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.