David Emery OnlineExamining Twinkle for the iPhone
Twinkle is yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone. At its core it’s a Twitter client, and a very good one at that, but what makes it really interesting is that if you update using Twinkle it can optionally (and by default) save your location whilst you do so, using the iPhone location APIs. You can then see a list of twitters by, say, everyone within a 1 mile radius of you, which is pretty remarkable.
More proof we’re living in the future etc…
Visit ➔Introducing CSS Gradients
WebKit now supports CSS gradients, which is pretty awesome – you can now make fully Web 2.0 compliant designs with rounded corners, gradients and drop shadows fully in CSS in WebKit. If only everyone else (looks in Firefox and IE’s directions) would implement all these features as quickly as the WebKit folks are…
Visit ➔The MySpace Deal
Bob hits the nail on the head here – a year ago the MySpace music deal would have been interesting but in today’s market it’s quite pedestrian.
Visit ➔Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US
It’s pretty remarkable that a once ailing computer company can move into such an established market and completely dominate it so quickly.
Visit ➔Next to Last.fm
I’d love an interface for Last.fm that works for tracks I just ‘hear’ (not play) – using Twitter sounds like a good way of making it work.
Visit ➔Mail.appetizer
It’s finally available for Leopard – hooray! For those that don’t know it provides a little popup notification window when you get mail in Mail.app and is utterly indispensable (along with MailTags).
Visit ➔Japan: URL's Are Totally Out
File under ‘interesting cultural shift’. I’ve noticed the same thing a couple of times over here as well.
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