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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]
ScreenToaster News
Mar 23rd
Back on December 2 of last year I wrote about ScreenToaster.com. If you don’t remember the service, you can get more information at ScreenToaster.com or in my previous post about them. Basically they are a website which does screen captures in video without the need to install another program. (Assuming you’re running a modern browser on a somewhat recent system [ScreenToaster actually uses Java])
I got an interesting email yesterday about some new features:
- Upload your screen captures to Youtube… in HD!
- Download your screen captures as
.movfiles. - A new API (this seems the most exciting to me, personally)
They’ve also added much more capability (to quote from the email):
>What changed since February :
- New categories and subcategories
- Four levels of privacy
- Direct upload to Google Video for featured videos
- Download in .swf file formats
- Record from external VNC servers
- Accelerated or slow-motion playback / Pauses during recording
- Spread on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Digg
- Bookmark it on Delicious, Stumble Upon, Yahoo Buzz and Google Bookmark
- Send your video by mail
- Suggested videos on the video pages
- Branded profiles
- Search filters: “most commented”, by “language”…
- Custom RSS feeds
This is, in a single word, amazing! ScreenToaster is already one of my favorite and essential utilities, but now it’s many time more interesting.
Back in my earlier review I complained about the lack of audio recording, that’s been added, the frame-rate seems to have improved, and now the videos aren’t ’stuck’ in ScreenToaster with these new export functions (to Youtube, download as .swf and .mov files. I can’t wait to use all of this!
One last comment: did I mention this is free?
Webkit Acid3 Test–Now 100%
Oct 5th
I’ve previously forgotten to mention that as of September 25, 2008 Webkit now fully passes the Acid3 test. You can read more at a blog post on the Surfin’ Safari Weblog at blog.webkit.org. I’ve included screenshots below demonstrating this ability. To learn more about Webkit read this page, to get updates as to Webkit improvements go to Webkit.org ..
Remember this is a BIG deal because what happens in Webkit will trickle down into Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, eventually.
iPod Touch or iPhone Screenshots..
Aug 7th
You may have noticed my iPod Touch screen shots, or many other from other blogs, if you don’t already know how to do this you hold the home button then tap the power button. The screen will flash white and the snapshot is taken. You can take screen shots of anything on the iPod Touch…
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