Posterous is updating its iPhone and Android apps today with support for a new creation called Spaces. In a nutshell, it’s exactly like Circles in Google+. Essentially, you can group all of your friends and family on Posterous into different groups (or “spaces”) so you can control who sees specific content you post. Now you might already be bored with this news because it seems like privacy is anyone is talking about nowadays, but Posterous has a unique marketing strategy behind Spaces. Posterous made a valid point that Google+ or anyone else ever bothered to make. In real life, we keep secrets from people all the time. We share them with friends or family we trust and avoid the big-mouths as much as possible. For a long time on the Internet, we have been unable to do this. Everything posted was visible to any friends. If you weren’t okay with that Read More

Yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Apple's website creation software, iWeb, is about a year away from obsolescence, along with MobileMe's hosting of iWeb sites. An iWeb user allegedly sent Apple CEO Steve Jobs an email asking if he should start looking for another website builder and a new host, and Jobs provided one of his patented terse replies: "Yep." In my post about this, I mentioned some alternatives that TUAW readers might want to look at. Here I'm going to take a more detailed look at several easy website creation tools and hosting alternatives, so that you can start making your plans to move away from iWeb and MobileMe. I will not be covering professional web design tools in this post, as iWeb is designed for easy creation of sites. Instead, all of the suggestions I'll make here are aimed at the folks who just want to create a Read More

Dropbox scheint kurz vor der Ankündigung zu stehen, 25 Millionen Benutzer und 200 Millionen Datei-Uploads pro Tag für sich zu beanspruchen. Noch im Februar 2010 belief sich die Anzahl ihrer Kunden gerade einmal auf vier Millionen. An dem starken Wachstum dürfte das iOS-Zusammenspiel nicht ganz unschuldig sein. Sowohl die mobilen Apps als auch diverse Drittanwendungen ziehen den Online-Speicher mittlerweile zu Hilfe. Passend zum heutigen Tag erreicht ein Update auf Version 1.4 den App Store (kostenlos; universal; App Store-Link). Diese Fassung birgt erstmals die Möglichkeit, mehrere Bilder gleichzeitig auf die plattformübergreifenden Sync-Ordner zu werfen. Befindet sich die App im Hintergrund, wird jedoch nur der zuletzt gestartete Upload fertiggestellt. Sendet man viele Dateien in die Wolke, gilt es die App geöffnet zu halten. Trotz fleißigem Kopiervorgang lässt sich die Anwendung bequem weiter verwenden. Bevor der Upload jedoch angestossen werden darf, besteht Dropbox auf einen Zugriff der ‘Ortungsdienste’. Das verwirrt, weil die Geo-Infos – Read More

Keine spannende Überschrift, kein spannender Blog-Beitrag? Let’s see. Mit Version 2.7 erhält ‘WordPress for iOS‘ (kostenlos; App Store-Link) das 14 Update seit Herbst 2009. Damals erschien Version 2.0 für die populäre Blogging-Plattform als komplett neues App-Store-Programm. Der seit Sommer 2008 vorangegangene Testlauf darf rückblickend als verspieltes Experiment gewertet werden. 117 Fehler merzte das Automattic-Team gegenüber Version 2.6.6 aus. Die Anwendung liegt seit vergangenem April in einer Universal-Ausführung für iPhone und iPad vor. Durch die Überschneidung der App-Store-Einreichung von Version 2.7 und der iPad-2-Veröffentlichung lassen sich auf Apples neuem Tablet keine Fotos aus der iOS-Bibliothek auswählen. Ansonsten bin ich jedoch ziemlich beeindruckt von der langsamen aber kontinuierlichen Weiterentwicklung, die das Team der mobilen Plattform widmet. Neue Funktionen wie Push-Benachrichtigungen für Kommentare befinden sich bereits auf der angedachten ‘Roadmap’. Derzeit zieht die Mannschaft jedoch immer noch Falten aus dem Programmcode und befeuert die Software nicht unnötig mit zusätzlichen Funktionen. Clever, weil der enorme Read More

Alexia Tsotsis currently works for TechCrunch as a writer. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She majored in Writing and Art, moving to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Entertainment/Media industry. After four years of living in New York City and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los... → Learn More Because you ain’t nobody unless you have a special version of your app for SXSW, Posterous has today released its own effort with Posterous Events, a which allows people at a massive event like SXSW or even something as humble as a family picnic to create a simple site around that event using their iPhone apps. All users who want to create a Posterous site around an event have to do is open up their iPhones and create a .posterous address for a specific location and post (the Read More

