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wpMail Weekly Newsletter Covers WordPress Themes, Plugins & Tutorials

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Wordpress is an excellent Content Management System and it has a large user base. This user base doesn’t just comprise of blog owners; a large number of developers and designers create widgets and themes for Wordpress. The amount of development that goes on and around Wordpress is huge and designers, developers, and bloggers all need to stay up to date with it. The official Wordpress blog keeps you posted on the changes they make but there isn’t a place for you to go to to find new themes and plugins. wpMail is a Wordpress newsletter that curates the best from Wordpress developers and designers and emails you once a week. Newsletters are something that you selectively subscribe to but if you’re looking for an easy way to keep up with independent developers, read reviews of plugins and find some really great tutorials, wpMail is the newsletter to subscribe to. Read More

Popbuzz.me: Read Google News In A Facebook-Like Timeline [Web]

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Popbuzz.me is a news aggregator that organizes and displays Google News feed in a Facebook-like timeline. The interface comes with multiple categories such as Entertainment, Technology, Business, Sports and more. It also ranks news into different groups, such as All, Good, Great and Awesome, so that you can filter out unpopular items and read your favorite content. Popbuzz.me uses a social filter that sorts the news based on the number of Facebook likes, tweets and Diggs. It basically takes the buzz from across the web and provides you with a better way to discover some interesting news, without having you to spend long hours on multiple news websites. Read More

Frrole Makes Twitter A Location-Based News Source For 50+ Cities [Web]

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Frrole is a social newspaper that provides contextual and useful information from Twitter for 50+ cities. It retrieves location based tweets and offers you the most interesting happenings in your vicinity, or for other popular cities, allowing you to keep abreast of all the news in either your area, any chosen city or the whole wide world. Frrole offers you with a great way to keep track of what is happening locally, without having to manually scan Twitter. Moreover, news items are divided into various categories, in real time, such as Headlines, Entertainment, Sports, Travel, Deals, Events, and Jobs. Also, for each feed, you will be able to view its title, time and the number of retweets. Frrole not only shows you the topics that are most discussed in a city, but also gives you an excellent way for finding new people to follow, based on their tweets. Read More

Custom News: Get Latest Updates From Your Favorite Websites [Chrome]

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Custom News is a Chrome extension that lets you read social, political and world news in an interesting way. It works by retrieving content from various popular websites, displaying them in a pop-up, and letting you find everything you are interested in by organizing it all in one place. You will find seven different categories in this pop-up, including News, Politics, Fun, Gossip, Sports, Economy and Technology. Custom News is a highly configurable tool that lets you add your own websites by simply entering a URL and clicking Add. The Custom News button also displays the number of new posts right in your toolbar, and lets you view new ones with ease. Read More

Kinoma Play: RSS Feeds, Social Media, News & Events Explorer [Android]

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You might have come across numerous multipurpose Android apps, but few would’ve been as comprehensive and multidimensional as Kinoma Play. Apparently an ‘app’, Kinoma Play vows to provide users with almost all the most-sought after tools, apps and services under one roof. Be it aggregating content from your various cloud storages, social media sharing/streaming networks (including Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare, SHOUTcast, Last.fm), online news and weather service providers, Wikipedia info, Google Reader, or others, Kinoma Play ensures that you can have all the core information on hand upon requirement. Using the app, you can quickly take a glance at the up-to-date activities from your social and real world, check out the interesting places to explore nearby you, listen to your favorite songs (along with getting handy suggestions), launch the app’s native app drawer, and share the best content with your mates on the go. That’s not all, the app features a host of miscellaneous daily-use tools and apps that can be downloaded and availed natively via Kinoma Play. Read More

retickr RSS Feed Ticker Gets Interface Overhaul & Day Filter [Mac]

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Last year in August, we reviewed retickr, a free Mac app that lets you keep up with your RSS and Social media feed. Less than a year later, a new version of the app is out with an excellent, redesigned interface, complete its very own feed viewer and a day filter to limit the news items that you see. While previously reticker supported viewing an item when you hovered over it, now the app opens a news piece in its own browser. It has retained all of its previous features; connecting Facebook and Twitter accounts, sharing on social media and importing your feed from Google Reader. Read More

