The recent Google+ iOS update that saw the company pushing out sweeping UI and design changes, not to mention a handful of new features, has finally hit Google’s own in-house OS. Google+ v2.6 for Android brings a brand new, photo-centric UI as well as redesigned +1 buttons in an effort to make the app easier to use/share content, and of course to simply look nicer. Under the hood, Google has brought several new features to the table including: improvements to video...
Remember that awesome Unfold iOS lockscreen tweak we showed you just last week? Well, the jailbreak community (specifically, German developer Jonas Gessner) apparently loved the concept too as they’ve already whipped something up and shot it onto the Cydia App Store. As the concept depicted, the tweak itself is pretty basic; you unlock your screen by sliding across as normal. Though, instead the usual sliding button at the bottom, the screen folds in on itself into a...
The outstanding Sparrow Mail app for iOS has officially hit version 1.2 in the App Store and brings with it four awesome new features. Message Navigation: Navigate all messages via up/down swiping. A special indicator will display showing the difference between replies within a thread/conversation and entirely new emails. Landscape Composing: Self explanatory – landscape keyboard/compose window now enabled. Create/Edit Folders: Now Sparrow for iPhone users can...
Apple’s attempts to expunge as much Google-based products and services as possible took a larger turn back when iPhoto for iOS back in early March. It was then that Apple officially dumped Google Maps mapping data for location based picture information, and in its place using OpenStreetMap’s data. While the open source nature of OpenStreetMap makes it free to use, Apple had thus far failed to give any credit to the company or the many people that provide mapping...
Our current Twitter client of choice, Tweetbot, received a rather stout 2.3 update today, bringing with it a packed back full of UI tweaks, new integration options and new gestures. The biggest and most notable visual change now occurs on the single tweet view. Now as soon as you enter a single tweet you are presented with monochrome-ish icons for replying, RT’ing, etc. From the single-tweet view above you can now also swipe left-to-right to get back to the main...
