Flipboard
Flipboard is a social-network aggregation, magazine-format
application software. It allows users to access all their favorite
content, social networks, and settings on Android devices with a single
log-in.
The app opens with a 'cover' that cycles through photos,
complete with magazine-style headlines. This application collects the
content of social media and other websites and presents it in magazine
format and allows users to "flip" through their
social-networking feeds and feeds from websites that have partnered
with Flipboard Inc.
Features:
- Built-in browser
- See when everything people are
sharing, collecting and publishing in every moment comes together in a
single place
- Search for anything: people, topics, hashtags, blogs, your
favorite sites. Flip through articles, updates, photos and videos in
a beautiful magazine format
- Connect Flipboard to 12 social networks, streamlining your
reading and activities like commenting, liking and sharing. Services
include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Google Reader,
LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo and Renren
- Get a quick dose of what’s happening now, in Cover Stories,
a constantly updated selection of articles, photos and videos shared by
your friends
- Create a Flipboard account to access your favorite content
and social networks on different or shared devices
- Access Flipboard quickly through the widget.
- Updates: Never, hourly, or daily
- Save anything to read later:
- Instapaper
- Pocket
- Readability
- Full screen option
- Set text size: Small, normal, large, and extra large
- Mute authors and sources
- 15 localized content guide editions: Australia,
Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea,
Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, USA and UK
- Explore hundreds of staff picks in the Content Guide,
including must-read magazines and blogs, photography and
special curated sections devoted to the news of the day and other
topics of interest
Verdict:
Flipboard is the future of published
material. With slick page-layouts that are incredibly easy to
read, good content partnershps with major
publishers, an
ingenious design with responsive animations, Flipboard is worthy of
our highest recommendation. Aggregate news, video, images, social
networking updates, and share links in a single app.
 10/10
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