Hubii: Create Magazine & Read Latest News Based On Geographic Location [Web]

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Tired of jumping from one website to another to find the latest news online? Hubii, a web application, gives you faster access to news, & lets you browse international headlines in a completely different way. It provides users with a map, and lets them search for various news content based on locations. As you move through different locations on the map, the news content displayed to the left changes accordingly. You may use the Mapfilter option to filter news by date, language, time and more. Another useful and interesting feature of Hubii is Mapazine, your personal magazine that you can customize by subscribing to various publishers from whatever locations you desire. If you cant find a particular publisher, just click Contribute, and add one by providing the URL for the publisher's RSS feed. Hubii minimizes the time you spend looking for the news; instead, it brings you the news. Read More

iOS 5 Newsstand Brings All Your Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions Together

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Newsstand is one of the new features introduced by Apple in iOS 5 that aims to bring your newspaper and magazine subscriptions together under one app. Announced at the WWDC 2011 and discussed again in today’s Let’s Talk iPhone event, Newsstand is designed to be the central hub for the digital versions of all your periodicals on all your iOS 5 devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Read More

The Guardian For WP7: A News App Which Makes Full Use Of The Metro UI

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Metro is the signature and identity of Windows Phone 7. Those colorful boxes are the elements which make our favorite platform what it is, a really user friendly and easy to use OS that can be suitable for people of all ages and geekiness levels. But so far, before Mango at least, very few apps make full use of this feature. Now Mango is just hours away and luckily, developers seem to have gotten hold of the whole metro concept. The Guardian is a news app which exemplifies how metro should be used. The app is from the publishers of the British newspaper by the same name, and comes with a bunch of features which make it useful for Mango users all over the world. Like its other platform variants, The Guardian for WP7 too is available for free Read More

THE Football App Brings Its Soccer News & Stats To Android

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iLiga is a comprehensive soccer app for smartphone users that packs all the latest information & news pertaining to one of the most intensely followed sports of the world. Initially available only to iOS users, THE Football app now brings all the latest content to soccer-loving Android (Update: and now Windows Phone) users as well. Like its iOS variant, the Android version of iLiga contains plenty of informative and updated soccer content ranging from (local and global) soccer news headlines, featured multimedia content (images and videos), highlights, live commentary, match previews, reviews, in-depth statistics, standings, fixtures, player profiles and lots more. Read More

Official Guardian News App Debuts On the Android Market

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Who’s got the time (and money) to subscribe to the real newspaper when your favorite news service provider, The Guardian, has a free official smartphone client? After keeping iOS users updated with its news stories through a feature-rich news client, the official Guardian News client for Android has eventually been released on the Market and its free too. Read More

SwitchNews Brings Your Region’s News To Your Windows Phone 7

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Despite Windows Phone 7 being a platform that is rather new to the smartphone scene, there is no shortage of essentially necessary apps. Take news readers as an example. There is a large variety of apps available in the WP7 Marketplace that let you read news feeds captured from a number of sources of your choice. SwitchNews is another news app, but with a touch of difference. It allows you to view the latest news from a region of your choice. Not only that, SwitchNews is one of the very few WP7 apps that tap into Google News to come up with all the latest happenings in your region, or anywhere in the world. The feeds you create in the app are pretty customizable, and you can personalize them to make sure you get only those items that are of interest to you. Read More

Run Topic Based News Feeds Ticker On Mac OS X Desktop With retickr

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In order to sift through important updates and news from online social media and information networks, one requires a dynamic tool which not only helps filtering required information and updates from multiple social media platforms but also lets you socialize within your joined networks from a single platter. If you’re an avid social media networking websites user and looking for a desktop tool to enhance the way you read and share news and social media network streams, including Facebook and Twitter, with your friends and colleagues, retickr is probably the right tool for you. Read More

