First of all, I have to tell you that I got it all a bit wrong - today, we're going to talk about one software update for the iPhone, and one for the Mac. Anyway, everyone's going social these days, so I think my little mistake will be forgiven. After all, iPhone user or not, you must have heard - at least - about Facebook and Twitter, right?
Speaking about the first one, it's enough to say that the iPhone Facebook app, available freely via Apple's App Store has been updated to version 2.2, with major bug fixes including:
1. Timestamps - While the 2.1 update claimed to fix this, it didn't. This time I had users from the UK and the east coast of the US help me out and confirm that they are actually correct now.
2. Chat now allows you to go offline or back online if you have chosen to go offline from the web. This should resolve the problem many users experienced where they were not able to send chat messages.
3. Duplicate friends should no longer appear. The 2.1 update also claimed to fix this and didn't, but I have put in place a much better solution this time.
4. Notifications - for many users the app crashed when tapping the notifications tab. This has been fixed, and also the appearance of the Notifications tab has been fixed so it includes all of the details again.
5. After deleting messages from the Inbox, they will no longer come back when you restart the app.
6. The Quotes section of profiles will no longer bug out when the quotes were really really long.
7. Hitting "See All" in the photo browser should no longer cause the app to crash so frequently.
8. The photo viewer is much less flaky, so it is not as easy to accidentally tag a photo.
At last, we have a new version of Twitterrific, a Twitter desktop client for Mac from the notorious Iconfactory. Version 3.2 "has undergone extensive user testing and we’re pleased to report it is now ready for prime time," and features the following major additions:
- Old tweets are marked as read on launch
- All communications with Twitter now encrypted with HTTPS
- Reply IDs added to messages for more accurate conversations
- Fixed several accessibility problems including VoiceOver audio
- Up to 200 tweets are loaded into your timeline
Unfortunately, Twitterrific is ad-supported, so if you want to remove those ads, you'll have to register for $14.95. Well, not all good things in life are free, after all...
