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Tweetbot 2.0 Review
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How do you improve something that’s already great? You keep working on it, trying to look at your product from as many perspectives as possible. If you believe in it, you can make something great an even greater product. Last year, I reviewed Tweetbot 1.0 for iPhone, the Twitter client...
Tweetbot for iPad is a classic Twitter experience with a speedy gesture-focused interface
thenextweb.com
The long wait for the popular Twitter client Tweetbot to arrive on the iPad is over. The robot-themed app has a definite reputation to live up to as it has become one of the de-facto alternatives to Twitter’s increasingly newbie focused official clients. This release follows today’s earlier launch of...
Moglue Makes It Dead Simple For Anyone To Create And Publish Interactive Ebooks
techcrunch.com
Creating and publishing content-rich, interactive ebooks without programming skills or distribution power: that’s the problem New York- and Seoul-based startup Moglue is trying to solve. The TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing finalist offers two products: MoglueBuilder (a desktop app that makes it dead simple for authors and artists to create and publish interactive ebooks) and MoglueBooks (an ebook store...
Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps
venturebeat.com
LinkedIn has just launched the latest versions of its mobile apps, and in a stunning reversal, it’s gone from mobile web-based apps back to fully native. Less than a year ago, the company was touting its iPad app as fully mobile-web based, with just one screen, the homescreen, running...
Opera 12 Beta Launches, Loses Voice, Unite and Widgets
techcrunch.com
Opera is launching the first official beta of the next version of its desktop browser today. As usual, the Opera 12 beta includes a number of new features and enhancements, but this release also marks the end of some of the company’s more ambitious projects. With Opera 12, the company...
★ Why 'The Daily' Failed
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Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily’s failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily. It excelled at interactive elements and visual appeal, but the...
Tizen developer phone appears, complete with 4.3-inch screen and dual-core CPU (video)
www.engadget.com
Not satisfied by the currently available mobile OS options? Tizen could be your next option, and Samsung just took the wraps off of a prototype device (possibly the GT-I9500 we'd heard about) at the currently ongoing developer's conference in San Francisco. As seen above in still photos taken by...
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean official, improved with Project Butter UI enhancements
www.theverge.com
The next major upgrade to Android will be version 4.1 Jelly Bean, it has been announced at Google I/O today. Project Butter is the major new innovation in Android 4.1, focused on making the entire UI "fast, fluid and smooth." That includes triple buffering in the graphics pipeline, to...
Draw Something: which apps should be turned into TV shows?
www.guardian.co.uk
As the Pictionary-style app is headed for television, what other games should commissioners have an eye on?You may know Draw Something as the Pictionary-style iPhone app that you downloaded, became obsessed with, grew tired of and bitterly deleted over the space of a single weekend back in March. But now...
The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0
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Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Manager Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give you you a faster, sleeker, and easier experience on iOS. The result? Version 2.0. With version 2.0 of the app, you'll get a totally new...
Autodesk Scaleform lets you use Flash to build high-end portable device games for $299 (video)
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Got some great smartphone game ideas and Flash talent, but no budget and little to no programming savvy? Autodesk's Scaleform for Mobile Platforms could let you launch those ideas from a catapult, cannon or any game weapon of your choice -- all you'll need is Adobe creation tools and...
Microsoft Office 15 revealed, simpler UI with touch-friendly features
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Microsoft started seeding its Office 15 technical preview to a select few partners earlier this year to get it ready for public consumption, and The Verge managed to get a sneak peek at some of the software's new features. As you would expect, the newest Office version got a...
New Chrome Beta Improves 2D & 3D Graphics for Older Systems
www.readwriteweb.com
The next version of Chrome will help older computers catch up with rapidly accelerating Web-based graphics.. The upcoming Chrome release will improve the performance of hardware-accelerated 2D animations using Canvas, which include many Web-based games and other graphically-intensive sites. It will also let systems with older GPUs use SwiftShader for...
Sony PlayStation Wonderbook hands-on
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Last night, we caught a demo of PlayStation's new Wonderbook during the company's E3 press event. Today, we grabbed a few moments of hands-on time with the new PS Move peripheral at the Sony booth. As we learned last night, the first title for the new tech is a...
Unity 4 will let devs "do so much more with so much less"
arstechnica.com
A shot of Unity 4's new Mecanim animation interface. AAA developers with deep pockets are no doubt looking forward to the many gorgeous upgrades available in the upcoming Unreal Engine 4. But smaller independent developers will probably be more excited about the new features for Unity's just announced Unity Engine...
A day in the life of a Gmail email
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Electronic mail, or email to those in the know, has become so ubiquitous and transparent that many take for granted the effort and engineering required to make this near-instant communication medium a reality. In an effort to remind the general public about this digital miracle, Google (a company that...
