It’s the big news of the week, HootSuite launched its official iPhone client, available in the App Store here. I’m still testing the application, but I had the chance to chat with the Hootsuite team, just after the application went live.
Enjoy!
A TableView Just Like Tweetie 2. Innovation and Trends.
“One thing that’s cool about Tweetie 2 is the fresh paradigm to refreshing the contents of a table view. Up until now we had been looking for space to mount a reload button on, sometimes having to resort to adding an extra tool bar for just one view so that you can have enough space. Now if you have a tableview that it sorted reverse chronologically, then you have a natural urge to make new items appear at the top by pulling down the table with extra force.
Loren recognized this need and innovated the Pull-To-Reload paradigm. If you want to refresh a tableview in Tweetie 2 then you simply pull down the table far enough for an additional cell to appear at the top with the instruction “Pull down to refresh”. If you do, then at a certain point the arrow rotates and the text changes to “Release to refresh”. All accompanied by two distinct wooshing sounds and a pop once the reloading action has ceased. The Intuitiveness of this paradigm is so compelling in fact that people who use Tweetie 2 start to try to refresh ALL tableviews like this.”
When someone innovates people start copying. Or just taking inspiration, they say. But when an innovation becomes a standard, are we sure it’s good at all? Where’s the difference between an innovation that gets copied for good and something that gets stolen for the trend’s sake?
The AppStore will tell us.
Setting Up Your Website to Run on iPhone Browser
“According to several researches, the iPhone is the most used mobile to navigate in the Internet. With almost 50% of smartphone web traffic in U.S. and over 30% worldwide, clients are now aware to have their own web page running on iPhone browser. You have be to prepared if requested to create an iPhone web page.
There are many companies offering that kind of mobile services, like MOBIFY and iPhoneMicrosites, but it’s not to difficult to create your own web site running on iPhone browser. It is as easy as making it to run in desktop browsers.”
Awesome tips from Eugenio Grigolon, I think I might use them to develop a mobile version of MacStories.
Cook Delicious Meals with Cookmate. Review and Giveaway.
It happens almost everyday to me: I have the fridge full of many different food but I just don’t know what to cook for lunch. Should I cook some pasta with those beans or just a quick salad? Fortunately, my girlfriens has always some great ideas, but now I can say that there’s an app for that. Yes, Cookmate, which was finally accepted by Apple yesterday, lets you easily decide what to cook - with style.
And we also have a bunch of promo codes to give away.
AwesomeNote 2.5 Released: Here Comes the Best Notes & To-Do App for iPhone
Paul Westerberg, lead singer of The Replacements, used to sing “And everybody wants to be special here..They call your name out loud and clear.Here comes a regular, am I the only one here today?” in that mid-80s song, Here Comes a Regular. I believe this song pretty much describes the situation of to-do and notes taking applications available in the App Store: everybody wants to be special, yet a very few developers clearly admit that they have just “regular” apps. I mean, there are kinda 2000 notes / todo apps out there, and everybody says their app is the “most complete manager whatever bla bla bla”.
Sure.
But this is a different story. I had to write this review many months ago, but for one reason or another I never found the time to sit down and write it. I’m talking about AwesomeNote, of the most popular productivity apps of the App Store, which has been updated to 2.5 version,update that truly makes it the best GTD and note taking application ever made for the iPhone.
Find out why.
Safari Retains Speed Crown Over Newcomer Chrome in OS X
“In benchmark tests run by Computerworld, Apple’s Safari browser claimed the top spot over Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. Google released a beta build of Chrome to the public on Tuesday.
The results showed that Safari slightly edged out Chrome, was nearly twice as fast as Firefox, and over ten times faster than Opera.
Computerworld’s method of testing used the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite. The test was run three times for each browser in OS X 10.6 and the numbers were averaged.
According to November numbers by Net Applications, Internet Explorer commands 63.62 percent of the total browser market, followed by Firefox with 24.72, Safari with 4.36 percent, 3.93 percent for Chrome, and 2.31 percent for Opera.”
Ok, you’re fast Safari. But will you ever stop beachballing every 10 minutes or so?
IMDB Releases iPhone App
Free in the AppStore (iTunes Link) is basically a mobile, full featured version of imdb.com.
Which is a good thing.
HootSuite Comes to the iPhone. The Ultimate App for Pro Users?
HootSuite has just announced the release of HootSuite for iPhone, which should be available tomorrow in the AppStore. They also posted a video of HootSuite mobile in action and, truth be told, I’m really impressed so far. They included most everything the web service has, like statistics and Twitter lists. But there’s so much more inside this application, watch the video below.
Now, I think HootSuite could become the perfect companion to Tweetie 2 on my iPhone. If you have a blog, or you manage your brand, be sure to check out this HootSuite thing.
Expect a detailed review as soon as it’s available.
Why Apple Succeeds, And Always Will
A long an interesting read from Betanews. Here’s an excerpt:
“Apple is David to Microsoft Goliath – and other ones, too. Goliath plays by one set of rules. David choses to change the rules, which favor his strengths rather than those of Goliath.
David Thinking is most provocative and surprising when Goliath acts like David. After all, David sometimes becomes Goliath; Apple is a giant in music with iPod and iTunes Music Store. But David turned Goliath also risks making mistakes that would allow another upstart advantage. Today, Apple is both David and Goliath, depending on market.”