At least it didn’t for me. You probably want this update however. Just install it over the top. It deleted my profile pic and moved the icon to the last spot on my last page, BUT, a SIGN OUT button was added. I couldn’t believe they released 1.0 without this button. It’s damn near life changing.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
If you’re like me you KNOW that Twinkle is THE twitter app for the iPhone. It has been missing from the app store. I decided to contact the good people at Tapulous to get the hot scoop on what’s going on and here is what I received.
Free free to blog that it has been with Apple for some time and waiting for approval. So any day now you’ll get to see it. And it will be sporting:
* a sexy new interface
* all the standard Twitter features
* some failsafe protection that your tweets/messages will be delivered to your connections that are also on Twinkle
* the ability to use Twinkle even if you are new to Twitter or not a Twitter user
Cheers,
Andrew
Co-Founder, Tapulous, Inc
Thank you Andrew. I can’t wait!
I was very happy with my jailbroken iPhone. I was using more apps than I ever had. Today as I browse the iPhone App Store (just search for AOL in iTunes 7.7), I realize, at least on Day One and the immediate short term, I am giving up certain things, hopefully not for good though.
Losing - Twinkle. Awesome location based Twitter app with picture attaching.
Gaining - Twitterific. What seems to be a plain Twitter client.
Losing - Mobilescrobbler. The fantastic app that helped me scrobble more tracks than ever with super functionality. Reading lyrics to songs that the iPhone was playing was pretty damn cool.
Gaining - Pandora. Totally different service.
Losing - Mobilechat. aim/chat client with horizontal orientation.
Gaining - Official Aim client. Not sure if it gets horizontal.
Losing - iFlickr. I only took pics with this program.
Gaining - Mobile Flickr.
Losing - uSirius. I was able to go to a restaurant on lunch and listen to Howard Stern while I ate over EDGE!!
Gaining - Nothing.
Losing - Summerboard. My PRECIOUS UI! Icons and wallpaper. Some sick themes.
Gaining - Nothing. This could be the biggest loss because I don’t see an Appearance, UI, or Tweak cateogry in the App Store.
NemusSync - gCalendar sync
Gaining - Nothing
So those were my main ones. Other than that I think overall:
Losing - Fully free software, constantly updated apps, unofficial OS tweaks and fixes
Gaining - Better game selection, a "funded" development community,
In the end, I hope it’s just a matter of time before my truly favorite apps are sent to the App Store because the ones I’ve listed are the ones I will spend cash on without batting an eye. I really am not optimistic about Summerboard though.
The keynote has come and gone. There were no real surprises. I feel pretty lukewarm due to the simple fact that I cannot buy a new iPhone, Me.com account, or download iPhone 2.0 right now.
The iPhone 3G - Yes I will be buying one immediately. I am however, FURIOUS that I have to leave my house and wait in a shit line for it though. It does not have ALL the features I was looking for in an update. I’ll take better battery, GPS, and 3G though. My missing feature list mirrors that of this one on Macnn. It’s the same crap I’ve been asking for forever that I thought would be "no brainer" material. But things like A2DP, referred to in this article as "headphones support for music listening" would most definitely eat up further the battery optimizations Apple figured out for its challenges with 3G. So maybe that will come in the iPhone 4G when gadget batteries run on oxygen or dust particles.
Me.com / MobileMe - While I don’t have an immediate need for MobileMe since I have Exchange support at work, I feel like I can make some good use out of the service. Ultimately dropping $100 on a yearly service is fine with me as long as I think I can get my money’s worth. I think I can.
Sidenotes -
- macrumorslive seemed to hold up the whole way through
- twitter had it’s share of issues
- it would be nice of Apple to have a live QT feed
- Scott Forestall’s evil grin each time he walked back to the stage after each dev did a demo bothered me
- So did Phil Schiller’s polo shirt
- The 3G is being touted as thinner, yet it’s widest measurement is wider than current gen (12.3mm to 11.7mm) I guess they mean the weird curved empty space around the edges?
- When Apple’s website came back up, it didn’t come back up all at once. It took about 10-15 extra minutes for the new pages to show up. Wonder if someone got yelled at for that. It’s been smoother in the past
- So far the 3G cases I’ve seen look like shit. I can only hope that Contourcase ignores the new curve and makes a case VERY similar to the showcase. it is THE BEST cell phone case I have ever owned.
I think it’s all but imminent that the, one, or multiple iPhones are announced today at WWDC. In all of the excitement and rumors leading up to it, as an iPhone user, the hopes that I have I feel, are realistic.
