About this app

Survival Feeds:

This app identifies several RSS feeds dealing with the subjects of "survival", "emergency preparedness", "flu - pandemic" and "financial news" then updates the data every time you are connected to the web (WiFi/3G connection is a must) and run the application.   By combining all these feeds into a simple and easy to use application that displays the text in large format on your iPhone, iTouch, or iPad, you can quickly keep up with what's going on at these sites without having to browse, zoom-in, read, pan, zoom-out, scroll, zoom-in, read, pan, zoom-out.... you get the point.  

So what is an RSS feed anyway?  

Wiki explains it this way:
RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format.  An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.  

I hope you like the application.  I look forward to your feedback and suggestions to make it better.  If you have websites you would like added, send the links to me and I'll try to get them added.  Look under contact for email address.


Thanks,

Dave


PS.  This is the RSS logo.

User's Manual

Navigation:

Navigate to the various RSS Feeds by clicking on the icons at the bottom of the page.  By default only 4 can be displayed along with the More… icon, but you can choose which 4 are always present. 

Each icon/site will typically display 10-15 of the latest topics found.  By clicking on a topic, more data will be displayed.  Some data feeds display all data, others only a few sentences or paragraphs, but typically enough to get the concept of the topic.  If you want more info simply click the top right icon to be taken to the website. See below.



Changing the 4 default icons:

You can change which 4 icons get displayed at the bottom of the app by pressing the "More..." button and then the "edit" button at the top right.  Simply touch and drag the icon you want to the location on the tool bar.  Please see below.



Cached vs Updated Feeds:

This application pulls all its data from the web.  For this reason you MUST have a network connection either from Wi-Fi or 3G connection.  Of course if you are reading this you must have connected at least once.  After you've connected to the net and visited the various sites and data feeds, the application will cache out the data to your device.  If when connected and it looks like your feeds are not updating, just touch the screen and pull down to update the feed. See below. 

Contact

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions you can contact me at:

via email:

deking193@gmail.com

and via my site:

survivalfeeds.blogspot.com

Disclaimer

NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED

This application is in no way connected, recognized, or supported by the websites, blogs and data displayed by the application.  This application searches the web for RSS feeds pertaining to survival and emergency preparedness, then organizes this data for easy reading and navigation.  The data presented comes from open feeds that any web browser or RSS Reader can display and navigate.   If you do have an issue with this application, the data being used or the way in which it is being presented, please the contact page.