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iPad is the perfect device for keeping up with all of your favorite websites’ updates via RSS feeds, and NewsRack is the first fully-featured reader to make an impact on the tablet. While some other readers offer more colorful or newspaper-like user interfaces, NewsRack keeps things clean and simple with easy to use touch commands in both portrait and landscape modes.
Read all your favorite websites’ posts in one place via RSS feeds.
If you already use Google Reader — the web-based option of choice for many — you can easily sync your account with NewsRack, which will keep track of unread pages and manage your existing folders. Alternately, you can manually add feed URLs provided by websites, or search the built-in Feed Directory, which is similar to the iTunes Podcast Directory, albeit for blogs and news websites.
In landscape view, you’ll have an ever-present listing of stories.
Flicking through stories is as simple as tapping them on the listing or using the previous/next buttons, with entries loading almost immediately upon touch. You can also star favorite entries for later viewings, or share them with friends through Google Reader, e-mail, or other social networking and offline-reading services. NewsRack makes it so easy to keep up with your favorite news feeds on the go, so if you’re an RSS junkie in search of a stellar iPad reader, this one’s got our vote.
Wikipanion loads Wikipedia entries in a clean, easy-to-read format.
Considering the mobile web-browsing prowess of the iPad, apps that largely reinterpret existing websites must improve upon the original experience to warrant a download (or purchase). Wikipanion is luckily one of those apps — much as it was on iPhone — as the simple interface sorts through the Wikipedia database and presents entries in a very handy, easy-to-read format that skims out the filler. Most entries load very quickly and as intended on the web (occasional pages look a bit out of sorts), and when held in landscape orientation, Wikipanion even gives you a section listing, letting you quickly skip around each entry without excessive scrolling.
Just as Wikipedia itself is free of charge, so is the standard version of this third-party app, and it comes with most of the features of the premium Plus version. Deciding whether or not to spend $4.99 on Wikipanion Plus depends largely on your need for offline browsing, as the premium app lets you both queue up entries and save them for when you’re lacking wireless service. Our recommendation: start with the free app, which itself speeds up and improves the Wikipedia browsing experience, and then see if the extra features are worth dropping a Lincoln on.
In landscape view, you can skip between sections with ease.
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