Linked List: August 17, 2012

Friday, 17 August 2012

Pixate 

My thanks to Pixate for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote their Kickstarter project. In a nut, they’re working on a project to allow iOS (and eventually other platforms like Android) developers to style their native apps using CSS. Change the stylesheet, change the look of your app. Their engine uses native UI controls, not rendering everything as HTML, for high performance.

Sounds cool, and they’re really close to their funding goal. They even have a special pledge level just for DF readers. Check out their video and help Pixate hit their funding goal.

Don’t Panic 

Paul Haddad, of Tapbots:

There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt generated by Twitter’s latest announcement. I wanted to let everyone know that the world isn’t ending, Tweetbot for Mac is coming out soon, Tweetbot for iOS isn’t going anywhere. So sit down, grab a towel and let’s go over some of these API changes.

Twitterrific 

The first great Twitter client, and the one that paved the way for many of the conventions we now take for granted in all Twitter clients. Not to mention the way it paved the way for Twitter’s own brand — when The Iconfactory created Ollie the bird to represent the Twitterrific icon and brand, Twitter itself wasn’t using a bird of any shape. It’s remarkable how much of what we now think of as “Twitter” was created by third-party developers.

Twittelator Neue 

I linked this app up back in February, but it’s worth a re-link in light of yesterday’s shit sandwich for Twitter client developers. What I wrote then still stands:

I sing the praises of Tweetbot every few weeks, but I still believe what I wrote almost three years ago: “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”. Another new iOS Twitter client that deserves attention is Twittelator Neue, from Stone Design. In a sense it’s a rather opposite design approach from Tweetbot — light vs. heavy.

Twittelator Neue is really good work, and it’s exactly the sort of app Twitter is explicitly seeking to discourage. Now’s the time to support apps like this.