iFeltThat Earthquake vs Speak News - RSS news reader Usage & Stats

Did you just experience an earthquake? Find out how close and how big it was with iFeltThat, the most customizable worldwide earthquake app for the iPhone and iPod touch. iFeltThat retrieves information directly from official USGS sources to show you seven days of microquake activity as low as magnitude 1.0 in most U.S. regions. Earthquake lists for U.S. regions show you precisely where an event occurred (not just "Northern California," but "5 mi SE of Santa Rosa, CA"). Rotate any list view to see the region-wide map. You can also see at a glance how many citizens reported the event to the USGS "Did You Feel It?" service In addition to 20 region-specific event listings around the world (visit support page for a complete list), iFeltThat features a Nearby region, which uses your current location as a center point. Add an unlimited number of center points from your Address Book to keep an eye on seismic activity near your family and friends (or your own hometown while you travel) down to magnitude 1.0 in the U.S. (4.5 elsewhere). Or set a center point from any event location around the world to monitor earthquake swarms within 500 miles of the center point. View single-event and interactive region-wide maps in roadmap or satellite hybrid styles. All maps are pinch-zoomable and draggable, just like the Maps app. Optional one-touch zoom buttons in detail maps let you zoom in and out quickly for one-handed operation while on the go. Tap the Newer and Older buttons to navigate instantly from quake detail to quake detail without having to go back to the list. Whenever a ••USGS Shake Map•• is available for an event, a special icon appears in that event's detail view. Tap the icon to see the Shake Map within iFeltThat. In fact, all related web pages (including direct access to North American and Pacific/Indian Ocean ••Tsunami Warnings••) appear inside the app. Also from inside the app, send an email with info, links, and a screenshot of an event detail screen/map to anyone you like. Customize which four regions are ready to view at a single tap on the bottom bar. For each region list, set the minimum magnitude threshold and default map zoom level. One earthquake may have brought you to iFeltThat. You'll be so intrigued monitoring unexpected earth movements near you and around the world that you may find yourself using IFeltThat more often than you check the weather or news.

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Speak News - RSS news reader

Speak News reads stories from RSS/Atom news feeds, web pages, Wikipedia pages, or Google News queries to you using text-to-speech. Speak News app is built for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Use Siri to open Speak News and listen to news stories hands-free using the earphones remote control. Just say “Hey Siri, Open Speak News” and the app will start reading your current news stories. Complete Features • Use Siri to open the app and listen to stories. • Use Siri Shortcuts to perform several common activities with voice commands. • Bookmarks can be RSS/Atom news feeds, web pages, Wikipedia pages, Google News queries, or Speak News keyword queries. Speak News queries can be created and performed while offline, searching the stories cached on the device. • iCloud bookmark syncing • Import bookmarks from a Feedly OPML feed library URL. • Multitasking allows updating news feeds in the background while reading or listening to news in the foreground. • Automatically selects appropriate international speech voices based on story language. • Toolbar functions in a feed view include Play/Pause, Stop, Previous, Next, Update All Feeds, View Mode, Share, Settings. • Share news headlines and links, or entire news feeds through the standard iOS Share social media activities view, including Message, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Twitter, Google+, Flipboard, Facebook, Evernote, etc. • Current story info and Play/Pause, Previous, Next functions are available in the media player controls in the device's lock screen and Control Center. • Speak News automatically rotates through available voices for the current language for each story. This gives more variety and distinction in the sequence of spoken news stories. For instance, in English, this gives U.S. , U.K. Ireland, New Zealand, and Australian voices. • All stories are saved on your device for later reading and listening while offline. • Efficient text-only story display makes loading and reading faster, and saves money on your cell phone plan by downloading minimal data. • Display Styles include White, Light Gray, Sepia, Dark Gray, Dark Red, and Black. The "dark mode" Black and Dark Red styles are ideal for reading in dark environments. • All text is responsive to the user's preferred text size as set in Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size, and Settings > General > Accessibility > Larger Text. • Toolbar functions in the Bookmarks view include New Bookmark, Go To Section, Find, Settings, Library, and Edit. • Today Widget displays scrolling list of stories from current feed. • Use the remote control on earphones to speak and pause stories, move to next or previous stories, or select a new RSS feed from your bookmarks. • Create your own bookmarks and bookmark sections. • Import bookmarks from Imaja’s Speak News RSS Feeds Library featuring a broad selection of essential and informative news feeds. • Settings includes many controls for news story display, auto-reload, speech and auto-scrolling behavior, and user-interface sounds. • Keyboard shortcuts are supported for Speak News functions for use with external Bluetooth keyboards. • RSS feed details are viewable in the Edit Bookmark view. • Word Usage action displays statistics on word frequencies in a story or a complete feed. • Speak News supports a custom URL scheme for adding bookmarks. Remote Control with Earphones Tap the center button: • One time to play or pause the speech. • Two times to skip to the next story. • Three times to skip to the previous story. • Five times to enter Bookmark Selection Mode. In Bookmark Selection Mode, listen for the desired bookmark name and tap one time to open and start speaking the feed. Settings Use the Settings view to configure the text display, graphic style and behavior of Speak News. Visit imaja.com/speaknews for more details and screenshots. Follow @SpeakNewsApp on Twitter.