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lipboard是帮助你关注你所感兴趣话题的最好应用之一,这是一款适用于苹果(Apple)及安卓(Android)移动设备的免费热门应用,可以自动将社交网络帖子与网络新闻转化为可以用手指"翻页"的精美的杂志般的页面。现在,于3月26日全新发布的第二代Flipboard进一步拓展了功能。用户无需任何设计天赋,只需点击数次就可以创建和分享属于他们自己的精彩电子杂志。如果你选择公开自己的杂志,那么任何Flipboard用户都可以阅读和评论。


One of the best ways of following topics that are interesting to you is Flipboard, a popular app for Apple and Android mobile devices that automatically turns social-network posts and news from online publications, into beautiful, magazine-like pages you 'flip' through by swiping.


过去一周左右时间,我一直在几部iPad和一部iPhone上测试新版的Flipboard。这款应用还有其他一些功能改进。我的结论是,这些新功能使得这款本就伟大的移动应用更加出色。虽然新功能还存在一些限制,不过已足以让你的移动设备更加个性化,更像是一款创意工具而不只是一个消费载体。新版应用目前只面向苹果设备,安卓版正在研发中。


Now, a new second generation of Flipboard, out Tuesday, is extending the app so it allows users to create and share their own handsome digital magazines with a few clicks and without any design talent required. If you make your magazine public, anyone with Flipboard, which is a free app, can read it and comment on it.


Flipboard是由硅谷小型私有公司Flipboard开发的,意在帮助用户在繁杂纷乱的社交网站与网页信息中拾径而行。用户可以抓取诸如烘焙或篮球等热门话题帖子,汇聚成富有吸引力的内容集。Flipboard公司表示,该应用已经拥有了5000万注册用户,日活跃用户达到了数百万人。


I've been testing this new version of Flipboard, which has some other improved features, over the past week or so, on several iPads and an iPhone. My verdict is the new features make a great mobile app even better. There are some limitations to the new capabilities, but they make your mobile device more personal and more of a creative tool, rather than just a means of consumption. For now, the new version is only available for Apple's devices, but an Android edition is in the works.


我长期使用Flipboard关注科技与政治新闻,浏览Twitter或Facebook上特定人物及站点发布的内容。随着符合标准的新贴子出现,这项内容集合也会随之更新。如果我有一个关于经济或是智能手机话题的相关Twitter内容集合,这个内容集会保持动态,自动向我展示这些Twitter内容中提到的任何网页。


The original Flipboard, which is produced by a small, private Silicon Valley company of the same name, was aimed at helping people wade through the welter of information on social networks and the Web, by allowing them to corral posts on popular topics like, say, baking or basketball, into attractive collections. The company says that capability has earned it 50 million registered users and a smaller, but active, core group of millions who use it daily.


而在有了新的个性化杂志功能之后,我就可以基于特定的兴趣话题创建Flipboard杂志,精选我想要包括的帖子或文章,而不用依赖于信息流或者算法。而且这操作起来很简单。当你发现一个你想要加入自己杂志的帖子、视频或是文章,你只需点击内容旁边的"添加"(Plus)按键,选择自己的某本杂志,这些内容就会出现在那本杂志中。只有当你决定用新的文章、照片或视频来替换原有内容时,杂志才会进行更新。杂志中标出了内容的初始创建者。


I have long used Flipboard to follow tech and political news, or to leaf through everything posted on Twitter or Facebook by particular people or sites. These collections would update as new posts meeting the criteria appeared. If I had a collection about, say, the economy or smartphones, based on tweets on those subjects, it would stay current, showing me automatically any Web pages referenced within those tweets.


我在测试中制作了五本杂志,其中部分是公开的,部分是私人的。由于只是用于测试,所以我没有很认真地去制作。但制作杂志之快捷、编排之精美却给我留下了深刻印象。Flipboard用美观的封面照片、醒目的标题以及照片和文章的合理排版打造出了漂亮的杂志。


With the new personal magazine feature, however, I can make my own Flipboard-hosted publications on particular topics of interest, handpicking the posts or articles I want to include, rather than relying on feeds or algorithms. And it's easy to do. When you find a post, video or article you want to include in your magazine, you just click a plus button next to it, choose which of your magazines to 'flip it' into and it appears in that magazine. The magazine only updates when you decide to update it with a new article, photo or video. The original creators are credited.


我制作了几本关于美国独立战争、古代奇迹、波士顿红袜棒球队(Boston Red Sox)以及自己最喜欢的电视剧的公开分享杂志。我还做了一本私人杂志用来存储我想随后阅读的内容。


During my testing, I made five magazines, some public and some private. Since these were just for testing, they weren't carefully created. But I was impressed by how quickly I could produce them and how nicely Flipboard laid them out, with handsome cover photos, bold headlines and a logicalarrangement of photos and articles.


