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First Look: Beejive for the iPad
Filed under: iPad BeeJive is a solid IM client for the iPhone and has been a favorite of staff members since its original release . Suffice it to say, there were a few of us who were more than a little happy when the iPad version was released today. If you’ve used the iPhone sibling, BeeJive won’t be that different to you. You can send files and photos from the app itself, though you can only select from a photo album for the latter
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First Look: Twitter for iPhone
Filed under: iPhone , App Review It took a little longer than expected , but Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie ) is now available . Mostly it looks exactly the same as Tweetie 2, with the exception of a new icon (shown here). I was surprised to see that Twitter for iPhone doesn’t use OAuth, meaning that we’ll be seeing another version before the end of June . (Note: they may be using xAuth instead, which would not necessitate an update.) The “Services” menu still shows support for Favrd, which has been gone for months, but it also includes several other useful services like Tweet Blocker , Follow Cost , Favstar.fm , Overlapr , and Tweeteorites . A few noticeable changes in your timeline include inline retweets and location information (where available)
View PostFirst Look: Byline 3.0 for iPhone
The folks over at Phantom Fish software have released version 3 of their popular Byline feed reader app for the iPhone . The update brings with it several new features, including integration with Instapaper , gesture-based navigation, and improved performance. Byline works by fetching a list of feeds from your Google Reader subscriptions, and caching a copy of the articles on your iPhone for easy reading or viewing while offline. Now I’ll admit, while Google Reader does simplify feed management by keeping all of your subscriptions and updates in one place, it’s not my cup of tea. Personally, I prefer to manage feeds directly from my reader app, rather than having to go somewhere else to do it. That aside, Byline 3 keeps the process simple by asking for your Google login, and then quickly going straight to your list of feeds without requiring any additional steps or setup. Each item is displayed right in the app, allowing quick navigation between stories and feeds
Review: Opera Mini For iPhone | Apple Mac Blog
4:47 pm, April 13th, 2010, Giles Turnbull I’ve been messing around with Opera Mini as much as I can today, and here’s what I make of it so.
100 Tips #9: The Geography Of Finder Windows
We’ve looked at the Dock, and we’ve looked at the Menu Bar. Today we’re taking our first look at Finder. This is what you’ll see when you first start to use Finder in Mac OS X. Broadly speaking, it does the same job as Windows Explorer, but it does many of those things in different ways.
100 Tips #9: The Geography Of Finder Windows | Apple Mac Blog
4:19 pm, April 13th, 2010, Giles Turnbull We’ve looked at the Dock, and we’ve looked at the Menu Bar. Today we’re taking our first look at.
Steve Jobs Emails Again: OS X Is Not On Backburner
Steve Jobs’ busy fingers might be needing a rest right now. He has just responded to concerns that Mac OS X in on the backburner to the iPhone OS, which will get a major 4.0 upgrade later this year. Mac fans were worried about the fate of OS X after Daring Fireball’s John Gruber said there
2000 Fake iPhones Seized | Apple Mac Blog
2:30 pm, April 13th, 2010, Nicole Martinelli Customs officers in San Francisco confiscated a shipment of 2000 iPhoneys they estimate to be worth $1.2.
Found Footage: iPad Alice comes to life
Filed under: iPad I’m not a huge Alice in Wonderland fan but I’ve got to give props to the developers behind this iPad realization of the book. They’ve taken Alice to a new place with their interactive graphics that simulate the kind of reader engagement you’d normally find in a pop-up book. Ben Roberts and Chris Stevens, the people behind the app, seem to have done a lovely job putting this together. We at TUAW haven’t had a chance to actually try the application out yet. And, yes, we know that the book won’t have that great soundtrack but we thought we’d share this first peek at what might be the next, great trend on App Store: interactive book illustrations
First look: Camera for iPad
Filed under: iPad No, it’s not a hardware device, but Camera for iPad (US$0.99) can help out those frantic iPad users who are wondering how the heck they’re going to survive without a by-God camera built into their latest Apple toy. The app is universal and runs on both iPad and iPhone. In fact, the camera in the iPhone is what ends up being the real “Camera for iPad.” Installing the app on your iPhone and iPad allows the two devices to find each other via Bluetooth. When they’re linked, everything that the iPhone camera is seeing is transmitted to a window on the iPad. Press a button on the iPad, the iPhone snaps the photo, and then the photo is transferred — slowly — to the iPad. The idea is pretty cool, and it does provide a way to get photos into your iPad until that Apple Camera Connection Kit actually hits the stores. The slowness I’m talking about in the previous paragraph is not a fault of the app, but the fact that Bluetooth is being used for the file transfers.
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