Linked List: July 16, 2009

Thursday, 16 July 2009

No Kubrick Movie Is Just a Movie: 10 Years After ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ ★

Insightful essay by Todd Raviotta marking the 10-year anniversary of Kubrick’s final film. See also: this essay on EWS by Jamie Stuart. (Via Jim Coudal.)

Tweet Push ★

Polar Bear Farm’s aptly named Tweet Push is another option for receiving Twitter push notifications on the iPhone. Like the aforelinked Boxcar, it isn’t a full Twitter client itself, but rather acts as a companion to existing iPhone Twitter clients (currently: Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twittelator, and TwitterFon; I’d love to see Birdfeed added to the list).

Tweet Push costs just $1, and includes a month of service. After that, each month costs another $1 via in-app purchasing. Tweet Push offers fine-grained settings — you can turn on notifications for direct messages, mentions, and even your main timeline (presumably for people who follow only a handful of other Twitter users, or, perhaps, for the insane). I’ve been trying it this morning and I like it.

Boxcar — Push for Twitter ★

The aforelinked Tweetbit is the first full iPhone Twitter client that includes its own support for push notifications, but there are at least two other apps that focus just on push notifications, while integrating with existing Twitter clients.

Boxcar costs $2, and checks your Twitter account every two minutes. It sends push notifications for direct messages and/or mentions. For mentions, it lets you choose between opening them in Tweetie or Twitterrific; for DMs, though, Boxcar shows them in its own interface.

Royal ★

Jason Santa Maria:

This typewriter is a product of the technology and needs of its time.

Free Kindle Edition of ‘Free’ ★

As promised, the Kindle edition of Chris Anderson’s Free is available for free, at least for a limited time. I’m going to read it on the free Kindle iPhone app, just to set the mood.

Palm’s Mojo SDK Now Available to All ★

They need to hurry, yes, because they are behind. But it’s impressive that they’ve shipped the official SDK just six weeks after shipping the original device. The big question, though, is whether the SDK is good.

Twitbit 1.0 — iPhone Twitter Client With Push Notifications ★

The list of iPhone Twitter clients continues to grow. But the ante keeps getting raised — the market may be crowded, but it is far from settled. Twitbit, a nice $5 client from High Order Bit, adds something major: push notifications, for both direct messages and mentions. I tried it and it works well.

(Too well, in fact, for me personally. In the 1.0 version, push notifications are an all or nothing affair in Twitbit. You can turn them off completely, but if you turn them on, you get them for both DMs and mentions. I’d love to get push notifications for DMs, but I have enough followers that it’s simply untenable to receive a push notification every time “@gruber” appears in a tweet. High Order Bit plans to make this configurable in a future update.)