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.

Some user suggested some changes on News Wall user interface. After testing it on my devices I am sure this is a good idea. I made screenshots of an iPhone showing the new arrangement both in portrait and landscape mode.

You will notice that the size of each article was decreased so you can see more articles on a single screen. Furthermore, writing the title of an item “into” to image of the articles again saves even more space. In my opinion, readability does not suffer. Please tell me what you think about this little change. If there are no complains I will submit this as an update on Wednesday. Of course, this update will include some other bug fixes. So tell me, if there is something that could be done 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.

Today, Paper Pile exceeded 1000 known feeds. In other words, since Paper Pile is available more than 1000 different feeds have been requested. Some other facts:

• more than 10.000 requests have been handled during the last 7 days
• that’s 1 request per second
• macrumors.com is on top of feed list followed by
• engadget.com at second position
• 5 users are still using version 1.1 (1.2 was released two weeks ago)

Hopefully, you all have fun with your iPad and Paper Pile.

After fixing a backend bug the review at padvance.com has been updated. Paper Pile’s rating changed to “Good”. Grant, thank you again for pointing me to this wired layout error.

Paper Pile’s update 1.2 has been approved. It will be available for download soon. Most changes have already been described here. Presumably, the new feed browser which allows you to browse the Internet to search and find feeds will be the most loved new feature – no need to open Mobile Safari anymore just to copy the URL.

Meanwhile, work on version 1.3 started. I received some messages from users asking for features. I’ll keep you posted. The next update is schedules for May, 25th. Please contact me if you have any suggestions or ideas.