BeTweet 1.1 and Littera 1.5 are now released on the App Store. Both are iOS 4 compatible releases supporting multitasking feature of iOS 4 when running under iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.

BeTweet iTunes Link

Littera iTunes Link

Littera is updated to version 1.4.1 available now on the AppStore. This is mainly a bug fixes release with speed improvement in the web reader. Littera App Store link.

We are pleased to roll out this new release which has a single new feature: Twitter sync service. You can now easily harvest web links in tweets into your reading list.

To use it, setup the sync service for reading list the same way as Delicious or RSS Feed. You can now see a new “Twitter” option. You can specify the source of tweets using one of four options:

• Tweets from a user

  Enter the Twitter username to retrieve links tweeted by this user. For example, enter “engadget” if you would like the reading list to retrieve web links mentioned by tweets from Engadget.

• Tweets mentioning a user

  Enter the Twitter username with an “@” in front, for example @twitter. This is a convention in Twitter world for mentions such as a reply.

• Tweets containing a hashtag

  Enter the hashtag (for example #iphone) and Littera will retrieve tweets containing the specified hashtag.

• Tweets from query string

  Enter a query string supported by Twitter search API. This will allow you to specify advanced operators for filtering the tweets. For example entering “#iphone AND #apps” will retrieve tweets containing both #iphone and #apps hashtags. Check out Twitter Search Operator page for list of available options.

Please note that tweets without any web links will be filtered off. This is designed so that you can focus on tweets containing links only.

It is common for tweets to shorten web address due to Twitter’s 140 characters limit. Littera will expand the shortened URL to full address when retrieving the tweets into reading list.

Please download the free version of Littera to try out this new feature. We hope you will find the app useful.

Version 1.3.1 is a bug fixes release and is now available on the App Store.

Coming up next is version 1.4 release which will add Twitter support. Look for it near end of the month.

Google Buzz is the new social networking platform that allows you to update status, start conversations and has tight integration with GMail. Public Buzz updates are available as Atom RSS feed, which is one of the supported service in Littera. It is easy to setup Littera to read Google Buzz public updates.

Public Buzz updates feed URL is in the form:

where {user} is the user id.

Some URL examples:

To setup a reading list under Littera to display the feed, add a new reading list and select the “RSS Feed” sync service. Select the option “Enter feed url” and enter the Buzz public updates URL.

Once setup, you can read the updates by syncing Littera with the feed service.

Littera 1.3 is now on the App Store. This release comes with a new Auto-Delete feature, making it easier ever to manage your reading on iPhone and iPod touch. You can now setup a reading list to automatically delete articles based on article read status and/or created date. For example, delete articles 3 days after the articles are read; or delete articles in the reading list for articles older than 7 days. You setup the Auto-Delete settings for a reading list under the edit reading list properties screen.

We have also made several improvements in this release:

• RSS Feed sync service is improved with the aded support for feed in Atom format.

• We are making it easier for you to setup reading list by giving you the options to setup sync service when adding a new reading list. This saves a few taps.

• There is an option now to hide to “All” and “Starred” system reading lists on the home screen. You access this option under Settings > System Lists.

• Web reader is enhanced to improve the speed of loading article.

• A new “All/None” toggle button added to select multiple articles screen. One tap to select all articles in a reading list or select none.

View Littera Release Notes for more changes in this release.

Visit Littera Home Page.

We are pleased to release Littera 1.2 with support of managing reading for your RSS feeds.

To setup a reading list to read RSS feed, go to Edit Reading List > Sync Service. You will notice RSS Feed is added as a new sync service on top of Delicious. We have added sample RSS feeds to make it easy for you to explore this new feature. In essence, you can now use Littera as a RSS reader.

We also introduced changes to simplify the difference between free and full version of Littera. Free version now has a limit of 3 reading lists, on top of product advertisements. Beside this limit, free version is fully functional. Fullscreen mode and orientation lock for web reader, previously paid features, are now included in the free version of Littera. We hope you will find this app useful and will support us by consider upgrading to full version via in-app purchase.

We made effort to improve the usability for article listing in this release. New font is used and article title will be dimmed in lighter gray when you mark the article as read. Blue ‘new’ icon is displayed for newly created articles. And the article sorting options are revamped. ‘Sort By’ button now reflects the current sort by mode with different icons for sort by ‘Article Name’,'Site Address’,'Created Date’ or ‘Read Status’. Sort Ascending/Descending is now a button on toolbar for quick access.

View Littera Release Notes for detail info. We hope you enjoy this release as much as we do.

Littera 1.1 is now available on the iTunes App Store.

This is an ‘interface enhancement’ release where we improved the theming engine beneath the app and added a new “Littera” theme as the default theme for the app. Landscape view is now supported for all views in the app. And in case you have not noticed, we have a new app icon design with this release.

View Littera Release Notes. We thank you for all the valuable feedbacks.

We are pleased to announce that Littera 1.0 is now available on the iTunes App Store.

Use Littera to organize your reading. Save articles into one or more reading lists, and read them later on the move. Designed to work with existing bookmarking services, the first version of Littera supports Delicious Bookmarks. Add bookmarks to your Delicious account on your desktop, and then sync the bookmarks to Littera on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Find out more about Littera’s features and download the free app now from the App Store.

We are pleased to introduce Littera app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Littera is essentially a reading manager. Save web articles that you want to read into Littera’s reading list, and use the app’s enhanced web reader to read them on the move.

We have designed Littera to support bookmarking service on the cloud, i.e. bookmarks database accessible via the net. The first version of Littera will come with support for Delicious bookmarks. This will allow you to sync your Littera reading list with bookmarks on your Delicious account. Thus you can bookmark web articles to Delicious on your desktop, and then sync them into Littera for reading on your iPhone or iPod touch. Littera makes it easy to manage your “read later” articles.

The web reader in Littera is based on the same technology as Apple’s Safari browser. We have greatly enhanced its functionality to include full screen browsing, orientation lock, text mode and text zooming.

Littera is coming soon and is free for download from the App Store. We have implemented Apple’s In-app Purchase framework to enable you to upgrade to the full version from within the app. Please visit Littera website and FAQs for more info.