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UPDATED: iPhone home screen Exposé mock up seems interesting

by Josh Holat on Oct 18, 2009 at 03:43 PM

UPDATE: The type of feature talked about in this post has, in fact, been implemented by an iPhone developer. Unfortunately, it is only available through jailbroken iPhones on the Cydia App Store, as there is no way Apple would allow this in the actual App Store. However, if you do… Continue Reading »

Appletell’s iPhone novelty app roundup

by Josh Holat on Aug 14, 2009 at 06:01 AM

Novelty applications are very common on the iPhone, as many developers have created little $0.99 applications that do one thing. In this app review roundup, we will be looking at NESynth, Dude Deluxe, Ask Happy Buddha, and The Wishing Well; four small applications that don’t really do a lot. Continue Reading »

New iPhone ads display file sharing applications and travel

by Josh Holat on Aug 5, 2009 at 05:41 AM

With two new iPhone ads this week, Apple is pushing the file sharing and traveling abilities of the iPhone. In the first ad, entitled “Travel,” that strangely familiar hand and voice details the ability of some applications to help you tour areas of the world or simply find your way… Continue Reading »

App It Up: Tangram Deluxe

by Josh Holat on Jun 21, 2009 at 01:50 PM

Tangram Deluxe is based on an ancient Chinese puzzle game. It consists of placing differently sized and shaped puzzle pieces onto a silhouette of a larger image in order to create that image. The game boats over 700 silhouettes spread across eight different categories, and is able to be played… Continue Reading »

How Apple hoses App Store reviews

by Bill Stiteler on Apr 21, 2009 at 07:46 PM

Words cannot describe how much I feel the iTunes App Store is broken. For every thing that’s right about it (the convenience, for one, and the ease of installing updates), the big problem, the huge problem that Apple has decided to put someone’s great-grandma (both slow and a prude) in… Continue Reading »

Apple hosts 1 Biliion App Countdown

by Josh Holat on Apr 11, 2009 at 03:43 PM

It’s no surprise that Apple will soon sell their one billionth application through the iTunes App Store. However, the way they are celebrating it is sort of neat, and something we don’t often see from Apple. They are hosting a contest and giving away a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an… Continue Reading »

Stanford offers iPhone developer course for free via iTunes U

by Josh Holat on Apr 2, 2009 at 09:41 PM

Stanford University, which has quite the collection of free content available on iTunes U, will soon be beginning their iPhone Application Programming course. This course, which will cover Cocoa programming for the Mac as well as a plethora of other coding practices, will have the content and videos up a… Continue Reading »

iPhone external keyboard without hacking, but on iPhone 2.0 SDK

by Josh Holat on Mar 25, 2009 at 02:03 PM

Two PerceptDev engineers by the names of Zack Gainsforth and George Dean have been able to get an infrared keyboard working with their iPhone. At first, you may be thinking that they simply are using the 3.0 SDK with allows developers to communicate with devices plugged in to the 30… Continue Reading »

Numerous illegitimate app stores steal Apple’s thunder

by Josh Holat on Mar 13, 2009 at 03:53 PM

There are plenty of reports of various App Stores popping up that promise to offer iPhone applications in a way other than through the actual iTunes App Store. Just this week, the Cydia store was made available for jailbroken iPhones. These App Stores—which are completely illegitimate in Apple’s eyes, I’m… Continue Reading »

Tweetie, popular iPhone Twitter app, update rejected for bad language

by Josh Holat on Mar 11, 2009 at 04:44 PM

Tweetie, a very popular iPhone Twitter application, includes a feature that allows Twitter users to check up on the trending topics on Twitter. In a recent update submission to the App Store, Tweetie was rejected due to a foul term appearing in this trends list. This word, which the developer… Continue Reading »

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