Winter is far from over, but there's been a couple of noticeable changes on my iOS iPhone and iPad home screens.  Aside from my background  color switch on the iPhone from red to blue and on the iPad from blue to red, there have been a couple of app changes.

I have long been a fan of the Tweetbot application, a full featured and powerful Twitter client for the iOS platform.  The application has basically everything I want in a twitter application: push notifications,  position and message read status sync, mute filters, and UI that just won't quit.  Well, that last part is really what is bothering me.  The iPhone version of Tweetbot was given an iOS 7 redesign during the latter half of 2013.  It is truly a sweet looking application.  Unfortunately, Tapbots have been really lagging in getting the iPad version of the app up to iOS 7 standards.  Since I use Tweetbot on the iPhone, iPad, and the Mac,  I prefer the experience to be top notch on each device. I can excuse an updated UI on the Mac since I spend very little time using Twitter on the desktop. However on the iPad, which I do use daily, the old style iOS 6 design of Tweetbot is wearing on me. It's annoying enough that I will cease to use it on the iPhone and iPad and will be replaced with IconFactory's Twitterrific 5.

Waiting for that Tweetbot elusive iPad update.......

Update: Twitterrific has stopped working over LTE for me and I am unable to send or receive tweets.  The app works when on wifi.  I will have to delete this app on the iPhone until the Iconfactory has a solution to get it working again.  I have tried force quitting the app and deleting and re-installing it. 

Update 2: Finally figured it out. The cellular data setting was turned off for Twitterrific which was causing the app to not retrieve or send data over my LTE connection. Once I flipped the switch to enable data, the app worked like a charm.

Tweetbot for iOS ( iPhone (L), iPad (R) )

My wife knows me so well and gave me a little tech love in the form of an iPhone themed Valentines day card.  Also, TechMusings turns 1 year old today, not bad for a little hobby of mine.