TweetDeck

My rundown of the best apps to use with multiple social networks. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably attached at the hip to your social networks. However, I know I’m not the only one who has many that I’ve abandoned simply out of frustration of having to constantly check and update different pages or apps for each one. With this in mind I’ve put together a Favorite Four that the update-aholics can appreciate. Here are a few of my favorite iPhone apps to update multiple sites at once. Tweetdeck I put this one here first not because it’s necessarily the best, but it is definitely one of the more well-known. Tweetdeck is what I personally use most often since I’ve cut down my addiction to just the essentials, Twitter and Facebook, which is exactly just what Tweetdeck works with. It’s a great app for both reading and updating. While it hasn’t been updated in many months, it is still very useful and you can’t argue with free! FREE! Released: 2009-06-16 :: Category: Social Networking Sociable The definition of simplicity. A newer app that simply allows you to post to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and/or Myspace. While as of now there isn’t the option to post photos with your status messages, it’s one of the most cleanly designed apps I’ve seen that handles multiple accounts. For the newer user this is a fantastic place to start and hopefully in future updates they’ll add more features without cluttering it up. $0.99 iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: 2011-01-10 :: Category: Social Networking Pingle If you looking for the simplicity offered with something like Sociable, but you’re looking to update up to 40 Social Networking sites at once, you’ll want to get your hands on Pingle. It uses your ping.fm account (which you do have to set up separately on the site) to post to all of your subscribed networks. Unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in over a year, and probably won’t work with some of the newer iOS functions like multitasking. Still one of the best (and only) Ping.fm apps available. $1.99 iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: 2009-02-16 :: Category: Social Networking Pixelpipe I should start by saying this is probably for Advanced Users Only, not a beginners app. Like ping.fm Pixelpipe offers uploading to 75 Social Networking and Blogging Read More

Brian Brushwood is a magician (he doesn't pull rabbits out of hats -- he's a "bizarre" magician more likely to pull a card out of his abdomen or eat fire) and host of Scam School and NSFW. We caught up with Brian at CES in January, and he told us his top 3 apps. Brian's apps are: Read More

(image source: Apple, Inc) With the release of the iPad 2, there has been a lot of commentary on the overall usefulness of the iPad. Even amongst the iSource staff, there is some debate as to whether or not the iPad is a truly useful device, or merely an expensive toy. Here’s my take. When the iPad was announced a year ago, I had no plans at all to buy it. Like many others, I concluded that it was little more than a large iPod Touch; and I simply didn’t see a need for one, especially considering that I had a perfectly usable iPhone. When my friend Mike got one, I played around with it a bit; but ultimately, I came to the same conclusion – a big iPod. Much later, when I started traveling for work again, I finally realized how useful the iPad could be and decided to take the plunge. Several months later, I am a happy iPad user who is thinking of upgrading to an iPad 2. So why is the iPad a tool and not a toy for me? In truth, it’s both. Here’s what the iPad means to me. GoodReader. It all starts here. This uber-reader application holds all of my professional and volunteer work documents for instant recall and review. This includes product manuals, customer notes, even expense reports. GoodReader can sync with Dropbox and several other cloud services, meaning that as soon as I drop a file into Dropbox on my laptop, it can be accessible on my iPad. With Office2 HD, I can edit spreadsheets or documents – and since it also integrates with DropBox, anything I create on the iPad can be instantly available on the laptop as well. Everything can be emailed or made available locally via a built-in Wifi server. If the accounting folks lose the receipts that I send with my expense report, I can pull up a scanned PDF of them and email it immediately. Same for the customer who needs product documentation or the design documentation I wrote last week. The WebEx app allows me to attend or host meetings without having to fire up my laptop. This allows me to participate in an online meeting from pretty much anywhere, even in places I ordinarily wouldn’t relish dragging my laptop to, like a restaurant. Simplenote allows me to take quick notes (that sync to the cloud Read More

