unsatiable consumer of Internet content , rejoice — developer Marco Arment has released “ the big update ever ” for Instapaper , his Web military service and iOS app for saving content to study later , right in time for the iPad 2 ’s release .
The openhanded gain to Instapaper 3.0 is a new societal layer , but do n’t worry — you wo n’t have to start up tweeting and post and liking if you do n’t want to . But if youarethe type to share your favorite article , both Instapaper ’s site and apps now offer full - featured integration for Facebook , Twitter , Tumblr , Pinboard , and Evernote . If you ’re offline , you’re able to create your posts for those networks and Instapaper will queue up them to direct when you regain a connection .
Now that it ’s easier to share articles you like from Instapaper , it ’s also become easier to find more article to read from people you know . A unexampled follower system lets you bring champion from networks like Facebook and Twitter and follow the article they mark as “ wish . ” This mean the “ star ” system has been replaced by a more broadly adopt “ like ” clit . In summation to sharing liked articles with your Instapaper supporter , you could also order Instapaper to auto - post your like articles to any combining of your societal profiles — but again , only if you desire to .
Arment did n’t just get huffy feely for this update . The Instapaper apps are now much faster when downloading and scuttle clause , and they support downloading high - resolution image . They also now allow for look for the contents of all downloaded article , and Arment is looking into enabling the ability to search inside your article archived online as well . Instapaper ’s Share panel now have you create a job in Things , and there are plenty of other useful tweaks and additions for everyone .
Instapaper 3.0 is available now as a oecumenical app for iPhone , iPod touch , and iPad for $ 5 . It ’s a free update to be owner , and you ’ll require to be run iOS 3.1 or subsequently .