Flipboard显著提升了搜索功能,极大推动了这个杂志制作流程。应用会从内部以及一长列社交网络与网站中寻找内容,包括Twitter、Facebook、Google+、YouTube、Instagram、Flickr、Tumblr以及诸多网站生成的内容流。


I made public magazines on the American Revolution, Ancient Wonders, the Boston Red Sox and my favorite current TV dramas. I also made a private magazine to store content I wanted to read later.


在PC电脑和苹果Mac电脑上的大多数浏览器中,你可以通过一个特殊书签把内容加入杂志。当你看到网站的某些内容,想加入自己的某本杂志,点击这个书签,一个小的Flipboard窗口就会和你杂志的缩略图一道打开,而后你就可以添加内容。不过,在iPad和iPhone上的浏览器上,这个书签非常难安装。


This process is greatly helped by a much-enhanced search feature in Flipboard, which finds items both in Flipboard itself and in a long list of social networks and sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr and streams of content, called RSS feeds, produced by various sites.


新版应用还有个新的通知功能,当其他用户赞或评论你杂志的时候就会告知你。"来自我们读者"(By Our Readers)功能则会推荐Flipboard员工认为出色的公开杂志。


You can add content to your magazines using a special bookmark for most browsers on PCs or Macs. When you see something on the Web you'd like in one of your magazines, click this bookmark and a small Flipboard window opens with thumbnails of your magazines, allowing you to add the item. Alas, this bookmark is very difficult to install on the browsers on the iPad and iPhone.


出版商们也在采用Flipboard的这项新杂志功能。《时尚先生》(Esquire)已经制作了一本精选其专访内容的Flipboard杂志,《滚石》(Rolling Stone)也发布了一本精选部分甲壳虫乐队(Beatles)相关文章的Flipboard杂志。


There's a new Notifications feature that tells you when people have liked or commented on your magazines. A 'By Our Readers' feature suggests public magazines the Flipboard staff considers outstanding.


如果你发现了一本喜欢的Flipboard杂志,那可以订阅以便快捷持续阅读,或是通过Twitter、Facebook或是电子邮件分享链接。如果Flipboard用户想看杂志,杂志就会自动开启。否则,相关链接会将用户引至一个网页,引导用户获取Flipboard应用。


Publishers are making use of the new magazine feature in Flipboard. Esquire has created a magazine that's a collection of its interviews and Rolling Stone has published a Flipboard magazine collecting some of its articles on the Beatles.


遗憾的是,你不能过多编辑杂志,不能加入原创或本地内容。你无法重新编排文章,无法创建自己的文本文章,或是选择你iPad或iPhone上的照片与视频。由于Flipboard倾向于从网络来源收纳内容,所以如果想在自己杂志上使用自己的照片与视频,你就必须先将其发布到Flickr这样的网站。要想在自己的杂志中使用一篇你自己写的稿件,就必须先将其发布到网上。


If you find a magazine you like, you can subscribe to it, for easy and continued access, or share a link to it via Twitter, Facebook or email. If somebody who has Flipboard wants to view the magazine, it'll automatically open. Otherwise, the link will take a person to a Web page with instructions on how to get Flipboard.


你唯一可做的直接调整就是修改封面照片,通常会选自你最近加入的带图片的文章。你还可以删除内容;创建和改变杂志名字与简介;更改杂志的公开或私人属性。


Unfortunately, what you can't do is to edit your magazine much, or add original or local content to it. You can't rearrange articles, or create your own text articles, or add photos or videos that live only on your iPad or iPhone. You also can't rearrange articles. Because Flipboard is so oriented to pulling in content from online sources, to use one of your own photos or videos in your own magazine, you'd have to first post it to a site like Flickr. To use an article you write for your own magazine, you'd have to first post it online.


你不能对自己的杂志收费或是在其中销售广告,不过你所加入内容中内嵌的广告会随着内容一道并入杂志。


The only tweaking you can do directly is to change the cover picture, which is typically drawn from the most recent article you include that has a photo; remove an item; create and change the title and a short description of the magazine; and change its status between publiclyvisible or private.


Flipboard表示,会在应用更新中加入使用设备内存储照片与视频等功能。


You also can't charge for your magazines or sell ads in them, though any ads embedded in the content you include would travel with that content into your magazine.


总而言之,Flipboard新的个性化杂志功能对于这款本就非常出色的应用而言可谓是锦上添花。


Flipboard says it expects to add some of these features, like the ability to use photos and videos stored on your device, in updates.


Walter S. Mossberg


Overall, Flipboard's new personal magazines are a very good addition to a very good app.




Walter S. Mossberg