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. The statistics indicate that small businesses with corporate blogs receive 55% more web traffic than small businesses that don’t blog. That’s why it is so important for companies to explore the possibility of adding blogs to their marketing and social strategies. Blogging isn’t just writing posts. You have to choose images for your posts, monitor your blogging platform and analytics, market your blog and constantly think about new post ideas. To keep your blogging activities flexible, there are several iPhone apps that you can use. This allows you to keep up with your blog no matter where you are. These 16 apps will help you do just that. Add your favorite apps for blogging in the comments below. BlogPress ($2.99) provides complete mobile blogging, including text, images and video. It supports multiple platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, TypePad and many more. If you don’t need to have multiple platforms at your disposal, there are some apps for specific blogging platforms available. And many are free. WordPress for iOS (free) allows you to moderate comments, create or edit posts and add images or videos. You can use this app with both a WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress.org site. And if you have a Squarespace site, there’s an iPhone app (free) to create and manage your Squarespace site entirely from your iPhone. It also offers “seamless importing” from WordPress, Blogger, TypePad or Movable Type sites. Strong images or videos increase reader interest and engagement, so they’re an important part of every blog post. And there are several apps that can help you find, format and insert them on the go. Photobucket Mobile (free) allows you to upload photos and videos to your blog, Facebook or Twitter. The app also provides access to a searchable media library, with uploading capability and album management. Adobe Photoshop Express (free) provides one-finger photo editing. You can crop, adjust, filter and add effects or borders on the go. CellSpin ($1.99) offers the ability to capture video, photo, audio or text and upload it simultaneously on all of your social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc. This could be an easy way to send out photos of the team at a company event to your entire network (at one time!). Once you have your Read More

Bevor Verwirrung aufkommt: Das hier eingebettete Bewegtbild entstand nicht mit der ‘TiltShift Video’-Software (1.59 €; App Store-Link), die im Folgenden Erwähnung finden soll. Der Effekt fällt jedoch ähnlich ‘miniaturisiert’ aus. Außerdem entstammen a) die Aufnahmen meiner Heimatstadt Bremen und b) ebenfalls einer iPhone-Kamera. ‘TiltShift Video’ ist ein erster, noch nicht fehlerfreier Angriff, um dem von Fotos bekannten Effekt, auch auf bewegtes Film-Material anzuwenden. Ausprobieren schadet nicht. Sein Entwickler Fidel Lainez hat uns zusätzlich mit vier US-Promocodes ausgestattet, die ich gerne gegen einen Kommentar an euch weiterreiche. TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth sieht für sein Programm die Markt-Zersplitterung durch unterschiedliche Hardware-Geräte mit verschiedenen Google Betriebssystem-Versionen als kein Problem an. Das mag für eine Anwendung mit plattformübergreifendem Adobe-Air-Hintergrund jedoch auch nicht ungewöhnlich sein… 60 percent of Apple’s sales are from products that did not exist three years ago Party-Keller sind auch nicht mehr so angesagt wie in den 80ern… Der iOS-Jailbreak ‘greenpois0n‘ ist mittlerweile in Revision 4 auch als Mac- und Linux-Download verfügbar und ‘knackt’ obendrein das iPod-touch-Modell der zweiten Generation. Angeblich griff George Hotz, der ‘greenpois0n’ mit seiner ‘limera1n’-Veröffentlichung zuvorkam, auf Comex‘ ‘Untethered’-Heck zurück, um einen (weiteren) eigenen iBoot-Level-Exploit für zukünftige Geräte in der Hinterhand zu behalten. Nerdkultur in freier Wildbahn. Read More

