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Ego app

So today is Indie Relief day. If you didn’t hear about it yet, shame on you ! I wasn’t really looking for any new software but this charity thing convinced me now was a good time to spend some money on a Indie App that I was probably going to buy in the future.

I opted to buy Ego, and am still eye-balling some others. Allot has been written about Ego already so I won’t write another review here. I agree with the consensus that Ego is a nice little well designed app that does exactly what it promises to do.

One thing I will note though is this.

Their website, like many other product sites, contains the following text:

Need help? Simply email us and we’ll get things sorted out.

Why am I mentioning this ? well I tried to set-up my Vimeo account but ran into some issue. So decided to take them up on that line and send them an e-mail. Now here is the thing. I got a reply within an hour from Garret Murray explaining what went wrong and how to resolve my issue.

In my mail I also made a request for Tumblr support, my favorite site. Garret also quite clearly explained to me why Tumblr support wasn’t possible at this time and that once Tumblr makes changes in their API he’d be more than happy to include it.

So big thumbs up to Garret for the quick reply and Tumblr, what are you waiting for, when can we see those API changes ? ;)

Experiment results

minimalmac:

As promised, here are the survivors of my little iPhone home screen experiment.

I promised to do the same. Here is my result:

As you can see, allot has changed. It was however within the line of expectation for me. A lot of apps moved from page 2 to page 1 and some were moved all the way to the last page. Unlike my fellow experimenter I don’t use my contacts as a gateway to other things. To me it’s actually the opposite. I don’t have my contacts app on the front page anymore since I get to my contacts trough the phone app. The result is not entirely fair right now since the Weather app is there because I’ve used it allot lately with the heavy snow we’ve been heaving over here in Europe. Normally I don’t use it allot and it will probably move to page 2 soon.

Apps you might not know are VI and Telegraaf.

VI stands for “Voetbal International” which is a dutch magazine about soccer. I use it to stay updated on the latest soccer news.

Telegraaf is the biggest news paper from The Netherlands and it has an awesome iPhone app made by a company from my home town. Use it last before I go to sleep and first thing in the morning.

Facebook 3.1 for iPhone

Today Facebook released a new version of their iPhone app brining it up to version 3.1.

They have also finally included a feature I have been waiting for, for a long time. Push notifications. As you can see on the picture you can easily customize for which events you want to receive push notifications.

It took them a long time to get it implemented but I’m happy it finally arrived. Push notifications however isn’t the only new feature.

There is also a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts with Facebook. Before you jump to the app and turn on this feature, please be warned. I’ve tried the feature today and turned on the “Replace photos” feature.

The app started replacing pictures on my contacts, which was to be expected. however it also put pictures on contacts that weren’t even on my Facebook. I’ve been reading some posts about this and apparently I’m not the only one having trouble with this feature. After turning the sync back off it removed all the pictures of my contacts. NOT cool facebook!