Filed under: Text, Blogging, iPhone
Birdhouse: new iPhone app for Twitter writers
Birdhouse isn't meant to be your main Twitter app. In fact, it doesn't display your Twitter feed at all. It's a minimal, no-fuss writing environment that's ideally suited to its medium. It neatly supports multiple Twitter accounts, storing your drafts for each and letting you give them a star rating, so you can get a quick visual read on how far along each one is. It also lets you manually back up your drafts to your email account for later use. Birdhouse also keeps track of your history of published tweets. It may not be for everyone, but I hope the mere fact that a tool like this exists makes people aware that Twitter can be more than another place to post your favorite links from Google Reader.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
