iGovernment ($1.99)
Version – 1.0
REVIEW – “A great way to keep your eye on what big brother is up to!”
Today I’m proud to be bringing you an app that will allow you to keep 
up with what’s going on in all aspects of the US government! iGovernment gives you access to information via RSS feeds on all kinds of things from breaking news to individual areas of government such as the courts, defense and the treasury. If you’re at all politically minded be sure to stick around and check the end of this review to see how you can have a chance to win a free copy of this app!
When you open up iGovernment you’ll start out on the “News” page the first time. This page will have some general headlines and breaking news about what’s going on currently. Touching any of the stories will take you to a full screen view of that story with a simple menu at the top of the 
screen. You can scroll through the story and read it or you can quickly and easily skip to another story using the arrows in the menu at the top, open the story on its full page in Safari or send a link to it out on Twitter!
The browser interface is very smooth and works well. If there are links in the post that you are viewing, touching them will open them up from within the app instead of opening Safari, which is nice. Another great thing is that if you click any links within the document it will load the mobile version of the site if one is available. This helps the pages to load much more quickly than if you were viewing the full website, and makes the look and feel of the app much cleaner!
At the bottom of the screen you’ll notice a menu with several different options. The ones that will start here by default are “Pictuers,” “Videos,” and “Search.” These default buttons can be switched out with any of the other categories that you will find when you click on the “More” option in the bottom right corner. Here you’ll find pages dedicated to the White House, Congress, the Courts, Defense, and a whole host of other areas in government!
In the upper right corner of the “More” screen is an “Edit” button. Touching this button will bring up a 
page full of different main pages that you have to choose from. From this screen you can then touch and drag any four icons that you want into the default menu bar at the bottom of the screen! Is health care of particular interest to you? How about the Treasury or Energy? Whatever your interest may be it is simple to put them just one click away with this app!
Probably my favorite feature, although I did like the bulk and quality of the stories available, is the video that comes in this app. The videos are mostly from Youtube but are so well integrated into the app that you would never even notice it. It’s the
things like this that really make this app feel like a premium app, it just works!
Now I’m sure that a lot of people have skimmed through to get to the part where I mention getting this great app for free, am I right? Well if this is an app that interests you then all you have to do is two things to enter! (1) Follow me on Twitter at Twitter.com/iHayward. This is to make it easier for me to contact the winners when the contest is over. (2) The second thing is that you need to tweet the following message, “@iHayward Win a free iGovernment iPhone app from AppShouter.com! http://bit.ly/cf57ni”. That’s it! I will go through all the entries and select the winners next week, Thursday the 11th. In the mean time feel free to read through the review and comment with any questions that you might have!
- David H.
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Developer – Esse Quam Videri Music Group
URL: http://essequ.am/
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