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Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we’d heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuses its efforts on paid services for enterprise customers. From today, it will stop accepting new sign-ups for its free tier of back-up services for personal files. It is also discontinuing by the…
Everyone’s favorite dysfunctional family, the Bluths, are making a highly anticipated return to a Netflix-screening device near you. But first, we remember all the antics that made the Arrested Development gang so entertaining for three seasons.
Antics like Lindsay Bluth Funke’s erratic, yet passionate, devotion to various charities is a fan favorite (can anyone say “Neuter Fest ’98″?). Lindsay’s shenanigans prompted Shutterstock to wonder what causes the other members of the Bluth family…
Good news, Android fans: You can now install Facebook Home on your device — provided it’s running Android 4.0 or higher — whether it’s officially supported or not.
Facebook Home was released last month to lots of fanfare but with limited device support. A month and nearly a million downloads later, Facebook Home is available on more phones. At least, on an unofficial basis.
Users who don’t have an HTC One X, HTC One, HTC First, Galaxy S III or Galaxy Note II still can’t download the app from…
Facebook Home‘s circle of supported devices has just got a little wider. The Android launcher which Facebook unboxed with much fanfare back in April was only initially available for download to four devices — namely: the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II, along with being preloaded on a new device: the HTC First — but that select club now has a couple of new members, according to Android Central.
The blog reports that Facebook Home support has been…
If you use TweetDeck as a dashboard for your Facebook activity, that will end Tuesday. On May 7, as promised, TweetDeck will discontinue support for Facebook feeds.
The removal of Facebook support has been planned for some time. In early March, the service publicly said it would stop supporting Facebook at the same time it abandoned its mobile apps, turning exclusively to web- and desktop-based apps. Then in late April, it gave a date: May 7.
Starting Tuesday, TweetDeck users who don’t…
Jason Collins was the talk of Twitter on Monday after coming out and becoming the first openly gay active athlete in a major American sport
He dominated Twitter’s list of worldwide trends. He received messages of support from fans and celebrities alike. He was lauded by many as a hero. Then, finally, after hours of dominating the online conversation, Collins chimed in with some thoughts of his own
Here’s what he had to say — or, more specifically, tweet — late on Monday afternoon:
All the…
Twitter issued an update on Thursday for Twitter for Mac for the first time since 2011, bringing a number of improvements to the Mac version of the app.
Most notably, the update improves photo sharing. Now to add a photo to a tweet, you can simply click on the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the box where you’re composing your tweet, and add a photo from your computer. An operation that works much like the experience on Twitter’s mobile apps
If you miss the drag-and-drop…
Twitter for Mac has long languished, not seeing an update since 2011, but Twitter just pushed out a new one that brings Retina display support to the official client, as well as a revised interface for sharing photos, and 14 additional languages. The update is available now through the Mac App Store, and Twitter promises further improvements to come in the future.
The official Twitter for Mac app was originally Tweetie, a third-party client by developer Loren Brichter, which was acquired by…
There are very few platforms that have something that you use on a daily basis, let alone on a minute-by-minute basis. Team communication platform service, Convo, is one of those for us at TechCrunch.
Today, the company has released an update for its essential iOS app, which is something that we use here quite often to communicate about everything you can think of. Since using the service, our team has generated more than 100,000 interactions, averaging 1,200 of them a day, with 95 percent…
Following its beta launch at the end of January, just.me, the mobile messaging startup from Keith Teare, co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at incubator Archimedes Labs, has launched its first app, available initially for iPhones and iPod Touch. Just.me had planned on an earlier release of the app but said today it held back so it could launch at DEMO Mobile to garner more attention.
As with any messaging app, just.me’s usefulness is commensurate with the number of friends fully on…
