As announced News Wall 2.0 is currently rolling-out to App Stores around the world. Enjoy the experience with the great new user interface, feed search and really fast downloads.

The update is available as free and paid version for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

News Wall major update 2.0 will be available for download December 9. It brings a revamped interface, much faster downloads, feed search and much more. Both the free and the paid version do work on iPhone and iPad now.

I am really excited what you will think of it.

Major update 2.0 of News Wall for iPhone and iPad has been submitted to Apple’s review team. Even though it is the first update of the app it deserves being a major update. Here are the most important changes:

• new article style combining images and text
• advanced article reading view with next/previous buttons
• completely rewritten feed fetching core
• really fast feed loading
• improved feed reading so nearly every feed can be used
• search feeds by keywords

News Wall Free now runs both on the iPhone and the iPad. It displays ads and has some limitations when it comes to social sharing.

The update will hit the App Store during the next day. Feel free to contact me (you can do this directly in the app now).

Apple just approved Paper Pile’s update to version 1.3.2. Running on iOS 4.2 the app crashes when trying to fetch new stories. This update fixes the issue.

During the next weeks, Paper Pile will get a new feed fetching core which is incredible fast. It will debut as part of the next News Wall update in a few days.

Apple just approved News Wall Free. It uses iAd at the bottom and therefore relies on iOS4. That’s the reason for not being usable on iPad. Once iPad gets its iOS4 update, News Wall Free will support iPad as well.
In general, News Wall Free works the same way as News Wall. However, you can only use one account per external service like Twitter, Instapaper and Read It Later. Furthermore, News Wall Free will not get Google Reader Integration with the next update.

Apple just approved News Wall 1.0.1 which fixes a little but annoying bug which causes a connection error message on iPad. When automatic reload is enabled, the app starts reloading articles immediately when it gets active. Sometimes this fails due to name resolving problems. After the update, News Wall waits for 2 seconds before refreshing feeds. by the way, it just feels better.

News Wall is now available at the App Store. Go and get it now for the introduction price of $1.99. It runs both on iPad and iPhone and will make your read your RSS feeds faster than ever.

After July, 12th the price will be $2.99.

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.

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 open a feed in Mobile Safari on your iPad you will be redirected to a special site which reads the feed and displays a nicely formatted mobile website. Paper Pile is now able to use this URL. Simple copy this address in Safari and paste it into Paper Pile’s URL field.

This feature is completely handled in Paper Pile’s backend. If you experience problems with one of these URLs please inform me using the contact page.