ChillTwit, a twitter application that allows you to customize your bubble colors, and background image, is free for a limited time.

Many of you may have hear about ChillTwit and it’s claim to be the “ONLY Twitter app that allows customization of your bubble colors, and background image!” I’m not sure it is an application I would pay for but, now that it’s free you could check it out.

FEATURES:
- View Timeline of the users you are following!
- View messages, and replies
- View links in ‘Inline Browser’
- Post tweets from iPhone or iPod Touch
- Post images to Twitter w/ camera or via/ Photos using Twitpic!
- Reply to any tweet or message!
- Background customization to any photo!
- Bubble color customization from 9 colors to choose from!
- Retweet a Twitter message
- Ad- Free
- Easy Twitter Account Setup
- Smooth scrolling of Tweets

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fring, a “mobile social hub. Talk, chat & tweet on fring and other favorite social services including Skype®, MSN® Messenger, GoogleTalk™, Twitter, Yahoo! ™, AIM®, ICQ, all through one central profile,” has been updated in the App Store to version 2.0.0.4. The new version adds a few new features including the implementation of the copy/paste and linking capabilities right in your chat. Below is more info about the update and a video demo.

fring has just released a slick, brand- new version (2.0.0.4) with lots of new features available, including a new look, more integration between social networks, improved voice and much more.

The new version includes a new user profile, which allows you to update your fring nickname, avatar and mood text, and broadcast it back to your IM friends. You can also see your friends’ avatars and mood texts from other networks – currently on Skype, others coming soon.

You can also now use SkypeOut & SIP to call your friends directly from the fring address book with a much clearer line thanks to our voice team’s big effort to improve voice quality.

If that’s not enough we added copy/paste & linking capabilities to save you time while chatting away with your friends and speakerphone support for all voice calls.

German users can also now enjoy fring on iPhone/ iPod touch in their native language.

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IM+ Push, a highly extensive Instant Messenger application, is currently on sale for $4.99. The app normally retails for $9.99. If you have been holding off, you might want to check it out now.

“Twitter, Skype Chat, Facebook, Google Talk and Yahoo and MSN and AOL and ICQ and MySpace and Jabber and Geo-location and send Photo, Voice and Location and and and – the full list is endless, pls see below. ”

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App Store Description:

Wow! Really all-in-one!
No cost per message! Send photo, voice and text for free and save on MMS and SMS!

Twitter, Skype Chat, Facebook, Google Talk and Yahoo and MSN and AOL and ICQ and MySpace and Jabber and Geo-location and send Photo, Voice and Location and and and – the full list is endless, pls see below.

Version 3.4 is in Apple Review with new features:
- Speech recognition as an in-app purchase feature.
- Animated Emoticons. You’ll LOVE them for sure like we do.
- Copy text from chat bubbles.

Well, there are some knock-offs in the app store, but:
• IM+ is the only original multi-IM, being bestseller for all smartphones since 2002!

• IM+ has the most services including Twitter and Skype chat and Push notifications for all the services.

• IM+ enables multi-tasking with a built-in browser. IM+ Browser uses the same filtering as Safari on your phone.

• Send photo, voice and IM for free, save on MMS and SMS! No cost per message! IM+ uses your existing data plan or Wi-Fi connection.

• You can use Geo-location as a dynamic status message to let your friends easily find you on a map.

With IM+ you can be sure that new and revolutionary features will arrive every month.

FEATURES:
- The widest support of IM networks including Twitter and Skype chat
- Apple Push notifications for all supported networks. Stay online even when IM+ is closed
- Twitter: View friends’ timeline, favorites, direct messages and replies
- Send voice messages as MP3 files – yes, playable back on any Mac, PC or mobile
- Send photos
- Send video on iPhone 3G S
- Send Geo-location
- Use custom status messages including Geo-status
- Use cool wallpapers from your Photo library or from IM+ in your chat windows
- Full emoticons support
- Avatar support
- Embedded browser
- Multi-lingual support. Chat in any language supported by your iPhone/iPod Touch
- Landscape mode convenient typing

With IM+ you get premium support and great server infrastructure.

Buy the original!

Follow IM+ (@implus) on Twitter to get our latest news and updates!
Visit www.shapeservices.com for more details.

TRADEMARKS:
IM+® is a registered trademark of SHAPE Services GmbH.
AIM®, ICQ® are registered trademarks owned by AOL LLC.
Yahoo!® is a registered trademark of Yahoo Inc.
MSN®, Windows Live™ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Jabber® is a registered trademark of Jabber Inc.
Google™ Talk is a trademark of Google Inc.
MySpace.com™ is a trademark of MySpace Inc.
Facebook® is a trademark of Facebook, Inc.
Skype™ is a trademark of Skype Technologies S.A.

