Ever since Tweetie 2, the pull-to-refresh paradigm has been a hot feature for iPhone applications. The idea is that you can pull down on a list of items to refresh them. This saves you from needing some sort of "refresh" or "reload" button. Nice!

Creating an RSS reader for iphone is a great way to learn about the language. In this tutorial we’re going to create a rss reader that can also play podcasts. Such application will require us to download and parse a rss feed, display the data in a table and play a remote podcast. In this article I assume a minimal knowledge of cocoa programming, but you should be able to follow even if this is the first time you’re coding an iphone application.