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Twittelator Pro 1.3.1 for iPhone/Touch Ships

Matt — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:25:00 +0000

Albuquerque, NM – Stone Design today shipped another update to Twittelator Pro, a feature packed native iPhone Twitter client. With many expert features including multiple accounts, Trending Topics, and Nearby Search for Tweeters, Twittelator Pro is the culmination of the expanding Twittelator customer base’s wishes, desires and bug fixes.

Stone Design’s CEO and lead computer scientist Andrew Stone remarked “By listening to our users, we continue to improve Twittelator Pro. Version 1.3.1 adds stability, better memory management and the wondeful ability to instantly insert dingbat characters in your tweets.”

Twittelator Pro v 1.3.1 also features many bug fixes and improved interaction with the TwitPic.com twitter picture site, the ability to edit accounts, and an option to thread direct messages and replies right in with your “Friends’ Tweets” cateogy.

At just $4.99, Twittelator Pro is a great value with these features:

Interface:
* Four tweet themes to suit your mood: Robin, Canary, Martin & Raven
* Easy navigation from Groups to anywhere

Accounts:
* You can have as many accounts as you like
* Switch between accounts instantly
* Optionally set your current location

Writing Tweets:
* Start a Tweet from any screen
* Paste in links & text!
* Reply to any Tweet or Tweeter
* Private message any Tweeter
* Add a map of your current location
* Add a snapshot or library photo to your tweet
* Optionally use high resolution images
* Character count always updated
* Dingbats panel to insert pictorial glyphs
* Instant access to your friends for easy insertion
* Confirmation on tweet so you don’t pre-tweet
* Turn on or off capitalizing and auto-correction (two annoying features for tech people!)
* add “twit://” before any link in Safari to start a new Tweet with that link added to it!
* Safari bookmarklet to load current page as tweet

Reading A Tweet:
* Four color themes to choose from
* Large readable font size
* Copy tweet with tap and hold
* Tweet sizes to fit length of text
* See user’s real name and screen name
* Linked TwitPic photos appear right in tweet
* Follow embedded web link right in Twittelator
* Investigate any referenced tweeter in a tweet
* Make any Tweet one of your favorites
* Tap any Tweet to add to Recents
* Copy tweet by tap and hold
* Reply to any tweet
* Delete tweet if it’s yours

Reading Tweets:
* Select how many: 20, 50, 100, 150 or 200
* See just your replies
* See just your tweets
* Follow your friends
* See everyone’s tweets
* See any Tweeter’s tweets
* See any Tweeter’s favorites
* See Featured Tweeters
* See the current Trending Topics
* Preference to thread replies in with Friends
* Tap top toolbar to scroll to top
* Tap lower toolbar left of Tweet button to page down
* Refresh on demand

User Details:
* Tap any picture to bring up User Details
* Double tap tweet w/ @name to see their details
* Start or Stop following any tweeter
* Option to enable notifications when you follow
* Add person to your bookmarks
* Visit their website right in Twittelator
* See their favorites
* Send message or private message
* See how many friends and followers they have
* See how many tweets they have made
* See last tweet and their description
* See their friends
* Drill down into their friends

Searching Tweets:
* Search instantly from any screen
* Search “Nearby” to find tweeters near you
* Simple search mode (just enter words)
* Advanced Search including:
* All, Every, Not, Any
* Reference, To, From, Hashtags
* Since and Until Dates
* Nearby your current location
* Links and Questions
* Positive/Negative Attitudes
* Searches remembered automatically & persistently
* Delete and reorder persistent searches

Bookmarks:
* Add any user to Bookmarks
* Instant retrieval of their latest tweets

Trending Topics:
* See tweets of latest hot topics in twittersphere

Recents:
* Tap a tweet to add to Recents this session
* Instant retrieval of their latest tweets

Emergencies:
* Instantly send emergency tweet with map of location
* Hide emergency button if that’s not your style
* You get a Page Down button if you hide it

Log File:
* See how many server accesses left this hour
* Read connection and failure log

Support:
* Big Stone Phone provides free support for Pro users
* We listen to your feature requests and bug reports

Check our our ‘retweet’ blog where we repost useful tweets.

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Stone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation founded in 1984 by Andrew Stone which has shipped over 20 titles for Mac OS X and its parent operating system, the NeXT in the last 20 years. Major applications include Create, a page layout and web authoring app, iMaginator for image processing and Videator for video effects and VJ’ing. This year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 4 iPhone applications to the collection: TalkingPics for field photography and audio recording, iGraffiti which lets you paint on photos and share them, Gesture for turning photos into paintings, and Twittelator.

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Make Your iPhone an iPod Touch

Matt — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:00:08 +0000

If you are planning on upgrading from an iPhone 1.0 to the new iPhone 3G and have no clue what to do with your old iPhone AT&T has offered this tidbit that may help you to decide.

From Appleinsider

A spokesperson for the carrier confirmed to AppleInsider that neither AT&T nor Apple will prevent de-activated first-generation iPhones for serving as surrogate iPod touches.”If the [original] device is not re-activated as a wireless phone after you’ve upgraded to iPhone 3G, it will still work as an iTunes player and can access Wi-Fi,” the spokesperson said.That means old iPhones can still surf the web, check email, and browse the mobile iTunes store when connected to WiFi, and otherwise function as widescreen video iPod with calendar and photo functions.It’s recommended that owners who take this approach upgrade their original iPhones with iPhone Software v2.0 on July 11th prior to de-activating the devices, as it’s unclear whether upgrades to non-active handsets will be possible.

