Segev provides a comparative analysis of the international scope of online newspapers, news portals, and news aggregators in different languages and cultures, using innovative web mining techniques and network analysis. Newsflow looks like it could fill that gap.Why are some countries more newsworthy than others? What are the similarities and differences in the scope of international news presented in different languages and cultures? How does international news affect our perception of the world? In this book, Elad Segev explores international news flow on the internet by addressing these key questions. But I missed having a standalone RSS Reader, and the notifications that would pop-up. I tried web-based options like Inoreader and Feedly, and eventually settled on the latter completely. I was a long time user of Feedburner, but moved on to other RSS readers like RSSOWL or Quite RSS. The extensions tab makes it sound like it supports a ton, but in reality there is just one, and it isn't free. You can use the Categories tab to create/delete categories, delete, mark all feeds as read, etc. Tip: Don't forget to hit that save button on the top-right corner. The app also lets you toggle media content off for specific feeds, and also disable a feed from the main page. You can also set how often the feed should be synced (15/30 minutes, 1/3/6/12 hours, 1/2 days). You can choose the number of articles that should be stored per feed, by default it is set to 500 articles. The Edit screen lets you edit the Feed title, RSS feed link, description, and category. Tip: If you wish to view news from a particular feed, say Ghacks, click on the feed's icon to jump to the site's feed. Clicking on the three dot button next to a feed lets you move the feeds position, and more importantly customize the feed. The Sources pane is where you can manage the content i.e., add/remove feeds, select specific feeds and mark them as read, see when the feed was updated, etc. You can also access your Sources and Settings from the sidebar. The side-panel is where your feeds and categories are listed. Personally, I prefer to use RSS readers in a text-only view, so I set the title-view for all categories.

Article View - Large banner + headlines + article summary.

Magazine View - Similar to cards view, but displayed like a list.

Cards View - Headline + first sentence + media (grid view).

Title Only View - Displays the headlines of articles.

This lets you switch to the following views: There is a view selector right in the top-center of the screen. The top-bar has the Main, Deffered, and Favorites tabs.Â The search bar can be used for finding a specific feed or article. Main page customizationsĬlick on an article in the feed to view it in the app. The Cache rebuild/clean up options can help you manage the app's storage.

If you have multiple computers which you wish to use the app on, you can use the Backup & Restore options. The import took quite a while for me, but that maybe because I am subscribed to over a 100 feeds.

The Data pane in Newsflow has an import option which lets you pick an OPML file (from your previous RSS reader), to add all your feeds to the app. The Live Tiles options have a few options like show news images, feed icons, unread count, that you can toggle. You can disable notifications completely, turn off the sound alert, banners, etc from the Notifications pane. Tip: Use the back button in the top left corner, to quickly go to the previous page you were on. Newsflow has read later and favorites options that you can toggle. The app can be configured to sync news in the background, or manually. Other options found in the page include a theme selector that lets you choose among a system based theme/light theme/dark theme, all of which look good. The Settings pane also has options to animate elements, and a font size bar which is very useful. This makes it look cleaner and distraction-free. Hit the toggles for the 'show images and video in news lists' and '.article' options, and the media should be disabled in the main page. You can change this behavior from the app's settings. The main page of the app displays news from your feed, and by default it shows the thumbnail image from the article. It has a ton of features which you may like.

Newsflow takes RSS to the next level, it is a modern and pretty app. Newsflow is a free, customizable RSS reader Sometimes we may only have time to read the headlines of articles, and if something piques our interest, we read the entire post.

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