Flipboard, new interactive magazine for the iPad

The latest iPad app is becoming immensely popular with everyone as the best looking app of the time. It’s making all the right noises because what differentiates this app from the previous ones by its magazine like feel. All users will agree that the app resembles an interactive magazine and fits so well with the iPad’s touch interface. The app truly lives up to the promise of the iPad as a media platform.

The application is available as a free download and after installing it we can log into our Facebook and Twitter accounts. It will scan your friends’ posts and present the links and articles that they’ve been posting to Facebook or Twitter to you in a magazine-like layout. People are all appraise for the app as it collects all of the articles, blog posts, images, and videos that ones social network is discussing. Besides this it has all the news, twitter updates, face book and more to keep the readers totally hooked. Moreover the app projects them in its one book layout. Its main menu consists of a three-by-three grid of content hubs. It has its own curetted hubs but one can always build there own customized hubs according to the need and the choice of the user.

It can be termed as a sort of a personalized magazine however it is not boring unlike your grandfather’s magazine. Clicking on any hub gives you an enlarged view of it with images and headlines rolling out of it. And amazingly just like a magazine all you need to do is to flicker your finger to see the next page. The app also recognizes if your iPad is in portrait or display mode, and will thus change the page layout automatically.

It is basically a face book and twitter client on which you can add some news of your choice. This app is been attracting millions of links posted everyday on the internet on to two most popular social networking sites that are Facebook and twitter. All these links are then automatically converted into a magazine like format. Facebook and twitter look as good on the iPad as never before. Our Facebook friends, their shared links, photos, and videos are all arranged in a layout that looks much better than Facebook itself, and the links from the people you follow on Twitter are pre-loaded and the articles displayed in-line. Moreover the app also allows us to directly interact with our Facebook and twitter accounts directly from the app.

But there are some short comings to the app as well. We cannot add our content to the app besides what it is offering. As for example we cannot put up a RSS feed of a blog you like to read it within the app. However all is not lost, if our favorite sites have Facebook pages or Twitter feeds we can still see them in the Twitter and Facebook sections.

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