The MacDailyNews iOS app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (v. 2.2.9, free) is now available via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
Thanks to all MacDailyNews app users for your patience!
MDN is MacDailyNews in your pocket! Now, even on the go, you won’t miss a story.
Just like MacDailyNews, the MDN app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch features daily news about Apple, Mac OS X, the Macintosh platform, iPad, iPhone, iPod, and more. It’s where the Mac community goes to discuss these daily Apple-related news items in their own words with real-time Reader Feedback.
The MDN app offers Push Notifications. When enabled, the MDN app will notify users when each new article is posted. To control the various aspects of notifications (Sounds, Alerts, Badges), on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap Settings > Notifications > MDN.
If you are asked for permission to use your device’s location services, that is for iAds (Apple Inc.) to deliver more relevant ads to you. If you decline, your ads will likely be less useful to you; you might get ads for snow shovels in Singapore or ads for a Seattle pizza place in New York. The amount of ads remains exactly the same in this latest version of the app and is unaffected by your decision to allow localization info or not.
Features include:
- Quick, up-to-the minute Apple-related news headlines
- Visited headlines change color; so you know what you’ve read at a glance
– Push notifications
- Easy-to-read layouts for both portrait and landscape modes
– Full article display with dynamic Reader Feedback
– One-button tap for instant, dedicated feedback
– Easy login screen for registered users
– AAPL stock ticker with NASDAQ index
What’s New in version 2.2.9:
– Adapted for new MacDailyNews website.
– Dedicated server for Push Notifications.
– Content loading/reloading greatly improved.
– Numerous bug fixes and improvements.
Reminder: To manage Push Notifications on your iOS device goto Settings>Notifications>MDN. There you can designate Sounds, Alerts, and/or Badges to be on or off.
If you already have the app, you should quit it – or even delete it – prior to installing the new version in order to avoid any first run issues.
NOTE: Push Notifications will not be active right off the bat, but will start ASAP. Thank you.
Since everything changed with the new site, some to do list items remain, including:
• Integrating WordPress logins
• Formatting content area and font size adjustments on iPad version
• Other minor and backend adjustments
• Push Notifications to be activated ASAP!
The MacDailyNews iOS app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (v. 2.2.9, free) is now available via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
If you already have the app, you should quit it – or even delete it – prior to installing the new version in order to avoid any first run issues.
Thanks, I had deleted the old one, but deleting the new one and reinstalling helped.
Well lookihere..I was just smh earlier when I tried the older app.
Not working on my 2nd gen. iPod touch.
Won’t run on my iphone 3GS.
Thanks luckily I still keep the old apps as I strongly believe the updated apps would be back soon! Good work & well done MDN!
Thank you!!!! I hope it pushes notifications!!!
It will very soon. Thanks for your patience.
Thank you VERY MUCH!
Why no Android version?
Lol.
Brilliant idea!
Who cares?
Android users need to know the real story of what they are missing! Don’t leave them in the Dark. Hahaha
Thanks MDN I’ve really missed my push notifications 🙂
no problems here, loaded and worked out of the gate on a ipad2
But as easy as it is, I like all the extra busyness the web page gives me, polls, and most commented on… I bet I keep them next to each other
Err how do I login with the new app? I can’t seem to locate the login area.
yeah I don’t see it either. No settings anywhere.
Wait for 2.30 I guess
Can someone give us a hint on how to log on? Thanks.
Login is top of the list for the next version.
Thank you for your patience.
Super! :/
Odd that it still picked up my icon…
Ahhh ok thanks.
Eric, you said you would step down . . . including “poor me” postings @MDN.
Now, go on Eric . . .
Different Eric here. Not Schmidt, if that calms your heart.
me either Sebastian, downloaded it through iTunes.
Do you own that logo? Be careful.
Welcome back! Looking forward to more great stories and reader comments.
Thanks MDN!! Works very well.
Long time coming.
Thanks!
Finally!! Thanks for finally giving me my MDN App back! I had a Safari bookmark on my home screen and that worked pretty well but I really like the ability to save articles. And to those who are complaining about the type size — at least on the iPhone I can’t see the slightest difference between MDN on Safari vs the App. Aside from the push and ability to save articles, they look identical to me. Gonna check out how it looks on my iPad now but thanks again for finally re-releasing the App!
Yea it’s back!
Unfortunately it still has the font size choices of small and smaller. Would have liked the option to read MDN without my glasses like I can with Apple’s iBooks app.
Please MDN adapt Apple’s method for changing font sizes in a future update like they do in iBooks.
Please. 🙂
We’ll be tweaking font sizes next week. Specifically for the iPad version. More font size control is planned for the future.
Thank you!
It will be much appreciated.
Especially for those of us who (as “David” put it on page two of the comments) don’t have “young eyes.”
Now all we’re waiting for is that long-overdue white iPhone 4…. Oh wait…
Doesn’t appear to be a way to log in. I tried leaving a comment. No log in there, either. Being logged in saves so much time.
Ok…. Odd
I was able to see a “mobile site” slider… Turned it off and it brings up the full website in the app.
Able to log in on the iPhone now… But the option of going back to the mobile site is gone now.
Where was this “mobile site” slider?
at bottom of the page. I turned it to landscape and it was there… Like i said for the life of me i can’t go back.
I could prob post a screenshot of the MDN app with the full browser loaded.
here. you can tell it’s the MDN app, logged in and not viewing the Mobile version. I just can’t go back to mobile version now..
and i finally got back to the mobile site.
and something i noticed… I found the mobile site slider! it happens rarely though..
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stupid copy link from photobucket…
Finally! Thanks!
its a bit slow to open the menu in portrait mode. Maybe a cache rather than a fetch could speed thi gs up.
For the rest, nicely done.
it clearly connects to the member database because people who have avatars can see their images beside their posts. That’s good.
One improvement I would like to see beyond the previous version is in the input fields for commenting (and login-if such becomes available).
According to this page at Apple:
iOS 3.1 and later support the ’email’ type for the input tag in forms. This form element does not automatically capitalize initial letters and causes iOS devices to change to the email input keyboard which has dot, @, and the various extensions (.com, .net, . edu, etc.) hidden with the period. this would really streamline commenting and login.
Please MND, get your developer to change the form input type to ’email’.
Now this is good constructive criticism. Too bad all the little ones that come here and post can’t follow your example
It’s very annoying that your app always starts in portrait mode when my iPad in landscape mode. The old MDN app also did this. Can’t you guys fix this? The Apple apps don’t do this, for an example open up calendar and you will see it opens in landscape mode when the iPad is in landscape orientation.
Noted. Thanks.
Despite my ideological preference for web apps, I welcome this development. Now readers have a choice!
is this one going to just stop working one day, like the last one did?
Wow, MDN.
iOS been out 4 years and you finally have working app. Udder fail. I am laugh my a$$ off. How come no has flash advertisements like ur website?
actually, MDN’s app has been around for a while.
it went dead in Feb when they changed to the new layout for the website.
you must be new.
Flash? Why the heck would anyone want that cr@p on their iOS device?
Since I got my iPad 2 two days ago, I’ve bought, downloaded, listened, watched, composed, written, played, recorded and exported . . . but that’s just what I did with music! And music-related activities probably formed 10 per cent of what I’ve been doing with the device. Let’s not even get into all the other things that I have been able to do – it would take a book to list them. And I’ve only just begun! No wonder Apple is a cult. It is all so elegant , relaxing, versatile and powerful. In fact, even when things are as slow as they can be on Windows – for instance, when doing some online stuff – the wait is so Zen-like that you just don’t get peed off!