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Twittervision on the iPhone
19 July 2008
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I tried Twittervision on the iPhone. And it’s quite pretty, in a hypnotic way. So I gave it my twitter username/password, to try it as a twittering interface. And it’s lousy. But ok, I have a twittering interface. I delete the app.
Today, I see a tweet from @davetroy. Who? I don’t know him. Turns out that he wrote Twittervision. And now I’m following him. Which means that (a) his app must have followed him on my behalf, because I didn’t do it, and (b) he can now see all my private tweets (because my twitterstream isn’t public).
Well, fuck you, Mr Dave Troy.
iPhone interface conventions
19 July 2008
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The iPhone has introduced a positively bewildering array of touch-based gestures we now have to learn, and apply in the right places. So far I’ve seen:
- tap
- drag
- pinch (zooming)
- two-finger-drag (in a few places, notably the campfire web app)
- double-tap (Maps, Safari zoom in)
- two-finger-double-tap (Maps zoom out)
- swipe (to indicate you want to delete a row in a table)
- tap-and-hold (typing accents on the keyboard, editing icons on the homescreen and, since the 2.0 software, in Safari and Mail to save an image to the local camera roll).
Chris Heathcote tells me that there is also drag-and-tap - when dragging between two home screens, a tap during the drag will stop it. Not sure if this is an interface or a bug, personally..