With the introduction of Cydget, which allows developers and web designer to take control of the lock screen, we’re seeing more and more widgets available for customizing the lock screen. Just do a simple search in cydia with the term “cydget”, you should find lots of cydget-enabled widgets available for download. Not all cydgets are useful. But Fast Reader, which I’m going to show you, is pretty great.
Fast Reader is a cydget that lets you read RSS feeds directly from lock screen. You’re allowed to add your own feeds or templates like Google News. Simply tap on the feed item and it’ll launch Safari to show you the item details. Fast Reader is highly configurable with a detailed setting screen for you to customize your own RSS feed. You can also set the cache time, add Twitter Search feed or Google News Search.
Some users are concerned about the performance and battery consumption. Understand that some cydgets are pretty slow, however, it’s not the case for Fast Reader. It’s really fast and would not slow you down from unlocking the iPhone. Talking about the battery consumption, Fast Reader only uses up battery when it’s invoked. It doesn’t perform background sync. So, the battery consumption is very minimal.
Fast Reader is a cydia application and available via cydia store for US$1.99. If you like to transform your iPhone lock screen to a RSS reader, you should check out Fast Reader.
[Images via cydia.skomski.com]
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