If you are planning on upgrading to the new iPhone 3G let us know why in the comments and tell us what you are doing with your first gen iPhone.

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New Google Reader for iPhone

Matt — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:39:22 +0000

Last night I was going through my feeds and came across this post from Google.

Google has introduced a new RSS Reader for the iPhone and In the normal Google fashion, it is a Beta. To use it all you will need to do is open mobile Safari on your iPhone or if you want to see what it might look like on your computer before you try it on the iPhone use this tip to do so. (Want To See What an iPhone Only Website Looks Like without an iPhone).

The new reader makes mobile RSS reading even better by showing you the titles in a list view, and instead of opening a new link when you click on the title like the current version of Google’s iPhone Reader does, it displays the article’s text right under the title (very web 2.0). It also allows you to “Star” the item next to the title. After you drop the article down to read its content you can even mark it as “Keep Unread”, “Share It”, or “See the Original” which is a link that will open the original content on a new page.

Give it try next time you want to use and RSS reader on the iphone. It has already become my choice for mobile RSS reading. If you like it let us know in the comments and if you hate it let us know why!!

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Instant iPhone and iPod touch jailbreak! Just navigate to jailbreakme.com

Matt — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:49:38 +0000

This new one-touch jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like. All you have to do is navigate from your iPhone or iPod touch to the page, read the directions, scroll down, and tap the button. Wait until the “slide-to-unlock” screen appears (30 secs)

read more | digg story

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iPhone and iPod Touch SDK in February

Matt — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:46:31 +0000

“Third Party Applications on the iPhone

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers’ hands in February. We are excited about creating a vibrant third party developer community around the iPhone and enabling hundreds of new applications for our users. With our revolutionary multi-touch interface, powerful hardware and advanced software architecture, we believe we have created the best mobile platform ever for developers.

It will take until February to release an SDK because we’re trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once—provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc. This is no easy task. Some claim that viruses and malware are not a problem on mobile phones—this is simply not true. There have been serious viruses on other mobile phones already, including some that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network. As our phones become more powerful, these malicious programs will become more dangerous. And since the iPhone is the most advanced phone ever, it will be a highly visible target.

Some companies are already taking action. Nokia, for example, is not allowing any applications to be loaded onto some of their newest phones unless they have a digital signature that can be traced back to a known developer. While this makes such a phone less than “totally open,” we believe it is a step in the right direction. We are working on an advanced system which will offer developers broad access to natively program the iPhone’s amazing software platform while at the same time protecting users from malicious programs.

We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.

Steve

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch. [Oct 17, 2007]”

This is stright from the Hot news apple site.

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One way to sync Address Book smart groups to iPods etc.

Matt — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:56:28 +0000

For all of you who use your iPods to get you address book contacts here is a way to get the smart groups on them.

I got my iPod touch last week, and I realized that, even if it can sync my contacts and groups correctly from Address Book, it cannot sync smart groups. While it is possible to manually copy contacts from a smart group to a standard group, that is boring.

So, I decided to get myself to AppleScript, and built a little script that will help. For the script to work, it is simple: create your smart group and call it, let’s say, SMyGroup (The “S” before meaning smart; otherwise name the group as you want). Built the smart group conditions to make it work the way you need. Then create a standard group called MyGroup. So you have two groups with similar names, with only a “S” in difference. That is necessary because I couldn’t figure out how to distinguish smart from standard groups in Address Book via script. Then use this script:

tell application “Address Book”
repeat with the_person in every person in group “SMyGroup”
add the_person to group “SMyGroup”
end repeat
save addressbook
quit
end tell

Repeat those steps for each smart group to be put into a standard group, and in the AppleScript, just add more repeat loops. Execute it in AppleScript Editor, and your smart and standard groups will be identical, and will sync correctly to your iPhone or touch.

As a bonus hint, you can automate this in Automator. Open the application, and put an Automator » Run AppleScript action into the workflow area, and paste the above code there. Then save it as an iCal module and set it to execute, say, every day at 8:00 repetitively. Then, if you make a change on your computer or iPhone or Touch, you’ll always have a fresh copy the of changes in all of them. Cool!

Technorati Tags: Address Book, Smart Groups

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Add calendar events on your iPod touch

Matt — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:21:36 +0000

Apple disabled calendar events. You can re-enable them. You need a jailbroken iPod touch and a text editor. Add two lines to a property list file and you can start adding events on your touch.

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Apple’s iPhone. iPod Touch Web Application Listing

Matt — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:12:57 +0000

It’s out. The folks at apple have posted a site devoted to the web applications that are made for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Take a look and see what is available. Apples iPhone iTouch List

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“Jailbreaks”, “Bricks”, and “Unlocks” oh my! iPhone Hacks Vocabulary Primer

Matt — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:48:16 +0000

The biggest news, as of late, has been the continued efforts to hack the iPhone. A rich language has developed around the iPhone hacking community, and we thought it might be time for a primer of sorts. Never again will you confuse your jailbreaking with your bricking.

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Make the iPod Touch Work as A PDA

Matt — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:03:39 +0000

I got this idea from a blog posting over at Mac OS X hints.

If you really want the iPod Touch and the only reason you are sitting on the fence is because of the limitations Apple placed on the device (no way to add to the calendar). Then go no further. Try this out. Make a contact names @add to calendar. In this contact just add a note field and place all the stuff you need in there starting each line with a bullet of some king like a “-_. This can be done for lists as well. I went to a local Best Buy and tried this out and it does work.

If you are missing the todo list on the iPhone this could work there as well.

Let me know what you think.

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