Chris Pirillo reviews the iEcoStand. Video worth watching only for Pirillo himself. By the way, looks like a great stand. Read more
Apple’s Impressive Share Of Mobile Industry Profits [Pie Chart]
Compared to LG, Nokia and other cellphone makers Apple doesn’t sell that many devices. Compared to the same cellphone makers, though, Apple makes way more money. Apple’s got the right strategy: they sell premium products and they release a new iteration once a year. Apple has its own OS and it won’t let the carrier mess with it. Period. Read more
Why I Ditched Spotlight for Alfred
Cody reviewed Alfred app for Mac when it first came out in March, but I didn’t really care about the application back then. I was a regular and happy Spotlight user who didn’t need to install a new tool to search my Mac faster. Then something happened over the past months: I started storing lots of files in my Dropbox. Read more
Meet My Default Twitter Client on iPhone, Weet
Twitter clients on the iPhone? We had enough, thank you. That’s what I used to say to any developer pitching me and asking whether I thought yet another iteration of Twitter on the iPhone would be a good idea. I was wrong, and here’s why: despite the fact that a genre could be (is) over-crowded and saturated, there’s always the possibility to do better. And as Twitter as a platform is constantly evolving, giving up on ideas just because of competitors is silly.
It’s a fact that we have hundreds of clients to choose from. What’s not so obvious is that you never know who may come up next.
So here we are, talking about Weet. Developed by Raptor Apps and designed by ex-Iconlicious pixel rockstar Marcelo Marfil, Weet was released last week with much buzz over Twitter and other Apple-related blogs. I beta tested the app all along, but I decided to take my time and use it for some more days before writing up something about it.
I’ve been using Weet for a month as the default Twitter client on my iPhone. In fact, I deleted all the other Twitter apps I had. Here’s why. Read more
Fake MacBook With Dual Batteries, Repeat, Fake MacBook With Dual Batteries
You didn’t know you wanted this. Maybe you still don’t want it. Whatever, but we’re talking about a fake white MacBook with dual batteries here. Dual batteries for an infinite loop of power. Read more
iPhone 4 Launching Tomorrow in South Africa, More Countries To Follow This Weekend?
According to Fin24, Apple is launching the iPhone 4 in South Africa tomorrow, September 22nd. Pricing info are not available yet, and South African Apple website still doesn’t report any release date for the new device. Read more
Steve Jobs Interviewed By Police Over iPhone 4 Prototype
We haven’t heard of the “stolen” iPhone 4 prototype story for a while, nor do we have had any updates on the police investigation that is still ongoing. Apple hasn’t commented publicly on the matter since last April, and it’s not that we’re missing the whole headline war to get the latest scoop on Jason Chen and Brian Hogan love affair - we’re just curious to know how this will end.
Macnn is reporting (via CNET) that a number of Apple employees have been interviewed by the police together with Apple CEO himself, Steve Jobs, about the allegedly stolen iPhone prototype. Read more
iPad Stylus From A Protein Bar Wrapper
The Mosspuppet finds an interesting way to create a working iPad stylus using a pen and a protein bar wrapper. Must watch. Read more
Instagram Makes Quick Beautiful Photos Social→
Instagram Makes Quick Beautiful Photos Social
A couple of my favorite apps on the iPhone currently are Hipstamatic and CameraBag. Like Instagram, both are photo apps that allow you to apply filters to pictures you take with the device. But both are fundamentally flawed in that neither has good sharing or discovery mechanisms. Put another way, neither are very social — at all. Instagram is. And it provides the same type of photo filter manipulation — and maybe even a little better.
Great preview by MG Siegler over at TechCrunch of an upcoming iPhone app to edit photos and share them. Since the mysterious removal of Camera+, I’m looking forward to this.