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Daily iPhone App: IM+ with Beep

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 19th, 2011)

IM+ is one of the top-rated Instant messaging clients in the iOS app store. It has universal device support, and a list of features that'll suit any messaging fan. Shape Services, the company behind IM +, is constantly improving its iOS app. The latest update landed today and includes Beep, a new ...

iOS code hints iChat functionality coming to mobile

by Mike Schramm (Nov 17th, 2011)

Developer John Heaton found some code in the latest version of iOS that hints iChat functionality could finally be coming to the mobile operating system. The code mentions various chat services like Jabber and AIM, and while it doesn't specifically mention iChat, there's certainly some strings ...

iOS 5 features: iMessage brings free texting to iPad, iPod touch

by Chris Rawson (Oct 12th, 2011)

Until now, the iPhone has had an exclusive on built-in texting via Apple's Messages app. That's changed in iOS 5, and now the iPad and iPod touch have joined the party. iMessage allows for free texting across all iOS devices running iOS 5 so long as they have internet access. If you've ...

SHAPE Services to release IM+ Video for Facebook video chat

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 4th, 2011)

A report from TechCrunch claims SHAPE Services, the company that develops the IM+ messaging client, has bought CrispApp. CrispApp produces fone, an iOS application for chatting and making voice calls to your Facebook friends. SHAPE plans to take the technology behind the fone app and merge it ...

Sparrow announces new features at TechCrunch Disrupt

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 25th, 2011)

Update 6:45 PM EST: Version 1.2 of Sparrow is now available in the Mac App Store. Full list of what's new is here. Moments ago, Dom Leca of Sparrow took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York and announced a few new features for Sparrow -- a powerful and elegant email client. They also ...

VoxOx releases iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2011)

I wrote about VoxOx earlier this year when I saw the Mac app at CES, and the company has now released an iPhone version that replicates the company's call back service -- they'll connect two different voice lines to each other over your phone. The app can even accept SMS messages, pull off a ...

AT&T rumored to rework texting plan to counter Verizon iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 19th, 2011)

AT&T may enjoy inviting Verizon iPhone owners to life in the slow lane, but the latest rumor out of GearLive suggests that AT&T may be modifying some of its pricing plans to entice customers to stick with the GSM iPhone. The leaked Best Buy screen grab suggests AT&T will drop several ...

Google Voice for iPhone is finally out on the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Nov 16th, 2010)

Turns out, when Apple announced it was a day you'd never forget, maybe it wasn't talking about The Beatles. Last we heard, Google Voice was expected on the App Store "soon" ... and now here it is. Apple has relented in the battle to allow Google Voice functionality on the iPhone, leaving Google open ...

TUAW's Daily App: Texto SMS Favorites

by Mike Schramm (Sep 7th, 2010)

There are a lot of weird texting applications for the iPhone, and some of them are pretty hinky in terms of design or function. But Texto is probably the best looking SMS app I've seen -- it doesn't do any weird non-SMS text messaging or have all kinds of neon graphics running around. All it does ...

Xbox Live app for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 1st, 2009)

360 Live [App Store link] certainly isn't the first Xbox 360 app to hit the iPhone, but it's definitely one of the most full-featured, offering gamertag management, complete friends list access, messaging capability, games library browsing (with achievements and all), and even a CoverFlow-style ...

Looking for cheap alternatives to SMS for the iPhone? There's an app for that.

by TJ Luoma (Oct 17th, 2009)

Imagine that you're at home one night and want to send a message to your partner or roommate or someone else, but you really don't want to get out of your chair, and you don't want to yell loudly enough for them to hear you. So pick up your iPhone, but you don't want to send an SMS or call them. ...

Adium 1.4 beta brings Twitter support and other goodies

by Christina Warren (May 18th, 2009)

Our favorite multi-service messaging client, Adium has issued two awesome updates. For OS X 10.4 Tiger users, or users who just want to use the most "stable" Adium release, the team has released Adium 1.3.4. This version boasts and updated core library and an updated Facebook chat plugin. The ...

A trip back in time with MacUser

by Mike Schramm (Jan 31st, 2009)

Reader John sent us a fascinating little trip back in time (thanks!) he took on his blog: he found a 1996 copy of MacUser about all of the amazing applications available on the Internet, and decided go look at what had become of them. Sadly, most of them have gone missing, but the old names sound ...

Meetro released for OS X

by Dan Lurie (Jun 15th, 2006)

Location based social-networking is a concept that has been bouncing around the net for a while now. The idea is to make getting together and interacting with people easier by sorting users by--or simply displaying--their geographic proximity to you. Services such as dodgeball have become hugely ...

Details of upcoming Thunderbird 2.0 release

by David Chartier (May 29th, 2006)

Hawk Wings has tracked down some details on a tantalizing v2.0 update to Thunderbird, Mozilla's email client. New features at the top of my list are message tagging, a tabbed message viewer and a built-in notification system. It's great to see more developers bringing the tagging paradigm to email, ...

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