New iPhone Application Twictures Lets People Easily View Photos and Videos from Their twitter Stream.

I'm glad to announce today the release of Twictures, a new iPhone application that lets people instantly view pictures, photos and videos from their twitter stream in a gorgeous, slick interface. Each photo or video is shown on screen, and users can easily reply, retweet or favorite each post. Tapping the photo or video will let the user view them in full screen.

Twictures shows photos and videos in a continuous stream for easy viewing. All the user needs to do is swipe up to reveal the next post, and a simple tap will play any video. Currently, Twictures supports photos from instagram, twitpic, plixi, lockerz, imgurl, posterous and yfrog and videos from YouTube. The developer promises to add support for more photo and video sites in later updates.

Another fantastic feature of Twictures is that it lets users share their own photos to twitter. Before uploading the photos, it lets users apply various effects and filters to each photo - sepia, grayscale, brightness, contrast and other lomo effects. Users can apply multiple effects to the same photo, making each creation unique!

Download Twictures now from the Appstore!

Profiler for the iPhone Released!

Profiler - Search People in Google Images, Facebook, Twitter and WhitePages.

We just released our newest iPhone application, Profiler.

Ever wanted to know detailed information about a person you've just met or are going to meet? Profiler for the iPhone is an application that allows you to easily search Google Images, Facebook, Twitter and Whitepages.com for a particular person.

Meeting someone for the first time? How about looking him/her up first on Google Images or Facebook via your iPhone? Maybe you want to know what he/she tweeted about?

Or maybe you need to get someone's phone number and address easily? Just type in his/her name in Profiler and through WhitePages.com, get all this information instantly. (US residents only)

Download now from iTunes - Click here

Ping.fm's problem with any app with the word Ping

It all started April 9, 2010, when Apple sent me a message from Ping.fm:

So apparently, Ping.fm thinks that my app's icon/logo QuickPing, looks like Ping.fm's logo.

My app's logo:



Ping.fm's logo:



The font of my Ping logo is Helvetica, the most common font in the whole world. I like Helvetica, and I use it for most of my work. They were telling me that I copied Ping.fm's logo. Ludicrous.

Since I am just an individual, independent developer, I agreed and changed the app logo from Ping to a simple P, as shown below:





And submitted the change to Apple, both for QuickPing and QuickPing Free.

I thought everything was fine, until I received a new note from Ping.fm:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail below.

We noticed that changes were made to the app entitled "QuickPing Free" (see, e.g., the logo).

We would very much appreciate it if you can inform the developer that if similar changes were to be made to the app entitled "QuickPing" and also using a lower-case "p" to read "Quickping" in the name and the description for both apps then that would be in the right direction to help resolve this matter.

Now Ping.fm wants me to change the NAME OF MY APPLICATION to Quickping from QuickPing. Not a big change, I know, but it looks like Ping.fm is now claiming that every word that has the word Ping in it is theirs. What the hell?

If that's the case, did Ping.fm also complain to the Apple about these following apps? Why haven't they changed their names?

Pingle
Ping! Lite
PING
Network Ping Lite
Network Ping
ping
SuperPing
FreePing
Ping For Fun
Ping Later
Ping'N'Drive

This is really stupid. I'm a fan of Ping.fm and all (and that's why I made the app), but this is ridiculous.

Sherwin

EasyTweet is now available!

As of today, EasyTweet is now available in the Apple Appstore via this iTunes link. As mentioned in my previous blog entry, EasyTweet is an easy to use and simple iPhone client for Twitter. With EasyTweet, composing a status message is as easy as writing an SMS!

To use EasyTweet, all you have to do is to start the application, and then start typing away your message and tap "Tweet It" to tweet your message. Your message immediately gets sent to Twitter, and because a message is very small, the total mobile internet usage is <1 kb, which can save you a lot of money if all you want to do is to tweet out.

Check out the app, available at the AppStore for only $0.99!

The Internet in Plain English

Have you ever tried explaining RSS, Twitter or even social networking to your mother, your sister or someone who's clueless about technology? That has happened to me several times. I even remember my mom hesitating to use a mobile phone, although now she texts left and right.

But getting back to the point, I just discovered a site called Common Craft, which contains videos about some technologies explained in, well, plain English. Some of the videos featured are RSS in Plain English, Twitter in Plain English, and Wikis in Plain English. Check it out guys and girls, and never need to explain to your mom why you just have to post your vacation pictures on the internet again.

By the way, I learned about Common Craft through this new podcast I discovered, produced by Revision3 - PopSiren. It's a video podcast about modern culture, technology, science and DIY from the point of view of women. One of the hosts is Jessica Corbin of InDigital and Tekzilla fame.