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How to generate an app-specific password for Twitter on Mac
Looking to generate an app-specific password to really lock down your Twitter account? Here’s how.
Twitter Apps
Pour one out for Tweetie
iMore show 595: Competitive Gremlin
The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple! Lory Gil, Mikah Sargent, and Serenity Caldwell mourn the deprecation of the official Twitter client for Mac and offer some alternatives. They also talk about the visual and sonic marvels within Alto's Odyssey, a brand new game for iOS and Apple TV. Plus, rumors are...
Quit it!
Quitter for Mac helps keep you keep your focus
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Overcast developer Marco Arment has released Quitter, a Mac utility that keeps your desktop distraction-free by quitting apps after periods of inactivity.
The fabric of your apps
Twitter launches app for its Fabric development platform
Twitter has launched its official app for Fabric, its mobile development platform. Developers can view analytics and diagnostics, track issues, and more right from their phones.
Mobile's big year
Emoji and large phones dominated mobile in 2015
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Mobile app analytics group Flurry has published its look back at 2015, noting that apps for personalization, productivity, and news all saw significant growth in usage throughout the year. It also noted that use of phones with larger screens, or phablets, continued to grow.
Save for later
Twitterrific adds muffling and muting options, draft support
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Popular third-party Twitter client Twitterrific has hit version 5.10, adding new options for muffling and muting, as well as support for drafts and smart quotes. A new item in Twitterrific's sidebar lets you manage what items you muffle. You can also now convert any of your muffles into a mute. Additionally, the app now supports drafts and syncs them over iCloud. Check out the list...
Pingit Money
Barclays Pingit will enable you to send money via Twitter
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Barclays has announced that Pingit users in the UK will be able to use their smartphones to send money using Twitter handles, which would remove the requirement for mobile numbers and bank account details to be exchanged. The new feature will go live on March 10. All that will be required is your Twitter handle, which will need to be added to the Pingit profile settings. The...
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With great connectivity comes great responsibility
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Vector is a news and analysis show focusing on the biggest stories, hottest trends, and most important issues in technology and popular culture. On this week's show, tech is screwing with our sleep cycles, so how do we stop it? What happens when your Facebook friend says something racist or sexist? Muting vs. unfollowing on Twitter. And Secret… why?! With Georgia Dow, Dave Wiskus, Rene...
Social Apps
The absolute best Twitter apps for iPhone
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Twitter has changed. It's no longer the domain of nerds and conferences but now serves the mainstream, not to mention pop stars with tens of millions of followers. Twitter's official app has changed with it, altering the way everything from the timeline to direct messages work and are surfaced. It's not what it once was, and its certainly not for everyone. Luckily many really good...
The end
Twitpic iOS app shut down but service stays online
The journey of the Twitpic online photo service has apparently reached an end. After a trademark dispute with Twitter, the service said it was shutting down in September, but later it claimed it had found a company willing to buy them and keep Twitpic going. Then that deal apparently evaporated. Today, Twitpic announced that Twitter has now agreed to take over its domain and, more...