Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Money-saving methods to keep away from online news membership paywalls

If you are an online news addict with limited funds, the move toward news paywalls could possibly be terrible news. If you miss the news, you miss out. But don’t worry. A little misdirection and a handful of mobile apps can bring you the news for free or a very low price. Article source – Money-saving ways to avoid online news subscription paywalls by MoneyBlogNewz.

Everybody will love Google News

The best part of Google News is access. A lot of news sites are brought to one place. It’s easier to get news. It’s available each day. It is really simple to access too with a very clear format that has local news and top news categories.

Newspapers app: An iOS portal to publications across the US

Newspapers are an app at the Apple App Store that you pay $1.99 for in order to get links to all online newspaper sites. It’s easy to read articles. It could be done on Safari, your iPad, your iPhone or your iPod. You can download stories and read them later. Instapaper is an example of an app to do this with.

Try an RSS feed

Reeder will take RSS feeds and make them neat for you. It has a newspaper-style interface, and the iOS app cuts the ads and reformats the page for optimal reading pleasure. Download the app for quite cheap. You only have to pay $2.99.

iPad app called Zite

Zite is an iPad app that is free. Business Insider calls it a "personalized magazine" that you can download. News can be recommended to you. The Google Reader and Twitter accounts will be accessed to do this. It can help to just pick articles in the app you might like.

Free apps from CNN and Associated Press

For world, national and even local news on an iOS or Android device, it works really well to have Associated Press and CNN apps. The AP app allows users to pick a favored broadcaster. Then, the stories could be followed of that person. CNN’s app presents streaming video in a polished fashion, and allows users to submit their own photos of news events via the iReport feature.

Getting past the system

Users on Twitter have had access to NYT Twitter feeds. They can create a list for this. It is free to click on Twitter or blog posts since it does not count to the 20 article per month limit. The Daily: Indexed, is a blog that the very same thing occurs with The Daily.

MediaMemo's Peter Kafka explained that there could be a limit of five referrals per day that are free from Google for NYT. This very same limit might not apply to Bing or other search engines.

Why did the Times put up a speed bump for Google? The name of the article could then be typed into Google by users. This would allow them to have access without paying.

Information from

AP

ap.org/mobile/

Business Insider

businessinsider.com/how-to-get-around-paywalls-2011-3

CNN

cnn.com/mobile/iphone/

The Daily Index

thedailyindexed.tumblr.com/

What to expect with the NYT paywall

youtube.com/watch?v=jOkvPOY3VKU



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