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New Feature: Search Through Sources.

This new feature on Cronycle allows you to search through your sources (RSS or Twitter) when creating a new collection.

This makes it easy to find a specific piece of content in the masses.

Here’s a short video over going the new feature.

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A Walkthrough of the new Cronycle Reader App

If you read the last blog post, you would have learnt about our new Ipad app. This post will go over how to navigate the app and use it's new features. 

Discover-

From the Discover Section of the app you can view all of the public collections from other Cronycle users. Swipe from the right side of the screen to view the different categories of collections, for example; Tech, Business, Design and News. From the Discover section if you see a collection that catches your eye, you can add it ‘MyCronycle’

MyCronycle-

My Cronycle  where you will find your own collections as well as the collections that you have followed from the discover page. From here, a swipe from the right hand side of the screen, will bring up a list of all your collections, so you can quickly and easily find just what you’re looking for.

How to Favourite-

See an Article you like? Add it to your favourites so you can easily find it again later. To favourite something, just press on the outline of a star- this can be done from within the collection or using long pressure gesture; hold your finger down on the article and select the star.

How to Navigate-

Swiping from the left hand side of the screen, or pressing the hamburger menu in the top left corner, opens up the main menu, from which you can login or out, access the Discover page, MyCronycle and Favourites.

Swiping from the right hand side of the screen will open a list of categories, or collections, dependent on what page you’re on.

Sharing your Content

Much like favouriting, sharing a piece of content can be done within the article itself or by using long pressure gesture.

This Video will walk through the navigation of the app as well as how to add collections to ‘MyCronycle’ and favouriting specific articles.

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Cronycle Reader App Update

We’re excited to officially announce our new iOS 8 app which has some cool new features that you won’t find on the web app!

For those well versed in the power of Cronycle you will recognise that you don’t have the same creation ability in terms of adding sources or creating collections, instead you can find new sources of content from your favourite websites by using the cronycle share button in safari.

All of the collections you’ve already created will be synced once you sign in, but if you’ve never used Cronycle before you can still enjoy the app. We have hundreds of collections for you to discover and follow on topics such as business, technology, lifestyle and design.

We’ve improved the reading templates and video player and added a gallery so Cronycle reader is the best way to consume your content whether online or off. Share your content onto social media with one touch, with the long pressure gesture, Cronycle gives you options to share on your Facebook, Twitter or through Email with Google+ and Linkedin coming soon.

  We’ve got lots of plans for new features including filtering and collections based on your location. We’re also looking at introducing some of the editing features from the web so if you have any suggestions contact us.

You can download the app here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cronycle-take-control-your/id913522991?mt=8

Up next a walkthrough of the app so you can see all of the features

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6 digital media journalists worth following

We’ve rounded up some of the best digital media journalists in the business—the people you should follow, and learn from, to stay on top of your game. In addition to a knack for curation and insider knowledge, it’s authenticity that makes these journalists so good.

By Jacqueline Lisk

If there’s any profession that needs to stay up-to-date on industry news, it’s journalists. Being in the know is a job requirement—and no small feat in this day and age of constant info influx.

Here are a few people we turn to regularly to keep us updated on digital media happenings.

Hook ‘em up to your Cronycle and let the fun begin!

1. Sue Llewellyn, @suellewellyn

Sue is a former BBC TV broadcaster who has since launched a social media consultancy business, Ultra Social. Turn to her Twitter account and company website for insightful tips for managing your social media accounts and online reputation, as well as general publishing news and public speaking tips. We appreciate her curation skills and humor.

Wow. Female-named hurricanes kill more than male ones because people don't respect them #sexism http://t.co/ypyf9XuIEJ@ via @washingtonpost

— Sue Llewellyn (@suellewellyn)

June 3, 2014

2. Jasp Jackson, @jaspjackson

Jasp is the editor of The Media Briefing, a must-read for global media news. (We highly recommend their newsletter and RSS Feed.) He tweets about media and politics and, as he puts it, things that amuse him. He’s big on photos and not afraid to share an opinion or glimpse into his personal life.

Fascinating long read from @Bynickdavies on phone hacking trial. Must have given Gdn lawyers a massive headache. http://t.co/lUVhEEUJZR

— Jasper Jackson (@JaspJackson)

June 26, 2014

3. Alex Hern, @alexhern

Alex is a talented tech reporter for the Guardian. We suggest subscribing to his RSS for insightful, easy-to-digest tech news and following him on Twitter for, well, whatever seems to pop in his mind. In addition to sharing his work, he covers tech, publishing and current events and is a great curator of interesting articles we wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.

If the Turing Test is best passed by a machine pretending to be a thick 13 year old who speaks English as a second language, it’s broken.

— Alex Hern (@alexhern)

June 9, 2014

A 12 year old boy’s made a game that was on the front page of the App Store. What did you do today? http://t.co/iiTITkZAx0

— Alex Hern (@alexhern)

June 6, 2014

4. Patrick Smith, @psmith 

Patrick is the media editor at Buzzfeed UK. As we all know, if anyone has mastered bite-sized journalism, it’s these guys. We wouldn’t rely on Buzzfeed as our only news source, but it’s a nice addition to a robust collection. Who can resist a good listicle? (Hopefully not you. Keep reading. You’re only at number 4.) He shares his articles and tweets often about pop culture and current events, as well as parenting and sports.

Simon Barnes is leaving The Times. One less reason to read it. http://t.co/xmTrUtFafV

— Patrick Smith (@psmith)

June 28, 2014

5. Neal Mann, @fieldproducer

Neal’s Twitter bio sums it pretty up nicely: “Multimedia Innovations Editor @WSJ, currently working on strategy for News Corp Australia. Mixing news, photos, music & surfing.” He shares humorous and relatable commentary on his day-to-day life, music recommendations and interesting news stories.

Did you ever trust it?! RT @guardian: Facebook's secret mood experiment: have you lost trust in the social network? http://t.co/1MxBNAmYY7

— Neal Mann (@fieldproducer)

June 30, 2014

6. Robert Cookson, @robert_cookson

Robert is a digital media correspondent at Financial Times. He doesn’t tweet as regularly as some of our other featured writers, but we recommend adding him to your Collection for insightful media news and spot-on retweets. Of course, be sure to follow FT, too.

Record labels representing 10 per cent of the music on YouTube are set to be blocked from the platform http://t.co/UK0fi8DSoa

— Robert Cookson (@robert_cookson)

June 17, 2014

Have anyone we should add? Want a roundup of journalists in another industry? Let us know @wearecronycle