April 13th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
There are a lot of Twitter clients available for Macs, some native, some based on Adobe Air. David Alison does a quick review of Nambu, a new client for Twitter and FriendFeed that is a native OS X application. You can read more at www.davidalison.com.
April 12th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
TiPb loves answering your questions, but we also love sharing our answers with the community in hopes that more people will benefit, and even better answers will present themselves (hey, that’s why we have them forums!). Today’s question comes from Stupendoussteve on Twitter:
ever heard of iPhone finding you at a previous address, states away, where you’ve never even taken the phone (post restore)?
We have! And TiPb answers after the break!
The iPhone uses Location Services to determine where it is. Location Services uses three (3) distinct technologies, from the more gross to the more granular, and different iPhones (and iPod touches) support different levels.
The most precise, supported only by the iPhone 3G, is aGPS. aGPS uses cell tower-based GPS crunching to give you a fairly tight indication of your current position. In the middle, supported by iPhone 3G and the original iPhone 2G, is cell tower positioning. Google mapped all cell towers in the US (and other countries), recorded their GPS locations, and then tries to triangulate where you are if it doesn’t have — or can’t get to — an aGPS signal proper. The last — and the one causing your problem — is WiFi router mapping.
What happened was a company called Skyhook got into a bunch of vans, drove around the US (and other countries), detected WiFi routers in homes and businesses, and recorded their unique IDs along with their GPS locations.
For iPod touches, and for iPhones that aren’t getting good, this is the final and least accurate method Location Services uses to find out where you are. The problem you’re encountering is likely that Skyhook recorded the location of your WiFi router when you lived in another state, and now when your iPhone is finding it, it still thinks you’re at that old address, across town, or across the country.
Skyhook may eventually drive around and re-map your WiFi router, or you can go to SkyhookWireless.com and manually re-locate your WiFi in their system — though in our experience it can take a long time for them to update either way.
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TiPb Answers: Why Does My iPhone Think it’s in a Different State?
April 12th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
In case you missed any of the festivities, quick links to this week’s articles.
Apr 7: Cheap Bastards – advice, enjoy life and don’t sweat the small stuff
Apr 8: For Your Confident Life – a life changing app! it’s freaking amazing! don’t miss it!
Apr 9: Just Gimme A Beer - the iPhone is making us more anal, obnoxious and idiotic
Apr 10: Little Help Please – do you have some serious issue? maybe this app can help
Apr 11: Appy Newz Launched! – Appy Entertainment’s first app, find out our first impression
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April 10th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Jeremy will likely be back soon with your regular dose of Apps for Less, but as the Easter/Passover/Whatever your holiday of preference weekend begins, a couple sites are taking advantage of users likely to have some free time, and family avoidance needs, on their hands with special App sales.
First up, Easter App Sales has a score (20 for you digital types) of discounts listed for Hero of Zero, Nintaii, Tap Forms, Caddy.me, Memengo Wallet, Restaurant Find, Distant Suns, iBearMoney, Varinome, Grand Tour, iBearBrain, Twelve Steps Companion, Memory and Systems info, Japanese Phrases, Fast Food Calorie Counter, Currency Exchange Rates, iMissal, Doctors, and SleepStream.
Arnold Kim also points out via Twitter that AppShopper is keeping track of “lots of Easter Sales in the App Store”.
If you spot any super sweet deals to go along with our candy eggs, chocolate matzah, or non-religious sugar frosted truffles, let us know!
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April 9th, 2009 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Albuquerque, NM - Stone Design today released a free upgrade to its top-selling Twitter client Twittelator Pro. With an emphasis on usability, speed, elegance and user customization, Version 2 was redesigned from ground up for ease of use, aesthetics and stability. V2.1 just keeps the features coming. Twittelator Pro was chosen as Editor’s pick for best iPhone Twitter client by Mac|Life in May 2009 issue!
“The most salient feature of the twittersphere is the speed with which news both good and bad travel! Our customers were overjoyed with V2.0, but with that joy came feature requests to make Twittelator Pro even better,” said Stone Design CEO Andrew Stone, @twittelator. “We immediately fixed the problems people found, but also had an opportunity to add major new functionality, including the ability to instantly save all the tweets for later reading, even offline.”
Features new to Version 2.1 include:
* One-tap shrink tweet and links during compose
* One-tap reply
* Large Font option
* Save any set or all tweets and read them later
* Option to see a user’s replies from Details
* Support for for MobyPicture as 4th photo service
* Option to upload photos to alternate service should one fail
* Automatically learns #tags you use for instant insertion later
* Option to copy link to tweet (for shorter re-tweeting)
* Choose from 3 re-tweet styles, including “via”
* Choose from 5 link shortening services
* Choose your Auto-refresh interval
* Option to just show screen names
* Option to turn off connection warnings
* Raven and Dove themes much richer
Features added last month to Version 2 include:
* Beautiful new User Interface:
* complete tweet design makeover
* themes for night, daylight and indoor
* configure your top categories on TabBar
* badges show number of new tweets in each category
* Much faster:
* scroll speed greatly increased
* refreshes must faster
* Wide tweet composing window (turn for landscape)
* See anyone’s avatar full screen
* Upload photos to choice of 3 services: TwitPic, Pikchur or yfrog
* Shows yfrog, TwitPic, mobypic and Pikchur images right in tweet
* Shows and plays song.ly mp3’s
* Stock Portfolio list for instant stock searches
* Send links to Instapaper for later reading
* Email tweets
* Complete Help available in program
With many oher power features including multiple accounts, sub groups of friends, autorefresh, trending topics, conversations, nearby search for tweeters, see anyone’s favorites and last tweets, advanced and persistent searches, insty-tweet links from Safari, copy/paste/retweet, high-resolution photo uploads, auto double-tweeting of long tweets, and server access log, Twittelator Pro V2 has carefully packed the most features of any twitter client into a very usable and user-configurable layout.
“The positive feedback for Version 2 has sparked a month of creative development” remarked Stone Design’s CEO and lead computer scientist Andrew Stone. “Twittelator Pro was the #7 best-selling social networking iPhone app of 2008 and #2 for all Twitter clients. We are certain that Version 2.1 will push Twittelator Pro to its rightful spot at the top! If you enjoy the free Twittelator Lite, you’ll love Twittelator Pro V2″.
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Stone Design is a New Mexico based software corporation founded in 1984 by Andrew Stone which has shipped over 20 titles for Mac OS X and its parent operating system, the NeXT, in the last 20 years. Major applications include Create, a page layout and web authoring app, iMaginator for image processing and Videator for video effects and VJ’ing. In the past year, in conjunction with BigStonePhone, has added 6 iPhone applications to the collection: TalkingPics for field photography and audio recording, iGraffiti which lets you paint on photos and share them, Gesture which lets you turn photos into digital paintings and share them, Twittelator Pro, the most feature laced twitter client for the iPhone/Touch, Pulsar the free pyschedelic strobe light and now SoundBite. BigStonePhone is a collaboration between Stone, Jeff BIggus of Hyperjeff and Geoff Pado on SoundBite.