With the undeniable popularity and success of the iPhone 4 (despite the antenna debacle), iPad, and ever-increasing Mac sales, Apple is gaining customers faster than ever. If you're thinking about making the switch, this could be your perfect setup. Component one: iPhone 4 Now in its fourth iteration, Apple's iPhone has forever changed the mobile phone landscape by thrusting touch-screen technology to the tips of every tech geek's tongue and every consumer's wish list. Despite its early and somewhat overblown issues, iPhone 4 has had record-setting sales. With the exception of the complaints from a vocal minority regarding its antenna, critics love the iPhone 4. Think of iPhone 4 as your mobile communications component in this setup. With it, you can send text messages; make calls; send e-mail, instant messages, and tweets; update Facebook; and check in with Foursquare. Of course, you can play games and download other apps to the iPhone, but component two in this setup may be your best bet for that part of your Apple experience. Component two: iPad What many bloggers called "just a big iPod Touch," the iPad has turned out to be so much more. Apple's self-described magical touch-screen tablet device is not just a gadget for geeks. It is a major turning point in the direction of personal, consumer computing--and its sales numbers back it up. The iPad is the perfect mobile media consumption and (perhaps surprisingly to some) productivity device. Out of the box, the iPad is an amazing way to watch movies, listen to music, and surf the Web. By adding a few choice apps, such as Apple's own Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, you can make the iPad an incredibly effective way to get work done on the go. If you're not ready to buckle down to finish those projects, playing games on iPad is the perfect way to procrastinate and have a ton of fun. Component three: iMac The first two components in our setup take care of all your mobile habits, and perhaps give you a few more. But now you need something to tie it all together in a nice, neat Apple-shaped bow. The new iMac makes a perfect home base for your Apple lifestyle. Apple's newly updated all-in-one desktop is the perfect machine to be your home base. You can get a 27-inch iMac with a quad-core Intel Core i7 2.93GHz processor and up to 16GB of Read More

When it’s not displaying the Fail Whale, Twitter is a pretty useful service for keeping up with family and friends. The first app I install on every mobile device is a Twitter app of one flavor or another, since having a good app can make all the difference to getting the most benefit out of Twitter. Fortunately, there are plenty to choose from. The iPad screen is particularly good at working with the social network, due to its larger size. I admit I have a weakness for Twitter apps, and I’ve tried so many I have lost count. Here are my current top five Twitter apps for the iPad. If you have a favorite share it in the comments. . This is my “go-to” Twitter app on the iPad. I use it in either portrait or landscape as it displays well in either orientation. Working with multiple Twitter accounts is easy (on the Pro version) and the app handles all standard Twitter functions. It is not as configurable as other apps, but it works very well. Users of the paid version can also install the iPhone version on that phone for free. Free and Pro ($4.99). . My favorite Twitter app for the desktop is Tweetdeck, as I find the multiple column display presents a lot of information at a glance. The iPad version is very similar, although it displays very differently. In portrait display, the top third of the screen is wasted until you tap on a tweet. That opens up the details window, which lets you do all the normal things to a tweet that you expect. Tilting the display to landscape shows the power of Tweetdeck, as it mimics the desktop version by putting a lot of information at your fingertips. Updates can be slow because of all the information in the multiple columns. Free. . Osfoora (strange name) can do virtually everything with Twitter you’d ever want to do, and has a configurable display. The display reminds me somewhat of Tweetdeck, so I’m not sure I like the wasted screen space. It’s a solid performer, and many iPad owners swear by this app, so it makes the cut. $3.99. . This app is one of the most attractive Twitter clients you’ll see. Twittelator looks good, but the layout can be confusing at times, because the timeline is rather small while the individual tweet window is huge in Read More

When it’s not displaying the Fail Whale, Twitter is a pretty useful service for keeping up with family and friends. The first app I install on every mobile device is a Twitter app of one flavor or another, since having a good app can make all the difference to getting the most benefit out of Twitter. Fortunately, there are plenty to choose from. The iPad screen is particularly good at working with the social network, due to its larger size. I admit I have a weakness for Twitter apps, and I’ve tried so many I have lost count. Here are my current top five Twitter apps for the iPad. If you have a favorite share it in the comments. . This is my “go-to” Twitter app on the iPad. I use it in either portrait or landscape as it displays well in either orientation. Working with multiple Twitter accounts is easy (on the Pro version) and the app handles all standard Twitter functions. It is not as configurable as other apps, but it works very well. Users of the paid version can also install the iPhone version on that phone for free. Free and Pro ($4.99). . My favorite Twitter app for the desktop is Tweetdeck, as I find the multiple column display presents a lot of information at a glance. The iPad version is very similar, although it displays very differently. In portrait display, the top third of the screen is wasted until you tap on a tweet. That opens up the details window, which lets you do all the normal things to a tweet that you expect. Tilting the display to landscape shows the power of Tweetdeck, as it mimics the desktop version by putting a lot of information at your fingertips. Updates can be slow because of all the information in the multiple columns. Free. . Osfoora (strange name) can do virtually everything with Twitter you’d ever want to do, and has a configurable display. The display reminds me somewhat of Tweetdeck, so I’m not sure I like the wasted screen space. It’s a solid performer, and many iPad owners swear by this app, so it makes the cut. $3.99. . This app is one of the most attractive Twitter clients you’ll see. Twittelator looks good, but the layout can be confusing at times, because the timeline is rather small while the individual tweet window is huge in Read More

