Loren Brichter Talks About Pull-To-Refresh Patent and Design Process
Circling around on the internet over the last few days has been the news that there is a patent application for the “pull-to-refresh” feature that Loren Brichter pioneered in Tweetie and is now an extremely popular UI gesture used in a lot of iOS, Mac and Android apps. Twitter holds the patent application, not Brichter...
Twitter Puts Tweetbot, Facebook, Clear Apps In Crosshairs Over Pull-To-Refresh
Do you like the pull-to-refresh feature found in many popular iOS apps? Well, you might want to prepare to see it go the way of the dodo, as Twitter is now trying to patent it. The patent application in question is United States Patent...Tweetdeck update has better list management, editing retweets
Twitter has pushed out an update to Tweetdeck that brings better list management, inline media and improved retweeting that allows editing, Mashable reports. Columns to display interactions and activity have been added, these features having been ...
Meet Biologic, The Strangest, Cutest Social Networking App Around [Review]
Biologic is a – hmm, what is it exactly? It’s hard to describe. It’s not a Twitter client, although you can see Twitter with it. It’s not a Facebook client either, but your Facebook friends are all here if you want them to be....Should Apple buy Twitter?
Now that Apple has showed it plans to spend some of its massive $100 billion cash holdings, some argue it should acquire Twitter as a way of bulking up its social features. But just because it could buy Twitter, does that mean it should?
Twitter Notifications, iCloud Tabs & Location-Based Reminders Appear In Latest OS X 10.8 Beta
Following the release of Apple’s second Mountain Lion beta late last week, registered developers have been stumbling across a number of new features that weren’t present in the first beta. These include Twitter notifications, “iCloud Tabs,” and location-based reminders. Twitter Notifications The first Mountain Lion...Show Off Your New iPad, Send Us Pics Of You With Your iPad
Did you just get a new iPad today? Is your excitement erupting like a nuclear bomb? We want to see it. Send us a picture of YOU and your iPad. Get creative. Be funny. Do something random. Whatever. We’ll be collecting pictures throughout the day to...Apple highlights Retina-ready apps for new iPad
With the launch of the new iPad just hours away, there will be a flood of new iPad owners looking for apps that boast the device’s 2048-by-1536-pixel resolution Retina display. To make it easier, Apple posted a new section on iTunes that lists Retina-ready apps recently updated to take advantage of the new display. The...
Skyfire’s New HotSwap Feature Brings Multi-User Browsing To The iPad [Video]
Have you ever leant your iPad to a friend or family member and when you get it back you find they’ve logged out of all of your social networks and closed all...Tweetbot Gets Streaming
Tweetbot, Tapbots’ excellent Twitter client for iOS that we recently reviewed for the launch of its long-awaited iPad version and 2.0 update on the iPhone, received today support for one of the most requested functionalities by its users: streaming. Available today in version 2.1 of the iPad app, live streaming allows users to stay on...
Camera+ 3 Gets New Icon And Stacks Of New Features In Latest Update
Camera+, one of the most popular photography apps for the iPhone, has been updated to version 3 today. In addition to a fancy new icon, the update brings a ton of new features including improved photo...Tim Cook unloads $11 million in AAPL stock
According to an Apple filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today, Tim Cook sold 20,178 shares of his company’s stock in a series of transactions over the past two business days. The sales started at $547 a share and climbed to $551 before the last transaction, which left Apple’s Chief Executive Officer with...
