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Create & Manage Collaborative Magazines In Flipboard For Android & iOS

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The addition of user-curated magazines to Flipboard seems like a step in the right direction, since many people prefer getting the latest news from ordinary people rather than journalists, as Twitter’s rise to fame has clearly demonstrated. Flipboard’s last update didn’t deal with magazines to a large extent, but now the user-created collections are back in the spotlight. With Flipboard 2.0.3, you can ask anyone to contribute to your magazines. Such collections have multiple curators, with any contributor being able to add new content to the mix whenever they want. To make sure the changes are put to maximum use, Flipboard also pushes notifications whenever a new user invites you to start contributing or adds some new content to a magazine you created. Read More

Flipboard For iOS Updated With New Profile Stats & Better Sharing

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The introduction of user-curated magazines in the Flipboard app for iOS is proving to be the right decision. Some might argue that people use Flipboard because of its glossy interface, but it has to be admitted that the app isn’t lacking in features either. Usually, there have been considerable gaps between any two major updates of Flipboard, but the popularity of magazines has prompted its developers to push some much-needed additions pretty quickly. The app’s latest update focuses on making user magazines even easier to manage. It is now possible to keep an eye on the growth of your publications, thanks to a revamped profile page that shows stats pertaining to your followers and readers. Although Google Reader only has a couple of months left to live, Flipboard seems determined to keep the experience of the service on your iPhone as good as possible. The sharing menu has become even more social as well, and even has a new option to help you add to your phone’s wallpaper collection. Read More

How To Create & Share Your Own Flipboard Magazines On iOS

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Flipboard has always been touted as a news app that displays stories in form of a beautiful, customizable magazine. While it has received many updates in the past, the basic concept behind Flipboard hasn't evolved to a great extent. Finally though, the team behind the popular news apps has decided to take things to the next level. Rather than bringing the changes to all platforms simultaneously, Flipboard's latest update has gone live just for iOS presently. There are other changes as well, but the biggest addition to the app is user-curated magazines. Rather than relying on Flipboard to come up with interesting news stories, now anyone can create and maintain a magazine of their own. Your friends and other users can then subscribe to your magazine if it suits their taste. Read More

Official TIME App Released For Windows Phone 7

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Time is among the most popular and well-respected publications on the face of the globe, and with the advent of technology, the weekly magazine has moved into the cyber world with a pretty good website, and online versions of its issues across all major platforms. As can be expected, Windows Phone 7 didn’t have an official Time app till now, but that has finally changed, and now, you can browse through the service’s latest articles via TIME Mobile, the newly released official Time client for Mango phones. The app isn’t too cluttered, like most other news-related apps, but you can still control almost every aspect of its usage. There are separate sections for articles, videos and photos, and the best thing about TIME Mobile is the fact that you can save any item for offline viewing. Read More

HyperPDF: Magazine Reader That Mimics iPad’s Reading Experience On Mac

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Whether it's physical books or their electronic variants, if you're into reading, the iPad is definitely one of the best devices to get your reading going. Then, there is a wide choice of apps that further help to enhance the reading experience. HyperPDF is a free Mac app that mimics reading on the iPad; the app supports swipe gestures, and using the trackpad, you can flip pages as if you were reading an actual book or reading it on the Apple’s popular tablet. In addition to the swipe gestures, the app resizes the file you’re reading when you resize the window, lets you annotate a page with shapes or free hand drawing and add notes. The app has three different viewing modes; Edition, Presentation and Reading. Read More

GonVisor: Viewer For Images, E-Books, Comics And Compressed File Formats

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GonVisor is a Windows application that supports viewing pictures, comics, magazines, content of compressed archives and e-books from various formats, including CBR, CBZ, CBA, CB7, ZIP, RAR, ACE and 7ZIP. With the help of this application, you can create a group of selected images, order/reorder them, add a description (such as the author’s name, date, comment etc), and password protect them. Details past the break. Read More

Edge Magazine For WP7: Get The Latest News About Games & Technology

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If you are a gamer, and have been a die-hard geek for a long time, then you have probably heard of the Edge Magazine. The publication is all about games and reviews of latest technology-related stuff. If you are a Windows Phone 7 user, then rejoice, as Edge has released a WP7 app of their magazine. Using the app, you can stay in touch with the latest happenings in the gaming world on the go. Details after the break. Read More

Flipboard For iOS Updated With Support For iPhone & iPod touch

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Even before iOS was updated to iOS 5, and included Newsstand for presenting all news and magazines in one place, users of iPad were enjoying flipping through their social media and news feeds on their iPad with Flipboard, an innovative app that has gathered acclaim from critics and users alike. This unique reader creates an great-l0oking magazine of sorts out of photos, videos and articles posted on your social networks or favorite news sources. Needless to say, such a gem of an app shouldn't be restricted to just one variant of its platform. This is probably what the team behind the app were thinking when they released a version for the iPhone and iPod touch. Although most people might argue that the biggest positive of Flipboard is its interface (that is better suited for the iPad's larger screen), we have to admit that the app's smaller version looks every bit as gorgeous as its original one. Read More

Microsoft Releases MSN Onpoint Client For Windows Phone 7

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MSN Onpoint is a service by Microsoft that focuses exclusively on women. It can be thought of as an alternate MSN homepage where you can find articles, stories, videos and just about anything that is related to women. Available only on iOS up until now, the mobile client for MSN Onpoint now has a Windows Phone 7 variant as well. The app taps into a lot of sources (newspapers, blogs, magazines) and gathers the best content in one place, so that you don’t have to scour the entire web manually to find things that truly interest you. Read More

Localized Social Magazine Proximitips Arrives In the Android Market

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Apps based solely (or partially) on social media sharing/networking have been coming thick and fast to smartphones (especially to Android). Through various apps such as QISS, SocialBlast, Sendible and Social Jogger 2, recently reviewed ChannelCaster (just to name a few) and a whole lot of official clients of different services, we’ve seen numerous ways of posting to and/or accessing data from multiple social media. Proximitips is yet another addition to the long list of aforementioned apps that brings a brand new concept of providing localized social media content to you in the form of a virtual magazine! By localized, we mean accessing only the content shared by people (including you) in your vicinity through said services. With Proximitips, you get maps, tweets, next door stuff (local multimedia sharing), bookings to your favorite venues and more. Read More

A Complete Guide: How To Download Books From Google In PDF Format

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Google Book Search has thousands of books, magazines, and documents available for free for the public. You can read them online, but what if you want to read them offline? Google should have a build-in feature to download books since most people are not always connected to the internet. What if I want to read a book while traveling and there is no internet connectivity? Google Book Downloader (link seems to be down, grab it directly here) a handy tool which you can use to download books directly from Google and save them directly in PDF format.
Update: Try out the new tools to download Google Books. For Windows, go here. For Mac, go here.
Here is how it works, you have to provide the book code in order to download it. But where exactly is the book code? It is given in the URL, the screenshot below will make it more clear to you. Read More