The 5 Best Apple iPad Apps:
• News Rack ($4.99)
• Words with Friends ($2.99)
• Kindle (free)
• Evernote (Free)
• NPR for iPad (Free)
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MacDailyNews Take: If the fact that the newly-iPadified MacDailyNews app (version 2.2, released April 24*) didn’t make FOX News’ top five list doesn’t blow your mind, then, for some people, NPR’s presence might do the trick. 
MacDailyNews Note: A reminder: As with the iPhone, Notifications are handled in the Settings app. Settings>Notifications>MDN will let you control Sounds, Alerts, and Badges.
*We are working on smoothing out a few things for 2.2.1. Thank you for the feedback!
My number one app …. automatic first response on MDN.
Who’s gonna be the first whiney liberal to pull his head out of Nancy Pelosi’s butt and complain that this came from FoxNews?
@MadMac
They might cut some slack. He did list NPR for iPhone afterall.
@MadMac
Go some where else to spread your hate!
Clayton Morris isn’t really “Fox News.” His podcast is always filled with lefty guests such as John Gruber, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, Peter Rojas, Ryan Block, Natalie Delconte, etc.
Clayton Morris is a really cool guy. He’s a geek, his podcast is called Gadgets and Games, and he loves Apple.
Here’s a
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I’ll be the first proud liberal to compliment Fox “News” on having the sense to recognize that NPR app. Totally aside from politics, it is a really great app– unique but intuitive navigation, beautiful design, full access to content, really thoughtful approach to adapting a century-old medium (radio) to a cutting-edge platform– and having it all ready to go and working beautifully on Day 1.
I really dig the new MDN!
“Clayton Morris isn’t really “Fox News.” His podcast is always filled with lefty guests”
so are many, if not most, Fox News programs.
No, really….
Who’s going to be the first whiney conservative to whine about whiney liberals… Oh! that’d be you MadMac.
The GoodReader is the best app. It does a ton of stuff for $.99
MadMac loves all, even if they pretend to have a monopoly on how to veiw life.
That said, I love the NPR app as well as the new FoxNews app.
We don’t need no stinkin badges !!
Not even close, Netflix is by far the killer app for iPad.
Boy, if ever there was a need for Think Before You Click™ . . .
I like how a news organization, you know… One that tells the news, is now liberal.
NPR (on our tax money) is for the anti Tea-Party crowd.
As noted by Tower Tone, Fox News is NOT just Beck and Hannity (who are commentators and do not host “news” shows), Fox News is indeed more balanced than they get credit for from the Left. When one is weaned on CNN, NBC, CBS, and NBC, Fox News (I’m talking NEWS here, not the red meat shows) IS a bit different, and it seems like they are critical of Left. But that is only because they are reporting realities that you never see or here reported on those other news stations. I’ve seen very little news reporting on Fox that is ‘unfair’, and because I see both positive AND negative reportage on politics on both sides of the aisle, I consider it balanced. I will say that I’ve had the impression that the other networks are making a bit of an effort to balance out their reporting, but you can see that it is foreign to them.
PS- I am a lifelong NPR listener and have supported public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica for years.
Spark… I have to agree on the fact that the other networks seem to be balancing out their news coverage. Except for PMSMBC…. sometimes I just get a bowl of popcorn and turn them on, it’s kinda fun.
and when I say “kinda fun” I mean that in a sick, sadistic, slowing down to see the car wreck kinda way…
They are called the “Coffee Party.”
No, really
@MadMac:
STFU!
Fox is radical right and MSM is center right. NPR is’t called National Petroleum Radio for nothing- they are center-right as well. KCRW radio is apolitical.
As to apps, Bloomberg is very good as are the Amazon Kindle app, Good Reader, Instapaper Pro & for what it does- the Netflix app is cool.
As for the MDN iPad app, it would be nice to reply directly under the post you are responding to rather than serial order. A chat room for registered users would also be nice.
