The OneLouder Apps team introduced a new Twitter client today, called Slices for Twitter. After seeing success with their other social apps like TweetCaster and BaconReader, they decided that your Twitter experience could be even simpler or more involved, depending on how you want to approach it.

Slices is for both beginner and advanced users who want to easily discover likable new content, browse the Twitter world by category (live events, celebs, music, etc.), bookmark favorite accounts, and synchronize it all between web and mobile device. 

Here are the major selling features in a bit more detail:

• Twitter Directory– Slices is the only Twitter app with the “Explore” Twitter directory. With 21 browsable, searchable categories, finding people and lists to follow is astonishingly easy and fun.
• Live Events – Only Slices has Live Event streams, making it easy to follow live events on Twitter. Each stream displays a feed of tweets from the “right” people for today’s events, like sports, music, TV shows, and more.
• Timeline Slicer– Another exclusive feature, Timeline Slicer helps users organize their timelines into “Slices”. These are mini-feeds that users define, letting them read what they want, when they want it.
• Bookmarks – Though a familiar concept to anyone who browses the web, Slices is the first Twitter app with bookmarks. Just like on a web browser, users can bookmark favorite Twitter accounts or lists for easy access.
• Mobile-to-Web – Slices automatically synchronizes between mobile devices and the Slices website. No more struggles to find one’s place in the Timeline, or re-reading notifications of messages/mentions.

If you still aren’t exactly sure how this app works, I’d highly recommend that you watch the video below. The app, which may be useful for beginners too, can really be taken advantage of by Twitter power users. You can customize your stream, follow the most current events, and of course, continue your conversations through a beautiful UI. This is one of the better Twitter apps that we have seen in a while. It’s not trying to be just another Holo-themed, panel-ish Twitter feed.

The app is free in the Play store, but you can upgrade for $4.99 to the ad-free version.

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Slices for Twitter – Making Streams More Manageable, Live Events Easier to Follow, and Favorite Topics Accessible is a post from: Droid Life

 If you are into reddit and Android, you have likely heard of baconreader. It’s made by OneLouder Apps, the same crew that produced 1Weather, SportCaster, and TweetCaster to name a few. Their reddit app though, is the go-to for the service. It received a mention-worthy update this afternoon that brought with it a scrollable and resizable widget, NFC Beam support, hardware acceleration, subreddit widgets that refresh depending on frequency, and more. It’s mostly Ice Cream Sandwich related, but you won’t complain, will you?  

Here is the full list:

1. Widget points to selected subreddit, and refreshes at selected frequency
2. Widget supports scrolling and resizing on Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich devices
3. Supports Beam on NFC-enabled Ice Cream Sandwich devices
4. Supports Hardware Acceleration
5. Posts, widgets, external images and gifs, and comments load more quickly due to component rewrites
6. Widget points to the appropriate story in the application
7. If you like what you see, please consider changing your rating in the Android Market!

Market Links:  Free | Premium ($1.99)

Cheers @Esteinberger!

baconreader Receives Sizable Update for Ice Cream Sandwich Devices – Scrollable Widget, Beam Support, Hardware Acceleration and More is a post from: Droid Life

You know what guys? I almost made a major faux-pas when I went to type out this post. I mean, after writing an entire column about how “beta” was becoming a shield for developers to hide behind I almost labelled this post a review.

BaconReader is an application for browsing the website Reddit.com; while this may seem counter-intuitive to just using your phone’s browser, the app brings a lot to the table in terms of functionality and usability. It’s the same kind of thing with having a Twitter client or the “Facebook for Android” app on your phone: sure, you could use your mobile browser for that, but sometimes it just doesn’t cut it.  

At the moment, Reddit does have a mobile interface (http://www.reddit.com/.compact), and it’s quite usable. There’s also another app called Reddit is Fun that replicates that functionality with an emphasis on speed.

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However, BaconReader adds a lot of polish to its interface, making it look like Reddit paid good money to have it developed. Other features include previews of all shapes and sizes (images, YouTube, article) and management of your Reddit account. With a couple clicks you can manage incoming messages and subreddits, as well as filter the threads you want to see with a hide button.

While these might seem like really elementary features, its been hard to get this experience on a mobile app. I mean, I’ve used Reddit is Fun for awhile now, but I’ve really been converted to BaconReader because it looks like it’s more than something that was cobbled together as a part time project. It looks like it deserves to be in the Marketplace and making money; this extra effort in usability wins it points from me.

But I’m not going to go too much into that, because this isn’t a review. In reality, BaconReader’s just getting into its alpha phase right now; I signed up for initial testing awhile back, but you can register for updates at BaconReader.com.

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Matt Demers is a Toronto journalist. He writes for Droid Life multiple times a week. Follow him on Twitter or his Tumblr/Portfolio!

Preview: BaconReader Alpha is a post from: Droid Life