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Pocket updates its iOS and Mac app with new 'Send to Friend' sharing feature

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2013)

Pocket changed its name from Read it Later one year ago today, and the company is celebrating its first anniversary with an update that brings a new sharing feature to the app. Pocket's latest version has a completely redesigned Share menu that includes a "Send to Friend" feature. This option ...

Pocket for Safari and Chrome updated with tag autocomplete and more

by Randy Nelson (Feb 13th, 2013)

Pocket, the handy app that lets you "pocket" articles from the web to read later on Mac or iOS, saw a noteworthy update to its companion plugins for Safari and Chrome today. Among the notable new features is the auto-completion of tags, along with the ability to save articles from Reddit, ...

Pocket announces digital publishing partnership with Matter

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2012)

Just last week we mentioned that Pocket, formerly known as Read It Later, was growing its little empire of features and various apps, but hadn't yet landed on a solid monetary plan. Well here that comes now: Pocket has announced a partnership with a Kickstarter-funded digital publisher called ...

Pocket for Mac gets a big update, better Twitter, Facebook, and Evernote support

by Mike Schramm (Nov 27th, 2012)

Pocket used to be called Read It Later, and it actually did fairly well under that branding, as I remember. But the app was revamped to Pocket a little while ago, and since then, has been growing a little empire of apps designed to save content on one device, and pass it around to any number of ...

Pocket gets update and a whole lotta downloads

by Steven Sande (May 11th, 2012)

The app that began life as Read It Later and that's now known as Pocket (Free) has received a significant update to version 4.1, and the developer took the opportunity to report just how successful the app has become. Since the rename and relaunch of the app three weeks ago, Pocket has ...

Read It Later becomes Pocket, goes free for all

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2012)

I know Read It Later as a very useful Firefox extension, similar to Instapaper, which allows users to save web content with just one click for later retrieval on smartphones, tablets, or the web. Previous to this, there were both free and pro versions of Read It Later available in the App ...

TUAW's Daily iPad App: Pocket RPG

by Mike Schramm (Aug 2nd, 2011)

Crescent Moon Games made the excellent Aralon for iOS in the past, and that was a full-fledged RPG, featuring a whole world to explore and lots of gear to collect and quests to complete. Now, the company's gone back to the fantasy well to deliver another hack-and-slash style RPG game, though ...

GDC 2010: Hands on with Pocket Creatures

by Mike Schramm (Mar 14th, 2010)

One of the best things about going to a convention like GDC is what we in the business call "doing research," which you might know as "playing games." We often get to check out the latest and greatest that developers are working on, and so when Tactile Entertainment offered us a chance to check ...

The perfect clothing accessory for your iPad

by Steven Sande (Feb 1st, 2010)

The geek clothiers at SCOTTEVEST keep coming up with great ways to stay in the news, and their latest tip is, not surprisingly, iPad-related. One of the first products from the company was the Travel Vest for Men (US$100), which has been a popular way to hide every piece of tech gear you own in ...

Survey: Less than half of touchscreen users prefer touchscreen

by Mike Schramm (Nov 4th, 2009)

Here's a few interesting stats from a survey recently conducted in Europe. These aren't specifically about the iPhone, but given that smartphones relied on buttons almost exclusively before Apple's handheld came along (and nowadays, everyone's bragging about their touchscreen technology), a ...