TwitterFon 1.5.1 (Free and Pro) has been released. This is bug fixed minor update. Changes and details are in this entry.

TwitterFox 1.8 beta version has been released. Download TwitterFox 1.8 RC1 from naan.net. Change logs: TwitterFox 1.8 RC1: FIXED:

• de-DE locale time format
• Fixed an issue in which TwitterFox miss to get tweets after user posts a tweet
• Support seamonkey
• Decrease font size of tweet information
• Implemented workaround of TwitterFox broken UI on Linux platform

TwitterFox 1.8 Beta 2: FIXED:

• Decode tinyURL on the fly
• Fixed JavaScript warnings
• Fixed an issue that TwitterFox opens preference panel even user adds their accounts

TwitterFox 1.8 Beta 1: NEW:

• Window size and font size are now resizable
• New black translucent theme
• Added time stamp, source name and in reply to info
• Save tweet in local cache
• Get more than 20 tweets
• Fixed an issue that TwitterFox steals focus from input field
• Fixed an issue that TwitterFox doesn't display tooltip appropriately on Mac OS X

I submitted version 1.5.1 today. This is minor bug fixed version up. (See also: TwitterFon 1.5 Known Issues) However, there's a one big change which is app icon. I got many complain about new icon, then Sarah Tan, one of beta testers, send me a great icon. I hope you'll like it too. Also, Timeline View UI has been improved a little bit. User's screen name is now hyperlink to open User Timeline View, so this is good short cut to open user's timeline. Version 1.5: Version 1.5.1: I submitted version 1.5.1 today and it will be available within a week. Here is the change log: CHANGED:

• Polished application icon
• Tweet view now has a link of user's screen name (like m.twitter.com)
• Adjusted search bar UI

FIXED:

• Fixed an issue in which TwitterFon uploads a portrait photo with wrong direction
• Fixed TwitPic 1001 error (happens only if you enter non-ascii chars in a tweet)
• Fixed an issue in which trends search breaks navigation bar
• Fixed an issue in which TwitterFon doesn't update tweet time stamp in real time

These are TwitterFon 1.5 (both free and pro) known issues:

• TwitterFon uploads a portrait photo with wrong direction.
• Trends search breaks navigation UI.
• Timestamp in Timeline View isn't updated automatically
• Local cache db error or app crashes. (rarely happens)
• TwitPic 1001 error. (I'm working on it, but couldn't reproduce the issue yet. Not sure the issue is in TwitterFon or TwitPic)

If you have the database error or app crashes often, clear local cache will solve the issues:

I'm very happy to announce that TwitterFon Pro 1.5 has been approved! Here is what's in the pro version.

Multi account with 4 Themes

This has been most requested feature since I release TwitterFon version 1.0. TwitterFon handles multiple twitter account very smoothly. Take a look UI: So, you have reload button and post button which is exactly same as free version. But as you can see TwitterFon Pro has special navigation title bar which has 2 strings. One is timeline type, and the other is current account name. You can tap this to add or change your accounts. The Accounts View gives you not only add / change account, but also gives you number of your friends and follwwers. Also, detail disclosure button opens Profile View. You can edit account settings and reorder accounts cell. In Account Settings View, you can customize auto load option, themes, and bit.ly. You can use different theme for each accounts.

Landscape Keyboard and Shake to Reload

These are also requested many times. New landscape Post View is not just rotate the current existing Post View. It has dedicated layout.

Integration

TwitterFon integrates bit.ly and Instapaper. You can set bit.ly username and password to make your own shorten URL and track it. You can also use Instapaper to read web pages later.

We'll keep to continue improvement

TwitterFon Pro is an ideal twitter client for advanced Twitter users. But we won't stop here. We will continue to improve Pro version as well as Free one. There are lots of tasks on our the table. Much better themes, more integration (e.g. ping.fm, blip.fm), optimize app speed and so on. TwitterFon Pro is $4.99 on AppStore. Buy this app to support making the best twitter client for iPhone!

I suspend the ad display on TwitterFon for now. The new TwitterFon has an ad feature, for which I got quite a few passionate responses. My plan was to release this new version together with the ad-free pro version so that you will have a choice. Due to my mistake in submitting to App Store, however, the ad-supported free version came out before the pro version, leaving you with no choice but to have to see the ads. I am truly sorry for that. To alleviate your pain a little, I decided to take out the ads until the pro version comes out. As I explained in the previous post, adding ads will enable me to dedicate more resources to TwitterFon to make it better. It is also a proof of my deepened commitment to TwitterFon, elevating its importance for me from a pet moonlighting project. I hope to show you my appreciation of your support with enhanced features and usability in the near future.