See also IM+ for Skype, RDM+ Remote Desktop, Mobiscope, VR+ Voice for Facebook and Twitter, GPSed

What’s new

- New Inbox view, now with message preview
- New bubbles in chat dialogs
- Sending video on iPhone 3G S
- Twitter: On/Off Push for Friends Timeline
- Twitter: link shrinking
- Twitter: Retweet
- Yahoo Japan support

atebits has announced lots of info about the soon to be released Tweetie 2. This will be a free upgrade for the Mac version but for the iPhone, you will need to buy it as a seprate app at $2.99. The original Tweetie is really nice but I’m kinda torn on the idea of making the app cost $2.99 again. As much as I use it, and as many upgrades that there are, I personally think it’s worth it. I have multiple Twitter accounts (in the double digits) and love all the current features. For light to normal users, I could see people being upset for having to pay all over again for the app. Wait until you see these screenshots and list of updates and then you might be willing to pay Also note, the developer has “dropped everything and devoted every working minute since to Tweetie.”

- Buy as new app for $2.99
- push notifications per user
- faster, slimmer, and much more powerful
- will be submitted to Apple this week and from there… well, you know the drill.
- built from the ground up
- takes advantage of iPhone OS 3.0, 3GS, and new Twitter APIs
- OS 3.0+ only
- video recording (of course you can video tweet)
- UISearchDisplayController so you live-filter your tweet stream, just like Mail
- not just caching tweets for offline reading, but remembering where you are in the app
- offline mode allows you to favorite, follow, block, add to Instapaper and more all while offline, syncs when reconnected (great for the iPod touch)
- drafts manager for tweets and DMs
- link up Twitter users to contacts in your iPhone Address Book
- Threaded conversations
- tab bar notifications
- “Nearby” revamped to take advantage of MapKit
- supports the new geotagging metadata coming soon from Twitter
- Saved searches now sync with Twitter.com and the upcoming Tweetie 2 for Mac
- interacts with Favstar.fm, Tweet Blocker, and Follow cost
- @people picker
- recent hashtags
- multiple attachments manager
- “peek” gesture when replying to a tweet
- full landscape support (configurable, of course)
- edit your Twitter profile
- custom API roots on a per-account basis
- vastly improved gesture shortcuts
- in-app rich-text email
- new-style retweet support
- refresh-all on launch
- TextExpander
- Read it Later integration (in addition to Instapaper)
- autocomplete recent searches
- autocomplete go-to-user
- improved avatar caching
- inline Twitlonger
- reply chain list view
- preview short urls
- tweet translation
- block+follow from multiple accounts at once

Read the full blog post from the developer.

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Many of you are probably familiar with qTweeter, a very unique twitter and facebook client. We have been doing reviews of qTweeter for quite a while now. Well, it seems that the app has now been released in the App Store under the title qStatus… and still contains many of the same features.

I received an email from the developers that saying that jailbroke version of qTweeter will need some updating in order to function with the 3.1 firmware… which may take some time. However, qStatus it is now available in the App Store. Obviously, you can not slide from the statusbar to launch qStatus but, the app does still contain the features listed below (which some of the features are actually pretty cool… I’ve always liked this application).

-TwitPic Support
-TwitVid Support
-Tweet Shrink
-Tweet long
-Tweet your currently playing music
-Dedicate the current song your playing to your friends
-Customizeable background
-Twitter update sound
-Preview of the image you are uploading
-Post to Facebook and/or Twitter

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App Store Description:

qStatus is the fastest, coolest and most efficient way to update your Twitter and Facebook Status. Below are some of the features:

-TwitPic Support
-TwitVid Support
-Tweet Shrink
-Tweet long
-Tweet your currently playing music
-Dedicate the current song your playing to your friends
-Customizeable background
-Twitter update sound

The beauty of qStatus is its Speed, Efficiency and Flexibility. Once you launch, you can immediately start tweeting and status updating. There is no waiting for tweets to load or buttons to press. It is just straight to the point without having to deal with the distractions of reading other peoples tweets. Once done writing, you can instantaneously post it to Facebook and Twitter or either one.

Music Tweeting is a great way to further express yourself on Twitter and Facebook. So when you are feeling a certain song, posting this to your status is just a few touches away. With qStatus, your Twitter followers and Facebook friends will be able to preview the song and purchase it. How cool is that!!

Another great thing about qStatus is that you are not restricted to 140 characters. There are a few times when you cannot fully express yourself in 140 characters. With our Tweet Long feature, you can fully express yourself and get your message across.

Best of all, qStatus supports TwitPic and TwitVid so you can upload pictures and videos. Unlike other Twitter apps, qStatus does picture uploading in a super cool way with a scaled full preview of your picture. To make uploading pictures faster, we have also put a camera button right in the interface so you can immediately take pictures.

All this great functionality is wrapped in an amazingly cool interface which allows you to put your own custom background.

Finally!!! The update has been released to the Facebook app for the iPhone. If you can’t get it to show up in the updates, just uninstall it by holding your finger on the icon until it wiggles and then tap x. Just reinstall now via iTunes on your iPhone. Here are some great new features:

- See your upcoming Events and RSVP
- See your friends’ birthdays
- See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer
- Write Notes and read your friends’ Notes
- Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS
- Upload photos to any album
- Complete photo management (create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)
- Change your Profile Picture
- Zoom into photos
- Like posts and photos
- See the same News Feed as the Facebook website
- Visit links in a built-in web browser
- See all of your friends’ friends and Pages
- See mutual friends
- Easily search for people and Pages
- Make friend requests
- Become a fan of Pages
- Quickly call or text your friends
- Create shortcuts to your favorite friends and Pages
- Friends sorted by first or last name according to your settings
- Chat friends sorted alphabetically

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Readdle has announces the release of AniGif, an application that allows you to create animated images from your photos and send them via email or post them to Twitter.

