Get Access to Those Super Secret Twitter for Mac Preferences
Tweaky is a GUI utility app for adjusting the super secret defaults preferences that are there in Twiter for Mac (Tweetie 2) but are only visible to those who bought that MacHeist bundle a while back.
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The Story So Far
For this week’s iDevBlogADay post, I’m going to take a detailed look at the history of Trainyard, from its humble beginnings to its current position high up the App Store charts. Yes, there will be sales data. This’ll be a long one, so settle down and enjoy 
$100K in 4 months: A niche app’s path to App Store success
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Inspirations and aspirations
First off, I want to thank the fine folks at TapTapTap for publishing their numbers on their blog for all to see. A hearty congrats to them on their continued success!
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Hyper
So, Google released App Inventor, and my first instinct is that I hate the apps it will create with every fiber of my being. People will start putting together components in ways that they don’t understand, and the tool is either too powerful to use simply or too simple to be powerful. The apps will not be designed to handle failure, the apps will not have those cute features that turn out indispensable and I’ll be damned if they’re going to feel intuitive to use.
The Good, the Bad, and Ugly, of iPad app user interfaces
It’s been three months since the iPad App Store launched, so I think it’s relatively safe to judge apps for what they are. Granted, the iPad as a platform will continue to be ‘new’ for a long time to come, but it’s time to take a look at the good, and the bad, that has shown up on my iPad.
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Ashes — Make your iPad burn with Fever°
Fever is well regarded as the best way to manage RSS, allowing you to sift through stories instead of individual articles on individual sites. However, it’s crutch was that it didn’t have a native iPhone or iPad client, forcing many to use Google Reader with a client like Reeder. I think Fever° has achieved that user base that has prompted the creation of its first third party native iPad app — Ashes.
Mobile apps & the missing links
There are advantages of developing mobile apps (and app stores): user experience, distribution and monetization opportunities.
However mobile apps don’t work like the mobile web in some pretty important ways.
For starters, developers must develop for each specific platform – iPhone, Android and Blackberry. That’s very different than developing for the open web and at a high level feels like a big step backwards.
Panic’s Pixel Perfection
A few months ago, a very special email dropped into my Inbox. “Dear Mayor McPreshit,”, it greeted me. I was one of the very few lucky recipients of that email, one of the very few who were selected to test drive an update to the internet’s oldest known, possibly the most beautiful Truck. Originally known as Transit, the gorgeous and powerful Truck went through hundreds of bug fixes and enhancements and was finally unveiled to the public on April 27th, 2010.