Archive for April 2009

Tweetie needs a better icon

Here’s a beautiful array of Twitter birds and icons. My favorite thing about Twitterific on my iPhone (and computer) was its icon — that darling, medium-blue bird with great details. But, the app only offered one way to use Twitter — reading tweets by chronology. I needed a better Twitter app, one that would let [...]

Chance to win free iTunes money, Macbook Pro and more

Want to win a free $10,000 iTunes gift card, iPod Touch, Time Capsule and Macbook Pro? Yep, thought so. Apple today added to the front page of its app stores (desktop + mobile) to announce it is close to reaching 1 billion app sales. Apple’s contest rules make it very clear you can download an [...]

Google mobile Web site design improves

Google just released improvements to its web interface for iPhone and Android. The improvements include: Faster load times for actions such as opening an e-mail or searching Ability to read Gmail over a flaky or non-existent network connection Floating bar appears so you can manage multiple e-mails at the same time. Bar floats on the [...]

BlackBerry App World too late to make RIM No. 1

BlackBerry App World launch came too late for Research in Motion to be the mobile app winner. It’s no joke, on April 1 RIM debuted BlackBerry App World for the U.S., U.K. and Canada so users can buy apps via mobile over WiFi and cellular networks. The app store brings the convenience of buying apps [...]

Still waiting for a great brick breaker iPhone app

The Apple iPhone really needs a great Brick Breaker-type game. Not one with a 3D board (3D Brick Breaker Revolution), not one with a ton of level options (Superball 2) and not one with a funky story line and random characters (Block Breaker Deluxe 2). The closest game out of these so far is SuperBall [...]