“Pocket,” (formerly “ReaditLater”) lets you save videos, websites and articles to look at later. The ads are gone when you look at something later. This works on computers, Android phones and the iPhone too. Get the Pocket at GetPocket.com.
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AP Mobile brings in the latest news and videos from the Associated Press. It’s free for iPad/iPhone and Android devices. Categories include world and local news, technology, health, science, show biz, “oddities,” business, sports and travel, etc. You can save items for later viewing.
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Google “Currents” is a free magazine app for Android devices, iPads and iPhones. It starts you out with six covers showing on the screen, and you get 180 more by tapping a button. There’s a “share” button for emailing or posting to Facebook. W
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Summify is a new web site that brings you links to the top three news stories posted by your Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader contacts. It’s a one-page summary and can come in daily or whatever schedule you choose.
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Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad-only publication, The Daily, launched today. It’s been criticized for day-old “news” stories and sub-par writing. But we like it for one big reason: The offline content. Our Internet connection is very slow, shared in an apartment building full of students. But with this app, the content is still there when you’re not in range of a Wi-Fi connection and don’t have the 3G version of the iPad, as long as you went online for a bit first to give the stories a chance to download. This could change the way we feel about the iPad, which so far is getting use only when we’re traveling. Sure, there are other apps for saving offline content, but we [...]
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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange gave a rare interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Wikileaks, Assange said, is a conduit for information for other journalists (the New York Times recently published some of its leaks). If someone in the State Department knows of wrong doing and has no way of getting the information out to the public, Wikileaks can help, he said. As an example, he said 15,000 civilian deaths in Iraq went unreported. Assange refuted the idea that he is doing anything illegal. Military personnel can go to jail for sharing classified documents, but not publishers. In the last 50 years, none have, he said. Click here for interview.
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News.google.com/archivesearch lets you search newspapers to find that article you should have saved. We get this kind of reader request a lot.
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Four sites: Get the actual front pages of newspapers, hire someone for $5 or hire yourself out, find out if you phone is emitting too much radiation, get 50 gigabytes of free storage.
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