Flipboard , the “ personal societal magazine ” for reading Twitter and Facebook on an iPad , has been updated to do a number of substance abuser petition and complaints from its initial launching .
This seemingly minor version 1.0.2 update convey a issue of user - requested feature , including the ability to add up to 21 sections to Flipboard ( up from the launch limit of just nine ) , offline browsing , and reflexive refreshing when new content is ready or when you get stuffy to the last Sir Frederick Handley Page of a section .
Thomas Nelson Page layouts are fresh , optimizing space for posts that do not moderate any media or links to go forth more room for posts that do . you may now retweet with a comment in increase to Twitter ’s official retweet feature , and launching fourth dimension should be much degenerate .
If you have n’t yet had the joy , Flipboard turns the act of reading Twitter and Facebook into a extremely ocular experience . It crawls through the exposure and links your ally share , then lays them out like a magazine with page that you flip through . picture and telecasting are displayed in - line , and Flipboard admit previews of link clause textual matter and any accompanying photos . you may add different section to your Flipboard , based on any Twitter lists you ’ve created or a group of work up - in feed revolve around around topics like tech , photography , travel , and general news .
When Flipboard launched in July , the company ’s servers ( which pre - get your Twitter and Facebook streams to crawl for substance and build the layout you see on your iPad ) were overwhelmed for hebdomad , slowing the footstep at which Modern users could be take over . Flipboard seems to have successfully equilibrate the load by now , and novel user can sign up immediately after downloading the app to their iPads .
Flipboard 1.0.2 is available now for free in the App Store . It requires an iPad running Io 3.2 or later .
