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30 Secret iPhone Features

Justin Giritlian - Monday, March 22, 2010


Found this awesome article pointing out over 30 secret iPhone features, hidden menu options, and shortcuts.  For example to activate Caps Lock, just double tap shift.



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Nike True City iPhone app Trailer

Justin Giritlian - Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Nike is preparing the launch a new iphone app that will revolutionize social media, geo-indexing, exercising, and shopping - do we see a little AR in there? We are very excited for the US launch of this which is still TBD but watch this video to get ready for it.

Nike True City Full Trailer - Official HD Version from NikeSportswear on Vimeo.

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Whose Excited for Tweetie 2... H2P is!!

Justin Giritlian - Wednesday, September 30, 2009

We love Twitter and we love our iPhones.  Finding the perfect twitter app can be a challenge however.  But have no fear, Tweetie 2, aka "BigBird" is just around the corner, and as TechCrunch says, it will dominate every twitter app on the market.

"There is absolutely no shortage of Twitter apps available for the iPhone. But in my mind (and the minds of many others) one stands above all the rest: Tweetie. And while the app has undergone several small tweaks since it was first released last year, a big time revamp is about to hit: Tweetie 2.

We’ve been testing out of the app for a few weeks now, and I’m happy to report that it’s the Tweetie you know and love, but better.

Maybe you’ve seen some tweets from users in recent weeks labeled as coming from “Bigbird”? Yeah, that’s Tweetie 2.0. Some may recall that this was also the code name for Tweetie for the Mac right before it launched. The reason for the nickname is that Tweetie 2 is built on top of the Project Bigbird core, which Atebitsdeveloper Loren Brichter first developed for Tweetie for Mac. This means an iPhone Tweetie that is “faster, slimmer, and much more powerful,” as Brichter puts it.

So what’s new? A lot. Here are the big ones.



Persistence — Tweetie now remembers the last thing you were browsing when you closed the app. This means if you were on a user’s Twitter profile, you will go back there when you open the app again.

New message indicators — When you have a new @reply or direct message, you will now see a glowing blue light below those sections to let you know.

Scroll up to reload — Rather than having a separate reload button, to reload your main tweet stream, you simply now scroll up, hold for a second, and Tweetie will check for new tweets.

More third-party service support — You can now use services such as Favstar.fm (which we’ve covered here), Tweet Blocker, and Follow Cost.

Live-filtering search — At the top of your tweet stream is a Search Timeline option from which you can search your stream. The best part about this is that it filters as you type. Very sexy. You can also search your mentions this way.

New tweet options — Bringing up the tweet box (the area where you write your tweets) if faster than ever. But there are also a range of new options if you hit the 140 character counter. You can now easily geotag tweets (presumably this will work with the Twitter Geolocation API when it goes live, but for now it inserts a Google Map link), search for hashtags to include, and even search the people you follow to find someone to @ reply to (this is very nice).

Draft manager — If you’re the kind of person who writes tweets to send at a later time, Tweetie 2 has a draft manager where you can save multiple drafts of tweets.

New tweet stream options — One of the nice features about Tweetie from the get go was that swiping a tweet to the right brought up a range of options for things you could do with that tweet. Tweetie 2 o offers even more of these including new ways to retweet, quote tweets, post a link to a tweet, mail tweets, and translate tweets. If there is a link in the tweet, you also have a bunch of options.

Notifications — Yes, you can now get Push Notifications for specific users’ tweets on your device. [Update: My bad, these are not Push Notifications, but rather a way to toggle on and off the SMS notifications that Twitter sends.]



Create iPhone contacts from Twitter profiles — Pretty self-explanatory, pretty awesome.

Saved searches — The searches you save on Twitter.com are now synced with Tweetie.

Landscape — The whole app now works in Landscape mode. Or you can disable that.

More threaded conversations — One of the really nice UI elements of Tweetie for Mac is that is allows you to easily see a threaded conversation view between people. You can now do this on Tweetie 2 as well simply by clicking on who a tweet is in reply to.

Video support — If you have an iPhone 3GS (Tweetie 2 requires iPhone 3.0 or above, but will work on older iPhones that that OS) you can also easily upload videos to Twitter via services such as yFrog.

Get It…Soon

So those are a lot of the big changes, but there are many more subtle ones as well. The main takeaway is that if you’re addicted to Tweetie 1, there isn’t anything in Tweetie 2 that you won’t like, and several things that are greatly improved. It’s simply a must-download.

So when will it be available? Brichter plans to submit to the App Store at some point this week, so you can look for it sometime in the next couple of weeks depending on the approval process. The app will be $2.99, just like the first version was. Sadly, this will not be a free upgrade for existing Tweetie for iPhone users, as Britcher considers this to be (and has made it) a completely new app. Still, it’s easily worth the price.

One more thing

Brichter has also revealed that he is working on Tweetie 2 for Mac, and that it should be available shortly. He doesn’t give away too many details, but there are features such as syncing between the iPhone and Mac version. That will be a free upgrade if you already have a license for Tweetie for the Mac."
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Deposit checks with iPhone

Justin Giritlian - Monday, August 10, 2009

As well as being able to scan your boarding pass and movie/concert tickets from your iPhone, the future is here to start depositing your checks as well. TUAW has the scoop: Earlier this summer I took a paperless vacation abroad, thanks to my iPhone and Evernote. I could have done a digital boarding pass for extra efficiency, but I was happy enough with my experience. The digital boarding pass is a matrix code sent to your phone or PDA via online check-in, saving time and benefiting the environment and those without a printer (also, printers just love to run out of ink at the most inopportune time). Continental, American and Northwest offer the digital boarding pass option (here's a good run-down on how they work).

Now, the privately-held USAA Bank intends to let customers deposit checks via a pending update to the bank's iPhone app. According to the New York Times, the feature will require customers to photograph both the back and front of the check with their iPhone's camera. From there, they simply send the images to the bank via the app and presto, the check is credited to that customer's account. They can then void and destroy the paper check; it's no longer needed.

Fraud is an obvious concern, but one of the bank's executive vice presidents, Wayne Peacock, says they've got the necessary security measures in place. Specifically, the service will be limited to customers who are both eligible for credit and insured by the bank. All told, about 60% of current customers meet the threshold for acceptance, according to Mr. Peacock. 

I think it's a fantastic experiment and look forward to seeing how it goes. This further confirms my conviction that the iPhone is an amazing portable computer that affects our lives in tremendous ways. Some may chose to ditch their iPhones, but mine isn't going anywhere.

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Some serious new iphone rumors!

John Holdridge - Sunday, March 22, 2009
Boy Genius Report has posted a new article today on some serious exciting new iPhone news! For the full report check out the link: new iphone article


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Play a game on the iphone with a facebook friend

John Holdridge - Monday, March 16, 2009
Here is a link to a very interesting article that showed up on TechCrunch today. Currently, SXSW is going on in Austin, Texas and many new updates with social network companies have surfaced from panels being hosted this week. Have a read and if you are looking to get a new RSS feed, the H2P Inc team suggests TechCrunch as a fantastic technology news based blog!

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