24 Jan 11

Reeder for iPad

I'm trying to get back into reading RSS feeds; catching up on my friends' contributions to the blogoweb intersphere. So much of the problem has been that of time; fitting it all in just seems a chore.

So I've been looking around for yet another RSS reader that suits me, and for the moment I'm playing (quite nicely aas it happens) with Reeder. It uses the pinch peek thing that you get in the Photos app, so each category or feed is displayed in a grid, so finding what you want to read at any time is simple enough. It also borrows the pulldown-to-refresh technique prevalent in a lot of iPhone apps, to easily move up and down the list of articles while reading.

You can make the text as big as you like - a bonus for me - and of course video plays directly in the page (as long as it's HTML5-able). So far so good then; let's see how long I can last.