I'm very happy to announce the release of TwitterFon 1.5. There are huge improvements on the Pro version, but even the Free one has been improved quite well. Here is what's new in version 1.5. New Rich Text Timeline View We provide this excellent feature for all TwitterFon users. This is a huge improvement. TwitterFon now has rich text views for all twitter timelines. This feature provides a very easy way to navigate links in tweets. Before version 1.5, you had to tap the link icon to open a link. You had to tap twice if the tweet had more than 2 links (Open Link View, then select a link). Rich text also creates extra room since it doesn't need a link button. Now you can easily toggle your favorites, and it's easy to open the user timeline from the @username link. The Rich Text View engine is copyrighted by Satoshi Nakagawa, an excellent iPhone application and Ruby Cocoa engineer. User Lookup TwitterFon 1.5 has a new user lookup shortcut on the search tab. When you tap the search text field, the Trends button becomes a Profile button. Enter a screen name and tap the profile button to open a profile. You can also tap the profile button with blank text to open your own profile. Quick access to Twitter Trends or Search History TwitterFon opens a blank view when you tap the search tab. With Version 1.5 you can customize this behavior. Go to System Settings.app and select "Search startup screen". Choose either "None" (default), "Search", "History", or "Trends". If you choose "Trends", TwitterFon opens twitter trends immediately tapping the search tab. If you choose "Search", TwitterFon searches twitter with the latest keyword. If you choose "History", you can see the search history. And other things TwitterFon 1.5 also has two new options: Font size settings and auto load timeline settings. There is also a shortcut to install a bookmarklet for your Mobile Safari. The last thing that we added an ad on top of friend timeline. We wrote about ad support on here. TwitterFon 1.5 is free and available on App Store today. Update 03/15/2009 If you are having an issue with local cache error, please clear your local cache from system's Settings.app. * Open Settings.app -> Tap TwitterFon -> Clear local cache

You will start to see ads with the new free version of TwitterFon. I know, I know - it is a major change to the app known for its simple and clean interface. I started TwitterFon (and TwitterFox) as a hobby. Since then it has always remained just a hobby, though I was pretty passionate about it. However, the two applications have been downloaded over two million times, and it has become exceedingly difficult to continue to support them. I now receive many, many requests: Some from users, some from potential partners. It was fun to communicate with my fellow users in the beginning, but now I am inundated with all sorts of questions, requests, and proposals. As you all know, I love TwitterFon. I would love to keep improving it and adding better features. To do so I must focus on its development. Hiring other people is the only way to make it happen. I am also eager to polish our interface design by adding a great designer to our team. Unfortunately, hiring good people requires money. I have tried to incorporate an ad into TwitterFon in the most unobstructive way possible and I hope you like my choice. I may change the ad format from time to time to figure out the way that works best with users. Please bear with me!

There are couple of announcements from naan studio, Inc. 1. We just started! We are very happy to announce that naan studio, Inc. just started! We are focused on both TwitterFox and TwitterFon. 2. Closed repository Before we started naan studio, Inc., Both TwitterFox and TwitterFon are Kazuho Okui's personal open source project and he hosted a repository on his site. However, we decided to close them. Please note that version 1.4.5 and later of TwitterFon, and version 1.8 and later of TwitterFox are no longer licensed under any terms. 3. Release TwitterFon Pro We are going to release first our "paid" product, which is TwitterFon Pro. This is an ideal twitter client for advanced twitter users. These are some screen shots and major differences between free and paid version.

• Multi account support
• 4 different theme
• Shake to reload
• Landscape keyboard
• bit.ly
• Instapaper
• RichText tweet view
• Push notification (After iPhone OS 3.0)

The rule of free vs. pro is simple. We keep both simple as much as possible, but pro version has more features as requested. We will continue to maintain free version of TwitterFon without any limitation, means you can use basic functions as you already have on version TwitterFon 1.4.x and we will add several advanced features such as Rich Text tweet view to free version. 4. Private beta test Finally, we are inviting several people for beta test program of new version of TwitterFon. Please visit this form and fill it. We're opening this form at 24 hours, then determines beta tester by lot . We will start the beta test from this weekend. Update 5/2 2:00PM We closed the form. Thank you for filling the form. Update 5/2 6:00PM We sent first beta version to beta testers. If you didn't receive an e-mail from naanstudio.com, you are out of the lottery. We will have another round of beta program in future.

naan studio is a privately funded startup company with offices in Mountain View, CA. We are currently focused on twitter applications - TwitterFox and TwitterFon. Both of them has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times, and there are more than 200,000 daily active users in the world.