There you go, Apple has officially launched the iPad in 9 new countries today. Well, the iPad actually didn’t wait on Apple to go around the world, and one in four iPads bought in the US has already flown the country by now. Also, an important amount of pre-orders has already been delivered early throughout the week, so the launch is not really that much of a massive event. Anyway, for our international readers who just got their iPad, here is some help for you. Short after unpacking and starting the device, you’re going to feel like you don’t know what to do with it. This feeling is not going to leave right away as it takes a couple days to get used to this new toy. What you’re going to need are apps, and that’s where the fun starts: I would tell you to start with some free apps, so you get the hang of it. Unfortunately, there aren’t many good ones. Well, there is iBooks of course, Tweetdeck for Twitter and Dropbox for your files or even Epicurious for your recipes. The rest of the free apps you might be interested in will be local apps that provide news and different other kinds of free content. Be aware that the very popular video streaming apps from the US like Netflix or ABC won’t work overseas. At that point you’re going to think wait, what about all these iPhone apps I’ve spending all my cash on for years? Well, they’re not for your iPad. You can run them on it, but you’re going to be disappointed with the quality. That is unless you jailbreak (here is how), and install FullForce using Cydia (Here is how to use Cydia). That’s an important point, while jailbreaking on the iPhone is not essential, it clearly is on the iPad. FullForce will allow you to run iPhone apps on your iPad in fullscreen without quality depreciation. It’s not compatible with every single app (no games), but it’s a great improvement already. Alright, so now that you’ve spent a fortune on your iPad, let’s get some paid apps for it. That’s where it’s going to get tough because good iPad apps are not cheap. First there is the iWork suite, it’s beautiful, works great and your friends will love it. On the other hand, that’s its only use as I haven’t found myself using it even once so Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, May 20, 2010 | So you have an iPhone and you use Twitter, but with the plethora of Twitter applications available in the App Store (including one that just went official), which do you chose? TiPb is here to help with a Twitter app roundup! Now this is not your typical top 5 or top 10 must-have, best Twitter app list. This is about options and alternatives, and Ally, Leanna, and guest writer Alli Flowers have chosen the following 12 to review and help narrow your search: To see what we had to say, follow us after the break! Previously known as Tweetie, Twitter for iPhone [Free - iTunes link] is the official Twitter application from Twitter. It is full featured and easy to use. Swiping a tweet will get you reply options, and tapping the tweet will allow you to view attached photos or url’s. The swipe to reply seems so natural, and it’s uncluttered. Likewise with Tweetie’s settings – you know exactly what you’re looking at and what will happen if you turn something OFF or ON. — Alli If you’re looking for a Twitter client with fast and reliable push, Twitbit [$2.99 - iTunes link] is the app for you. However, an excellent push notification system isn’t the only thing appealing about Twitbit. The UI is very clean and clutter free. On the bottom toolbar, you will find tabs for your timeline, mentions, messages, lists, and more. Twitbit comes with 4 themes: Gradients, Dark, Plain, and Chat. The two main complaints about Twitbit is the lack of “quick reply” from the timeline and no option to “reply all”. The most impressive feature is how quickly notifications are pushed to your iPhone. Notifications are received within seconds of them being sent. The developers of Twitbit regularly release updates and do an excellent job of replying to users and adding requested features. — Leanna Tweeterena currently comes in 3 flavors; Tweeterena Lite [Free - iTunes link], Tweeterena [$0.99 - iTunes link], and Tweeterena Pro [$3.99 - iTunes link]. The free version is ad-supported while the $0.99 version is sans ads. Tweeterena Pro will get you the following features, which the cheaper versions leave out: I spent most of my time with the Pro version. As far as I’m concerned, Tweeterena (Pro version or not) has little improvement since I last evaluated it. In terms of functionality, Read More