As many of you probably know, Twitter’s Vine is currently #1 on the iOS App Store. Those of us with iOS devices are enjoying the exclusivity, but apps like this (i.e. Instagram) get to a point where demand on other platforms is too high. Vine has announced that it will be ported to Android “soon.” (more…)
Instapaper, an application widely used throughout the iEcosystem by many to save web articles for offline reading, has been sold by its original creator and developer Marco Arment to Betaworks, a “company that builds companies.”
Marco Arment, who helped co-found Tumblr, has been on the App Store with Instapaper since the beginning. For many developers, he has been an example of just how a useful product and a great app can indeed earn a person’s living, as well as a very outspoken opponent of taking funding from outside sources. According to Arment, he plans on focusing on other applications now – he recently launched The Magazine, a publication built specifically for iOS – as well as on other aspects of his life.
This feature usually isn’t posted until later in the day, but Thursday has already been witness to a significant number of app updates and releases during the first half of the day. So, naturally, we have combined all of the noteworthy app-related news into one tidy post for your perusal. Join us ahead as we detail Draw Something 2, an official Iron Man 3 app, a standalone Contacts app by LinkedIn, and more ahead. (more…)
Every day there are countless updates and releases across the App Store. Unless you have tons of extra time and check your App Store app every day for changes, you probably miss out on those that are most important. Furthermore, apps that you don’t already own might see changes that convince you to give them a try! Read on for today’s notable app updates and releases. (more…)
Every day there are countless updates and releases across the App Store. Unless you have tons of extra time and check your App Store app every day for changes, you probably miss out on those that are most important. Furthermore, apps that you don’t already own might see changes that convince you to give them a try! Read on for today’s notable app updates and releases. (more…)
Every day there are countless updates and releases across the App Store. Unless you have tons of extra time and check your App Store app every day for changes, you probably miss out on those that are most important. Furthermore, apps that you don’t already own might see changes that convince you to give them a try! Read on for today’s notable app updates and releases. (more…)
We’ve known for a while now that Twitter doesn’t really care for third-party clients, and we have also known that Twitter doesn’t see a future for Tweetdeck — a fairly popular client that relied on custom panes to display tweets — on mobile.
Therefore, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Twitter will be killing off Tweetdeck for iPhone and Android, as well as Tweetdeck on Adobe AIR, on May 7th. From then on, the app will literally not work for anyone, due to the API ceasing to function correctly. In addition, the remaining Tweetdeck applications (which exist on platforms like Windows, Mac, and as a Chrome web app) will no longer offer support to post Facebook updates.
Every day there are countless updates and releases across the App Store. Unless you have tons of extra time and check your App Store app every day for changes, you probably miss out on those that are most important. Furthermore, you may have held off on an app in the past due to it lacking features. In that case, it could be months before you stumble on that app again only to decide you no longer need it. Read on for today’s notable app updates and releases. (more…)
Have you ever wanted to have a constant stream of the music your friends are listening to? Now you can. The only catch is that you and all your friends have to use the #NowPlaying hashtag when listening to a song. Luckily, the #NowPlaying hashtag is already widely used across twitter; #music is probably already listing your friends’ most recently jammed-to tracks. (more…)
Yahoo on Thursday released dedicated Mail and Weather apps on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Yahoo! Weather shows all weather information you would expect: current and hourly conditions, short- and long-term forecasts, wing and pressure, precipitation, and more. It combines those readings with stunning photos from Flickr, its popular photo sharing platform, alongside interactive radars and maps.
It is interesting that Yahoo has debuted a standalone Weather app for iOS devices, considering that it has a longstanding existing partnership with Apple to run the backend of its native Weather app on iPhone and iPod touch. Nevertheless, perhaps we are seeing Apple finally begin to loosen their restrictions on the apps that its competitors are allowed to bring to the App Store.
Yahoo! Mail, on the other hand, has already been released for quite some time, but just now received an update with native support for the iPad. The app is largely the same as its iPhone and iPod touch counterpart, but has merely been optimized to take advantage of the larger 9.7-inch and 7.9-inch displays on the larger iPad and iPad mini respectively. Both apps are free downloads.
[9to5Mac]