User’s are expierencing an error when automatic loading is enabled. After starting the app, News Wall cannot connect to its backend server.

This only happens on iPad. The update has already been submitted.

When you read an article it gets marked as read automatically. Every feed displays the number of unread articles. The sum of all articles statistics is shown at the top of your screen. When you tap on this black bar, the wall menu appears giving you the opportunity to mark all articles as read. This means really all articles.

Furthermore, you can mark all articles of a single RSS feed simply by tapping and hold on the feed itself. This open the feed menu where you – again – have the option to mark the articles as read. This works both on iPad and iPhone.

After using News Wall or News Wall Free for some days you probably will have hundreds of articles especially when you use high-volume RSS feeds like engadget.com, 9to5mac.com or gizmodo.com. It can be a lot of work to scroll back to the first article, primarily on iPhone. However, there already is a built-in “jump to the first article” feature: just double-tap the title bar of the feed you want to be moved to the front.

Of course, this works on your iPad as well. This applies both to the free and the paid version.

Sometimes you may want to refresh only one of your RSS feeds. This is much faster than refreshing all your feeds. Doing so is really easy. Tap and hold on the one article of the feed you want to refresh to open up a menu. This menu contains a refresh button.

Feed menu on iPhone

Feed menu on iPad

Please notice that News Wall’s backend system caches feeds for 2 minutes. You will not receive new articles within this time. This applies both to the free and the paid (iPhone & iPad) version.

When you start News Wall or News Wall Free on your iPhone you will notice that there are no images. Because of the much smaller screen of your iPhone compared to an iPad, the app disables images by default. This way, more feeds can be displayed at a time. However, it’s quite simply to activate this feature.
Open the settings screen by tapping on the little (i) at the top-right corner. When you scroll down you will see a switch which enables the view of images.

From now on, the first image of every article is extracted from the RSS stream. News Wall downloads it so it gets stored on your device. Every pictures takes about 20 – 60 kBytes of your memory. Of course, they are deleted when you remove the RSS feed.
This applies both to the free and the paid version.

The iPad’s arriving in Europe. So it’s time to celebrate. Paper Pile’s price has been shortened to $1.99 (USD) or 1,59€. This offer is limited until June, 5th – so don’t miss it.

Final tests for a new RSS feed reader app for iPhone and iPad just started. It was designed to support skimming so that users with a lot of new articles can find really important things as fast as possible.

It will be submitted for review soon, hopefully it is available when iPad launches internationally. Read more about News wall here.