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IM+ Pro7 Review

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Campbell Bird on October 24th, 2013
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: PAY TO UPDATE
Chat with contacts securely across Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, and more in this newly redesigned instant messaging app.
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Talk it Up on Twitter DM, Facebook, Skype, and More Now that IM+ is Free for a While

Posted by Rob Rich on September 20th, 2013
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

IM+ Pro is going to be free for a little while, so if you haven't given it a download yet you've pretty much run out of excuses. The Pro version of the app allows users to integrate with Skype, has longer push sessions, and is add free. In addition to all the other features like group chats over Skype, AIM, and ICQ (people still use ICQ??), chat histories, customizable themes, multiple user accounts, and so on.

App Update: IM+ Gets iPhone 5, iOS 6, and Queued Message Support

Posted by Rob LeFebvre on October 4th, 2012

The fantastic mutli-service IM client, IM+, was updated today, with some welcome fixes.

What's New in Version 7.3
- Support for iOS 6 and iPhone 5
- Message queue: outgoing messages are queued if network is not available and will be automatically sent when network connection is restored
- UI improvements
- Bug fixes

Jab Friends Instead Of Poking Them With JabMe

Posted by Jennifer Allen on November 8th, 2011
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad

Poking people on Facebook is just sooooo 2010. 2011 is all about jabbing friends! Or at least that's what JabMe's developers think.

JabMe is an app that lets users send jabs to their friends alongside fun sound effects. Using Push Notiications, it's unlimited with a plethora of different sounds and jab actions. Jabs can be anything from a Kung Fu Kick jab to a Burp or a kind hearted Happy Birthday.

There's a game element to it, too, with GameCenter Leaderboards helping users keep track of the highest number of jabs they've inflicted on their friends. A Jab Back action means it's pretty easy to up the jab count and fast.

Once bored of the free supply of jab actions, users can then purchase other packs for $0.99 a pack.

It's certainly quirky but hopefully JabMe will make for a fun messaging service for those who like to be in regular virtual contact with friends.

It's out now.

IM+ Video Review

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Greg Dawson on October 5th, 2011
Our rating: starstarstarstarblankstar :: IM & VIDEO CHAT
This app's ability to let users IM, video chat or VoIP with Facebook friends for free makes it an easy download. The user interface and simple functions are added bonuses.
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Trillian Review

+ Universal & Apple Watch App - Designed for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
By Kyle Flanigan on August 18th, 2010
Our rating: starstarstarstarhalfstar :: CLEAN & CHIC
Trillian is a well-established chat client available on a myriad of operating systems, including iOS.
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IM+ Now Supports More Than You'll Ever Need

Posted by Kyle Flanigan on August 17th, 2010

Journalists are prone to hyperbole, but this title is almost euphemistic. SHAPE Services, creator of the popular IM+ client, are continuing to roll out feature after feature for their mass-market social networking application.

IM+ current supports Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN / Live, AIM (Mac users think iChat), ICQ, MySpace, Facebook, Jabber, Twitter and Skype chat. Outside of the seemingly endless list of clients, the application also provides an equally long list of push notification options, including e-mail arrival notifications from popular clients such as Hotmail, Yahoo! and Google Mail.

In addition to the application being universally built for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, IM+ also features an in-built browser for those who don't have the ability to multitask - a welcome addition for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch users who are unable to avail of Apple's much-awaited feature.

The latest update - 4.3 - brings with it a number of new themes and wallpapers, high resolution graphics for iPhone 4 users and VoiceOver support, allowing for speech recognition to be enabled. This last feature will set users back 99c a month.

There's no doubt that SHAPE Services developers are trying to appeal to everyone. From customizable sounds and animated emoticons to geo-location support and retina display graphics, IM+ is becoming the client of choice for social networking users. It remains one of the top grossing applications for Social Networking - not bad at all for a $9.99 application with almost 4 000 competitors. And to top it all off, there's a free version too.


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Premium IM Client, Beejive IM, Now Available for iPad

Posted by Bonnie Eisenman on June 6th, 2010
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
Our rating: starstarstarstarstar :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :: Read Review »

We adored Beejive IM for iPhone when we last looked at it back in November, giving it a 5/5 star rating. And rightly so—Beejive is a premium chat app with a gigantic suite of features, touting everything from a slick interface to push notifications to support for multiple accounts and services. It was even selected as one of the top apps by Apple in the iTunes Rewind 2009 feature.

Now, the folks at Beejive, Inc have released an iPad-native version of their award-winning iPhone app. BeejiveIM for iPad is very similar to the iPhone app, but with the interface overhauled to support the iPad's larger screen. It's designed to work best in landscape view, in which your buddy list, current chat, and open chats each appear in their own column on-screen. Portrait view is still functional, of course; your buddy list simply slides off-screen, to be accessed by a button tap when needed, leaving you with your current chat and a list of your open chats.

Of course, all of the features which have earned Beejive its accolades are still present; you can juggle multiple accounts, take advantage of push notifications, and connect to services ranging from AIM to Google Talk to Jabber. The lovely giant-image background can either be taken from Beejive's built-in library or from your own camera roll.

This new app comes at a cost, of course. Beejive has always been a premium IM app, and the iPad version will set you back by $9.99, regardless of if you already own the iPhone version. If you're willing to pay for quality, however, consider it an investment. Beejive already rules the iPhone IM arena for good reason; now, we'll likely see it dominating the iPad, too.

iPad App Preview: IM+

Posted by Ryan Wood on April 2nd, 2010
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

There are quite a few instant message apps out there, all trying to be the must have for iDevice users. With the release of the iPad, that struggle is renewed. IM+ is a well respected pocket sized iDevice app, and given the screenshots we've seen so far, IM+'s iPad functionality is going to put it at the top of the list.

