Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Flipboard brings the noise in NPR-ified app update, Britta will be pleased

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Do you loathe the sound of silence? Check out the latest update to [Flipboard][3], bro. The most recent update to the social app now includes an audio selection that'll pump out [NPR][4] podcasts and [SoundCloud][5] tracks, amongst a litany of others, at will. The update will also benefit the visually impaired, as it now includes [VoiceOver][6] features to enable it to read your social media offerings out loud. Hopefully those features will be included as standard when it makes a more, ahem, [legitimate][7] arrival on [Android][8].

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