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this episode of what's the apt is brought to you by hostgator well hello there what's up guys John Q here from technobuffalo and welcome to what's the apps a simple little app review show here in TechnoBuffalo n rev3 where we check out some mobile applications and today we're going to be taking a look at an application for the ipad called Flipboard usually I try to find applications and not too many people know about because goodness knows we do not we do not need another review for cut the rope or doodle jump although they are both wonderful games but there's one iPad application that I've been dying to review ever since I got my iPad about two months ago and this free yes free application I be talking about is called Flipboard Flipboard takes RSS to a whole nother level seriously okay I barely say something is revolutionary and mean it but man Flipboard totally revolutionizes how you consume RSS content no longer do we have that traditional list experience like we had before with the magazine like format of Flipboard the RSS viewing experience its interactive intuitive and beautiful on top of the absolutely stunningly simple and smooth user experience of Flipboard I got to point out another thing as a person who's into design I really gotta give Flipboard credit for their seamless grid system and their beautiful use of typography bold condensed titles with serif fonts makes following and reading text naturally simple unless of course you hate serif fonts and then then whatever man you know your face hate serif fonts mmm when you first open Flipboard you'll see a few feeds available such as lifestyle tech and Flickr you can even check out their featured content adding and removing feeds is also very intuitive to iOS hold and wait for the exes to appear and bam no more food porn ugh dang it no worries though adding new feeds is as easy as pie I wonder if they have any pie pictures on food porn PS for those of you who have never been food porn has nothing nothing to do with the dirty dirty this is a big big gallery filled with the wonderfully scrumptious food pictures for fatties like myself yeah so yummy mmm anyways let's check out a feed shall we like I said I'm a design guy so I've subscribed to quite a few design sites the arrangement of the articles varies from page to page but as you can see there's always a sense of balance just flip through and find something you like and oh I would love to see 85 cool Angry Bird merchandise a--'s thank you very much but what's the point of checking out something cool without being able to tell the whole world about it Flipboard has made sharing super easy and you can do it over email or Twitter speaking of Twitter yes Flipboard natively integrates your Twitter and Facebook accounts not to mention it also pretty faiz your friends tweets and wall posts a downside to flip board is that it doesn't necessarily work for all sites most sites with the solid RSS feed will render okay however some sites have limited RSS feeds and might require you to visit the full page before we go lashing out and complaining Oh Flipboard sucks it doesn't render this site properly we have to remember the Flipboard is an RSS reader and it can only show what the site's RSS allows it to show and I know it can be hard to remember that sometimes especially with image-based feeds like Flickr or food porn I am such a fatty another downside is a Flipboard is only available on the iPad no iphone web or desktop support on the plus side I didn't receive a tweet from the footboard folk while back saying that they will be working on both so we'll just have to wait and see like I needed to say this Flipboard this free ultimate RSS beautifying application 5 out of 5 like to take some time right now to give a shout-out to Hostgator Hostgator can get your blog or website up and running in minutes with plans starting at just 495 a month you get twenty four seven support and access to website building tools with over 4000 templates heck Bell even migrate your current site over for free man that's pretty good their servers are 130 % powered by wind energy they have unlimited this space and bandwidth they have a 45-day money-back guarantee and when you sign up you will get one hundred dollars AdWords credit to market your site for rev3 viewers Hostgator is now offering twenty-five percent off your order or your first month free just go to hostgator.com and enter the coupon code technobuffalo at the checkout well I hope you guys enjoyed my review of Flipboard and for you ipad owners go out and download this application if and started using if this thing to start consuming the web because trust me after you start using this thing RSS will never be the same this was John Q from technobuffalo thank you very much for checking out this review and i'll see you guys next time late us