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14 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | FEBRUARY 2018 By Steve Benoff Remember hearing those words shouted on city streets? Well, newspapers these days are trying to make their way in a digital age. We're still reading the news, but often it's printed on a screen rather than paper. If you do subscribe to a newspaper, chances are it has a very active website and probably an app. The Press-Enterprise has quite a nice app. It displays the current edition in its newspaper form. But you don't have to read the tiny print. Just press the article you're interested in and you call it up in a much more readable form. There are links to each section. And, uniquely, you can easily access the last 30 days' editions. As far as I can tell there is no charge for access to this app. The major newspaper apps require a subscription. Since I get the LA Times delivered daily, I'm entitled to use the LA Times app. Frankly, when I do use it, it's for sports. My go to news app is the New York Times. Unlike the PE app, the NY Times app follows the more traditional (assuming a tradition can be established in a decade) news app approach; headlines and a short synopsis. You can get a quick feel for the news just by reading the synopses. Press the headline for the full article. But I have to pay for full access to the app. I think limited access is available for free. For me, it's worth the money. It may not be for you. The Wall Street Journal has a comprehensive app. But it is severely limited unless you pay. Same for the Washington Post. There are plenty of free news apps. There's probably one right on your phone. If you have an iPhone and you swipe from your main screen to the one to the left, you'll see a screen of widgets you can customize to your liking. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and press Edit. You'll see a list of widgets. The ones already selected for display have a red minus circle. Press the minus to delete. Below the ones already selected are widgets you can add by pressing the green plus circle. Once you have chosen your favorites, one can change their top to bottom order by dragging the hamburger symbol. (The hamburger symbol has three stacked horizontal lines.) Among the widgets is one called News. If News is selected, you'll see several news items culled from various sources. Press the item for the full story. In fact, there is a full News app that comes with your phones. Press NEWS at the top of the news summary to access it or find the news on your phone. Google has one too which you can download from the App Store. Fox and CNN have apps with extensive news coverage. There's an app called SmartNews which has a unique tabbed presentation which I find quite appealing. Inkl news is another app but I haven't tried it because it requires me to sign in. I don't want to create an account. I get more than enough emails as it is; if I give my email address out to inkl, I fear I'll only get more. USA Today has an app. So do NPR News and BBC News. And it you want more, go to the App Store or Google and search for news apps. Or be more specific and search for business news apps or sports news apps. I need to apologize to you who have Android smartphones. Most of the references I make are to iPhones. But just about everything I cover is applicable to Android phones except by a different name. Most popular apps are available on both platforms. Do you use an app you'd like to share with others, let me know at steve.benoff@verizon.net. THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT! EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!