TwitChat, a new application for iOS devices allows Twitter users to make instant and long conversations than just letting them post tweets. Currently, the only possible way to communicate privately on twitter is via the Direct Message (DM) feature, which unfortunately is limited to 140 characters per tweet thus preventing users from having easy and effective conversations. With TwitChat for Twitter, iPhone users can now easily Chat privately and instantly with their twitter followers and friends, just as they do in any IM client like gtalk or Yahoo Messenger!

TwitChat is a 3rd party instant messaging app, Free for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It’s a fun and easy way to interact with your Twitter followers privately, or have group conversations with your friends! To start a conversation, simply login with your Twitter account to instantly view all your Twitter friends and connect privately. Moreover, you can View profiles, Compose Tweets, Mention friends, Block users. etc.

Major Features include:

• Automatic Friends List
• Private Instant Messaging
• Group Chat
• Public Hashtag Chat
• Send Files, Audio, Video
• Login using your Twitter Credentials
• Manage alert and sound settings

The chat feature is certainly a prominent one that Twitter should integrate to their web interface and mobile app, so users can have spontaneous conversations. The TwitChat team is working hard to add new features and support for other platforms.

Download TwitChat for iPhone [App Store]

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WinZip, one of the best and most popular file compression utility for Windows is now released for iOS devices. Surprisingly, the app specially designed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is absolutely Free, available on the App store. WinZip for iPhone offers an easy-to-use interface to quickly open and manage compressed Zip files on your device. It even lets you view .zip file email attachments and open encrypted Zip files.

With WinZip, iPhone and iPad users can:

• Open Zip files and Zip attachments from email
• Browse and view Zip files, including multi-file attachments
• Open encrypted Zip files
• Copy the contents of Zip files to the clipboard
• View Zip file attachments from webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc)

Zipped file formats supported include: .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .pdf, .key, .numbers, .pages, .htm, .htm, .jsp, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .gif

Unfortunately, the app doesn’t offers the ability to open and view .rar files which is a standard and popular data compression format.

Download WinZip for iPhone [iTunes Link]

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Earlier covered, Speaktoit virtual Assistant for Android is now available for iOS devices, thus providing the Non-iPhone 4S owners an opportunity to try out a Siri like efficient service. Besides being a Siri alternative, Speaktoit offers newer capabilities and supports all iPhones, iPod touch and iPad running iOS 4.0 or later.

Speaktoit Assistant is a virtual buddy for your iPhone or iPod that uses natural language technology to answer questions, find information, and connect you with various web services, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Evernote, and many others.

The Assistant works with your device to get maps, search for news and images, look up weather reports, convert currency and measurements, send email, and much more.

No need to memorize special commands or complex interfaces – simply speak or type in everyday language and the Assistant will understand and respond with what you need.

How Speaktoit is different than Siri

- Works on older iPhones, not just 4S.

- Lets you customize your avatar, so you’re not talking to a faceless circle.

- Can search maps outside the US

- Update your Facebook/Twitter/Foursquare

- It adds new functionality often (Siri hasn’t updated since launching).

- Speaktoit speaks what it says (for example, if you search for weather, this is the difference: Speaktoit: “It is 70 degrees in London” vs Siri: “Here is the weather.")

Speaktoit is still free for Android but the iOS version of the same is available for $1.99 on the App Store. However, you’ve the chance to get it free as the developers are offering it for Free to the first 100,000 people on Valentine’s Day. Grab you free copy now!

Speaktoit Assistant [App store link]

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The ‘Slide to Unlock’ text label appears on the lock screen of every iOS device but there is no official way to change the usual unlock label. However, you can easily modify the commonly seen Slide to Unlock message on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch provided your device is jailbroken. A 10 year old talented developer Ron Melkhior has designed such app called ‘Slider Enhancer’. The app is free, available on the trusted BigBoss repository.

