New Gestures in iPhone SDK 3.2 for iPad?
9to5Mac continues its tradition of tearing through new iPhone 3.2 SDK for iPad betas, this time digging into beta 4 and finding:
In the gestures folder, you’ll see two new types of commands (3Tap.plist and LongPress.plist) that are certainly not implemented in the current 3.1 iPhone SDK.
No idea what these mean yet, but if you were Apple, what would you use the triple tap and long press for? (Aside from morse code!)
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Birdfeed Twitter Client is now Brizzly… and Free!
The delightful Twitter client Birdfeed has been bought, updated, and rebranded by Brizzly and is now available as Brizzly for iPhone… for free! [iTunes link]
If you’re looking for a great Twitter client, give Brizzly a try. (Note: per comment below, you do need a brizzly.com account to use it which might not appeal to some.)
[via Daring Fireball]
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No TiPb Live Tonight, More GDC Coverage to Come!
Apologies everyone but there won’t be a TiPb Live! tonight due to me being at GDC 2010, Chad being sick, and Mickey being horribly disappointed in the both of us.
We’ll try to make it up to you with some more great GDC coverage, however. I’ve shot tons of video for TiPb Apps and will be posting it up in the feed asap. If you’re hungry for instant content, I’m posting notes over on Twitter. Otherwise hang tight, we’ll have a round up later this week.
(Also did some moonlighting for PreCentral.net and WMExperts, so if you want to see what the competition is up to with webOS and Windows Phone 7 Series, check that out).
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VoiceCentral Black Swan Brings Google Voice to the iPhone
Riverturn has entered into the Google Voice for iPhone arena with it’s latest offering VoiceCentral Black Swan. Google Voice and iPhone have a long history together and it has not been pretty, until now that is.
Black Swan is an application you can get outside of the App Store and you do not need to have a jailbroken device. It is not a web app like the official Google solution but rather a feature rich “weblication” that enables you to view and manage your Google Voice data just like you would with a native iPhone application. As you can see by the following features, no stone as been left unturned with this app:
- Native iPhone look and feel.
- Sync your Google Voice data.
- Automatic and immediate updates.
- Offline access to Google Voice data.
- Listen to Google Voice messages and read transcriptions.
- Swipe to delete calls, voicemails, or SMS conversations.
- Google Contacts import.
- Call using Google Voice or iPhone.
Simply visit the Black Swan web site directly from your iPhone to download. You will have a choice to select between two versions – free (ad-supported) or premium. The premium version will run you $6.00 a year and for that you will also get zero ads, the ability to import contact photos, favorites, ability to search your inbox, and a do not disturb option.
This is hands down the best current solution for those of you who use Google Voice on your iPhones. Be sure to check out the demo of Black Swan in action and let us know how it works for you in the comments below!
[Via TUAW]
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Save Web Page and Read It Later on iPhone
How many times you come across a web page and you do not have time to read it in front of computer? If you are looking for an app that lets you save a web page and read it on iPhone while you’re on-the-go. Remember to check the “Read It Later” app.
Basically, this app allows you to bookmark & save any web pages you find interesting and read later on your iPhone even without internet connection.
Read It Later service is completely free. But when you download the app to your iPhone the first thing you will have to do is setup an account with “Read it Later”. Choosing a user name and password is all that is required.
The service offers various bookmarklets (i.e. a kind of javascript) to save web page. You can set this app up with your computer’s web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer) so that you can bookmark those pages to read later on your iPhone. You can also add bookmarklet on the mobile Safari browser. Simply follow the on-screen instructions to set it up. It may be a bit tricky if this is the first time you configure bookmarklet on iPhone. Don’t give up, you’ll figure it out and will be happy you stuck with it.
Once you’re done, it’s ready to save any web pages via the bookmarklet. Later, when you launch “Read It Later” app again, it automatically loads the list of web pages you have just saved. Cool, right? The best is it even pre-loads the web pages and caches it on iPhone. That means, you can read the saved web pages even with internet connection.
Some of the options you have with this iPhone app is the ability to auto download the full web content of the pages to your list, or, just a text only view of a particular page. You can change the scrollbar to be “on or off”, or, on the “left side or right side” of the page. You can also configure “auto download” to happen only when you are connected via Wi-Fi. There are also some housekeeping options that allow you to clear both the downloaded files and cookies.
You can easily tag and search through your reading list for easy filtering if you have a lot of sites that you track. Finally, one really cool extra is the saved position feature. Meaning the application remembers where you left off on every article and provides a “Currently Reading” section that syncs that current article position with your computer when you re-open the article.
I have been using this app for some time and I am a complete convert. I just love this application. The “Read it Later” app for the iPhone comes in two versions: Free [iTunes link] & Pro (US$4.99 USD) [iTunes link]. The Pro version comes with additional features such as full-screen reading, tap to save bookmarklet, screen rotation support, etc.
What do you think of Read It Later app?