Friends’ Home Makeover
The overwhelming majority of the feedback we have received has said that Friends’ main menu is too complicated, and we agree. We love to simplify things here at Taptivate, so that’s exactly what we did.
We thought for a long time on how to fix the problem, and ultimately it was your suggestions that shaped the way we decided to go. One kajillion revisions later, I think we have nailed it. We have come up with an awesome new layout that feels relevant, simple and just plain useful. Going back to the drawing board and reflecting on your previous decisions is a powerful tool I think a lot of developers are too stubborn to use.
Facebook and Twitter users will especially love this new look, as you can see at a glance all of the latest notifications involving your friends. Simple click the arrow and you’re taken to the relevant post, nifty!
Hold on, you say! How do I access all of those handy options that were on the home screen previously? Never fear, we have got you covered. Our resident design guru, Marcelo, had a moment of pure genius (one of many) and came up with a solution.
It’s really simple to use, you tap the arrow in the navigation bar and choose an option. You can easily jump to viewing all of your friends photos or videos at the tap of a finger, or switch from network to network. Because this feature is super useful, we have also added it to Contacts, you can now quickly switch between groups, calls and all of your social networks.
The new home screen is just one of the new features in a Friends update coming soon. We can’t go into much detail on the others yet, but we can say the app feels much faster and smoother. This will be a free update for existing users, so if you haven’t already, grab your copy of Friends today!
A Bicycle for Our Minds
“What a computer is to me is, it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”.
Get well soon, Steve.
Introducing Voices 2
After selling 600,000 copies of the original, we knew that any update to Voices had to be really special. Voices 2 introduces a whole bunch of amazing new features that are sure to keep your friends laughing like the original did:
- 9 new voice effects, raising the total to an astounding 27!
- Super-sharp Retina Display graphics.
- Echo mode enables you to test out each voice before recording.
- Much faster voice processing, it’s practically instant!
- You can now send your recordings via text message.
- You can change your recordings to different voices.
- Added ability to switch between your AirPlay speakers (iOS 4.2 and later).
- Several minor enhancements and bug fixes.
That’s not all! To celebrate the launch of Voices 2, we’re offering free copies of Penguins Arena by Frogames to anyone who shares the news! Head on over to MacHeist to enter!
We are pretty sure you’ll have endless hours of fun with Voices 2, we know we have. You can grab it on the App Store for only 99 cents!
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