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About Tech Junkie - Technology News
Version 2.0 now available!
Tech Junkie brings you the latest and the most relevant technology news, hand picked and curated by Techmeme.com, the world's most popular technology news aggregation service. For thousands of people, including industry leading CEOs and the who's who of silicon valley, the day starts with Techmeme.com. And now Tech Junkie makes sure your favorite tech site is available in its truest form on your phones and tablets, with added features such as notification, news widget and more.
Even if you don't have time to go through the news, Tech Junkie has a radio function that will read out the news for you.
Version 2 Features:
★ Radio - reads out the news for you and can be accessed outside the app too with the new radio widget
★ Rich Notifications - Android 4.1+ devices will display multi-line notification with photo from the story
★ Dynamic Site Icons - if the icon (or logo) of a site is not available within the app, Tech Junkie will attempt to download and cache it directly from the source site
★ Swipe to close article (beta) - now you can close the mobile view by swiping horizontally, from left to right or right to left; ideal for one-handed use, instead of stretching for the back button.
Other Features:
★ Scalable design - for both phones and tablets (for 7" like the Nexus 7 in particular)
★ Top News section - that shows only the most relevant news
★ River section - featuring all news stories
★ History tab - that provides a searchable list of your reading history
★ Events tab - that has a table of major technology events that are happening around the world
★ Mobile View - that loads articles faster, in a mobile friendly way and within the app
★ Color change - for news titles to indicate a story that has been read (similar to link color in web browsers)
★ Notifications - for top news only
★ Widget - that displays all stories from River section
★ Control the notification, set the refresh rate, ringtone, vibration, LED light and more
What differentiates Tech Junkie from other tech news apps is that you only have to read the news once, instead of going through it again and again from different sites. For example if the same news appears at Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and The Verge, Tech Junkie displays prominently only the first site that was to report that news, groups the rest of the sites into a collection and hides it from the main view. Alternate sources and relevant tweets of the same news can be accessed by clicking the "More" and "Tweets" button respectively. And when one or more news items are related, they are properly grouped like on the Techmeme website. Author names (when available) are also properly mentioned just above the story title (like Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal, John Roberts / New York Times, John Paczkowski / AllThingsD), so that you can easily identify your favorite author's works.
Download Tech Junkie today and have your daily dose of relevant technology news, without reading the same story....twice.
New Permissions Explained:-
READ PHONE STATE permission is used to stop the radio when you receive an incoming call. Otherwise the radio will continue playing and you won't be able to hear your caller.
MODIFY OR DELETE THE CONTENTS OF YOUR SD CARD permission is used to cache the site icons downloaded.
Disclaimer:-
Tech Junkie is in no way affiliated with Techmeme.com. We love Techmeme and wanted to provide the best user experience for the site, on phones and tablets. We do believe nothing can match the convenience of visiting Techmeme.com directly when using a PC and would recommend you to do so. But when you are on the go, Tech Junkie will come in handy. All icon copyrights belong to the respective sites.
Tech Junkie brings you the latest and the most relevant technology news, hand picked and curated by Techmeme.com, the world's most popular technology news aggregation service. For thousands of people, including industry leading CEOs and the who's who of silicon valley, the day starts with Techmeme.com. And now Tech Junkie makes sure your favorite tech site is available in its truest form on your phones and tablets, with added features such as notification, news widget and more.
Even if you don't have time to go through the news, Tech Junkie has a radio function that will read out the news for you.
Version 2 Features:
★ Radio - reads out the news for you and can be accessed outside the app too with the new radio widget
★ Rich Notifications - Android 4.1+ devices will display multi-line notification with photo from the story
★ Dynamic Site Icons - if the icon (or logo) of a site is not available within the app, Tech Junkie will attempt to download and cache it directly from the source site
★ Swipe to close article (beta) - now you can close the mobile view by swiping horizontally, from left to right or right to left; ideal for one-handed use, instead of stretching for the back button.
Other Features:
★ Scalable design - for both phones and tablets (for 7" like the Nexus 7 in particular)
★ Top News section - that shows only the most relevant news
★ River section - featuring all news stories
★ History tab - that provides a searchable list of your reading history
★ Events tab - that has a table of major technology events that are happening around the world
★ Mobile View - that loads articles faster, in a mobile friendly way and within the app
★ Color change - for news titles to indicate a story that has been read (similar to link color in web browsers)
★ Notifications - for top news only
★ Widget - that displays all stories from River section
★ Control the notification, set the refresh rate, ringtone, vibration, LED light and more
What differentiates Tech Junkie from other tech news apps is that you only have to read the news once, instead of going through it again and again from different sites. For example if the same news appears at Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and The Verge, Tech Junkie displays prominently only the first site that was to report that news, groups the rest of the sites into a collection and hides it from the main view. Alternate sources and relevant tweets of the same news can be accessed by clicking the "More" and "Tweets" button respectively. And when one or more news items are related, they are properly grouped like on the Techmeme website. Author names (when available) are also properly mentioned just above the story title (like Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal, John Roberts / New York Times, John Paczkowski / AllThingsD), so that you can easily identify your favorite author's works.
Download Tech Junkie today and have your daily dose of relevant technology news, without reading the same story....twice.
