Apps are the most significant thing to happen to the tech landscape since microchips. Many are made, most are mediocre, but some transform your life. Flipboard is one of the latter, taking multiple news sources and feeds from your social networks and presenting them as one, seamless “magazine”. Video and audio are incorporated, and the presentation puts the original sources of many of the articles scooped up to shame. Whether you consider Flipboard the future of magazines or RSS with knobs on, its hard to argue with the quality of its user experience.

Flipboard is a free app that's helping to revolutionise the way iPad owners consume digital content by creating personalised magazines for each of its users, from a variety of feeds.

The attractive and well designed app, named one of TIME Magazine’s 50 top innovations of the year, aggregates the articles shared by your social networking contacts, including Facebook and Twiiter, while pulling in feeds from your favourite news sites and blogs.

Lots of apps aggregate your social media feeds, but Flipboard does so whilst maintaining the feel of a real digital magazine that you can casually flick through. Flipboard puts everything you need to read today in one place; it's invaluable.