Pro RSS Reader – Quick Look and Giveaway
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Pro RSS Reader (and by extension, its free lite version) holds the distinction of being the one feed reader app available in the App Store to have the most straightforward name for an app of its kind and wear the widely used orange RSS icon at the same time. In its roster of features are full text and image caching, the ability to categorize feeds into folders, item archiving, email support, image exporting to photo roll, and over-the-air OPML file and Google Reader import. The overall look of the app, characterized by minimal yet effective use of color gradients, is something I’m particularly fond of. And what makes it even more special for me is the fact that I recently became a part of its development, albeit a very small one.
Last week I got in touch with the very amicable Simon Oualid, the man behind Pro RSS Reader. I learned he was looking for individuals to translate his app into several foreign languages, and being somebody born and raised in the Land of the Flips, as Larry a.k.a. nutsnbolts would put it, I volunteered to convert the strings within the app to Filipino (or Tagalog, even I am not sure). And so began my first foray into iPhone app development.
The result? I was just informed by Simon that my translations were integrated in the latest update of Pro RSS Reader. Along with my work, version 0.8 of the app also introduces support for importing feeds from Bloglines and Newsgator, in addition to Google Reader. (Note: Pro RSS Reader will not be tied to any of your accounts in the three feed reader sites. The app will only import your existing feeds in these sites, and two-way syncing is currently not supported.)
Giveaway – To celebrate the release of the latest update of Pro RSS Reader, which includes my monumental (hardly) contribution, we have a bunch of codes to give out. To win one, just share with us the non-iPhone/technology Web site whose feed you check most often. Anybody here as much a fan of PerezHilton.com as I am?
