Kinetic typography has a way of making any random group of words look super important, and Spout is no exception. It takes your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader feeds and turns posts into well-designed animations, which are then presented in real time or on a cycle, based on your preference.
RSS! Incredibly useful but mostly ugly. Or super pretty but hard to read. With Feedly for Android, you get a great looking and easy to read feed reader. Works for your Android phone and Honeycomb tablet too.
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RSS isn’t for everyone, but a handful of new apps are making feeds easier to discover and more intuitive to read than ever. FLUD Mobile for the iPhone is one of them – it’s free and it looks great.
Android: Google’s Reader web app is pretty good, but we’ve longed for an official, native Google Reader app since we started using Android. Today, Google made that dream come true, with extras like volume-key navigation, multiple accounts, and sharing.
Reading news on a smartphone is a pain in the arse, unless you have a good RSS app. Here are the best.
iPad RSS app Reeder is lush, but Blogshelf has a nicer shopfront, I think. It basically pilfers the look and feel of the iBooks app, so the blogs you subscribe to are presented like books on shelves, minus the dust.