which I used for Android, and it also runs faster, and seems easier to use then other news apps while looking attractive for a news reader app.