Twitter Lists and Your iPhone: Twittelator Pro Update Brings List Support

Not too long ago, Twitter started to integrate a services called “Lists”. This new feature brings a plethora of new ways to follow and will actually help keep your clutter apart, and even find new followers.

The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense. I love lists for the idea of developers, or designers, or even particular people you’d like to organize together into one bunch.

From theAppleBlog:

Twittelator Pro is the first iPhone client to use the new Lists API. Using the app, you can now create or edit your own lists, view the lists of other users, and follow or unfollow lists. It’s a nice alternative to client-based groups, and it’s especially convenient on the iPhone platform, since it makes Twitter’s information glut a little more digestible.

The update also brings some more list-centric new discovery tools, like suggestions, featured, random, and list searching so that you can explore beyond your own network. It’s actually got me looking around at lists, which is more than I’ve done since Twitter implemented the feature. As a way of finding new people to follow, or of locating good thematically grouped news sources all in one place, the search function is especially helpful.

Here’s a list of some of the other new features introduced in version 3.4:

• Reply All – Tap the user avatar next to the tweet to reply to all mentioned.
• What the Trend? – Provides an explanation for why a topic is trending.
• Search Nearby shows avatars on map pins
• Emailing a link uses the web page title as the message subject by default

Twittelator Pro sells for $4.99 in the App Store. It’s a very feature-rich piece of software, but a little too busy for my tastes. If you’re a TweetDeck desktop user, it’ll probably be more to your liking.

Want to learn more about Lists and how to use them? Mashable has a great tutorial.

Excellent Resources for finding Music for your films.

Here are a couple places that you may want to check out that have royalty-free music that you can use:

ccmixter.org/ – ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

freesound.org/ – The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.

audiofarm.org/ – Audiofarm is an audio website for helping people explore, share, and enjoy Creative Commons Audio from around the world.

incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
At this website Kevin MacLeod offers his royalty free music creations under the Creative Commons License. There are many different types of instrumental music at this site.

pacdv.com/sounds/free-music.html
pacdv offers a few instrumentals for you to use royalty free. They just ask that you mention “Music by pacdv.com/sounds/” in your credits.

sonnyboo.com/music/music.htm
Offers a few songs that you can use in your productions as long as you credit the songwriter – Peter John Ross.
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NASA Confirms Presence of Water On Moon

North American Satellite Authority, NASA in Jun 09, launched a lunar satellite into orbit, which was to fire a rocket booster

at 5,600 MPH velocity into a Moon crater near the Southern Pole of the moon, to cause a six-mile-high explosion with the hope to find water on the Moon. NASA scientists were eager to see LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) launching a Centaur rocket into the moon to cause a big blast in the crater. The massive explosion kick up 350 metric tons of debris, letting the trailing satellite cameras analyze the mess for signs of water. Scientists scouring the surface of Earth’s satellite to search for a precious resource called “Water”. The satellite due some reasons could not be scheduled to reach the moon until October 8.

Source : [Redmond Pie]

Cylay 3.5.0-1 – Anti-Theft & Security for the iPhone

As the first anti-theft and security iPhone software in the world, Cylay has been used by over hundreds of thousands users and helped hundreds of users to find their lost iPhones.[Only for OS3.0].

Protect your private information, track your lost iPhone and back up iPhone data remotely – It support PUSH to real-time control your iPhone.

Cylay, is the world’s first iPhone security product that fights theft, tracks lost iPhones, protects data and information, and controls a lost iPhone remotely.

To protect your iPhone completely, please purchase the Cylay VIP version for $19.99 per year.

3.3 Changelog

• Optimize daemon programing.Suggest all poeple upgrade to this version.
• Optimize LOCK,UNLOCK feature,Never will restart springboard anymore.
• Optimize Alarm performance.When alarming,People can not stop it even they decrease volume.
• Optimize The Setting bundle,Split help and log.
• Added Fix push feature.
• Added SMS Command STARTBEEP,This will contine alarming(beeping and vibration).
• Added SMS Command STOPBEEP,Stop the alarm.
• Added SMS Command RESTART,Reboot your iPhone via SMS Command.

Repo: http://apt.mirrordev.com

Version: 3.5.0-1
Author: iFonetec Support
Section: Utilities

Identifier: com.ifonetec.cylaythree
Maintainer: poetic_folly
Homepage: http://cylay.com
File Name: 2debs/cylay3.2.1.deb
Size: 1763376 bytes
Depends: mobilesubstrate
Pre-Depends: firmware (>= 3.0)
Conflicts: com.ifonetec.cylay2, com.ifonetec.cylay
Replaces: com.ifonetec.cylay2, com.ifonetec.cylay
Architecture: iphoneos-arm

Microsoft Manager Claims Mac Inspired Windows 7, Gets Slapped

Microsoft’s partner group manager was interviewed by PCR, a trade publication for computer resellers, and blurted that the company had tried to “create a Mac look and feel” with the Windows 7 operating system. A member of the Windows team quickly struck back on the team’s blog, calling the remark “inaccurate and uninformed.” Aldous is in charge of the unit that deals with the company’s resellers, which is highly significant to Microsoft as the software behemoth does not directly retail any of its products. In an interview mainly consisting of policy issues having to do with the relationship of Microsoft to the people that put the company’s product on their shelves, Aldous made the following assertion. Quote: One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it’s very graphical and easy to use. What we’ve tried to do with Windows 7 – whether it’s traditional format or in a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics Aldous rallied, though, returning to the party line about Windows 7′s virtues. “We’ve significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it’s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform,” Aldous said. (more…)