Posterous has announced updates to its mobile apps, for both iOS and Android. The updated versions of the apps bring support for creating and managing Posterous Groups, which is an email list-like service that can be used either as a traditional email list, or as a group sharing service. Up until now, you could only set up a new group via email. Once a group is created its members can share text, images, videos, music, and other file types -- either by emailing that group's unique address, or, from now on, by using either of the Posterous mobile apps. Besides creating and viewing groups, the apps allow you to add group members from your mobile contacts and quickly interact with posts from other members of a group. With this release, Posterous is clearly shifting from its original focus of 'dead-simple blogging via email' and branching out into private sharing territory. Since Read More

Apple has compiled a list called their 2010 Rewind. In it, they have named the top Apps of the year, and gathered them all up into one page so that they can easily be found. Let’s take a look at their top Apps in each category. On this list, you will find Apple’s best apps of 2010. Everything from best iPhone games of 2010 to best educational apps of 2010. Note that these are not our picks (though many of our favorites did make the list) but it’s a compilation of Apple’s favorite Apps of the 2010. Let’s take a look at Apple’s iTunes 2010 rewind: Shoot, Edit, Share – Best of iPhone Camera Utility Apps of 2010 1) Hipstamatic – 99 cents      2) Path – Free 3) Instagram – Free 4) Pocketbooth – 99 cents 5) iMovie – $4.99      6) Splice – Video Editor – 99 cents 7) Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Oct 18, 2010 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game. To see what we picked this week, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! TLert is a quickreply SMS app available to jailbreakers via Cydia. It simply allows you to start a text message or respond to an incoming text from anywhere on your device without interrupting what you’re currently doing. TLert is also heavily customizable. In settings, you can choose different chat bubble colors and types as well as how you want TLert to present notifications. You can lock into portrait or landscape, or choose auto rotate. Read More

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are twelve new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are: An action RPG for Retina Display equipped devices only.  $5.99/£3.49. Replace your friends faces with those of badgers.  $0.99/£0.59. The iPad version of the popular print magazine.  $4.99/£2.99. Game Center compatible arcade golf game.  $0.99/£0.59. Official app of the content sharing website.  Free. The Korean RPG success comes to the iPhone from EA Mobile.  $4.99/£2.99. Game Center supporting 3D Croquet game.  $0.99/£0.59. An educational puzzle game with four mini games.  $3.99/£2.39. A good-looking adventure game inspired by the old point and click adventures.  $2.99/£1.79. Now released for the iPad, this yoga app has 350 different sessions to choose from.  $1.99/£1.19. A cow-based, line-drawing puzzle game.  $0.99/£0.59. TED conferences and talks direct to your iPad.  Free. Read More

...Should still be there. It's working for me :) see http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/posterous/id394252521?mt=8... Read More

If you are not as familiar with Posterous (or not carrying an iPhone) this may not be as exciting of news for you, however the simple to setup and simple to use blogging site Posterous has released an iOS app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Sadly though, it was not a universal app with proper iPad support, but that aside, the Posterous app is at version 1.0 and will run on devices running iOS 4.0 or later. In terms of features, just what you would expect with the ability to easily upload and share your images and thoughts. According to the description in the App Store, here is the full listing of what you can expect; Posterous lets you post any mix of text, photos and video instantly on the web for free. It’s the only content sharing app you need from your iPhone or iPod touch. Sharing is effortless Read More

I’m a fan of Posterous, but I don’t actually use it all that much. For a while, I was using the PicPosterous app for iPhone to share photographic memories of special events, but the app was limited and it didn’t take. Now, Posterous has released an official application. But is it enough to change my usage habits? First, I want to point out that I don’t actually need all that much in a Posterous iPhone app. The point of the service is to provide a dead simple blogging tool that just about anyone can pick up and use. Any iPhone app that interacts with the service should reflect that. The official app accomplishes this, and does so without feeling limited: a thin line to walk. PicPosterous, by contrast, doesn’t manage to stay on the fair side of that divide. It allows you to post pictures, and only pictures, to your Posterous Read More

