As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event, I had the chance to interview Gi-Lo, a developer of iPhone tweaks available in Cydia. He’s the creator of SnowCover, FiveIRows and many other stuff. Be sure to follow @EyeDevs on Twitter to stay update about what Gi-Lo and his upcoming team have in store for 2010.
This is 15th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.
Enjoy!
I quite fancy the native Weather.app for iPhone: it’ simple and intuitive, providing some basic info about the weather and forecasts. And obviously, there are hundreds of clones out in the App Store: some apps are useful and “professional”, other are just pieces of shit thrown together into an .app bundle. That’s the truth.
Today I’d like to talk about an app that has made it to the first page of my homescreen in a matter of 5 minutes and which has changed the way I “look at the weather” on my iPhone: Outside.
It’s almost Christmas and everyone’s rushing to buy last-minute gifts for relatives and friends. If you ask, I bought all the gifts I wanted in one afternoon because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to waste my precious time but thing is, there this app which really helped me out during the whole process of choosing stuff for my friends and telling my mom what I wanted for Christmas. Yeah, I’ve been a good guy and my mom’s great, if you ask.
Anyway, let’s move on and talk about the neat app Gift Box is.
The developers of Birdhouse specifically state that it’s not for looking at your friends Twitter updates. So what does it do?
Well, Birdhouse is a “drafts manager” for your tweets. It’s supposed to be used as a notepad for whenever you get an awesome thought in your head that might go away. Although Birdhouse only does one simple task, it does it very well. Keep on reading to find out why.
Interesting update for Twittelator Pro, which I reviewed a while ago. Here are some of the most important new features:
App has landscape support everywhere;
You can tweet your currently playing song;
Threaded DMs;
Dropdown to refresh tweets (like Tweetie 2);
More efficient image caching;
Find people by their full name;
Many other improvements and fixes.
Surely it’s one of the most complete Twitter clients out there, though the interface is not as elegant and sexy as Tweetie’s one.
Twittelator Pro is available at $4.99 in the App Store.
We all knew this was gonna happen. The day Ryan Petrich announced he was working on a new application to manage backgrounded apps on the iPhone, everyone thought of Multifl0w, and how ProSwitcher (this is the name of the new app by Petrich) could become the new, best multitasking application from Cydia. And here we are today, with ProSwitcher in public beta and a multifl0w update on its way. I’ve been trying ProSwitcher for a few hours now, and I’ve already ditched Multifl0w for it.
Find out why.
Cultured Code announced yesterday they’ve launched a new beta of Things Touch, 1.4 version. This new update will include support for repeating tasks, landscape support and global search.
Here are two screenshots from the upcoming Things 1.4.
Sebastian de With of Cocoia has just posted an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming Billings Touch for iPhone.
Here are some screenshots from his blog:
And a brief description:
“I can’t divulge much about it yet, but the app does pretty much everything I ever dreamed of having in my pocket for my on-the-go demands. I’ve even come to use its timer as a punch clock next to my computer so I can even more effortlessly pause or resume my time tracking when I go off to brew a nice cappuccino.
In short: the app syncs with your Mac database of Billings (and vice-versa, new slips and invoices you created and tick off on your iPhone get synced back to your Mac over the air), and every single nook and cranny is wonderfully designed, as I’ve come to expect from Marketcircle.
It also works great without the desktop app: as a standalone app, it’s already a very powerful set of tools to add to your workflow.”
It’s looking great.
So you’re really serious about Social Media. You manage your brand’s Twitter profile, you have a blog or a personal portfolio to promote, you’ve just set up a Facebook page (speaking of which, here’s MacStories Facebook page) and you need to post your updates to both these social networks. As you should probably know there are many webapps out there which claim to be the “ultimate solution for professionals” but let’s face it: there are only 2 great web applications out there, CoTweet and HootSuite. They’re meant for people who need a powerful management tool for their social identities, providing features like support for contributors on the same account (long before Twitter decided to implement it by default) and email notifications. I’ve actually tested both CoTweet and HootSuite and guys, HootSuite is far better if you need to track your business on social profiles.
Today I’ll talk about HootSuite’s recently released iPhone application, priced at $1.99, which brings many features of HootSuite.com to your mobile device, with a very good user interface.
