Twitter has just announced that it has pushed a new version of Twitter for iPhone to the App Store. The app entails a number of updates including an improved Discover tab and more functionality for its push notification feature.
The Twitter app has received a lot of criticism over the redesign it received back in December of last year. In fact, a lot of folks left it for other third-party clients. Well this new update may be enough to win some of them back...
If you remember my Sparrow review, I said it was a great app that was marred by a few missing features — namely: push notification capability, and the ability to make Sparrow the default Mail app.
In due time the folks at Sparrow will undoubtedly solve the push notification issue, and a few enterprising iOS jailbreak devs have already taken the liberty on that issue as well.
One feature that's not so easy to implement is making Sparrow iOS' default mail client. In fact, unless Apple does a virtual 180 on its current stance, this will never be a feature of Sparrow, or any other 3rd party Email app for that matter.
The only hope to implement such functionality rests with the jailbreak community. In fact, I reached out to iOS developer Majd Alfhaily yesterday, and he graciously accepted my request for such a feature in his upcoming jailbreak tweak coined: Sparrow+.
Want to see it in action? Have a look...
Early yesterday morning, Apple put 2012 WWDC tickets up for sale. The World Wide Developer Conference is a popular meeting place for both iOS and Mac developers, featuring hands-on workshops and previews of Apple's latest software.
It's so popular, in fact, that tickets sold out in a matter of a few hours yesterday — leaving thousands of people disappointed. Luckily, some guys got together to create the IndieDevLab, an alternative conference for Apple developers...
The NPD, a consumer market research firm, is out with a new report today regarding its recent Apple Ecosystem Study. The firm asked more than 3,000 consumers, of balanced demographics, on whether or not they owned Apple products. And if so, which ones.
As usual, the results are pretty interesting. The study found that one-in-five Apple owner households owns at least one iPad. But current Apple owners aren't the only people that are being drawn to the new tablet: one-in-four iPad buyers are first-time Apple buyers...
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Check out this video puzzle from YouTube user MysteryGuitarMan. It utilizes four iPhones to pull off a pretty amazing piece of cinematography.
What do you think? Hat tip to Howard Ellacott for the link.
Pod2g has just put up quite the interesting poll on his personal blog. The infamous hacker, who is responsible for a majority of the recent exploits found in iOS, is asking folks to vote on the following question: "Shall we hold off the jailbreak for iOS 6?"
The question comes just a few days after we heard that hackers were finally making some progress on the iOS 5.1 jailbreak. Of course, if it's released before iOS 6 comes out, the exploits will almost certainly be patched up in the new software...
File this one under the WTF category. Not content with referring to Apple's (and potentially its own) customers as the iSheep, South Korea-based Samsung has apparently staged a 'spontaneous' flash mob-style protest at an Apple store.
I ain't kidding. The video, included right below, depicts a crowd of people conveniently clad in black, wielding douchebag 'Wake Up' signs outside Apple's retail outlet in Sydney, Australia...
Here's something pretty cool (or should I say, 'magical'): a website that streams live television from anywhere in the world, right to your Apple mobile device, using an iOS-friendly MP4 video format via the AirPlay protocol. You just pull up the webpage using the Safari browser on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, pick one of the listed countries and up pop live television channels airing in the selected territory.
From here, tap the channel of your choice and live television content begins streaming, licensing restrictions be damned. In case you were wondering: yes, they have the XXX section covered as well. It's a hack, no question about it, so expect either Apple or broadcasters (or both) to restrict or even take down the site as we speak...
If neither Walter Isaacson's authorized bio book on Steve Jobs nor Fortune Editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple didn't satisfy your hunger for Apple's dirty little secrets and the inner workings of the world's most powerful corporation, it'll be a case of third time lucky with this one.
Enter Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall, another not-to-be-missed download for your collection of e-books on Apple. It just debuted on the iBookstore, offering a fascinating inside look at Apple's secret weapon and also their corporate religion: simplicity...
LinkedIn just updated their excellent free of charge iPhone client with native iPad support. LinkedIn 5.0 is optimized for the Retina display on the new iPad and has a new calendar feature that lets you see LinkedIn profile information for people you're meeting with. If you're on LinkedIn and love your iPad, this one's a no-brainer...
According to a new study out today from research firm NPD Group, based on a poll of more than 3,000 United States consumers in February 2012, one out of four Apple customers in the United States chose the iPad as their first-ever Apple product.
Moreover, the iPhone and iPad combined account for one-third of first-time Apple purchases since 2010. In a way, the iPad is the new Apple gateway drug with universal appeal and strong pull.
The device lures first-time buyers to the Apple ecosystem. Once in, they live happily in that ecosystem and purchase additional gadgets over time, namely the iPhone...
Thanks to his biography, Steve Jobs' feelings on Android are fairly well known. The late-CEO famously said, "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Considering that Apple is involved in a number of lawsuits around the globe with Android manufacturers, it's easy to see that Jobs' remarks weren't totally unfounded. But did Google actually steal anything?