Earlier today Tapbots launched Tweetbot 2.0, and Tweetbot for iPad and an explosion of tweets followed. Most of the remarks were overwhelmingly positive, but there were a fair amount criticizing the Tapbots team for not making the app universal. This is an issue that I’ve wanted to write about for some time, but today forced my hand. Let me say that even though I use both Tweetbot apps (and really like them), my focus isn’t so much on the apps, but the response that the two app vs universal binary decision invokes.
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Our interview series continues with a true pro in the design world. Jono Hunt, also known as Iconaholic, has been doing graphic design for many years, working on a wide range or products for various companies big and small. Huge thanks to Jono for taking a few minutes out of his busy schedule to chat.
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The current state of blog competition is intense. Sure writers of different sites will link to each other, occasionally mention competitors, and pat each other on the back. Some writers are even close friends, but when it comes down to business they want their site to be on top. Blogs are like businesses, especially when they get popular. We each scrape and claw to carve out our little corner of the Internet in an attempt to hang on to our loyal readers.
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Gaming apps are meant to be fun, exciting, sometimes challenging, and addictive. If not, they don’t really have a leg to stand on when it comes to being the “App of the Week” or a reason to bring in so many users over its course on the App Store. Run Roo Run is an incredibly fun, super exciting, amazingly challenging, and problematically addictive game. It treats itself in little bursts, but the game continues to get harder and add more and more little extras to help you advance, making it one you keep coming back to.
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Yesterday, Apple released a new version of iBooks which foremost adds the feature of downloadable textbooks. While it wasn’t much of a surprise, it may be the start of a fresh new age for education.
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You want to wear the nicest clothes, look presentable, and let people know that your sense of fashion is clean and sophisticated. Only problem is that you have no idea where to shop, how much things will cost, or better yet, how well they’re made. You could easily go to a store, try on clothes, check prices and head out, but then your fashion sense is limited to what that store has to offer and you’re trapped in their pricing models. Jack Threads aims to change that and all for an affordable price.
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Every year we’re faced with new and upcoming artists who are either rebuilding who they are as musicians or trying to find that ground to stand on to make it somewhere in the business. We’re presented with someone from both sides of the field and she goes by the name Lana Del Rey. From her lyrics about troubled relationships, obsessions with sexual tension, and her need for love, her music is easy to relate to for countless people.
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Back in October of 2010, Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt of Studio Neat started a Kickstarter project for the Glif, a tripod adapter and stand for the iPhone 4. The project succeeded wonderfully, and they came back this past March to start another project, the Cosmonaut. Their second project was also wildly successful, and in my opinion, so is the product behind the project.
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Kickstarter is filled with amazingly elegant, well sculpted, and brilliant projects. Elevation Dock is no exception to this criteria; not in the slightest. From its use of the sleekest tools to sculpt an aluminum masterpiece to its usage and support of the phone in ways that we have never seen before, there’s a lot we’re hopeful for in this project.
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2011 was a good year for me. I hope it was for you too. I thought it would be nice to share some things that made my life a little nicer and a bit easier. Here are my favorite items / apps / toys from this last year.
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