Flipboard it is! It’s a free app I found a couple weeks ago and it became one of my everyday tools. While I use it for news and sports updates only I read about people who use it as the primary facebook and twitter app.
The app is quite simple. Install, start, select a category and add the channels, feeds, boards or whatever you want to call it (I’ll call it channel for now). Flipboard offers channels that cover all publishers of a category or you just pick single publishers. If you don’t like the selection go and search for it! If you search for “mpitsch.com” you’ll see my inactive tumblr page, tweets mentioning the URL and RSS feeds. Just watch out when you selected a bunch of channels and want to add a few more. Don’t select channels you already have as duplicates could appear.
The design is great and whoever came up with it should get 100 years of free Dunkin Donuts iced coffee. It’s simple and it looks fun because all you have to do is to flip the pages. Just like a flipboard… Guess where the name comes from! Haha… Funny indeed. The first page shows a big box with an image for “Cover Stories” and it’s a mix of the latest updates. Two smaller boxes underneath the bigger one showing whatever you selected. You can sort the channels by dragging them in the “Your Flipboard” options. The pages are limited to four pages though so page 2 to 4 show up to six smaller boxes and if you have more than 20 channels you have to select “more” on the last page. Too bad. Once you selected a channel you can flip through the headlines. Select a headline and you get to the article where you can continue to flip through the content. I’m this app rocks on iPad…
flipboard.com
