Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the gigantic hurricane that battered the Caribbean islands and Florida, and continues to travel up the east coast, affecting as far north as the Great Lakes. I live in San Diego, California, clear on the other side of the country, but my family just moved my mother from New Jersey to western Florida a month or so ago. When...
Sexy Newsfeed Reading on iOS with Flipboard
Named Apple’s iPad App of the year and one of TIME’s Top 50 Innovations, Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip through your Facebook newsfeed, tweets from your Twitter timeline, photos from Instagram friends and much more. In addition to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, you can flip through your newsfeeds and timelines from Google...
Smart News Discovery on iOS with Zite
Zite is hands-down my favorite news reader for iOS. Similar to Flipboard, it takes links that I’d already be viewing and formats them in an easy-to-digest way – but Zite goes a little further and learns as you interact. As you read stories on Zite, you have the option of liking or disliking the article you’re reading. This isn’t a Facebook like, it’s not published anywhere – but it helps Zite...