Burner is a new iPhone app that will give you a disposable, short term cell phone number to give to randos at the bar, weirdos on Craigslist, and Marlos on the corner.
Disposable cell numbers certainly seem like they might be used for nefarious activities, but founder & CEO Greg Cohn said these numbers can be used for any number of purposes in the era when a cell number is so closely tied a person’s identity.
(thanks, Alex)
This doesn’t seem like something people would abuse at all.
Why has the Facebook app been so slow? Because the current version of the app is nothing more than a web browser inside an Objective-C shell. Stuff is being constantly pulled from the web, hence the lag time.Gizmodo’s Casey Chan • Explaining the main problem with Facebook’s iPhone app — it’s not really a native app, so it’s slow. But this is apparently changing, according to Nick Bilton of the NY Times, who says a fully-native app is coming — and it’s fast.
Tumblr for iPhone 3.0: Now available on the App Store
- Sleeker Dashboard: High-res images, Spotify support, improved photosets, and more.
- New post forms: Faster uploads and handy shortcuts (swipe the compose button up for camera, swipe left for text)!
- Offline support: Post, like, reply, and reblog even when you’re not connected!
- Speed: Faster, super-responsive interface.
- Tag search and Radar!
Rich text support would be nice too, but otherwise a good improvement.
(Source: staff)
The best Tumblr reading experience on your iPhone: Flipboard. For some reason the simple act of flipping just works a heckuva lot better for the simple act of reading than the infinite scroll of Tumblr’s own app. If it had just a couple more options, it’d be perfect. It’s surprising, actually, because we think Flipboard’s overrated on the iPad. It launched on the iPhone about a week ago.
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