20
Nov
Posted by Michael D Jensen in Social Networking. 18 Comments
If you use Twitter, and you have an iPhone, you need Tweetie. Early in the days of iPhone apps I proclaimed Twitterrific the best Twitter app, but it has now been dethroned by Tweetie. Yes, it is $2.99 more than free, but in my opinion, worth every penny.
The first thing you will notice is how fast and responsive Tweetie is. No waiting, it just delivers the goods. You can quickly look at all the things you need (timeline, replies, directs, my directs), and even view links in a built-in browser, with the option to tweet the link (love it!) or open it in Safari. Taking a picture or grabbing one from your photo gallery is standard, with a nice retake option. What’s cool is the picture is compressed, then uploaded to TwitPic.com.
The really cool feature is having “search” built in. I use TweetBeep.com (ok and I built it) to track whenever someone tweets “gotapps”, “tweetbeep”, “@mdjensen“, or anything else about me or my companies, but this is a great way to browse different searches on the go, and Tweetie will even save your searches for easy access later.
You can have multiple accounts on there, and switching back and forth is rather simple.
Hard to find anything bad to say, but the only thing I could think of would be that the links should be clickable from the timeline, not just the “view” of the tweet.
Great job to @atebits for a fantastic iPhone app!
Download now for $2.99!
14
Aug
Posted by Michael D Jensen in Social Networking. 2 Comments
How better to review the WordPress App (free) than to use it to post this iPhone App Review?
The app is well designed and makes it super easy to write a new post or edit that spelling mistake you just noticed. All you need is to enter the URL to your blog and your username/password. If you haven’t updated your wordpress version for a while it might not work though. You also have to turn on XML-RPC services in Options > Writing.
Putting images in I haven’t figured out yet, not sure if that is possible other than just putting in the HTML code.
For links you just have to hand type them, not a simple task with all the characters involved.
Overall a great app for quickly accessing your blog content for quick posts and edits.
Update: Images are super easy to add, just grab them from your photo gallery. I took screenshots and then just picked them out.
The preview feature is great, looks like they just put the preview page in a browser view.
Great job WordPress!
13
Aug
Posted by Michael D Jensen in Social Networking. 7 Comments
[Update - I think Tweetie is the best now... ]
I’ve tried them all, but Twitterrific (free with ads or $9.99 no ads) wins as my favorite Twitter App on the iPhone. It’s simple, has a great interface, and does what I need. I’ve used the Desktop version on my Mac, but I like Twhirl more than that, so until Twhirl comes out with an iPhone app, Twitterrific is the app of choice for using Twitter on the iPhone.
You can easily see tweets, replies, direct messages, and send out your own tweet from the chat icon in the bottom navigation. With a quick touch of the “location” icon your location is updated with your latitude/longitude coordinates. Twitterrific can also take a picture and include a twitpic link in your tweet, although this has crashed the app for me a few times.
Until Apple gets the push API out to developers and onto the iPhone OS, you will only see tweets come in if you have the application open, but this isn’t any different than any other apps, like MobileChat or the free AIM app.
If you don’t mind the ads, try the free version of Twitterrific or buy the paid version of Twitterrific and support those developers!
Oh, and did you know you can follow @gotApps on Twitter?
