Pulse News: the ultimate web news reader.

A lot of sites and blogs have RSS (or "news") feeds. This is a special web page on the site that allows the site content to be easily shared or viewed by a variety of means.  Pulse is an app that allows you to "subscribe" to these feeds on your android device and presents them to you in a very clever way.

The latest version of the Pulse app  allows you to store up 60 rss feeds that can be organized into 5 columns in a similar set up to tweetDeck.  Once in a column, each feed gets its own row of horizontally scrollable thumbnails. Each thumbnail is a news posting from that rss source.  Pressing the thumbnail opens the article.  Swiping left or right while in the article will navigate you to the next or previous content.  It's really a great alternative to browsing websites on the droid because the content is optimized to be read on your smaller screen. Clicking on links within the article usually opens in your browser.

The setup is easy and has a nice index of popular news sources or you can search or provide your own feed if you know the source's web address. Organizing is done with simple long-presses to allow drag and drop.

To be honest, 90% of what I do on my droid is either through TweetDeck or Pulse ... occasionally I make a phone call.

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