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Think of it as an alert system for your most critical news sources, with the likes of Feedly and Nextgen Reader as an access point into a much wider news pool, but at lower priority. For example, the notification system is particularly well done, see the toast examples below - this is a really useful way to be alerted of breaking stories, but you really don't want to have your phone beeping and buzzing a hundred times a day, so it's best to be very selective in Newsflow. Google Reader or Feedly), since it's easy to be somewhat overwhelmed by content. I'd recommend building up Newsflow from specific sources rather than importing a mass of hundreds of feeds from a previous news gathering system (e.g.

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that wasn't in the news feed per se), or you can open the story in Edge, either in normal or (in theory) in 'reading' mode (this latter doesn't work on my Anniversary Update device, so there's an issue here to fix, I think):

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Within a particular story, you can opt for the 'Readability' mode, this often helps by simplifying the HTML code from the source and also bringing in content from the original story (i.e. So the idea is that you build up your own favourite set of news sources (usually via searching for keywords for sites and subjects) - you can then view all news items from all sources in the main 'home' view, in reverse chronological order, or you can dive in to see just the stories from a particular source, headline (and header para, usually) by headline. Which is just as well, since RSS/ATOM/XML feeds vary hugely in terms of their content - it's essentially up to the content creator as to what they do or don't put in the (machine) feed, in terms of text depth and image references. In addition to such customisability on a source-by-source basis, there's also a tremendous amount that can be tweaked across the whole Newsflow application - this is one of the most customisable applications I've seen for a while.

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Having found a news feed/source that you want to add to Newsflow, you can save it immediately or (recommended) take a moment to swipe through the custom settings - for example, whether to include images with the headlines in your main 'home' news feed (many sources have low-grade images, which then look very blocky in the otherwise polished UWP interface) or whether to 'pin' the source to the Newsflow hamburger menu or, indeed, to the Windows 10 Start screen on your phone. The latter is rarely needed though, since the main directory is very comprehensive. type in the name of something you're interested in) or for the name of a site or publication or, simply, paste in the RSS feed for something you want explicitly. It's a model UWP in many ways, with every angle, every aspect covered - and, amazingly, it's totally free.Īt the heart of Newsflow is a massive online directory of existing known news feeds, ready for searching and adding to your in-app index - you can search for a keyword in a news piece (i.e.

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Plus the core application is a full UWP and works in both portrait or landscape modes, with or without Windows virtual controls, via Continuum, and on tablet or laptop PC. Newsflow then, is a RSS reader (and including the various other formats), letting you build up (or import) your own index of the world's top stories, notifying you if required via 'toast' pop-ups and on as many live tiles as you care to pin. In this way, news sources can be indexed and accessed from anywhere online without someone having to manually wade through a myriad site layouts. The idea behind RSS (and adapted in other hypertext and object-based systems) is that news sites (like AAWP!) can automatically publish a machine-readable version of their main content - this will typically contain the various meta-text, keywords, titles, perhaps an image or two and an opening paragraph for each story. RSS (XML, ATOM) news reading sounds like something technical that's too much work to set up, but with Newsflow, after an initial customising period in your hands, you'll have access to bang up to date news sources with minimal effort. This time it's something that's both old-school and exciting at the same time.

Another day, another sumptuous Universal Windows Platform application to review.

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