Thursday, February 27, 2014 (11:45) | Bart Breij
“AutoWeek unworthy”, “outdated” and “not yet”. These are some of the user reviews for the iPhone app AutoWeek.nl. The application of the biggest car news from Netherlands amassed in just one year, no more than 32 reviews with an average of 2 stars. So it was time for a new app – which is now. AutoWeek.nl version 3.0 is now a universal app for iPhone and iPad, has quite a refreshed appearance and also shows the specific channels for electric cars, vintage cars, supercars and more. The app is also interesting if you’re not looking for car news.
Last April, we wrote about the then newly released iPhone app AutoWeek.nl. Which was optimized for the 4 inch screen of the iPhone 5 and new, but gave no further innovations and improvements over the previous app. And saw you back. Put the screenshots from the article from last year, but once in front of the new AutoWeek.nl.
New Layout
AutoWeek.nl on iPhone and iPad has become whiter, looks firmer, uses a sliding menu instead of buttons at the bottom and make much better use of image. You get the app within a large photo of the head news and bottom of the timeline of the news, you stay here and there great pictures (and ads) between the smaller article headlines see through. But also smaller heads are clearer than before. You read no introduction, but only sees a picture, and short head. A pull-down menu at the top picture, choose a message type: news, car tests, videos, blogs, driving impressions or multi tests
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It is striking that AutoWeek.nl not fully conform to the iOS 7 guidelines in design, but also recognizable as your magazine or the website reads. The cup a news News top left, the red introduction and the section “More on the topic” doing terribly at the other manifestations of AutoWeek think – quite an achievement. A difference with the website is that your videos and pictures you see here bottom of the screen. You can find them at last view in full screen without any problems, both pictures and videos.
Review and Account
bottom of an article you will find the comments and you also have to register. possibility itself If you do not have an account, you can create or sign in with Facebook.
There are more benefits to login to the app. From that moment on your favorite articles and items in the application where you pay for – like a big comparison of small cars – kept in the scrolling menu. You also set a filter for a car brand and model of your preference, including push message when there is news about that car.
Also interesting for used cars
Even if you’re not looking for news on new car models, but are in the market for used cars, AutoWeek.nl is an application where you can no longer ignore. At the top you will find under the heading Cars and fill in a registration to all specifications of a car to see. The database goes back to 1980! Do you have any badge or you look for a new car, you can also look up the model in a list. Many of the specifications is also reflected in occcassions app as Autoscout recently discussed and Autotrack but AutoWeek has to buy a card up its sleeve with reports that you can in the app with an account. In it you can read the test car AutoWeek time, valuation, maintenance intervals and maintenance of the car.
AutoWeek worthy
new application looks a lot better, works flawlessly and has features that you want. like car enthusiast at hand Especially when you create an account in the app. AutoWeek.nl for iPhone and iPad has shaken the past itself. AutoWeek worthy.
Download: AutoWeek.nl (free, universal, iOS 5.1 +)
The news app for iOS NU.nl features a 7-appearance. The major update to version 4.0 also allows for the long-awaited portrait mode on the iPad. Originally planned for mid-2013 functionality performs the bulk of the update for the iPad. NU.nl 4.0 for iPhone and iPad
In particular, iPad users will be happy with version 4.0 of the NU.nl app. Publisher Sanoma has dealt with the often-heard criticism that the application was not read in the portrait orientation of the iPad
The introduced ‘new’ version of NU.nl on November 1, 2012 has a lot of criticism had to endure. Especially the alleged slowness compared to the previous application was an issue for many users, if you take a look at the App Store reviews. You see that criticism also reflected in the App Store-assessment is an average of two stars. But then won NU.nl away with the award for best news app in iCulture Awards. This is despite the App Store review so the called the news app that iCulture readers prefer to use the most of.
RealPlayer was once a video that you did not want to have on your computer. The app was relatively heavy for the system was full of advertising and installed if you are not careful a beam in your web browser. But times change: RealPlayer Cloud is now mostly a handy app. The app is available today for use worldwide. You will receive at registration 2 gigabytes of space free from that PC or Mac movies and series on iPhone and iPad
For the file you do not have to worry RealPlayer Cloud. The application can work with files as usual. Mkv,. Flv,. Wmv,. Xvid,. Mov,. Avi and. Mp4. Thus, almost all videos covered. Videos that you transfer to the application, can be seen in the second page of the app. There you can see them under the RealPlayer Cloud tab. Videos you want to take, for traveling hold you long press and give the command to download. As you watch them without internet connection.
In terms of functionality lacking RealPlayer Cloud to potential competition. So you can at VLC for iOS (free) and since today also nPlayer (€ 4.49) for example, videos from Google Drive or Dropbox get what you allow an additional savings account. Both apps but also Infuse 2 (free) have many more options: you can open up a direct line from your PC or Mac to the application and, if you transfer videos. You can also log on to servers with which apps to get your videos and subtitles from loading. It will save you store and play your videos from the cloud.
Outread, an app to increase your reading speed has been updated. It is the first major update since the app more than a month ago appeared in the App Store. For iPad users, the biggest news is that Outread now optimized for the larger screens of iPads. But even if you only use Outread on the iPhone, there is something to discover: it is because a new fast reading mode in which less important parts of the text are dimmed
