The Last Word On Tech: Apps To Help You Manage Your News Subscriptions

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1:00The last word. With life pharmacy, over 100 local pharmacies nationwide that are always here to help life pharmacy live better together. Joining us for TechSeries Day as always, it's Andy Adonohu and we're going to do something a little different today for people who like getting their news by reading it rather than necessarily getting it via video or audio. You've had a look at, and I'm surprised by some of the stuff you found here because I have a whole range of apps for various newspapers that I read from the Irish Times, the Irish Examiner, the Independent, the Business Post and the Irish Daily Mail here in Ireland and the Journal. And I'm thinking I have, God, I'm just too tuttoned up. This is I have the Wall Street Journal, I have the Financial Times, I have the New York Times, I did drop the Washington Post, should I be looking at different ways of accumulating all of this information that I do on a daily basis. I think you should because it sounds like

2:00you're keeping the newspaper industry alive on your own at the moment. Well, I love the newspaper industry. I grew up in a lot of restaurants. I know, and you're very loyal. However, I think you could be saving a few quid. Okay. And there are endless news feeds, newsletters, paywalls and the reader apps that you just mentioned and this kind of what we've seen is a consolidation. So a number of people have started to do it well and they're kind of called maybe the read it later engines and there's a few. Read wise and insta paper. These are kind of the read it later and they act like kind of a personal digital library and insta paper costs, I think, 353.53 euros, 50 a month. Read wise is nine euros a month. And what do they do? What they do is they summarize five thousand word investigative pieces into smaller, readable bits or easy to consume articles. They strip out all the ads, the banner is the pop-ups

3:02and the trackers and some of them will do text to speech convert the articles into a feed like that. People like them, I think this is a kind of a niche within this section because students are apparently like them. I suppose if you're researching a project, researchers like them and they're kind of, the Pinterest of news in a way and they kind of give you a broad look at what's going on in the world but the content that they give you access to is vast and so for the money, it's a very good way to keep informed for a low fee. Okay, well that is an insta paper and read wise what would read an Apple news? I was unaware of what good value readly was earlier this week when I was researching this for you and since then I have signed up. So really an Apple news are kind of all you can eat magazines and papers. So instead of maintaining the separate subscriptions like you do to various magazines and newspapers,

4:04this gives you that kind of broad digital access through a single subscription. And again, the magazines and the broad sheet papers are vast and at really is 15 euros a month and you sign up online and it's direct Irish pricing in euros which is good. Apple news plus is an interesting one because if you buy a new Apple device at the moment you get Apple news plus free for six months which is good value because they sell that separately and it's also part of their Apple one premier which costs 35 euros a month. Instead though, if you have a new Apple device you can get it free for six months which is good. So unlimited access to literally thousands of newspapers a nice mobile optimized version and you get the archives and you can use on different devices. So for the money I think something like really is exceptionally good value. And I'm just looking about the likes of the Gaurgian and there as well, that's another subscription I have and the times I'm just realizing

5:05I have an awful lot of subscriptions, okay. And what about the Revolut Ultra? So this is so I would say to your listeners have a look and see what offers you can get with other products because Revolut of course we know as a banking app but and they have paid tears. One of the tears is the Platinum Tears, 55 euros a month which sounds expensive but it comes with things like access to lounges all over the world. That's great if you're a frequent traveler but it does include a financial times premium digital subscription which I think is about 300 euros a year or more. And so you get that subscription included as well as things like the NordVPN and you get a free eSIM. So what's the NordVPN? That's a virtual private network, you know, for traveling this is kind of these are things that they bundle together for business travelers essentially. Okay. And the eSIM and the eSIM is you can select a mobile phone number in a country that you're visiting so you don't incur roaming. I did that in Japan recently too.

6:07The eSIM allowed. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So you get all of that included but the thing that really catches my eye in this context is that financial times premium subscription is part of the part of the deal. What's ground news? Ground news is a really interesting one which again I hadn't heard of costs about 850 a month and it's a news aggregation platform and this is really interesting because it's built to combat media bias. So they gather thousands of articles every day covering the same breaking story but showing how the coverage is distributed across left leaning and right leaning media outlets. And literally as you look at the screen you will see for the right and for the left and it will show you some that you might see a story on the left from the Guardian, same story covered on the right from Newsmax. And that is really interesting probably for journalists probably find it very interesting for researchers for students

7:08but the idea is that it's about what they call these blind spots within the media around the world now and they highlight stories also ignored by those specific media groups. Before it's a difficult one to explain but some listeners might be interested in it and at 850 a month it's a really interesting option. Now Amazon Prime reading and Amazon first reads. Tell us about this. So I should mention Amazon because I used to love Amazon Prime reading and so every month because I subscribe to Amazon Prime, get the movies, love, reach your bar, all of that. You get your free delivery but you also used to get prime reading. So you had a number of free books and magazines that came every month. I however made a mistake and I converted my Amazon UK account to an Irish Amazon account because I was encouraged to do so and prime reading has disappeared for me. Oh, so it looks to me like if you have an Amazon UK account and you use it for prime reading which is fantastic because you get thousands and thousands of books

8:09and magazines every month to read. Don't change your account because it looks like it might go away but if you still do have it, it's also a really good option and many people don't even know that they have it who subscribe to Prime. Okay, so you get lots of books and magazines as well and things like that. Okay, Hey Stack News. Hey Stack is an interesting one because this is essentially and you said for people who like to read the news but if you do like getting it from TV, Hey Stack is, it stitches together short individual broadcast clips from major global networks and they include Bloomberg, Reuters, Uranus, ABC, CBS, Deutsche Vell, Al Jazeera into a single continuous personalized newscast. So they have a deal with about 300 premium broadcast partners. So the idea is that you can simply log on, choose your channel and I tell you who it's great format is if you're an expat living in Ireland and you're from middle America or somewhere in Europe or Asia or Africa, you can find your local channels, even the US local channels are included.

9:11And so at I think just under four euros a month, it's a great, great option. And can you then throw it onto your TV screen? You can cast. Yeah. Cast. That's the word I need to use in the role. Okay, and press reader. So press reader available in Ireland, 30 euros a month for the premium version which I would suggest is the best option. 12 euros a month gives you access to 15 publications but this is fantastic because like, for instance, say your daily mail app where you get or the Wall Street Journal app where you get the broad sheet version of the paper in the app which I really like. With press reader, you get unedited digital print replicas of thousands of the world's most best known newspapers, including Washington Post, the Guardian, the Globe and the Mail, the Figaro, LPI, the LA Times, Irish Indo, Daily Mail. The 7,000 newspapers and mags in total and for 30 euros a month, it strikes me as fantastic value. We will leave it there, Andy O'Donohoo. Thank you for joining us for TechSaristay.

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