TORN i-Phone app

An i-Phone application developer who is also a Tolkien enthusiast has developed an app to retrieve news from TheOneRing.net website. Here is a review:

One of the advantages of the iPhone/Touch platform has been the ability for small specialised apps that perform useful functions.

If you regularly check the theonering.net on your iPhone for news on the Hobbit films and other Tolkien-related events you might find this 59p/99c app to be of interest. While not as visually exciting as the main site, it loads a lot faster, and provides quick links to a usefully-formatted version of each story, including the pictures. You can also continue to read the pages offline, once you've loaded them.

It also provides an easy way of forwarding the story to a friend by email and the author is intending to add Facebook and Twitter integration at a later date.

Here is a link to the app. Searching for The One Ring news in the app store also finds it.