I hope that GPS, Bluetooth A2DP, is up in there. Hopefully the battery is a little bit better of a performer especially with the 3G and GPS options being a factor. I hope they didn’t fuck with the form factor and case design too much (but a flush headphone jack is more than welcome seeing as how I lost my $15 dollar adapter for the moment). I hope iPhone 2.0 is available today and that it blows me away. I hope the App Store opens today so I can drop loads of cash. I hope I can order a new iPhone today even if it doesn’t ship right away.
All of the rumors about a tablet, OSX for PC, would all be bonuses for me.
Also in this leadup to what looks to be a big iPhone day, I looked back on the last couple of months with my current gen (last gen) iPhone. Currently I’m still using ZiPhone as a jailbreak. The apps and customizations that come along with it need no introduction or explanation. I can safely say that I cannot live without apps like Twinkle, iFlickr, Summerboard, and MobileScrobbler. So today is a crossroads. Am I going to have to choose between two versions of functionality meaning, the apps that are ready for 2.0 or apps available via a Jailbroken iPhone? In my imaginary world, those four apps, amongst others will magically and quickly show up in the App Store. If that happens, I am ready to dish out cash for them immediately.
"Regular" functionality of the iPhone lately has improved by way of companies like Google just enhancing their code. The latest build of gReader is almost perfect. That’s a far cry from what it started out as. Web apps like Hahlo, now 3.0, have come a long way as well.
There’s also some weird things that I started to notice just based off of the amount of time spent with the thing. I was sweating profusely the other day and had my ear up to it in a phone conversation. When taking it off my ear to press some buttons on the keypad, they wouldn’t work. I had to dry it off. Then it was fine. And this past winter, while driving, I learned you can’t use the iPhone with winter gloves. Probably obvious, but a rude awakening in the heat of the moment nonetheless.
One thing that really gets me sometimes, is when BLASTING music off the iPhone, while in the car at super high volume, and I am singing along, at high volume…the phone rings. Music cuts out (which is a spectacular feature in most other cases) and I’m left singing a cappella. Maybe this leads to a hold calls or go straight to voicemail button or mode.
As I’ve said many times in the past. The iPhone is a huge part of my daily routine and beyond. Whatever the new model is or is not, the ultimate hope is that it will seamlessly plug into where the old one left off and further advance and enhance my life. 4 hours to go to know for sure.
One of my top wants/needs for the iPhone is the ability to scrobble audio tracks to last.fm. I recently re-jailbroke my iPhone using ZiPhone and installed Mobilescrobbler. Now, a big piece of the "scrobbling puzzle" is filled in.
Mobilescrobbler is a full featured last.fm client. It allows you to listen to your last.fm radio (loved tracks, person radio, neighborhood), scrobble tracks, check lyrics, friends, artist info, love tracks, ban them, skip them, and more. Seriously, it covers just about everything you can do with the last.fm desktop client. It does all of this over wi-fi OR edge.
Now, every app has to have it’s "cool" feature right? Well, Mobilescrobbler supports iPhone gestures. Swipe and pinch away.
Sometimes, people ask me why I like last.fm so much and why scrobbling is so important to me. There are many reasons, but here are the first few that come to mind:
1. I like many many different kinds of music. Rather than talking about them all, I can say, go look at my last.fm page.
2. It helps me, and others, keep track of what I listen to. If I hear a new band from someone’s share iTunes library or on last.fm radio, there is a record of it. I can go back and see exactly what I was listening to at what time. In a lot of cases, now you can listen to full streaming tracks as well.
3. Finding new artists is a huge part of the equation. You can generate a radio station for say, bands that sound like Coheed and Cambria. For a person like me who likes to constantly discover new music, it’s a no brainer. Mix that with the rest of the social aspects of last.fm and the new music discovery possibilities are near infinite.
Getting back to Mobilescrobbler. The app itself is a big part of the puzzle, but there are still a few missing pieces, for me at least. The big picture to me is, being able to scrobble any and all music from any source. With Mobilescrobbler, it covers me at home, anywhere I have my iPhone including the car and walking. For my particular audio sources, I’m only missing audio played on say, my Xbox 360 or on my Sirius radio. Do we need to go that far? I’m not sure. But I’d like to.
The end result is, I am very happy with what Mobilescrobbler gives me. I’d say that now, at least 75% of the music I listen to will be scrobbled, and that’s just cool.
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