Apps you shouldn’t miss.Ģ010 has been a great year for the jailbreak and Cydia community. Welcome to MacStories’ 2010 Roundup! In this new series, we collect the best apps released in 2010 for the Mac, iPhone and iPad - apps we have probably already featured here on MacStories. Simple factor aside, Tap To Chat (developed by the same creator of Buddies) has a few tricks up its sleeve that make it the best implementation of Facebook chat I’ve seen on iOS devices. Tap To Chat is the simple Facebook chat app meant for those who just want chat to work without all the bells and whistles of Facebook. It’s called Tap To Chat, it’s universal for iPhone and iPad and it’s available at $0.99 in the App Store. Those “other things” is what I don’t need: I don’t need to jump to people’s profile while I’m chatting, I don’t need the grid interface, I just want to find my friends online and chat. What about the iPhone? The official Facebook app does chat, among other things. It’s not exactly reliable and full-featured (hello? easily file and photo sharing?) but as all my friends are on Facebook (and addicted to it) it’s the best way to get ahold of them. I don’t like Facebook Messages, I don’t want to get in touch with my friends on walls, I don’t get the new Groups functionality – thus, I use chat. I don’t use Facebook much, but when I do it’s for one thing: chat. But a question has arisen between me, my followers and co-workers lately: does simple mean casual?īetter: does simplicity represent a weak point of a certain product? Read more Just like I know millions of people see the iPad as a simple and enjoyable alternative to the most complicated notebook. I’m sure thousands of users think of Flipboard that way, and use it that way. Flipboard, like the iPad itself, can be seen as something simple, an app for non-geeks, for the non-tech savvy audience that wants an aggregator of social content. Flipboard is the iPad app of the year because, in my opinion, it perfectly sums up the essence of the iPad as a consumer electronic product: it’s an app everyone can use, it looks simple and straightforward on the surface but if you want – you can make it go deeper on many levels. Not because of the Apple commercials or the rave reviews it got on blogs and the App Store. To me, it’s an absolutely deserved position and I would have been surprised if Apple had chosen another app.īefore focusing on the new features and the interactions implemented in this update, I want to make my point clear: I do think that Flipboard is the iPad app of 2010, but not because of popularity, success or media coverage. In case you missed Apple’s 2010 roundup of the best apps from the App Store as well, Flipboard is now featured as the iPad App of 2010. Those two got a facelift, too, but Flipboard 1.1 is all about making the app the ultimate social magazine that can fetch articles and media from Google Reader and Flickr – something that loyal Flipboard users have been asking since the first version was released in July. The new version, which I guess you’ve been using extensively, adds support for more services than the initially implemented Facebook and Twitter. ![]() In case you missed it, Flipboard received a huge update last week. RetinaPad is available at $2.99 in the Cydia Store. ![]() I’ve been able to successfully run in the 2x mode Spotify, Voices 2, Calvetica – they all look great on the iPad now. If the iPhone app has been updated for the Retina Display, it most likely works with RetinaPad out of the box. ![]() Fire up the app, tap on 2x and you’ll notice that the iPad will display clean graphics without pixelation. Once installed, you’ll have to choose the iPhone apps that you’d like to run with the new 2x mode. RetinaPad, a new Cydia tweak by Ryan Petrich, fixes this problem, and it works great with basically any app or game that’s got Retina graphics. Even if you’ve installed on your iPad an app that’s got Retina Display-ready graphics on the iPhone, you’ll get the pixelated graphics. What is not great about iPhone compatibility mode is that, when an iPhone app is blown up to 2x mode, the graphics become fuzzy. The fact that the iPad App Store got to more than 40,000 apps in a few months is a different story. The iPad can run iPhone apps in compatibility mode, and we all know Apple implemented this feature to allow iPad owners to access a huge catalogue of apps on day one.
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