Your personal newspaper of the internet

Latest Version

Version
1.1.4
Update
March 27, 2015
Size
861KiB
Developer
alexbostock.co.uk
Category
Users
45
Rating
4.2 ★
Manifest Version
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (UK)
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Permissions
Storage
Alarms
Webview
Http://theinterestingpost.appspot.com/
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The Interesting Post Application

The Interesting Post is your personalized online newspaper. View news from all sources in one place.

Current features:
- News headlines
- Weather forecast
- Tech News

Much more to come...

This version brings US support. Please send me feedback, especially if you're in the US
[email protected]

Change Log

1.1.3
- Improved functionality
- New error messages

1.0.1
- FIRST STABLE RELEASE
- Support for US locale
- Local headlines in US locale
- Improved weather formatting

0.29.9
- Improved branding

0.29.5
- Improved server-side - it's much faster now

0.28.14
- Bug fixes
- Improved UI
- Tech news from The Register

0.26.16
- Increased the number of headlines displayed
- Improved code base
- Fixed missing \"read more\" buttons

0.24.6
- Updated icons

0.24.4
- Bug fixes
- Font change

0.23.5
- Bug fixes
- Twitter feed removed <-- Let me know what you think!
- Minor improvements

0.21.2
- Each section has an individual refresh button
- Minor UI changes

0.17.1
- News articles open in-app, rather than in a browser tab

News is powered by the Huffington Post.

Sport bulletins coming soon, by popular request.

This app is currently restricted to UK and US only.

An android app is in the works, through Apache Cordova

Please send me feedback --> [email protected]
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "The Interesting Post", "description": "Your personal newspaper of the internet", "version": "1.1.4", "app": { "background": { "scripts": ["background.js"] } }, "icons": { "16": "icon-16.png", "128": "icon-128.png" }, "offline_enabled": false, "permissions": [ "storage", "alarms", "webview", "http://theinterestingpost.appspot.com/" ]}
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