NewsRack

We loved Newsstand for the iPhone, and though it recently changed names to become NewsRack ($5), this universal iPhone/iPod/iPad application remains our favorite RSS newsreader for the iPad. As before, it saves a list of RSS feeds you create, or synchronizes them from Google Reader, enabling you to maintain one big list of read and unread articles across multiple devices. The browsing interface is very simple: NewsRack splits the screen into an articles pane and a display pane, enabling you to see article summaries before clicking an arrow button to load the full original web page in a very usable crop of the Safari browser, and providing the ability to look at articles from all of your sources at once, or just an individual site that interests you. There’s nothing sexy in NewsRack—even its prior widescreen cover view is completely gone, unfortunately—but it works so well that we now rely upon it every day. Hooks for Twittering and Facebooking the stories you like are much appreciated, but it would be great if NewsRack could store content on its own without relying upon the use of a separate app or

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