The application works by creating an animated gif from a set of photos either from your iPhone library or from photos that you take in the application. The images need to be in a progressive order for the app to work correctly. Once the images have been added to the application, you can rearrange them or delete specific images using the Edit option. When all the images are in the correct order, you can view the animation.

When in “View” mode, you can adjust the frame rate allowing you to speed up or slow down the animation. From here you can also email and tweet the animation. Because it is a .gif file, the animation should easily display in any email provider. When you tweet the animation, it uses TwitPic and displays just like any other image only, it’s animated.

One thing I found annoying about the application is that you can only import one image at a time into the app from your Photo Library. I think this takes way too long especially if you are importing quite a few photos and there are at the bottom of one of your Photo Albums. Other than that, the app does what it says it is going to.

Is it worth $1.99… that is up to you. If done correctly, it could look pretty cool. The app itself is simple to use and makes creating animations quick and easy. It also integrates nicely into Twitter and email. For more info check out their website.

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Press Release

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AniGif creates, emails and tweets animated photos on the iPhone

Summary

Today Readdle announces the release of AniGif, iPhone application that lets people create animated images from their photos and send anywhere in the world. AniGif uses photos from the iPhone camera to make fun and inspiring animations to watch on the iPhone, send by email and even post to Twitter. AniGif is available exclusively on the Apple App Store at USD $1.99.

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Today Readdle announces the release of AniGif, iPhone application that lets people create animated images from their photos and send anywhere in the world. AniGif uses photos from the iPhone camera to make fun and inspiring animations to watch on the iPhone, send by email and even post to Tweeter. AniGif is available exclusively on the Apple App Store at USD $1.99.

“Working with AniGif is as simple as 1,2,3. Just take a set of pictures with the iPhone camera and instantly get cool animated image. Then show it to your friends, send by email or post to Twitter,” said Alexander Tyagulsky, Readdle CMO. “You can even create short stop motion movies with AniGif and easily share them with the world.”

AniGif sends animations as email messages with animated GIFs attached to the email. Anyone with modern email client could view that message on a phone, laptop or computer. Internet connection is the only requrement for the process, no MMS, SMS or other fee based service is involved.

Pricing and Availability:
AniGif is available for the special price of $1.99 (USD) exclusively on the App Store:

iPhone OS 3.0 or later required to run AniGif.

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Today, there was an update to FaceMic, an app that allows you to record audio and then send it straight to your Facebook page (posting it on your “wall”). The update adds quite a few new features (see change log below). Two of the coolest new features include the ability to upload photos with audio recording and the ability to pick a specific friend and post an audio recording to their wall!

With the update, comes a little bit of a new look for the app. When you open it, you will notice that there are a few new buttons. In the upper left corner, is the geo location button. When you select this, the app will find your exact location and will post it with your audio recording.

In the upper right corner is a photo option. This allows you to take a picture or choose one from your Photo Albums and will post it with your audio recording. A couple things to note about the image option, when you choose an image you will see an area that is greyed out at the top…this is where the image gets cut off so be sure to position it correctly. Also, be sure to remove the photo before you post your next recording, it is not removed automatically after you post it. To remove the image, just select the photo button and select the Remove Photo button. I personally think it should be removed automatically after you post the recording. I can see myself forgetting to remove it and then posting it with my next audio recording accidentally…which could make for a confusing situation!

The other new button in on the lower menu bar….it likes like the silhouette of two people. With this option, you are able to choose from a list of all your friend’s. This allows you to post an audio recording/image to a specific person’s wall. For example, I posted an image of our son on Doug’s wall with a little audio recording describing the picture. I tell ya, I already thought this app was super sweet and now it just got soooo much cooler!

With the updated UI of the application itself comes an updated UI on the Facebook page as well…and man does it look nice. When you post a recording on your or someones elses wall, it dispaly this nice little Play widget. When you click on it, it drops down the image and the audio recording. You can also tap on the globe icon and get a little pop-down map of the exact location of the audio recording (if you selected the geo location option in the app before posting the recording). You also have the ability to see “More Recordings” which will open a page with all your past recordings that you have posted along with any recording that your friend’s have posted.

Overall, I just love this application. It’s fun, well developed and impeccably designed. For $0.99, it is at the top of my must-have applications list! Seriously, you have got to try this one out…sending/receiving voice recordings on Facebook is the “new” wall post…it’s so fun!

Change log:
- Ability to upload photos with audio recording
- Posting geo location
- Pick a friend and post to their wall
- OS 3.0 compatibility
- Live Help from within the App
- Updated how it works screen
- Updated main recorder user interface
- Improved error handling
- Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements

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