Ars Technica
By Condé Nast Digital
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Description
Ars Technica is the preferred choice of the modern IT professional and technology enthusiast. Access the latest technology news and information on the go from your iPad.
A passionate community of more than 5 million online readers trusts Ars Technica as the definitive source for accurate, credible, and in-depth insight on the following topics:
• IT enterprise
• Apple coverage (Mac, iPad, iPhone, iOS)
• Gadget news and reviews
• Video games and systems
• All things Microsoft
• Tech policy and legal issues
• Scientific applications
Key Features:
• Sync and read Ars Technica while offline
• Latest breaking tech news
• In-depth product guides and reviews
• Designed exclusively for the iPad
• Seamless navigation
• Bold, bright images
Free preview:
• Anyone can access the full Ars Premier experience, even if you don't have an Ars Premier account.
• Simply choose to use a trial account and get full access with brief intermissions by our advertising partner.
Update (Nov 5th, 2010): If you're having issues with choppy performance, try re-launching the application. Many users have told us this fixes the issue, we're investigating how we can minimize this behavior ourselves.
What's New in Version 2.0
We've gone back to the drawing board and tried to focus on what our readers have told us they want in an Ars Technica iPad app:
0. A homepage interface
1. Native scrolling
2. Landscape reading
We've sought to bring these features to this 2.0 version of the Application while stripping out any kind of extraneous features.
Home Page
Now instead of being shown the most recent article since your last load, you will begin at a home screen listing of articles in reverse-chronological order. When you reach the bottom of this list, you can load in more entries.
Native Scrolling
Instead of using a synthetic scrolling layer, we've re-architected our application from the ground up to use a simple, single toolbar at the top of the device.
When you need the toolbar, simply tap almost anywhere and it'll appear, allowing you to navigate back to the homepage, login to your Ars Technica account, adjust font sizes, and so forth.
When you don't need the toolbar (e.g. when you're reading an article or browsing the home screen), it will simply disappear and leave you distraction-free.
Landscape Viewing
This is another big feature our readers asked for. There's nothing fancy to this one, it just works. Now you can enjoy all your favorite Ars articles in widescreen format.
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Just about perfect now
Love this update! Loads fast, great UI, has font choices, and when you tap to read a story the story is there as soon as you tap it....its that fast! They really did a good job with this! The scrolling his 100 percent better now than it was! The only problem I have is for some reason they didn't do the fast app switching with this update, so when you get out of ars and go into another app then back to ars it has to reload as if your opening the app for the first time! If they would fix that it would be perfect! If you like ars or great tech stories download this you wont be disappointed!
Better, Still needs improvement
Native scrolling is a much needed improvement.
The bad:
- No fast app switching. Whole app reloads itself if you drop out of it.
- The toolbar disappearing even when you are at the top of an article is annoying. It show always be there if you haven't yet scroll down. Rather than blinking in out it should probably fade in/out.
- Clicking a link to an external page asks to launch Safari but doesn't actually display the outgoing link, it only shows "index.html" which is not all that helpful.
Much improved, but lacks fast app switching
There's no reason I should have to wait 5-10 second to load up the app just because I wanted to check my mail for a second.
Also, any time your finger touches an image or video, even from scrolling, it pops up a dialogue box asking to open safari. Uh what?
- Free
- Category: News
- Updated: Jun 13, 2011
- Version: 2.0
- Size: 3.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: CondeNet
- © 2010, Condé Nast Digital
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