I agree with you. I get a kick out of people who think the MSM is liberal, makes me want to sell them swamp land in FL. If the MSM were liberal they’d be investigating things like how the official story for 9/11 doesn’t add up.
People need to learn to separate Fox News from Fox political commentary.
Just like MSNBC Business is separate from the extreme left leaning Ed Show and ever slimy Keith Olbermann.
“If the MSM were liberal they’d be investigating things like how the official story for 9/11 doesn’t add up.”
So you are saying that Liberals are stupid?
Even I don’t believe that one….
I like my pages app
Kindle? iBooks (reader) is a free download an a significantly better reader than Kindle.
Liberals are Right!
Claytons show “fox and friends” is
more entertainment, with news! Not an opionion show at all
I think “Figurative” is literally a nasty-mouthed ignorant slut, speaking of “slimy.” And Fox “news,” weather, or commentary has zero credibility with me no matter how much they praise Macs. I despise them and I’ve said it before, I don’t frequent this site to be reminded of politics and the idiots who believe their mouths are immune from their brains’ manure leakage.
**** technology, you wanna make this a political forum? Change the name- or not- but be careful what you wished for.
Let’s avoid words like Fox, Liberal, Obama, Palin, Pelosi…. you get the point. I’M SICK TO DEATH OF THIS POLITICAL BS EVERYWHERE I TURN! START YOUR OWN SITE- THIS IS NOT THE TIME OR PLACE FOR THAT STUPIDITY! I am embarrassed to be among Mac and Apple people and have to read the same brain-dead, ignorant, divisive, distracting obnoxiousness. Why bother coming here- I can go to PC World for such stimulation!
I’m SICK SICK SICK OF THIS!!! CAN WE PLEASE STAY ON TOPIC?!
??
@auraamac
I hate both sides of the political spectrum. Both sides a full of smit. I watch both sides trying to get something from both.
I saw a leader of hillary clintons staff when she wanted to run for president say that fox news had the fairest representation of their views than any other source. So idiots like the above named guy are the haters, and closed minded idiots that start all the division in this world. Truly cluless.
I live in minnesota and at the Welstone funeral almost any car that had republican bumper stickers on it had its door kicked in at a $1000 + damage each. You would NEVER NEVER see a thing happen to any democratic car at a republican funeral.
That incident and a couple other with the same out come make me question the liberal side even though I have some very liberal social views. I find the liberal side very very childish and smart by a half and filled with hate while saying republicans are filled with hate.
I always seem to find the opposite. The above poster should stop hating and quit being a political dump ass. ( smart by a half)
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Conservatives that knee-jerk hate on NPR must not listen to it very much. Otherwise, they might learn why liberals are listening to it less every year: because it’s gotten more conservative! It’s to be expected — when you’re dependent on the federal government for a significant portion of your funds (via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting), and that government spent most of this century moving to the right, you have to shift to the right yourself to keep the funds flowing.
Really, this idea that NPR is this left-wing haven is a fantasy based on out-of-date information.
——RM
@ Switcheroo
That’s what you call an iPadded.
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@MadMac
POP! Whew…what’s that smell? There’s conservatism in the air! The sound bites are everywhere and tax cuts are nipping at my heels even as we attack Iraq to secure those weapons of no existence. Must be a Fox News day…
Satisfied?
Oh, sorry, I forgot to whine.
@LordRobin
Thou knowest not of which they speakest. The Fed is fourth on the list of NPR contributors behind private citizens, industry, and academia. Of course, you would know that if you were actually a contributor to a *real* news organization. That very question was included in NPR’s online survey for contributors.
NPR is an organization of which true conservatives should approve. Paid for by private citizens on a pay-as-you-go basis with little government support.
Fox News: We Deceive! You Believe!
MDN pls add REAL Offline Caching instead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like most other news Apps. Why should I have to save all articles I would want to read offline. You called it Offline Mode when you added it but it was NOT Offline Mode. It was just a simple feature to save articles….
Add REAL Offline Mode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!