Description
Read the latest news from your favorite sites and blogs, even when you’re offline. Simply use your free Google Reader account to subscribe to websites you’d like to keep track of. Byline will automatically stay in sync and bring you new content, putting thousands of RSS and Atom feeds at your fingertips. Even when you have no internet connection (such as on the subway) Byline’s offline browsing feature gives you instant access to complete web pages.
This paid version of Byline does not display ads.
FEATURES:
- Two-way syncing with your Google Reader feeds, folders, starred items and notes.
- Integration with Twitter, Instapaper, and Read It Later.
- Navigate between items quickly with a simple swipe gesture.
- View up to 1000 items when you're offline, including embedded images.
- Offline browsing lets you access complete web pages linked to by your feeds.
- Automatic caching uses statistical analysis to selectively cache web pages for feeds with truncated content.
- High-resolution graphics optimized for iPhone 4’s Retina display.
- Built-in web browser for online and offline browsing.
- Star items and mark as read/unread in bulk or one-by-one.
- Share items and create notes from any web page.
- Send full articles by email.
- Landscape mode.
What's New In Version 3.2.3
- Fixes a bug which sometimes caused crashes during caching.
- Fixes a bug which caused previously cancelled notes or tweets to appear on launch.
- Fixes a bug which caused links copied from Byline to be repeated twice when pasting.
- Fixes a bug which could cause the “Mark as Unread” command to be ignored when following links.
- Improves the behaviour of “Mark All as Read” when “Sort by Oldest” setting is enabled.
- Adds the custom URL scheme "byline:" for opening Byline from third-party apps.
Customer Reviews
Crashes FIXED Woot!!!!
With this newest update all of the crashing problems I was having have now stopped. Byline is once again one of my most used apps and I am loving it. Thank you for getting this update out.
Usabiilty severely impacted by recent issues
I've been a heavy user of this app for several versions and until recently, I've loved it, so I feel a little bad piping up now that I have complaints.
In the past few versions (post-iOS4 release) the app consistently hangs for about 60 seconds while it caches downloaded content. The app is completely unresponsive during this time; the only way out is to hit the Home button. If you choose to wait through the hang, then the app behaves normally. This hanging, however, severely impacts usability because I use Byline to scan headlines quickly when I have a brief moment - in an elevator, waiting in line, stopped in traffic. Having to suffer through a completely unresponsive UI for a minutes makes this use case totally unworkable. In the past, the caching seemed to happen in the background so that you could view content that was already downloaded.
Also, the "Mark All As Read" button is still too hard to get to for a functionality that is used so often. It requires me to stretch my thumb to the top-right corner of the screen to tap into Edit mode, and then traverse my thumb to top-left to tap Mark All As Read. At the very least, make it a single tap.
Waiting for iPad version
Although one of my most used apps on the iPhone, it's just really clunky on the iPad. Best feature is that you can pre-cache the pages so that you can read the full articles when off-network. 3 stars until there is a version that takes the full screen on the iPad.
- $4.99
- Category: News
- Updated:Aug 27, 2010
- Current Version:3.2.3
- 3.2.3
- 1.0 MB
- Languages:English, French, German, Japanese
- Seller:Milo Bird
- © 2010 Phantom Fish
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.
