Filed under: Fun, Social Software, iPhone
Tweetie 1.2 introduces PEE to the iPhone
No, not that kind of pee. Tweetie, a popular iPhone Twitter app, has introduced something they're calling the App Store Popularity EnhancEr (PEE, for short.) It's a scheme to make Tweetie more useful, while also improving its rankings in the iTunes app store. It's also for sale for use in other people's iPhone apps, too. What does PEE do? It adds on a fart app and a flashlight, those ubiquitous features that each have dozens of 99-cent standalone versions in the app store.
If you have Tweetie and you want to turn on PEE, it's in the Tweetie prefs in your Settings app under advanced. Once you open Tweetie the flashlight is right there under "More," and the fart sounds play whenever you swipe horizontally across a row in the main tweets view.
It might be important to mention that Tweetie 1.2 also adds Instapaper integration, a landscape keyboard mode, image compression control, and an update to the UI theme.
If you're a developer interested in adding PEE for your own app, you should know that it costs 20 bucks, but Atebits will throw in a copy of their slick OS X drawing app, Scribbles, for free. Seeing how Scribbles normally costs $20 by itself, that's not so bad. Plus, you'll be doing your part to make the legions of redundant 99-cent flashights and fartmakers on the app store obsolete.
It's practically community service.
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Believe it or not, Atari have just released a bunch of old games on their own website. These aren't clones, these aren't even 'loving interpretations' -- these are the real thing, remade by Atari themselves. This comes as part of a re-launch for the Atari website which includes an online store.
I warn you, if you read on, this might turn into more than just a mere ten-minute time-waster.
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