Flipboard for iPad: Navigation with Gestures

Flipboard is an amazing e-magazine app for the iPad.  It will take your RSS feeds or Google Reader subscriptions and reformat them into a magazine appearing layout.  This tech-recipe will explain how to close an article or change articles with a simple gestures.

Flipboard (free, iPad)  is great iPad App for viewing your Google Reader subscriptions or other RSS feeds through.  It reformats your feeds or news stories into a magazine type layout that looks great on the iPad.  However, when viewing an article it seems you have to always hit the Close button to go back to the index / layout.

To Close or minimize an article after viewing just Tap with two fingers on the article to minimize/close it.

Swiping left or right when in the article will navigate you between articles.

Hopefully, these two little tips will make your Flipboard experience even better!

 

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2 Responses to “Flipboard for iPad: Navigation with Gestures”

  1. March 14, 2011 at 4:34 pm, Rob Rogers said:

    I love this app, been using it since it first came out. Great way to read sites, especially Twitter and Facebook.

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    • March 14, 2011 at 4:48 pm, jimmyselix said:

      yea, this app is amazing! :) can’t believe i just found out about it last week. must be getting behind the iOS curve

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