Among the thousands of sketchy, pointless apps out there, there are a handful of apps that actually serve a purpose and can make your life easier.
Flipboard is one such app.
Flipboard can be used to check the news and organize the information users like.
Flipboard also gives you the option to create your own "magazine" through the app. Flipboard is free, and it allows you to only read the news topics you're interested in.
Flipboard has an area for users to make a profile. Under each user's profile, they can create "magazines" organized in groupings of the articles the user has saved.
There is a section called "my subscriptions," where there are shortcuts to different topics.
The different subscriptions include categories such as news, technology, Flipboard Picks, design, National Geographic, Inside Flipboard, Twitter and Facebook.
Users can also connect to other social media outlets like Google+, LinkedIn, Flickr, Tumblr, YouTube and SoundCloud.
There is an option to "discover more" where they have categories of information under "new and noteworthy" and a compilation of their readers' favorite articles.
If you're like me and get completely overwhelmed in new or big cities by all of the entertainment and food options, Flipboard can help narrow down the selection.
They have a section of national and international cities, from Denver to London, called "city guides." It gives you current news for the city, top restaurants to try, music performances for the night, shopping venues, and cheap events if you want to be thrifty.
This app works well for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with the news without having to look through 10 different news sources until they find the information that they like.
They cater to all different types of newsreaders, from musicians to artists and food-lovers.
Similar to Instagram and Twitter, Flipboard allows users to follow other users, and has the option to make their profiles private or public.
You can post videos on Flipboard, and it provides an easy way to browse information from Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other popular sites all at once while throwing in a mixture of widely read news sources such as USA Today and Rolling Stone.
Because of the way I organized my magazines for my profile, with just a few clicks, I can read about the Pope and then switch to an article about my favorite television show.
It provides a wide spectrum of topics with just a few flicks of my thumb. Flipboard is one app I can use every day.
Instead of distracting me for 30 minutes at a time such as Candy Crush, I can actually learn something by using Flipboard.
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