The tLicense Twitterformat (e.g., /l by) sets a license for any assets linked/uploaded in your tweet (for example when uploading a photo to Twitpic). Twitter clients that implement tLicense can link known licenses (e.g., Creative Commons licenses) and also services like Twitpic can implement automatic license support for tweets containing tLincense.

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Feathers is now on sale at 50% off (just US $0.99 / UK £0.59 / EU 0.79€) to celebrate being featured by Apple as "New and Noteworthy" in the US and Canadian App Stores.

Get Feathers today and decorate your tweets!

I'm in shock right now as I woke up about half-an-hour ago to a tweet from Tim Sears alerting me that Feathers was being featured by Apple on the US App Store as New and Noteworthy!

I need your advice – those of you who have had apps featured by Apple – what should I do to really take advantage of this? Any and all ideas welcome!

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I just released an open source library and a sample application to make it easy for you to implement Twitter's new browserless xAuth authentication mechanism in your iPhone apps. You can download the source code or fork it from the XAuthTwitterEngine repository on Github.

Twitter started rolling out access to its new xAuth beta to developers over the weekend. As you may know, I'm a big fan of xAuth for mobile and desktop applications and as such I began implementing xAuth in Feathers right away.

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• Shape Export to Objective-C - as3swf - GitHub
  With as3swf you can automatically generate Objective-C source code (Core Graphics, Quartz) from SWF Shapes, to reuse those shapes in your iPhone projects. The as3swf Core Graphics shape exporter generates ready-to-use Objective-C class files (UIView subclasses).

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