Slider Enhancer lets you change the iOS lock screen Slide to unlock text to some custom message which could appear cool and interesting. Furthermore, it allows you to show battery percentage, current time, current Wi-Fi network, or current IP address as the unlock label instead. To install it, just launch Cydia and search for Slider enhancer. Then simply install it and configure the app options from the Settings.

- Compatible with iOS 4 and iOS 5

via [CydiaBlog]

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The Gmail iOS app was launched 2 weeks back but was quickly pulled from the App store as it was buggy. Fortunately, the notifications bug has now been fixed and the app is back once again, available for download for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 4.0 or later. Just get the app to enjoy official Gmail experience on your idevice!

According to the Official Gmail blog:

In the short time the app was public we received a lot of helpful feedback and feature requests. This included requests for everything from bigger features like multiple account support to customizations like improved notifications and mobile specific signatures.

We’re just getting started with the Gmail app for iOS and will be iterating rapidly to bring you more features, including all the ones listed above plus many more. Based on your comments we have already improved our handling of image HTML messages – they are now sized to fit to the screen and you can pinch to zoom in.

Key Features:

• Receive notification badges for new messages
• Read your mail with threaded conversations
• Organize your mail by archiving, labelling, starring, deleting, and reporting spam
• Keep track of important messages with priority inbox
• Auto-complete contact names as you type
• Send and receive attachments
• Search through all your mail

Note: If you already have the Gmail app 1.0.1 released on 2 Nov, you will need to uninstall or log out of the old app prior to installing the new app.

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Adobe Systems has finally released the official Adobe Reader app for iOS devices, namely the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The app is free, designed for reliably viewing and sharing PDF documents across platforms and devices. It allows users to easily and efficiently access wide range of PDF file types — including PDF Portfolios, password-protected PDF documents and Adobe LiveCycle rights-managed PDF files.

Key Features -

View PDF files

• Quickly open PDF files from email , the Web or any application that supports "Open In…"
• View PDF Portfolios, PDF Packages, annotations and drawing markups
• Read text annotations such as Sticky Notes

Access encrypted PDF files

• Open and view password-protected PDF files
• Access files secured by Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management, which helps protect sensitive documents
• Supports the highest grade of PDF encryption, up to AES256

Interact with PDF files

• Search text to find specific information
• Use bookmarks to jump directly to a section in your PDF file
• Select single page or continuous scroll modes
• Easily zoom in on text or images for a closer view
• Quickly navigate through large files using thumbnails
• Select and copy text from a PDF file to the clipboard

Print and share files

• Print wirelessly with AirPrint
• Share PDF files with other applications using "Open In…"
• Email PDF documents as attachments

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iOS 5 was recently released to public and Apple just declared that “More than 25 million customers are already using iOS 5, in the first five days of its release.” iOS 5 comes with over 200 new features and those who have upgraded their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to the new iOS 5 or got a new device, might want to check its official comprehensive user guide released by Apple. The definitive manual comes handy and makes it really easier to get familiar with all the new features and functions offered by the iOS 5.0 software.

The User Guide for iOS 5 is available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch; both as a PDF and in a handy eBook format at the iBookstore. This 163 page detailed PDF includes everything you need to know about your idevice running iOS5.

It gives an overview of the device, helps in getting started, states basics, describes functionality of Siri, iCloud, Newsstand, new Camera options, Reminders, etc. The guide has a big chapter on ‘Settings’ that lets you configure the device, set app options, add accounts, and manage other preferences. This includes the general settings, Notifications, Connectivity options, settings for apps, and much more.

Overall, there are 32 essential Chapters in the entire iPhone user guide. It has 2 Appendix as well, discussing all the crucial Troubleshooting Tips, support and other information. Certainly, this is a must have guide specially for the new and non-techie iOS users.

