Top 5 Free iPhone News Apps

Here is a list of top 5 free iPhone News Apps and you can download all of them from iTunes. 

1.       AP (The Associated Press) Mobile iPhone app:-

 This app provides breaking news alerts and local news and weather. It uses push notifications for breaking news alerts, gorgeous photo galleries, and the ability to customize the kind of news you want to see on your homepage.

2.       Fluent News Reader:-

This app compiles news and headlines from organizations like Fox News, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. There are some ads in this free app, but the wide news coverage makes it worth a download.

3.       NPR (National Public Radio)News iPhone App:-

This app focuses on radio news with an hourly newscast and access to popular NPR radio shows. Overall the quality of reporting here is excellent. NPR offers a slick news app that most will enjoy.

4.       The New York Times iPhone App:-

This app provides access to the Times in-depth reporting on a variety of topics, and you can save news articles for up to seven days. Offline reading is also available. There are many sharing options via text, Twitter, or email.

5.       MSNBC news App:-

This app is a good choice if you regularly watch news. It uses push notifications for sending breaking news alerts. The alerts are timely and relevant, but you can turn them off if they bother you.

Podcast Apps for Smartphone

Podcasts are a great way to provide entertainment and avoid boredom. Modern podcasts automatically fetch new episodes of your favorite shows and sync it across multiple devices. Some of the best Podcast apps are listed below.

1.       Podcasts (iOS):-

    Apple’s Podcasts app for its iOS devices can be compared to any other manufactures product. It features the usual syncing based on subscriptions and it sync them across all the iOS devices.
      You can also create custom stations in which the app will mix similar podcasts. 

  2.       Podcatcher(WP8):-

It is ideal for use on a windows Phone 8 device. It has an efficient search engine which help users to try new podcast stations. Podcasts subscriptions can be imported from websites such as gPodder.com. It also has a download-for-later feature as well as clean-up management for old podcasts.

3.       Pocket Casts (Android & iOS):-

It arranges subscribed stations in a unique tile layout. You can tap on any tile to bring up the stations list of podcasts. It also has the usual automatic downloading features of latest episodes from subscribed podcasts. There is a neat side bar with useful filters to find the podcast you are looking for. Podcasts has an automatic delete feature to preserve the Smartphone storage.

4.       Onecast (Android):-

Onecast is a podcast app for Android with focus on simplicity. With the search feature, it can help to find the podcast of your choice. There are no traditional subscriptions and you can add your favorite podcasts to the home screen for easy access. There is special support for data limitations by which it will first check if you are on WiFi and then download your favorite podcasts.

5.       Podcasts (BB10):-

There is a good option for Blackberry10. It will help to search new podcasts through an effective search feature. You can choose to download podcasts for offline listing as well. It will automatically download subscribed podcasts as well provided you adhere to your mobile data limits.

Productivity & Games Apps for iPAD

The iPad provides an excellent platform to do a little of everything. You can organize your schedule, watch movies or play games. With the recent release of the fantastic iPad Air, you have the best apps to fulfill your needs.

Apps for iPAD Productivity:-

1. PaperPort Notes:- 

PaperPort Notes is a basic note taking app. It allows you to automatically sync your notes to a Box.net or Dropbox cloud storage account. It’s free and you can have your notes irrespective of which device you use.

    2. Apple iWork:-

It’s a fantastic app for the iPad produced by Apple. With the iPad Air, this app is free. But it has to be downloaded.

   3. Evernote:-

Evernote provides all the note taking features. You can also add visual media, movies and recorded messages to your notes. All the notes get synced o the web service and there is no need of backups.

4. Pocket:-

 It is an excellent bookmarking app which is particularly useful while travelling. It’s a cross platform app and whenever you find something interesting, it can be saved in pocket and it’ll be available on all your pocket enabled devices. 

     5. Polaris office:-

Apples Polaris office allows you to sync to Google Drive and other major storage services. It’s fast and slick and can be used for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. This app is all comprehensive and if you have it, you do not need any other app.

Apps for iPAD Games:-

1. Toca Mini:-

It’s a wonderful app designed to test the limits of a child’s creativity. They can create funny 3D character by using a wide range of facial elements.

2. Plants vs Zombies:-

It’s a strategy game with deep and complex mechanics. The big iPad screen makes it easy to play along with the colorful visuals and details.

3. Papa Sangre II:-

It’s a survivor horror game that’s played entirely through listening and sounds. It’s the only one of its kind n the App Store. You’ll be running all over to avoid monsters, beasts and traps all guided by video only.

 

  4. Juice Cubes:-

It’s basically Candy Crush Sage with the Candy being replaced for squishy, juice fruit cubes. You have to line up the same kind of fruit to score combos and win.

5. Bit Trip Run:-

It’s a running platform with a style and character of its own. Visuals are excellent and each set of actions you perform makes a unique musical sound. Game play mechanics are of top quality.

Private Social Networks for your Privacy

Though Facbook is a great social network for a host of purposes but you may need some privacy. Custom groups can however be created to share selectively on Facebook but that requires some conditional details. On the contrary private social networks allow you to have a selective group of people to share your life and views. Here are some of the prominent private social networks which offer an alternative to Facebook.

1. Path:-

Path offers to make private sharing as simple as possible. The limit of connections is 150. The focus of Path is only on the closest people you have in your life. As such there is a limited amount of control over how your share with them.

Whenever you make a post, you can choose which people can see that post. You have to repeat that process for each consequent post. It has a feature called inner circle which allows you to create a group. You are however limited to just one group in this social network.

2. Everyme:-

It allows you to create groups based on whom you want to share your posts with. Each group you create will get its own custom news feed so that you can keep a check on different people from different parts of your live without having to search for them. You can have an unlimited number of groups. 

Other people do not have to be on Everyme to be able to view the posts. If you have added a number/email to a group, that person will get a customized email or text message showing what you’ve uploaded.

  

3. Couples:-

Couples is a social network that is solely for couples. After installing the app you add the other person into your account. After that the couple can share pictures, private messages and other usual purposes as needed. There is a shared task list which any one of you can edit which is a great way of communicating needs. 

There is even a shared scheduler so the two of you can keep track of your commitments. Couples offers a great choice if you accord privacy in your relationship the foremost priority.