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RookSoft's Fahim Farook has been working on the development team for Huffington Post since October to bring out a new improved Huffington Post iPad app. All the hard work has paid off - it's now available in the iTunes store.

Mashable took first crack at reviewing it:

The next edition of The Huffington Post’s iPad app — dubbed NewsGlide — is set to appear in the App Store later tonight, serving up the publication’s top stories to device owners in a newly elegant, image-rich format that improves greatly upon the previous version.

The rest of the article can be read here.

Robert Scoble tweeted about it:

Nice new Huffington Post on iPad looks awesome! Here's the direct link - I think it's live now. Get it here: http://is.gd/j7584

And the twitter stream has been busy with comments about the Huffington Post iPad app!

9to5mac talks about the new app here:

The new version is quite slick with access to all of the Huffington Post’s sections and a new “glide” feature. This feature lets you slide through the different posts and it sort of feels like the Twitter for iPad interface.

iClarified says this:

The totally redesigned Huffington Post iPad app gives you up-to-the-minute news and opinion delivered in a lively easy-to-read format. It’s fast, fun, informative… and seriously addictive.

Navigate at breakneck speed through all of HuffPost’s stories, blog posts, photos, and breaking news from the site’s wide array of sections, including politics, entertainment, comedy, tech, business, sports, books, health, and more.

Here are some screenshots of the app:

The Huffington Post iPad app is free and available for download now. Check it out and let us know what you think of it. :)

Fahim was recently interviewed by Indi Samarajiva for an article that appeared on the front page of the online version of The Sunday Leader, a national newspaper in Sri Lanka. It also appeared in the features section of the paper version.

The article, titled Local Geeks Make A Global Living, starts with:

Fahim Farook is a thickly bearded man who works surrounded by iMacs, iPads, computers and assorted routing equipment. Fluent in three human languages and 12 computer ones, he has now devoted his energy to creating software for Apple computing devices.

“I have about 2,000 followers on Twitter and I follow an iPhone developer list. I might see 20 queries in a day. Of those I might get one to three bites.” he said.

For Farook, a bite is a client – someone who could be in Bahrain, America or anywhere with Internet. On the coastal island of Sri Lanka, connected to the global Internet by submarine cable, Fahim Farook is a modern day fisherman. He makes a living and supports his family with work he finds almost entirely offshore. There are others like him.

Now go read the rest of the article. :)