The Powerful Code Editor for iPad and iPhone — Now Free to Try
Icebird is an innovative Twitter client I reviewed back in April, and I know that there’s a pretty active userbase loving it. Developer Fabian Kreiser released an update for the app yesterday, which brings Retina Display support, possibility to hide direct messages and connect users with Address Book, improved caching and state saving.
The app is available here at $3.99.
I’m not certain why you’d want to carry a Magic Trackpad around with you since the MacBook has one built in, but we won’t judge if you’re using two hands with two trackpads for double the precision. (Is that even possible?) Being the careful gadget nerds we are, we’re always looking to sheath our trusty peripherals. WaterField has a couple of neat sleeves that’ll not only keep your Magic Trackpad warm and cozy, it’ll also protect your device from any unfortunate water-bottle spillage as you bike down crazy street with your man bag.
This morning we got a look at the rear of the new iPod touch, and now MacRumors has an eerily similar LCD display and bezel that looks like what was shown off a month ago. Bearing the Apple (c) 2010 branding and a recent build date of April 29th, we just might be ruining whatever surprise Steve Jobs has in store for us. Although to be fair, there’s always one more thing. Check out the new panels after the break.
What could Apple buy with a 150 million dollars? World peace probably, though that’s pretty overrated in my book. Apple is rumored to be intent on sealing the deal with a Chinese game developer by the name of Handseeing Information Technology, who specialize in Rich Internet Applications.
I’m a pretty popular guy. I’m probably the only guy you need to follow on Twitter. In fact, I’m the only guy on Twitter. So why the heck do you need that fancy “Who to Follow” feature? I’m everything you need.
When @justin was mauled with millions of Justin Bieber fans mistakenly tweeting him about possible high school relationships, marriage, and preteen squeels of love, there was probably an intense scramble to filter out these horrendous tweets. But as fans wrongly dog piled on top of this poor soul, we return to the good ol’ days of geek knowledge to rehash an important value: “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”
And there are an old BlackBerry Bold 9700 and a Samsung Captivate in there, too. Just look at the scrolling, tap to zoom and yes, raw speed. As Dave Caolo also notices:
“As the tests progress, the testers get desperate for their horse to win. At one point, Dieter notes that enabling Wi-Fi on the iPhone 4 is “…a fiasco.” Grated, he did ensure that two unnecessary taps were required by leaving the Settings app in the Safari settings the last time he used it. Four taps to turn something on is hardly a “fiasco.” Do you know what is? When the entire European Commission and all of Saudi Arabia decide not to use BlackBerries. That’s a fiasco.”
Check out the video below.
Audiobook and podcast listeners might be a little more impatient than most. Occasionally we come across that news podcast or something that doesn’t require our full attention. When time is of the essence, why not speed things up a little bit? Speed-Up by WetFish Software is an incredibly simple application that sits in your menubar and allows you to adjust the playback speed of currently playing items in iTunes. While speeding through some of the blogger podcasts just to get the gist, I got thinking, “What would a Molly Rant sound like at .25x the speed?” You’ll just have to download the application and a BOL podcast to find out.
Simple utility status: Not for everyone, but it works like a charm. Licenses come at $5 a pop.
[Speed-up]
Two weeks ago I wrote that the iPad is not only a great consumption device but, at least for me, an amazing gadget for content creation. Others seem to think the same, too. For as much as I stand up and say that I create content on my iPad, I’m not saying I don’t use it for consumption at all: consuming content (the 2010 way of saying “checking out photos, videos and read articles or books”) on the iPad is a beautiful and immersive experience.
If 2 years ago someone told me in a matter of 24 months I would check out Facebook and Flickr photos on a tablet the way I can with Flickpad I wouldn’t have believed him. Flickpad has been out in the App Store for quite a while, it was even featured by Apple in the New & Noteworthy section, but with the latest updated the Shacked Apps guys stepped up their game and released the best Flickr and Facebook photo browser for iPad.