Download iOS 5.0 Official User Guide/Manual –

• iPhone User Guide for iOS 5.0 -  PDF | eBook
• iPad User Guide for iOS 5.0 – PDF | eBook
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The major iOS update ‘iOS 5’ has been officially released for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. iOS 5 brings in lot of improvements, bug fixes and the update contains over 200 new features. Some of the great new features include the Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Reminders, built-in Twitter Integration, camera and photo enhancements, iCloud support, Siri voice assistant, Over the air updates, Wireless syncing, etc.

Complete List of iOS 5 New Features -

This update contains over 200 new features, including the following:

• Notifications

- Swipe from the top of any screen to view notifications in one place with Notification Center

- New notifications appear briefly at the top of the screen

- View notifications from lock screen

- Slide the notification app icon to the right on the lock screen to go directly to the app

• iMessage

- Send and receive unlimited text, photo, and video messages with other iOS 5 users

- Track messages with delivery and read receipts

- Group messaging and secure encryption

- Works over cellular network and Wi-Fi*

• Newsstand

- Automatically organizes magazine and newspaper subscriptions on Home Screen

- Displays the cover of the latest issue

- Background downloads of new issues

- Reminders for managing to do lists

- Syncs with iCloud, iCal and Outlook

- Location-based reminders when you leave or arrive at a location for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4

• Built-in support for Twitter

- Sign-in once in Settings and tweet directly from Camera, Photos, Maps, Safari and YouTube

- Add location to any tweet

- View twitter profile pictures and usernames in Contacts

• Camera improvements for devices with cameras

- Double click the home button when device is asleep to bring up a camera shortcut on iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation)

- Volume Up button to take a picture

- Optional grid lines to line up shots

- Pinch to zoom in the preview screen

- Swipe to camera roll from preview screen

- Tap and hold to lock focus and exposure, iPad 2 and iPod touch (4th generation) only support exposure lock

• Photo improvements for devices with cameras

- Crop and rotate

- Red eye removal

- One tap enhance

- Organize photos into albums

• Mail improvements

- Format text using bold, italic, or underlined fonts

- Indentation control

- Drag to rearrange names in address fields

- Flag messages

- Mass mark messages as flagged, read or unread

- Customize mail alert sounds

- S/MIME

• Calendar improvements

- Year view on iPad and new Week view for iPhone and iPod touch

- Tap to create an event

- View and add event attachments

• Game Center improvements

- Use personal photos for your Game Center account

- Compare your overall achievement scores with your friends

- Find new Game Center friends with friend recommendations and friends of friends

- Discover new games with custom game recommendations

• AirPlay Mirroring for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S

• Multitasking Gestures for iPad

- Use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen

- Swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar

- Swipe left or right to switch between apps

• On-device setup, activation and configuration with Setup Assistant

• Software updates available over the air without tethering

• iCloud support

- iTunes in the Cloud

- Photo Stream

- Documents in the Cloud

- Apps and Books automatic download and purchase history

- Backup

- Contacts, Calendar, and Mail

- Find My iPhone

• Redesigned Music app for iPad

• Hourly weather forecast

• Real-time stock quotes

• Wireless sync to iTunes

• Keyboard improvements

- Split keyboard for iPad

- Improved autocorrection accuracy

- Improved Chinese and Japanese input

- New Emoji keyboard

- Personal dictionary for autocorrection

- Optionally create keyboard short cuts for frequently used words

• Accessibility improvements

- Option to light LED flash on incoming calls and alerts for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4

- Custom vibration patterns for incoming calls on iPhone

- New interface for using iOS with mobility-impairment input devices

- Option to speak a selection of text

- Custom element labeling for VoiceOver

• Exchange ActiveSync improvements

- Wirelessly sync tasks

- Mark messages as flagged, read or unread

- Improved offline support

- Save a new contact from a GAL service

• More than 1,500 new developer APIs

• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)

* Normal carrier data rates may apply. Messages will be sent as SMS when iMessage is unavailable, carrier messaging fees apply.

This is the official changelog of iOS 5 provided by Apple.

Also See: iOS 5 Available Now [Direct Download Links]

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