MacDailyNews app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch now available

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MacDailyNews app iconThe 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.

80 Comments

  6. 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

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  13. 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!

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  14. 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. 🙂

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      1. 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.”

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    1. 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.

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        1. 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.

  20. 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’.

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  21. 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.

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  25. 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!

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  32. When you incorporate larger font’s into MDN can you make sure that the user has the option to set that size as their default size setting. Thank you. Not all of us have young eyes anymore, especially on an iPhone’s small screen. 🙂

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    1. Duh… maybe I should have read some of the comments first! Also, as C1 pointed out, My Gravitar appears despite having not logged in. It’s almost as if it’s a web browser dedicated to this site with the mobile WordPress interface applied, I think… Thanks anyway! mucho conveniento.

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  34. is it only on my iPad, or do others also have the problem that most articles have an initial view that is slightly too large?
    MDN, it would be appreciated when you make the article window zoom to fill when opening a new article.

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  38. Unfortunately, the app bombs out when I try to start it on my iPhone 2G / iOS v3.1.3. Did a hard reboot, but still no luck. Works fine on my iPad 2, though.

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  45. As a senior executive at Apple, Inc, I wish to compliment MDN on the app release.

    We at Apple hope you’ll like the new hardware excitements on the way next week’

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  47. MDN, your app, the way its divided into two columns, in landscape mode, provides no nav tools, which is fine if all we’re doing is reading your condensed version of the original article. But, once we click the HERE link for more information, and even click links within the original article, there is no way to return to your condensed version, or the original article from linked references in the author’s piece.

    The only icons available to your readership are the Filing Cabinet for saved articles, the Save Story, Share, and Font size buttons.

    You have to admit that, for an app, by Apple’s standards, this falls short of the mark. Tell us, how do you navigate without resorting to clicking on the headline links on the left?

    I appreciate the way you serve up the original article in the Reader window, once you click HERE but, there’s no way to return to your Bounce page with the Comments without having to resort to the headline link again. Is that by design, and does each of those clicks on your headline links count as an MDN site hit?

    The app hasn’t changed all that much from the pre-Word Press release, has it? All the time you took trying to get the app out, I’m a bit disappointed in the result.

    I’m strictly speaking about the iPad version, as I’ve yet to install the iPhone version.

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