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Push App helps Facebook and Twitter users save battery life

By James DeRuvo
on 25 Feb, 2011

Tired of having to sync his Android device every give minutes to update his Twitter and Facebook feeds, XDA developer "rosenbaa29" has found a workaround thanks to an app called "PUSHEE." The app is designed to bypass the automatic refresh cycle of apps like Facebook and Twitter, which can drain an Android battery pretty quickly. Still in it's BETA stage, Pushee is the first ever social push notification app for Android designed to save battery power and notifies users by push notification, rather than sync.

Twitter Official App on Android Updated to Include Fullscreen Maps

By Chris Burns
on 24 Feb, 2011

Very recently Twitter released their Version 2.0 of this official tweeting machine for Android. This was a magically delicious update with essentially a complete overhaul of their user interface, resulting in us giving them a very good review. Between then and now, Twitter also put a stopper in a couple of 3rd party apps aimed at bringing tweets to users including UberTwitter and Twidroyd. Between THEN and now, they've both been reinstated, and Twitter's official app has been upgraded to better than ever.

Twitter lets third party clients out of the penalty box

By James DeRuvo
on 21 Feb, 2011

Third party Twitter client users can rejoice. Twitter's Help Center is reporting that TwiDroyd and Uber Social for Blackberry (aka UberTwitter) are now back in business. Having made sufficient changes to the way they handle user Twitter feeds in order to correct the policy violations that grounded a handful of Uber Twiter clients last Friday, UberMedia's Twitter Clients now have access to the core Twitter API and can start giving access to Twitter feeds immediately. As we reported last Friday, both UberMedia (with Twitter clients including UberTwitter, Echofon, and others) and TwiDroyd, were suspended for policy violations pertaining to using Twitter feeds to maximize monetary gain.

UberMedia Responds to Twitter Clients Ban with Updates

By Chris Burns
on 18 Feb, 2011

As you may already know, several Twitter 3rd party clients were suspended today due to what Twitter noted as being a violation of their ground rules. The list of suspended clients appears to be larger than Twitter's original list of bans, including also Echofon, another 3rd party Twitter app for mobile. One of the notes that appears to be official on this matter brought to us by Techcrunch says that a Twitter official has told them that UberMedia broke privacy and trademark infringement rules in order to further monetize their platforms.

UberTwitter clients get suspended

By James DeRuvo
on 18 Feb, 2011

Twitter's help page is reporting that the apps UberTwitter and twidroid have been suspended for policy violation. Another source reports that UberMedia's recent acquisition, Echofon, also got the flag. There were no other details as to why these apps have been benched. Twitter does mention, however, that this is a usual practice to keep the health and vitality of the Twitter platform as a whole.

Twitter 2.0 for Android Review

By Chris Burns
on 11 Feb, 2011

Twitter has released their second big official app version in 2.0 for Android, and it looks fabulous. The first major change you'll notice is the reduction of elements, the app opening up directly to your friends stream rather than bringing you to a page of options (that used to contain tweets, lists, mentions, retweets, messages, my profile, trends, and search.) Each of the items that used to be contained on the initial opening screen are still available, but have essentially been pushed up to the top of the screen where they should have been in the first place to make room for the lists of tweets and such they're in place to display. NOTE several of the images in this post contain two screens - the left is the version of Twitter right before this update, the right is the current version 2.0.

ROM Manager (ClockworkMod) Recovery Host Down, Back Up, In Need of Assistance

By Chris Burns
on 5 Feb, 2011

If you're the kind of person who likes to break your Android device down to build it back up in your own image, you know about ClockworkMod and ROM Manager. The fellows involved in this project have done massive workings on the insides of all manner of Android devices and they'll be recorded in the history books of programming as some of the essential unofficial teammates of Google's Android mobile OS. That said, as they are working for the greater good of all developers and hackers of mobile OS, we aught to offer them our help when something blows up in their face. Something has.

Motorola XOOM gets football flaunt as Chad Ochocinco shows off slate

By Chris Davies
on 1 Feb, 2011

NFL player Chad Ochocinco has been given early access to a Motorola XOOM tablet, taking to Twitter to say how pleased he is with the 10-inch slate. "I just received the new Motorola Xoom Tablet and its pretty awesome," Ochocinco told his 1.6m+ followers, going on to warn Motorola that "you won't be getting this back!!!!" Seeding early units to high-profile users seems a sensible sales strategy for Motorola, especially given talk of the XOOM going on sale as early as this month. [via Out of the Office]

Google IO 2011 : Key Developers Being Sent Early Registration Invites

By Chris Burns
on 31 Jan, 2011

It appears that "Key Developers" are being sent emails today that note they've been selected as such, this email denoting them as able to register for Google IO 2011 earlier than everyone else. This mail has apparently been sent out just a short while ago today, and word on the street is that, strangely, Google may have done this because they've increased their max capacity for attendees.

Android Community Total Revamp Coming Soon!

By Chris Burns
on 25 Jan, 2011

If you thought this site was great before, wait until you see the big fat changes we've got coming your way in the very near future! We're getting extra pumped up for Mobile World Congress 2011, and that's smack dab in the middle of next month, so our new and improved total Android immersion update will be coming very soon! What will it consist of?