Customizable RSS Reader FLUD News Hits The Android Market

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News and RSS feed readers enjoy their fair share of fan base among mobile users. If you start exploring the app stores of Android and iOS, you'll be treated to some quality alternatives in this regard. That said, while lots of names are destined to leave the scene way too early, others enjoy every single bit of admiration and acknowledgement that they possibly can get from the users. This particular post focuses on one such app.  FLUD News is a popular mobile news reader that comes with support to search, browse and display your favorite news topics, blogs as well as RSS feeds through a visually appealing interface. Initially released as an iOS-only app, FLUD has been recently launched for Android users as well. Apart a few preloaded news feeds, FLUD offers ample customization features to the users so that they can easily manage their preferred feeds, share favorite stories through mail and view opened stories in offline mode. Read More

APPY Geek – Your One-Stop Shop For Technology News [Android]

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How many websites, blogs and web portals do you have to visit in order to get your daily dose of latest technology news, previews, reviews and all? Why browse a multitude of websites on your computer when you have APPY Geek – a free app for Android with rich graphical UI and the latest technology news / articles arranged according to your preferences. With technology news and updates flowing in from some of the best known services, APPY Geek supports a very unique feature called dynamic TagNav system that allows navigation to various news resources through a tag cloud with three different (3D / regular) layouts. Moreover, the app lets you create, personalize and prioritize your own news feeds and offers ample customization/sharing features. Read More

Drippler – Get Latest Information On Devices You Have Or Want To Own

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Whether you’re a technology fanatic or you just want to know more about some of your favorite devices but find it hard to keep up with the news or find authentic resources for it, you might want to give Drippler a try. Drippler is like the Google Reader of device news only it fetches news for you and you don’t have to add feeds to it. The web service asks you to choose which devices you want to get news for by either citing that you have the device or you want it. It then provides information for those selected devices when you log in to your Drippler account. Read More

Official App For The Economist Lands On Android Market

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The Economist has the distinction of being one of the oldest and most widely followed publications of the world. For well over a period of a decade and a half, people from all over have been benefiting from the reliable and thought provoking content of the magazine, and with the passage of time, all the content offered in the published version of the magazine has been made digitally available as well. As is the case with most web apps these days, anything that's available over web can be accessed in the form of a standalone app, and when it comes to presenting the official Android client of The Economist in the form of an app, things are no different at all. The official app of popular weekly news magazine The Economist has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time but now there is an official app available in the Android Market as well for dedicated Economist readers. The app brings quite a few interactive and rich features that include a vibrant UI, preview of full issues with concise information on all articles, checking out all previously released issues, notification upon release of new issues, easy switch between Day/Night reading mode, free audio download support for all issues, choice to select regional editions, in-app subscription of preferred issues and lots more. Read More

News360 For Phones – A Comprehensive News App For Android Phones

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Initially a tablet-exclusive app, News360 is now available for Android phones. News360 is for hardcore news followers who like to stay up-to-date with all the ongoing stories in and around the world. The app covers news stories from as many as 4000 different sources in English language along with comprehensive coverage through images and videos. Get comprehensive coverage of selected story and explore the flip side with supplementary material. Switch between local news, international news and select from wide array of diverse topics to view the news of your particular choice. Read More

Official NASA App For Android – Stay Apprised Of The Latest From Space

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For years, NASA has helped us peep into the world beyond our very own planet Earth. It's through their space discoveries and explorations that we have come to know of so many wonder worlds outside our own. There are numerous sources of digital media -TV programs, websites, magazines, mobile apps - that let you gain access to various projects and ventures of NASA. However, if you're Android user looking to get your hands on almost every aspect of NASA from the comfort of your couch, we have a great news for you.  Explore the hidden and mystical facets of your universe with the official NASA App for Android phones. This amazing and feature-rich app from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) brings you the best of 'all worlds' through interactive multimedia content (images, videos, news feeds, live TV and special featured content). The app is purely web-oriented and, therefore, requires internet connectivity to run. Read More