IM+ provides an "Award winning instant messenger for iPhone/iPod Touch to chat within MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, ICQ, Facebook, MySpace, Skype and Twitter." We're excited to see how well IM+ ports to the new larger screen format.

BeejiveIM (Updated)

iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
By Brandon Carter Meixel on November 20th, 2009
Our rating: starstarstarstarstar :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
BeejiveIM (pronounced bee-hive) is a feature rich, multiprotocol instant messaging client that blows the pants off any other chat program offered in the App Store. It uses your iPhone's data plan to send and receive messages, photos, etc.
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Tweetie 2, a first look

Posted by Kyle Flanigan on October 9th, 2009

Whilst we have almost the entire staff looking at Tweetie 2 right now (you think we're kidding), here's a quick pictorial summary of what you can expect from the much-awaited application:

US iTunes Store: $2.99
UK iTunes Store: £1.79

New features include a refined interface, flick down to refresh feature, tweet drafting and much more. See the Tweetie 2 iTunes App Store page for a full list of updates. We'll certainly have a review up on Monday after some extensive testing, but in the meantime, be sure to check after the jump for tons of screenshots.

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Twitter and Push Notifications - The Big One

Posted by Kyle Flanigan on August 28th, 2009

With the much anticipated arrival of push notifications, Twitter clients from across the App Store (and beyond) have been updated and re-polished to support this latest feature. However, times travel fast! Jeff was right when he said to me last week: "[this article] will likely be out of date within a week or so." No fewer than three extra clients have landed onto the App Store and into our hands this week alone. We've dived in at the deep end to check out them all.

Why Push Notifications?
In the olden days, for instance, whenever 148 was the maximum amount of applications that you could install, if you wanted information you had to go to it. Be it the latest news or the latest tweets, the only way that you'd find out about it is if you went to the information source - a Twitter application for tweets; or a news website for breaking news. Push notifications reverses this role and the information is brought to you. You're updated in real time about what is happening, who is tweeting you, and why the Zune is not as good as the iPod (okay, maybe not the last one). Push is practically limitless, and developers are keen to get ahead of the game.

The Clients
There are two types of clients for Twitter push notifications. Firstly, there is the fully-fledged application that has both a Twitter interface of its own and push notifications. Secondly, there are applications that leave the tweeting to the pros (eg. Tweetie / Twitterific) and a separate application is made solely for push. We'll look at both.

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Full rundown of the Twitter apps after the break.

Beejive IM Updated With Push Notifications

Posted by Jeff Scott on June 23rd, 2009
iPhone App - Designed for iPhone, compatible with iPad
Our rating: starstarstarstarstar :: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :: Read Review »

There has been some question if Apple had been holding applications that use push notifications. Well, it looks like they have been, and they have started releasing them. Today we've seen updates to both AIM, and Beejive. Let's take a little closer look at the update to Beejive.

Beejive today released an update to Beejive IM, our favorite IM application. The update includes the greatly anticipated push notification services.

Adding push notification services to an IM application allows you to stay logged into the IM servers even when you are not running the application. Created by Apple as a substitute for allowing third party applications to run in the background and reportedly much less of a battery drain, done properly it allows much of the same functionality.

I've been using the push notification services of Beejive for a few days now and it seems to work pretty well. There have been some outages, times when the notifications didn't work, but we're chalking that up to Apple.

When you first launch the updated application with push notifications, you will be prompted just once to allow Beejive to send you notifications. This dialog is very similar to the "Application X would like to use your location" dialog we are all very familiar with. If you ever want to turn off the notifications, that can be done in the settings app.

Overall, push notifications is a fantastic feature and one of the main reasons I've been looking forward to OS 3.0. I use IM a lot and being able to stay logged in during the (unfortunately few) hours per day I'm not at my computer is fantastic.

Once caveat -- you can't stay logged into forever, there is a 24 hour maximum. To stay logged in longer you just need to make sure that you launch Beejive once a day.

There are some limitations to push notifications though. For one, push notifications don't stack up -- so you'll see only the latest notification from an single app. Other IM messages will only be in the app once you launch it. If your device is locked, you will see the notification, but can't respond or launch Beejive automatically once unlocked. These are all limitations of the push notification service itself and iPhone OS 3. Beejive have done a really good job working within the limitations such as these.

Currently the push notification option for Beejive is free, and there's no indication to think they they plan to charge separately for this feature. But I do expect some applications to use in-app purchasing to let users enable push notifications as there can be a significant cost to the publisher to support this option

The update to Beejive IM has been approved and is available now and will be free to previous owners, $9.99 for new users.

Note: There's something odd going on in the store -- the update is listed in iTunes as 2.2.0.24, but once installed it will show as version 3.0 in the app.

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Yahoo! Brings OneConnect Native App to iPhone OS

Posted by Jeff Scott on September 10th, 2008

OneConnect is an attempt by Yahoo! to unify all of the social networks you use into one application. They have released this pretty interesting looking application to the iTunes App Store now. Downloading now...

Features:
* Get a full-featured phone book that can integrate contacts from your Yahoo! Address Book, iPhone, and your social networks (including: Bebo, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, hi5, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube).
* Connect with your friends via Yahoo! Messenger or SMS. Have fun with emoticons, avatars, and photos.
* See what's happening on your favorite social networks with an at-a-glance view of status updates, photo uploads, and more.
* Find your favorite people quickly and call, message, or send an e-mail—with one tap.

[ Read More @ Yahoo! ]

IM+

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
By Jeff Scott on August 29th, 2008
Our rating: starstarstarblankstarblankstar :: RECOMMENDED
IM+ is good, not spectacular free IM application for the iPhone.
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