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Since moving back to NewsFire RSS app on my iMac from the very flaky NetNewsWire, I haven’t been able to keep up to date with my RSS feeds on the iPhone. This largely hasn’t bothered me as I use my iMac more than the iPhone and even when I did have the syncing ability between NNW on my Macs and iPhone I never checked them.

Because I will be iPhone exclusive in a couple of weeks I suddenly remembered that I won’t be near my RSS feed on my Mac for a number of days. Being delivered the feeds I subscribe to on the iPhone during my Mac and wifi timeout will be one of the things I’ll look forward to as no doubt I’ll be beating a lot of boredom.

Last night I searched through the iTunes App Store for an app that would allow me to access my feeds by importing my OMPL file. Syncing wasn’t high up on my list, but something that performed well and looked good was.

Newsstand is arguably the most elegant RSS feed app in the App Store at this moment. Not only can you view and organize your feeds in portrait mode but flip your phone into landscape mode and this is where the app shows it’s true beauty, turning into a beautiful shelf of newspapers that you scroll through with a flick of your finger.

To open up a feed in shelf mode just tap the screen twice and it flips that feed open like a newspaper.

To add subscriptions to Newsstand you can import your subscription list from any Bloglines account, OPML file on the web or Google Reader. I imported my OPML file by uploading it to my webspace first. You can also add your OPML by uploading it to a free service such as opmlmanager.com You can also manually add new RSS feed URL’s at any time, aswell as share articles from Newsstand via E-mail, Twitter or delicious.com bookmarks. Be sure to check out the video here.

Newsstand is a beautiful app that is well worth the price at £2.99 [iTunes link] Newsstand will elegantly tide me over until NewsFire is available in iPhone app style with syncing abilities. I culled my RSS subscriptions list to around 22 recently, so when I’m back to my Mac I shouldn’t be too overwhelmed by unread feeds.