There are some 225,000 mobile applications for the iPhone now and 70,000 for Android, so every so often we like to highlight a few that have caught our attention. This latest edition of our favorite smartphone apps includes a few in testing, a few we're madly in love with, some notable updates and some you may not have even heard of yet. Instagram (iPhone): OK, we're dubbing this one the "app of the month." Initially called Burbn, the original app was transformed into Instagram, a photo-sharing service and image editor. With a number of built-in filters, you can turn your iPhone photos into more attractive and interesting versions of themselves, then share them either publicly or privately with fellow app users. Your friends' photos are in a section called "Feed" and the most popular photos from across Instagram are found in the "Popular" section. While what Instagram is doing is not Read More

Den Musik-(Streaming-)Service Grooveshark verbannte Apple im August aus seinem App Store. Der Cydia-Release ließ nicht lange auf sich warten und erhält am heutigen Tag eine aufgebohrte 2.0-Version. Nach der Testphase bedarf es einem monatlichen $3 US-Dollar VIP-Pass für die werbefreie und mobile ‘Sound-Strömung’. Der Tumblr-Konkurrent Posterous erhält seinen ersten offiziellen App-Store-Auftritt (kostenlos; App Store-Link) zum bequemen veröffentlichen von Bild-, Text- und Video-Material. Nicht nur das Technik-Magazin T3 wählte das iPad zur Innovation des Jahres 2010, InformationWeek erklärt die Apple Touch-Scheibe mit rund 8.5 Millionen verkauften Einheiten zum “best-selling tech gadget in history” – die offiziellen Quartalszahlen am 18. Oktober werden dies bestätigen oder widerlegen. Pünktlich zum Weihnachtsgeschäft startet der iPad-Verkauf in den USA zusätzlich bei den Shopping-Giganten Target und Walmart. Eine CDMA-Telefonvariante vom iPhone, die in den USA und neuerdings Indien im Gespräch ist, beziffert Horace Dediu auf Asymco.com mit einer potenziellen Abnehmergröße von 500 Millionen Kunden. It would be safe Read More

Posterous’ official app for the iPhone is now available in the App store. For those not familiar with Posterous, it is a blogging service that is meant to be easy to use and achieves this convenience by letting you manage many aspects of a blog via email. You can create posts, send images, embed videos, and even start a new blog by sending an email to the post@posterous.com email address. Posterous also serves as the hub of your online social presence with its autopost feature that publishes your content to services like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo, and more. Previously, mobile management of your Posterous-hosted blog was accomplished via email. You created posts by sending text and media content to your blog via SMTP. The recently released iPhone application changes all that and allows you to manage your blog(s) within an application interface. The blogging service did it right as the iPhone app has a Read More

Alexia Tsotsis currently works for TechCrunch as a writer. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. She majored in Writing and Art, moving to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Entertainment/Media industry. After four years of living in New York City and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los... → Learn More At least it did me. Touted by co-founder Sachin Agarwal as a one stop shop for all your sharing needs, the Posterous app (now available in the App store) is extremely intuitive to use, and you don’t even need a Posterous to use it to start uploading photos, video and text, which, if you’ve enabled the Posterous “Autopost” feature will also post to your Facebook, Twitter as well as 26 other social sites including Flickr, YouTube, WordPress, Vimeo and Tumblr. While you might be experiencing iPhone share fatigue Read More

...@garrytan: Time for you to stop what you're doing and download the new Posterous iPhone App http://bit.ly/9CTi4h =D... Read More

...@garrytan: Time for you to stop what you're doing and download the new Posterous iPhone App http://bit.ly/9CTi4h =D... Read More

Posterous, the minimalist blogging platform, may have allowed users to post to their blogs via email, or even the specially-formatted Posterous for mobile devices, but now it's gone that one extra step. Posterous for the iPhone is here, allowing users to post, manage their settings, upload media and even geo-tag their updates. The Posterous iPhone app does everything you want, from what we can see, aside from text formatting - but that's a relatively recent feature addition to Posterous that really took it beyond its roots anyways. The app allows users to post publicly or privately to any number of different Posterous sites they control. In addition to multiple sites, the new app will let you choose whether or not you want to auto-post your content to 26 different sites, from Facebook to Twitter to Flickr to YouTube and more. Posterous can even be an entry way to a Blogger or Read More