Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Twitterrific 2 for the iPhone

Twitterrific Premium_128x128.pngSo last week, Twit­ter­rific 2 for the iPhone was released. The Icon­fac­tory guys had lagged a little behind other com­peti­tors due to the fact that they launched first, but have def­i­nitely man­aged to catch up and sur­pass the others in the fea­tures depart­ment for the most part.

What I think I love the most is the single ‘action button’ that allows for future fea­tures to come in pretty easily into future updates. Press­ing the one action button allows you to star some­thing, reply to a person, view their pro­file, and so much more. Addi­tion­ally, you can cus­tomize ‘tap shortcuts’ to quickly do things you do fre­quently (star an item, view a pro­file, etc). I hope that future releases allow direct mes­sages to be allowed as a ‘tap shortcut’.

Nothing’s per­fect though, but there are only 3 things that jump out as prob­lems to me:

  • No ‘go to user’ fea­ture. Some­times I want to quickly bring up a pro­file that I don’t follow. How would I do that in Twit­ter­rific 2?
  • No ‘view more’ fea­ture. I’d like to be able to view more than just 100 tweets.
  • Selected tweet loses focus on scroll.

I’d like to think that most of those are going to be addressed in a future update. Anyway, Twit­ter­rific costs less than $5 in the iTunes store, or has an ad sup­ported free ver­sion. So give it a go.

When Things Make You Feel Old.

icon.pngI’d like to think that I’m ‘with it’. I’m on the Face­book and the Twit­ter, and am fairly active in both – I ‘get’ ’social media’, that’s what I’m saying. How­ever, with that said, I really think I finally feel like an old codger that just doesn’t under­stand the crazy kids and their new­fan­gled internets.

What has caused this epic change? Simply put, a new iPhone app called Birdhouse.

Now don’t get all ahead of your­selves here – it looks like a beau­ti­fully done app, and the web­site design, intro video and every­thing in between look to be fan­tas­ti­cally done. I don’t want to take that away from the folks who put this together (doesn’t hurt that Sand­wich Dynam­ics is an amaz­ing com­pany name, either).

The app simply exists to let you quickly enter in ‘tweet’ ideas, slowly refine them, rate them accord­ingly, then finally pub­lish the great ones, while still refin­ing the rest.

It’s just that I feel like they’re solv­ing a prob­lem that didn’t really exist until they showed up with the app. Again, maybe I’m an old­ster now and I just don’t ‘get’ it. Maybe true genius is doing exactly what I feel they did — cre­at­ing a solu­tion to an imag­i­nary prob­lem. I may or may not end up giving it a shot, as maybe I really am miss­ing out on some­thing. I just can’t shake that feel­ing that it makes no sense to me. Regard­less of how I feel, you should check it out for your­self — the intro video is quite good.

Anyway, stay off my lawn.