The Home button is positioned in both the lower-right and the upper-left of the screen, again where you might more easily access them for navigation. In landscape mode, it works pretty much the same way. You scroll up and down to read the article, and you scroll left and right to scan the titles. So when you have the iPad in portrait position, a feed’s titles appear at the bottom of the screen, and the selected article is layered under the list. I also like how important menu elements are also placed where you can easily access them. The articles of feeds that only offer summary posts can‘t be read in Text mode. All the ads and surrounding content is stripped away so only the text is left to read. The text mode is similar to the new Reader mode in Safari 5.0. In my mind, if you tap on the title in a feed, you are more than likely want to read or scan the full story.įeeds that offer full posts are at an advantage when read in Pulse, because the app gives you the option of reading articles in Text or Web mode. Sorry to say, but AppleMatters‘s RSS feed, for example, is summary based, which means that readers have to tap on a title in its feed, and then tap again on the title of the summary to get access to the full article. In this regard, feeds that consist of full posts rather than summaries mean one less tap that I have to make. The less redundant tapping that we have to do-in my view-the better the app and experience as a user. When we use the iPad or iPhone, we’re constantly tapping, swiping, and scrolling content on the screen. The images can often convey the topic of the article faster than lists of titles.Īnother important element of the iPad is navigation. Notice in the screenshot above the difference between feeds that include images and the ones that don't. The issue is that not all feeds come with images, which takes away from the visual appeal of Pulse. Pulse attempt to bring a magazine-style approach to an RSS feed. I already have a couple of RSS readers ( NetNewsWire and Early Edition) on my iPad, so I wasn’t in a hurry to download another one.Īll RSS Readers are pretty similar, but the difference with Pulse is that its interface tries to be visually-based, whereas with NetNewsWire (see the second screen shot below), the feeds are list/word-based. I had put this app on my wish list a few weeks ago, but when Steve Jobs highlighted it in his WWDC keynote I thought I’d download and get a better look. This I think in part is the appeal of the latest RSS feed app, Pulse (iTunes Store link). Icons, logos, photos, and other graphic elements communicate more to us than entire books. Like it or not, images are the new way we read. Thus for me, the apps that work best on the iPad are ones that have great visual appeal. When you hold it in your hand, it’s like you’re holding a magazine, flipping back and forth through content guided mostly by images and other graphics that grab your attention. The best way to view and understand the iPad is to see it as a visual medium.
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