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Tweetie 2 – Preview Images Surface
Sep 28th
My favorite iPhone Twitter app, Tweetie, seems to be about to go 2.0 with the latest 3.0-only update of it’s top-10 selling social networking app. Since the dawn of Tweetie just 10 months ago I’ve loved every second I’ve spent with it, and even more loved seeing other iPhone users using and reviewing it. In these reviews you almost always see two basic phrases:
- “…done the Apple way…”
- “…has sex appeal…”
That is very high praise, especially coming from a market that is highly dominated in mind-share by Apple’s multimillion dollar industrial design. The more important detail is that there is finally a platform with developers dedicated to user experience…. remember Windows Mobile? Palm (before WebOS)? Blackberry(before the Curve)?
PocketPC Desktop crica 2000 - from Wikipedia
It wasn’t that long ago that the best applications that we any home-brew or even small corportate IT/IS department could do were stylus-driven, 256-color, and lacked so many refinements we’ve seen in Mac OS (just to list a few; button alignment, button size, button text, button format, screen layout, application flow, location of controls, speed and stability of custom elements, visual effects, and annoying tapping/clicking sounds).
As I’ve diverted from the promised content, I’ll note that based on this Tweet from Lauren (Tweetie programmer-extraordinaire), Tweetie 2 is definitely coming. Today TechCrunch, Mashable, and TwinCities have all posted preview screenshots. This looks good!
Links:
- atebits.com – BigBird Redux (Blog Post from Tweetie dev)
- TechCrunch – Preview Tweetie 2…
- Mashable – PREVIEW: Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone [Pics]
Haiku Alpha 1 Released
Sep 21st
I’ve written many times about the media operating system from the ’90s, BeOS, and it’s open-source project that continues code base development, Haiku. On September 14 Haiku Inc released the first alpha of the Haiku OS in a very open-source-y press release (to paraphrase the press release) “take a look at what we’ve done, it’s not done yet, but the more people use it, the more it will be developed and debugged”. I’ve been playing with this for a few days and am actually writing this post using the BeZilla/BonEcho browser on Haiku. It’s interesting. [release note] More >
Google Chrome-What Browser Am I Using?
Sep 2nd
A common trick web developers use is to determine which browser you are using to assure that an incompatible browser doesn’t have a bad experience on a site, or to change the formatting to suit the browser (really common for Internet Explorer 6)… anyway I’m using the recently released Google Chrome (to download it: google “Google Chrome Download”, or go to www.google.com/chrome) and I tested Chrome against one of these scripts (the site I used is located here) and found that the script showed Chrome as Safari 525.13 on Windows. More >
Google Chrome Release [UPDATEDx3]
Sep 2nd
Yesterday, September 1st, Labour day, Google premiered it’s competition in the web browser space, the web is onfire with the discussion about the radical conceptual changes Google has made to a space that’s remained mostly unchanged since 1998.
@UPDATE – 2:40 PM
The download will start around 3PM PDT/1PM EDT/ in 20 minutes as of this post. get it here. (According to 14U here)
@UPDATE – 3:47 PM
It’s clear that Chrome is not available yet, but the above link will be activated in the next few hours. You can watch the Google Chrome debriefing here.
@UPDATE – 4:35 PM
Google Chrome has been availabe for about a half hour and you can get it here.
