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Tweetbot 2.0 update adds inline images, Readabilty integration and more

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 8th, 2012)

Tweetbot was already a great Twitter client and the 2.0 update that rolled out today makes the app even better. Tweetbot 2.0 has several notable features including inline image preview and a single-tap link which automatically opens content inside the app. If the page you request is text-heavy, ...

Tweetbot wins TUAW Best of 2011 voting for best iPhone social networking app

by Steven Sande (Dec 24th, 2011)

The team at Tapbots is going to get an early Christmas present today -- their Twitter client Tweetbot (US$2.99) was voted the best iPhone social networking app by readers in our continuing TUAW Best of 2011 polling. The app, which launched in April of this year into a crowded Twitter client ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone social networking app

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Best of 2011 nominations: iPhone social networking apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2011)

During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We'll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each ...

Little Printer to add tiny, adorable printing for iPhone and Android

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 29th, 2011)

Little Printer by Berg Cloud is a cute concept for a printer that'll produce a daily newspaper for you. It grabs the headlines from your social feeds, emails, news sources, horoscopes, puzzles and more. You can choose what it will print and when it will print using a companion app for your ...

Google+ iPhone app updated with Hangout support

by Chris Rawson (Sep 23rd, 2011)

Google's iPhone app for its new social network Google+ has just received a hefty update. Key among the new features of the Google+ app is support for Hangouts, Google's answer to multiuser videoconferencing. Hangouts has seen a lot of use among the TUAW staff so far, and being able to use the ...

OpenFeint hires new CEO, Jason Citron leaves

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2011)

It's the end of an era for one of iOS' biggest ventures -- OpenFeint has hired a new CEO, Naoki Aoyagi, which means company founder Jason Citron is leaving the company to head elsewhere. OpenFeint, you'll remember, has its roots in an iPhone game called Aurora Feint, which Citron developed a ...

Google+ Mac "app" now available (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Aug 19th, 2011)

If you're one of the early adopters of Google+ and have been wishing for a native Mac app that you could use to check out your circles and swim the stream, you're in luck. A rudimentary Google+ app is now available for Mac, which bodes well for the future of standalone apps for the social media ...

LinkedIn overhauls its iPhone app

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 16th, 2011)

LinkedIn has updated its iPhone app today to version 4.0. It's actually more than an update -- it's a complete overhaul of the app. Version 4.0 features a totally new UI with quick and easy access to four areas of LinkedIn: your profile, account updates, your inbox, and groups. Tap on any one ...

Google+ iOS app now compatible with iPad

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 8th, 2011)

Last June when Google started rolling out its new Facebook challenger, Google+, it didn't take long for the company to release an iPhone app. However, that iPhone app couldn't run on an iPod touch or an iPad. That's been rectified now as today Google has updated the Google+ iOS app to bring ...

Google+ iPhone app hands-on

by Steven Sande (Jul 21st, 2011)

There's a lot to like about Google+, Google's new social network. For one, it's still on a limited-availability beta, so the spammers haven't caught up yet, and there are no Farmville/Mafia Wars applications for your "friends" to annoy you with. Just this last week, Google introduced the free ...

Trimit reads, simplifies, and condenses web content for social networks

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2011)

Trimit is a new app that promises to automatically summarize text. The idea is this: You enter a URL, trimit ingests the web page you pointed to, and then it spits back a condensed version at the length you specify. TUAW had a chance to take an early peek at this app, which is due to launch ...

Apple patent wants to take the "long and awkward" steps out of making new friends

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 16th, 2011)

Twitter and Facebook might be looked upon as "simple" forms of social networking if technology from an Apple patent ever sees the light of day. MacRumors has discovered an Apple patent called "Ad hoc Networking Based on Content and Location" which describes a way iPhone users can meet people ...

Piictu puts the fun into iOS picture sharing

by Richard Gaywood (Jun 7th, 2011)

What? Another iOS photo sharing app? No, wait, keep reading! The just-released Piictu app (official site, iTunes) has some new tricks to show you. Piictu's big idea is to treat the photos you post not as the traditional timeline view we associate with blogs and apps like Instagram, but rather ...

Roundup of Kickstarter Apple-related projects for 5/25

by Steven Sande (May 25th, 2011)

For many tech startups, Kickstarter is a great way to raise funding to get a new company off the ground. Each week, TUAW takes a close look at recent Apple-related Kickstarter projects for those of you interested in supporting one of the many entrepreneurs who are waiting to bring the next big ...