There is something that has always made me happy about the sun streaming through the 59th st bridge. I shot this photo a few weeks ago and I thought it would make the perfect photo of the day. To me the sunshine signals the beginning of summer in New York. And I for one, can’t wait. Happy Friday!

Vegan Yum Yum (Free): From the popular vegan blog comes a beautifully designed iPhone app full of great recipes to try out. What I love about the app is that each recipe has beautiful photos and very helpful step by step instructions. There are still a ton of things I want to make from this app.

VeganXpress ($1.99): This app is great for when you find your self looking for something to eat, but you aren’t exactly sure what’s vegan. I use this a lot on road trips when I end up having to eat a chain restaurants. It also has a list of food items (chips, cookies, candies, etc) that are vegan as well as a list of beer and wine.

Smoothies ($0.99): This is another recipe app, but only smoothie recipes. The recipes come from blogger Kathy Patalsky of Healthy Happy Life (one of my favorite vegan blogs). All the recipes are vegan and very creative! I usually take a very simple approach to smoothies, but this has taken my smoothies to a whole new level.

If you haven’t had a chance to take a look, here are the listed features. I have marked in bold the features that are unique to Tweetdeck:

• Tweet directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Manage multiple Twitter accounts.
• View notifications for new tweets received.
• Use columns to create your personal dashboard.
• Simply sync to set-up
• Continuously updates between your desktop and iPhone.
• Create Groups to easily follow all your friends.
• Follow topics in real-time with saved searches.
• Reply to tweets and send direct messages.
• Easily re-tweet messages.
• Share photos with Twitpic and YFrog.
• Shorten links with your favourite URL shortener.
• Follow and un-follow people.
• Shake your iPhone to refresh columns.

So of course I did what everyone else did and downloaded the app (it was free) but within the first few seconds of using it I noticed a huge missing feature. Go to User! I wanted the ability to type in someones username and see their tweets, followers, and be able to DM them. Within Tweetie this was a snap. You simply click the ‘more’ tab, and click ‘go to user’, then just type in the persons twitter handle and you are good to go.

This feature is especially helpful when you want to DM or @reply someone who you had not recently had a conversation with. In tweetdeck the only way to get to a userscreen is to click on that person’s tweet. So they would have had to have recently tweeted in order for you to find them. Well what if they haven’t tweeted in days, then what are you supposed to do?

Here is an example of what a user’s profile page will look like in Tweetdeck and then Tweetie.

I understand the usefulness of having columns, of having it sync with your desktop app, and putting people into groups. But without the basic feature so search through users, I cannot use Tweetdeck. So until that changes, it’s Tweetie all the way.

She told me that she felt like she didn’t think she was really using it correctly. I told her that there really isn’t a “correct” way to use twitter, but I was curious as to what made her think that.

She had some really interesting insights about how she uses twitter and ways she would like to see it be improved. These were things that I had not really heard from a lot of users or really from the general tech community so I thought I would share them with you all.

The first thing that she felt was missing was a facebook type of “wall-to-wall” view, for your conversations back and forth with one person. I know that there are some apps that do this but Rosie mainly uses the main twitter web page when she is at a computer and twitterific on her iPhone. She would like these features to be built into the main twitter site.
However you can use search.twitter.com/advanced to search for conversations between specific people.

She also was really wishing that she could see her list of followers/following in alphabetical order. This was something I never felt the need for but I was really wondering if other people might find this helpful as well.

Rosie also became frustrated that she could not just DM anyone. She wants to be able to have a private conversation with anyone, no matter who is following who. She said that it was kind of strange that you might be able to have a one-way DM conversation if you were DM-ing one of your followers who then could not DM you back because you were not following them.

Her last insight was that she felt that the interface and general feel of twitter was a little childish. She couldn’t really explain why she felt that way, but I thought it was interesting none the less.

If you want to follow her she is @rosesness on twitter.

I would love to hear your thoughts on her thoughts.

In today’s video my friend calls me out on trying to not put up a video today! Enjoy

(p.s. if you are reading this in a feed and you can’t see the video please click through)

Also, I have lost 5 pounds in 10 days eating raw food!

Thanks for checking out the videos every day! And please leave comments on your favorite iPhone Apps below.

One of my favorites is the new news feed. It allows you to see how many comments any certain post has, and let you add one right from the news feed. Another great feature in the news feed is the bar on the top. You slide your finger horizontally across the bar to switch the news feed you are viewing. It implements friend groups so you can only look at the news feed of people you want to see. It also lets you look at the news feed for certain facebook apps. The inbox has been updated, showing a much easier to read conversation. And as always there is facebook chat.

Flew to Oakland..had a 2 hr layover, got in to Long Beach…waited on the ground for 30 mins after a whole jet blue flight with NO TV Got to my friends house, hacked my iPhone…went live on Qik…A LOT!

Found out you can be a vegetarian and still eat In-N-Out burger ::yum!:: …streamed on Qik some more…had great green tea … drove and drove and drove (cause no one walks in Cali) ate at Marie Callender’s (it was ok) went to Wal-Mart for the first time (did you know they sell goldfish?) , tried to stream on Qik but there was no 3G in Wall-Mart Searched for fellow vegetarians…not much luck …. almost met up with Gary Vaynerchuk in LA but he had to leave early …. played with friends… went to a lot of church meetings… and now I am writing this post when I probably should be taking a nap

So Friday night I fly up to San Fran and hopefully I will be doing a lot of live streaming on Qik! If you want to make sure you will always know when I am live you can follow me on twitter