News.me: Leave the house, download news
This is my favorite use of iOS’s background geofencing yet:
I’ll think we’ve all been there: you get into a subway car, and just as the doors are closing, you realize that you’ve forgotten to take your phone out, pull to refresh, and wait 10 seconds to download the latest news articles to read offline. You curse under your breath and switch back to Angry Birds.
Today we’re pleased to introduce a new feature called Paper Boy. Simply set your home location so that whenever you leave home, News.me downloads your latest news in the background.
The best part about this? It’s such a clever, simple solution I imagine all serious news apps (cough-Instapaper-cough) will implement this feature shortly. Suddenly background downloading is no longer the domain of Newsstand bound apps. Hats off to Rob Haining for this sharp hack.
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dotconor reblogged this from newsme and added:
Super impressive feature. I’d like Instapaper or Pocket to pick this up. News.me does
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First World Problems T.T hah
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whatevernevermind reblogged this from dbreunig and added:
Really fantastic feature. Really with Instapaper would add this sort of thing. I can’t count how many times I’ve whipped...
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This was featured in #Tech
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dbreunig reblogged this from newsme and added:
This is my favorite use of iOS’s background geofencing yet: newsme: The best part about this? It’s such a clever, simple...
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longformblog reblogged this from newsme and added:
Very cool new idea from the news.me team.
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officiallyrad reblogged this from tedroden and added:
Simple, but genius.
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jakelevine reblogged this from myoung and added:
Rob, our iOS developer, came up with this on a Friday and had it built by the following Monday. Killer feature, saves me...
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myoung reblogged this from newsme and added:
don’t have dig for...hastily refresh as youre walking
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tedroden reblogged this from newsme and added:
Well played.
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