First Spotify app gets funded: Soundrop raises $3M
gigaom.com
Oslo-based Soundrop became the first Spotify app to attract major funding Tuesday with $3 million a Series A round from original Spotify investor Northzone, a step that further underscores how important discovery is to music subscription services. Soundrop launched as part of Spotify’s first slate of apps late last year,...
Metalab wires its Blinkenwall to run from Commodore 64, gives no word on the obligatory Tetris port (video)
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We've seen some ambitious Blinkenwalls in our time. Nearly all of the attention is unsurprisingly focused on the wall, however, and not on the often clever hardware and software behind it. Vienna's Metalab wants to shift the limelight by kicking it old school. Instead of the thoroughly modern Arduino...
Metalab wires its Blinkenwall to run from Commodore 64, gives no word on the obligatory Tetris port (video)
Tumblr for Android gets overhauled with new interface
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It looks like April is the month for major Android apps to get a visual overhaul. Following Twitter's refresh last week (and Facebook's decidedly more ambitious effort), Tumblr has today released its own app update that offers a whole new user interface. As you can see above, that includes...
Watch this: 25,000 LEDs bring the San Francisco Bay Bridge to life, starting live at 8:30PM PT
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At 9PM PT, the San Francisco Bay Bridge will light up with 25,000 individually programmed LEDs, joining the LED light fixtures already there... only these ones will display patterns and animations as part of a grand art project. And while you can make a pilgrimage to San Francisco and...
The Louvre now offering Nintendo 3DS audio guides with built-in maps
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Back in December, the Louvre announced plans to replace its audio museum guides with Nintendo's 3DS consoles, as part of an attempt to appeal to more touchscreen-minded audiences. Today, the initiative launches in earnest, with the official release of the Audioguide Louvre-Nintendo 3DS. According to Nintendo, the new app...
Nutty mobile GIF app Loopcam adds web sharing, takes funding
gigaom.com
Where would we be without animated GIFs? If I’m being honest, the reality is that we would probably be in exactly the same place we are right now… but the world might be a little less fun. Once the preserve of web nerds, this weird, headache-inducing pop art form has...
CSS filter effects get GPU-accelerated in Chrome
arstechnica.com
Have you ever wanted to apply Instagram-like filters to HTML elements? Well, now you can. The CSS Filter Effects specification, which is backed by Adobe, defines a mechanism for applying common graphical filters to Web content. It can be used to adjust brightness, saturation, hue, and contrast. It can also...
Wooga isn’t ditching Facebook: It’s just releasing an open source HTML5 version of Magic Land
thenextweb.com
Wooga, creator of Facebook games like Diamond Dash, has just recently announced that it is releasing an open source version of one of its top titles: Magic Land, under a new name: Pocket Island. Note that, according to the official release, “the original [Flash] Magic Land remains alive and well...
Adobe Creative Cloud rolls out today: storage, syncing and web apps from $50 per month
www.engadget.com
Already upgraded to CS6? Then maybe Adobe can entice you to take the "radical" next step of signing up to its subscription-based cloud service, which starts today in 36 countries priced at $50 per month on an annual contract, or $75 per month for the non-committal. Will it be...
Intel Wants You To Fall In Love With Tech (Again)
www.fastcompany.com
Not too many people get excited by microprocessors, and that's a problem for Intel. "The customer in general isn't just interested in buying technology," says Justin Rattner, Corporate VP and Head of Intel Labs, sounding a bit more like Steve Jobs than Andy Grove. They want a solution to their...
I’m really, really excited about the new HTML5 tags
thenextweb.com
HTML5 has been a long time coming, and although what we normally call HTML5 is actually a combination of things, including existing and developing JavaScript advancements and CSS3, HTML5 on its own is still pretty exciting. This new standard is on target to becoming default within the next two or...
Recent improvements mitigate Android emulator performance woes
arstechnica.com
Android application developers frequently complain about the poor performance emulator that is included in the platform’s SDK. The animated transitions and other graphically-intensive characteristics of the user interface introduced in Android 3 and 4 have only exacerbated the problem. Developers can breathe a little easier now, because Google’s efforts...
Microsoft shows devs the secrets to creating fluid animations in Windows 8 Metro apps
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As Microsoft brings its Metro style from the mobile world back to the desktop in Windows 8, it's also focusing on keeping the smooth animated transitions users have gotten used to on certain mobile platforms intact. A new post on the Windows 8 app developer blog breaks down exactly...
Animate your memes with Vimeo creator's new project, Moonbase
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Jake Lodwick, a programmer and filmmaker, made a name for himself in tech circles during the first half of the new millenium, helping to create Vimeo and College Humor in New York. After a few years spent largely out of the public eye he's moved to San Francisco and...
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