If you’re a Twitter addict and a long time iPhone user then you’ve probably heard of Loren Brichter. Loren was the developer of a popular iPhone app called Tweetie. Tweetie was renamed as ”
” after Twitter bought Brichter’s company – Atebits last year.
But after a brief stint at Twitter, Loren who was the lead developer of Twitter for iPhone and iPad is leaving the company.
Today was my last day at Twitter. Taking some time to figure out what’s (more…)

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A follow-up to 9to5Mac’s report on developer Steven Troughton-Smith’s porting of Siri to an iPhone 4 reveals that another developer, Ryan Petrich, has created a scenario for Siri to function on an iPhone 3GS, though performance is not very good.

Last week Siri was hacked to run on an iPhone 4 by jailbreaking an iPhone 4S to recover the files necessary to run Siri (more…)

comes with a vastly improved 8-megapixel camera that has received rave reviews.
Lisa Bettany, a developer of
, one of the most popular third-party camera apps has posted an article, which compares the camera quality across all generations of the iPhone .
The iPhone 4S is dramatically clearer and sharper than previous iPhone versions. Using separate focus and exposure in Camera+ on the iPhone 4 & 4S significantly helped create a more balanced (more…)

, whose code had been
and later pulled out, was apparently almost ready back in May this year. This piece of information comes from 
. Following Facebook’s decision to indefinitely hold the release of the now-fully-complete app, Verkoeyen decided to quit the company and join Google.
Verkoeyen was working on the app for eight months and had put in a lot of work into the app, sometimes even working 80 hours a week. This was to ensure that the (more…)

Almost every event Apple holds to preview its devices or software includes a section where the company calls up a third party developer to show something cool they had built either on the device or using the software.
had Skype and Pandora,
was launched had Zynga and Activision.
, and he gives us some interesting details of how 
 ensured that its device remained under wraps from the outside world.
His identity hasn’t been revealed for (more…)

and instead requesting developers a unique identifier specific for their app.
release notes that was seeded to developers yesterday.
Deprecated in iOS 5.0
An alphanumeric string unique to each device based on various hardware details. (read-only) (Deprecated in iOS 5.0. Instead, create a unique identifier specific to your app.)
This is a big deal, especially for any mobile ad networks, game networks or any app which relies on the UDID to identify (more…)

Last week, Peter Hajas – developer of
.
This had led to speculations that Peter was joining Apple to work on iOS Push Notifications, which has been maligned for being intrusive and modal.
Last week, Peter had this to say in his blog post:
I can’t say why, but it’s worth it. Trust me. If you look around hard enough, you’ll probably figure it out.
I hope you guys understand, and I look forward to bringing you more awesome, great, (more…)

, Apple launched new MacBook Pros earlier today with Sandy Bridge Quad core processors with Intel’s Turbo Boost 2.0, a hybrid Thunderbolt/mini Display port, FaceTime camera and more.
today, which was first demoed last October.
like multitouch gestures,
, App home screens with
, full screen apps, auto save, apps resume when launched.
The first developer preview version also includes some new features such as a new version of Mail, Versions, (more…)

.
While Apple ’s iOS is the best mobile operating system, its pop up notification system has been much maligned for being intrusive and modal, iOS competitors on the other hand have been doing a good job on this front of late. HP’s webOS for example has a banner notification system that has been widely acclaimed.
of the new webOS powered devices earlier this week, HP showcased even more improvements to an already good notification mechanism.
(more…)

Attention all Line2 iPhone , iPod Touch, and iPad users:
Please do not upgrade to iOS version 4.2.
If you upgrade to iOS 4.2 and you are running Line2 in the background, the ringer will continue to ring even after an incoming call is answered. This affects Line2 as well as all other VoIP and social calling apps. (Note: If you do not use Line2 your Toktumi service will not be effected.)
Apple Developer Support is aware of this issue and has designated (more…)