Not long after Google announced that they were shutting down Reader, social web veteran Digg announced that they would be building a replacement. Details have been scant since then, but their latest status update shows us a glimpse of the Digg Reader client for iOS and web. Priorities have been placed on speed, functionality, simplicity, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UI’
Hall of fame: Loren Brichter and Tweetie
Posted by ryan on June 5th, 2013
Tweetie for iPhone launched in 2008 and from the very beginning was described as the Twitter app Apple themselves would have made. While that was certainly meant to compliment Tweetie’s native look and feel, and its incredible performance, it falls short of capturing the skill and vision of Loren Brichter, the man behind the app. [...]
Flickr gets overhauled with a new UI and 1TB free storage. For everyone!
Posted by ryan on May 21st, 2013
Yahoo! sure has been busy, as the very same day as they announced their acquisition of Tumblr, Flickr got a major overhaul at a press event in New York City. The headlines; a brand new and much better looking UI and 1TB of storage. For free. For everyone. That’s right, 1TB. Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer [...]
eBay app for iPhone gets a visual overhaul and license scanning for quick registration
Posted by ryan on May 17th, 2013
The official eBay app for iPhone just got a nice update that brings a UI refresh to the online auction service. The bump up to version 3.0 adds a general refresh to most areas of the app, and improves photos in listings making them now much larger and better looking. Photos also now look larger [...]
Spark Inspector review: Audacious real-time debugging for iOS that might just be too audacious
Posted by ryan on May 9th, 2013
Spark Inspector, by Foundry376 and J. Benjamin Gotow, brings a new approach to debugging, offering developers the ability to view their apps in an exploded 3D model, as well as change characteristics of elements on the fly, without the need to recompile. Often times apps appear to be relatively flat, two-dimensional beings. After all, they [...]
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Tags: Bad Data, Disable Bounds Clipping, Spark Inspector, UI 
Comments OffWrite for Dropbox goes free on iPhone to celebrate launch of iPad edition
Posted by ryan on May 8th, 2013
Write for Dropbox is a pretty fantastic text editor for the iPhone. When we first reviewed it, we loved the UI, the gesture control, the vast sharing options and fast syncing. What we weren’t so fond of was the lack of iPad support, as an app as good as Write is crying out to be [...]
Debug 14: Ben Lachman and Robert Cantoni have a Nice Mohawk
Posted by ryan on May 4th, 2013
Ben Lachman and Robert Cantoni join Guy and Rene to talk about their list manager app, Ita, and the possibilities of it coming to the Mac, blogging as a duet, the importance of accessibility, and how to have a really Nice Mohawk. type=”audio/mpeg”> Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in RSS Download Directly Show notes SousChef for [...]
Acorn image editor gets UI overhaul, non-destructive filters
Posted by ryan on May 2nd, 2013
Flying Meat Software (a.k.a. Gus Mueller) has released Acorn 4, the latest major update to its image editing software for OS X. Acorn 4 sports a new user interface, support for non-destructive filters, dramatically improved vector tools and enhancements to performance, among many other changes. Acorn 4 is aimed at Mac users who need to [...]
Tuber+ for iPhone and iPad review: YouTube the way it should be
Posted by ryan on April 19th, 2013
If you watch a lot of YouTube videos on your iPhone or iPad, you’ve probably already found that there aren’t a lot of options if you don’t fancy the official YouTube app. I’ve always felt it wasn’t very full featured and by a happy mistake, stumbled across Tuber+ for iPhone and iPad last week. Not [...]
Mailbox for iPhone updated with smarter snooze options, faster swiping options, and more
Posted by ryan on April 16th, 2013
Mailbox for iPhone just received an update that adds smarter snooze controls, faster swiping, and general UI improvements throughout Mailbox that should make the interface more fluid. Smarter snooze controls within Mailbox are now available via the Settings panel of the app and allow you to adjust time and date settings for alarms tailored to [...]