New Permissions Explained:-
READ PHONE STATE permission is used to stop the radio when you receive an incoming call. Otherwise the radio will continue playing and you won't be able to hear your caller.
MODIFY OR DELETE THE CONTENTS OF YOUR SD CARD permission is used to cache the site icons downloaded.
Disclaimer:-
Tech Junkie is in no way affiliated with Techmeme.com. We love Techmeme and wanted to provide the best user experience for the site, on phones and tablets. We do believe nothing can match the convenience of visiting Techmeme.com directly when using a PC and would recommend you to do so. But when you are on the go, Tech Junkie will come in handy. All icon copyrights belong to the respective sites.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
v2.16
- Bug fix for crash on opening
v2.12
- Fixed loading error
- Improvements to Mobile View
v2.0
- News radio using Text to Speech engine
- Rich notifications that display the full title
- New widget for radio
- Dynamic site icons
- Progress bar for mobile view
- Swipe horizontally to close mobile view (beta)
- Bug fixes for widget, events and mobile view
v2.16
- Bug fix for crash on opening
v2.12
- Fixed loading error
- Improvements to Mobile View
v2.0
- News radio using Text to Speech engine
- Rich notifications that display the full title
- New widget for radio
- Dynamic site icons
- Progress bar for mobile view
- Swipe horizontally to close mobile view (beta)
- Bug fixes for widget, events and mobile view
Version update Tech Junkie - Technology News was updated to version 2.16
Version update Tech Junkie - Technology News was updated to version 2.15
Version update Tech Junkie - Technology News was updated to version 2.13
Version update Tech Junkie - Technology News was updated to version 2.12
What are users saying about Tech Junkie - Technology News
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Since downloading this app has not loaded once. After two days I gave up...... Delete Note 2
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Radio doesn't work for me (app crashed).
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This is my "go to" for tech news. It's currently not showing any text from the source stories making it difficult to get my tech fix. I, otherwise, love this app for the variety of tech news it offers. There's the answer. Their companion tool "Readability" has been dropped. Update: the issue has been resolved. Thank you.
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This app reads phone state and identity.
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Make this app tablet friendly so I don't have to keep turning it to the side to read news and I will brag about your app to everyone I know.. It's already a great app, but you could make it immense......
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Sorry there, I somehow get absorbed into my thoughts.All well, I really"get down"with the apps'name.It keeps me informed about the Android news and information. Like, I said, "the app is "cool,"reading it by the pool."So stay ahead and read about androids, upgrades and technology, too. Most of all, just read and enjoy each and every word, from their sources that they heard.
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Since downloading this app has not loaded once. After two days I gave up...... Delete Note 2
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If you are not using this app. You are missing out big time
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Sorry there, I somehow get absorbed into my thoughts.All well, I really"get down"with the apps'name.It keeps me informed about the Android news and information. Like, I said, "the app is "cool,"reading it by the pool."So stay ahead and read about androids, upgrades and technology.
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I like the widget but there's no way to choose the feeds. Also, the app itself takes forever to load the articles and freezes often.
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Clemente mejia Guzman
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This app reads phone state and identity.
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Great
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Takes a year and a half to load
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Too spammy.
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Nice app that is well designed. A must for tech fans. Great support too. Keep up the good work.
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I have a Motorola Atrix 2, and no combination of Settings kept the notifications from appearing, which I didn't want. Had to uninstall.
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I decided to check this one out after reading about it in the comments section of an article on Android Police. The Dev posted about it and was promptly met with a snarky comment from a reader. Which I thought sucked; someone writing a free app deserves automatic respect. So I downloaded the app..and I really like it. Great job!
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perfect mobile app of Tech meme...self changing widget with LED notification and 'notify above rank' option are amazing....love it :)
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A must have app for techies!
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This app loads slowly and sends me push notifications after disabling them. If you want a good tech news app, download The Verge
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Good
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Great app to stay up to date with tech news, however it randomly crashes when using the widget, both on a galaxy S2 and Y which is very annoying
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What's with the random errors every time I load a news article?
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It takes a whilr for it to load other than that its a good app but the slowness is annoying
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Since downloading this app has not loaded once. After two days I gave up...... Delete Note 2
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I'd give 5 stars but the load up time Is slow. .over 10 seconds. Otherwise, very good app
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Can do better.. But works for me fine.
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Like
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Very slow to load
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Not a bad app, and a decent widget
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I just installed this application and it is throwing exceptions all the time
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Works well, but UI feels clunky and old.
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Tech news in detail.
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I cannot recommend this app because it is very slow (Nexus 7 (2012)) and the layout is very strange. Not very intuitive or responsive.
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I was so loving this app, all techie news in one place, but today nothing loads, thought maybe there was an update, but no. Extremely disappointed, being a techie student, news came to me. Fix it please, miss my daily dose.
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I like the widget but there's no way to choose the feeds. Also, the app itself takes forever to load the articles and freezes often.
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If you are not using this app. You are missing out big time
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Make a same app for new android apps
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The app still crashes when opening and the radio feature crashes the app consistently. Overall pretty good. I like that it links directly to the article. Thanks!