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Vine Flip takes your Vine videos analog

by Steven Sande (Apr 8th, 2013)

Twitter's free Vine app has been around for about two months, capturing six-second videos for sharing with the rest of the world. Now there's Vine Flip, a service that wants you to get offline and go analog with your brief masterpieces. Vine Flip does this by converting your videos into paper ...

Daily Update for April 4, 2013

by Steven Sande (Apr 4th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Twitter iOS app updated to allow installation, launching of apps from tweets

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 4th, 2013)

Twitter updated its iOS app to version 5.5 and added support for its Twitter Cards feature. Twitter Cards let developers and content creators attach media and links to Tweets. In the iOS app, it'll let users tap a link in a tweet and view content directly in an app that is installed on their ...

Securing your iOS device for your children, Part 3: removing apps, limiting social features and other safety options

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 29th, 2013)

There has been a string of high-profile cases where children have racked up thousands of dollars in credit card charges through in-app purchases. In these cases and others like them, the iOS devices used by the children have not been properly locked down by the parents. In the first post of ...

Twitterrific 5.2 offers push notifications and more

by Matt Tinsley (Mar 28th, 2013)

Twitterrific for iOS has been updated to version 5.2 and now supports native push notifications as well as bringing performance improvements and a host of bug fixes. The update follows Twitterrific's 5.1 update, which was released just over a month ago. With push notifications enabled in ...

TweetDeck for iPhone and Adobe Air will end in May

by Randy Nelson (Mar 4th, 2013)

If you're a TweetDeck for iPhone user or have been clinging to the Adobe Air version of the app for dear life since the native Mac version debuted, we've got some bad news for you. Twitter has decided to end support for those versions, along with TweetDeck for Android. You'll be able to ...

Twitter Client Project: Hibari

by Erica Sadun (Mar 4th, 2013)

Echofon for Mac is no longer in development. TUAW's Twitter Client Project surveys popular desktop alternatives in highly subjective reviews. Hibari (US$9.99) offers a clean, visually pleasing Twitter interface. Unfortunately, as these things go (and despite its price tag), it's not ...

Tweetbot for iOS outs pirate users

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2013)

A lot of us at TUAW use Tapbots' wonderful Tweetbot iPhone app to feed our mobile Twitter habit. The US$2.99 price tag is apparently off-putting to some iPhone users who want the excellent features of Tweetbot, but would rather pirate the app than pay three measly bucks for it. Gizmodo UK has ...

Twitter Client Project: YoruFukurou

by Erica Sadun (Feb 26th, 2013)

Echofon for Mac is no longer in development. TUAW's Twitter Client Project surveys popular desktop alternatives in highly subjective reviews. The YoruFukurou Twitter client (Free) has been designed by geeks for geeks. Packed with customizable features, it bears all the hallmarks of ...

Twitterrific for iOS updated to 5.1, brings 'Muffling,' inline Flickr previews and more

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 21st, 2013)

There are more Twitter client updates this week. Today it's Twitterrific for iOS, updated to version 5.1. The update brings some new features, which are sure to enhance the Twitterrific experience. Alongside a plethora of bug fixes and improvements, Twitterrific has added the following new ...

The Twitter Client Project: Echofon

by Erica Sadun (Feb 20th, 2013)

I love Echofon. It was among the first apps I bought for iOS, and remains to this day on my devices. When it hopped to OS X, I was delighted and immediately installed a copy. I'm still using it. Only one problem. Naan Studio discontinued it last October. It still works great, however, and ...

Twitter for iOS updates to 5.3 bringing better searching, snappier everything

by Randy Nelson (Feb 6th, 2013)

Twitter has just launched a pretty significant update to its official iOS app, introducing improvements to search functionality and performance on both iPhone and iPad. Specifically, the app now has a prominent search button at the top which Twitter promises will return more relevant results ...

Apple yanks Vine from Featured Apps section after porn debacle

by Mike Wehner (Jan 29th, 2013)

If you were to ask me for a few tips on starting a new video-centric social app, I would probably be able to offer you very little advice. That said, one thing I can guarantee I wouldn't recommend is to push grotesque porn to every users' feed just as they're having their morning coffee. That's ...

Twitter introduces Vine app for sharing video

by Steven Sande (Jan 24th, 2013)

Haven't been able to post enough videos of your adorable cat, baby or girlfriend on Twitter? Fear no more, Twitter has introduced Vine, a free video-sharing iPhone app that takes short snippets up to 10 seconds in length and blasts them to Twitter, Facebook and/or the Vine.co website. Those ...

TweetDeck for Mac gets ability to embed tweets, more

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 9th, 2013)

Official Twitter desktop client TweetDeck has just received a pretty significant update for OS X. The client now allows users to embed tweets directly from the app itself. Previously users had to use Chrome or the web client to embed tweets in their blogs and websites. The update also brings ...