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It took a while, but now Twitter for iPhone is finally available in the US App Store as well. This is the official link. (check for updates if the link doesn’t work)
The application comes as a free update and has a new icon, unlike the screenshots we saw last night about the app keeping the old Tweetie icon.
Here’s a cool tutorial that shows how you can use Backgrounder and Wi-Fi sync from Cydia to remotely debug applications using Xcode. If someone manages to test it, please let us know in the comments.
This weekend I came across a little iPhone game called Fare City. While I don’t know or understand the full story behind Fare City; I guess it was shuffled between a few different developers; It’s back in possession of the original creators, Finkly Interactive (no relation). But asides from all the drama, the game itself is really fantastic, and I couldn’t count the hours I wasted on this thing yesterday. I think my iPod touch officially has a concave shape to it after it practically melted in my fingers.
In North Carolina, my respective radio station is 106.5 The End (link might contain NSFW content). And while I don’t know too many people who still listen to their local radio stations, I’m a huge fan, thus the shameless plug (and the window sticker). Occasionally they’ll have a block party weekend, where they’ll play two or three songs by the same artist in a row, and it’s a format I really love. But now when I travel, I can have a block party weekend wherever I go with Tripmix.
I really enjoy simple games on the iPhone and iPod touch. Saving those serious sweaty sessions for Modern Warfare and Left 4 Dead on my Xbox, iPhone apps like Doodle Jump, Stategery, Fox VS Duck, and now iSlice have come to dominate an occasional downtime. And let me tell ya, iSlice is addicting.
First it was Gizmodo in a bar in Redwood City, now it’s Taoviet and a Vietnamese business man. Thing is, Apple has apparently lost another next generation iPhone, and this time the unit doesn’t seem to be a prototype, but it could really be a production unit.
Screws are gone, and so is the XXGB label on the back. The unit has a more polished, screwless design, it’s got 16GB of storage and, still, it doesn’t boot. Well, there’s something on the display actually, but it says “Inferno” - could be some firmware diagnosis tool, we’ve seen this stuff before as Macrumors reports.
So we’ve got images and a video but what about the story behind this unit traveling around the world? It turns out that this model has been purchased by this “business man” at $4.000 God knows where and why, then made its way to Vietnam and leaked on to the Internet. Doesn’t sound as exciting as the Californian-bar adventure. Anyway, my best guess is that the iPhone HD is now manufactured and shipped to carriers for testing (yes, carriers) and thus leaking it is way more likely.
Find the video after the break.
When it comes to iPhone and RSS applications, the situation gets really interesting. Not because there aren’t great apps out there and one is always looking for a good one, quite the opposite actually: there are plenty of great Google Reader clients in the App Store.
Not good ones, great ones. In the past we’ve reviewed Reeder, MobileRSS Pro and Newsprint and trust me when I say that each one of them is a great app, in its very own way. They say that the best RSS app it’s the one that’s always with you though (ok, maybe this was for cameras), so I’d say Reeder it’s the best feed reader app for me. It’s got a custom, yet consistent and elegant user interface, it’s fast as fast can be, comes with the right features at the right place. Reeder is probably the best RSS application for iPhone I’ve ever had.
But you know, what’s so great about the App Store is that there might always be someone behind you who’s coming up with a great app. Byline has been out for quite some time now, and I know many users who have been using the 2.0 version for months without even thinking of moving to another app. Byline had its flaws, but its dedicated user base never left it.
Now that the 3.0 is out for free, can Byline aim even higher? Like convince Reeder aficionados to give it a try?
Are you just that desperate to get Flash on your iPhone? You may have stumbled across Cloud Browse, a utility that allows you to access the Internet through a remote computer. To me, that raises lots of red flags. Basically Cloud Browse creates a connection between you and a Firefox browser sitting on some computer in the middle of wonder-land. I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to login into my accounts on somebody else’s computers. Plus, it doesn’t even work that great. Talk about something that shouldn’t be allowed in the App Store.
