Appboy Gets a New Design, iPhone App and Best Buy Partnership

March 9th, 2010
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Mashable

Back in October we wrote about Appboy, a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile applications. Appboy has just rolled… read more

GDC 2010: From concept to Top Paid with Unity iPhone

March 9th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<py Technologies hosted the sponsored lunch panel during GDC 2010 today, and their "product evangelist" Tom Higgins gave a quick rundown of the software platform that enables developers to assemble and release games extremely quickly on multiple platforms.

The company was actually founded in Denmark, but has since… read more

Daily Deals for March 9, 2010

March 9th, 2010
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Apple Store: [iPods] Refurbished Apple iPod touch MP3 Players from $139 + free shipping
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: Pocket Heart, Diner Dash, Magellan RoadMate, more
MacUpdate Promo: [Security/Anti-Virus Software] Lockngo 4 for Mac… read more

HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media

March 9th, 2010
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Mashable

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes — lately, it… read more

Slate comes to the iPhone, along with a lot of advertising

March 9th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Now, Slate has come to the iPhone in a US$1.99 app that features all the articles from the site, as well as the blog posts, staff tweets and streaming video from the Slate podcasts. Once content is downloaded you can read it off-line, which is a worthwhile feature. Access to… read more

Report: RIAA pressured Apple into creating iTunes LP

March 9th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<ps feature over at GigaOM has quite a few interesting insights about the iTunes LP program — while Apple sells it wholeheartedly as "the visual experience of the record album," it appears the story behind the story is not quite so clean. According to an anonymous source in the industry… read more

PlayStation First to Sell HD Movies from All Major Studios

March 9th, 2010
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Mashable

Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to sell high-definition movies from all the major movie studios: Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner Bros and, of course, Sony Pictures.

Some of the content… read more

iPad will lack some standard iPhone apps at launch

March 9th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Thus, the mystery begins. Where are The Final Five? Chen suggests that they’ll be released as free apps in the App Store. John Gruber believes that design problems caused the team (specifically, Steve Jobs) to withhold the apps. I agree with John and Brian.

Consider the calculator app. It… read more

Steve Ballmer compliments Apple, Hell freezes over

March 9th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Ordinarily, a comment like this might not be significant, but in this case it adds fuel to the fire that Apple will replace Google with Bing as the default search engine in the next iPhone OS. Google and Apple are increasingly at odds and it’s possible that Apple may see… read more

CBS Sports March Madness app will stream your games live

March 9th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<pmuch more of a baseball fan (go Cubs!), but of course it is now March, and that means college basketball is about to heat up. CBS Sports has now released an official March Madness On Demand app, and just like the great MLB iPhone app, this one also offers streaming… read more

Steph Tirion, creator of Eliss, annouces Faraway

March 8th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<ph Tirion is an excellent game designer who I've had the good fortune to meet a few times. He first released a great game called Eliss on the App Store and he's now announced the second game he's been working on, called Faraway. Eliss was a terrific little arcade game… read more

iPhone devsugar: The need for multiple ipa delivery

March 8th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Each of those applications must be registered with a unique app identifier, each one takes up a separate slot when installed on your iPhone’s home screen, each application occupies a separate App Store listing, complete with its own screen shots, marketing material, reviews, and so forth. Each one must be… read more

Valve: Steam, games coming to Mac in April

March 8th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Game titles we can expect to see include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half Life series. Even better news is that Valve intends to make simultaneous platform releases the norm from here on out. Expect Portal 2 to be the first game to be… read more

Enter to win Trip Journal 4.0 for the iPhone DO NOT POST

March 8th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<pps has updated their app Trip Journal to version 4.0, and the new update adds a fair bit of functionality to the already pretty impressive set of trip recording and tagging features. As with previous versions, you can track pictures, notes, and maps of your trips, and communicate via a… read more

Delicious Library: Catalog Your Media in Style

March 8th, 2010
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Mac App Storm

Have you recently bought a book, DVD or a CD you already own, but had forgotten about? No? But you do know every single book, DVD, game, CD, gadget or toy you own?

If you just screwed up you forehead trying hard to think of everything, maybe Delicious Library is something… read more

Like iPhone, iPad ad premieres at Oscars

March 7th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<palk about big premieres. Like it did with the iPhone and its "Hello" ad, Apple used the Oscars as the platform to debut its iPad commercial. The ad, set to the background of The Blue Van's "There Goes My Love," shows the iPad being used in a variety of ways:… read more

Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week

March 7th, 2010
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Tags: justin bieber, Top Twitter Topics, twitter

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iTunes Down for Some

March 7th, 2010
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Mashable

iTunes appears to be suffering downtime and other issues today. The service is at best slow, at worst not loading for some and delivering error messages for others.

It’s rare for Apple’s media store — which recently celebrated an amazing 10 billion downloads — to suffer from technical difficulties, but… read more

8 Great Spotify Hints, Tips and Tricks

March 7th, 2010
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Mashable

We’ve already brought you a how-to guide to get started with Spotify (read that first if you don’t know what it is), but now we’re delving a little deeper into the music streaming software with a look at some hints, tips and tricks that will help you get the… read more

Mac 101: Going Commando with Command-key shortcuts in Mac OS X

March 6th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<phe clover-looking key (it's actually an infinite loop), which had always been accompanied by an Apple logo until recently, sometimes behaves in ways similar to the Control key in the Windows world. At other times, however, it doesn't. Whether you're a recent Mac switcher or a seasoned Mac user, here… read more

Apple’s video advertising options detailed in patent application

March 6th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<pn the battle of the network superstars between free-to-stream, ad-supported video (the Hulu model) and pay-per-show, ad-free TV (the iTunes model), there's been a big missing piece: how to monetize shows and sell ads for content that's downloaded and played on mobile devices like the iPad? Obviously, it's a better… read more

Flickr faster with Flickit Pro

March 5th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<pe've played with Photon before, so we know that Green Volcano knows how to make photo handling fluid and fast. That interface dexterity carries over to the iPhone app. I was impressed by the overall aesthetics, and as I played with it I quickly confirmed that it wasn't just eye… read more

TomTom submits updated app for Apple review

March 5th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The TomTom app was eagerly sought out last year, but of late has fallen a bit behind market leader Navigon. This new release, with real-time info and Google local, will give both apps rough feature parity.

The current TomTom app is on sale for U.S. $49.99 at the app… read more

Siri updated for iPod touch and gets some new features

March 5th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

As much as people loved the app, iPod touch owners were left out in the cold. Not now. The app has been updated to run on the iPod touch with OS version 3.0 or above. And if you’ve already been using it, the app has been improved with more… read more

Reiner Knizia’s Money app worth spending time with

March 5th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

We recently took a look at the iPhone version of Reiner Knizia’s card game Poison and there are a slew of other “decks” (ok, programs) available in the App Store. Today, we turn our focus to the card game Money [$1.99, iTunes link], which might be the best card game… read more

iPad ships April 3. Preorders start March 12

March 5th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

With Apple’s reportedly limited stock, will pre-orders work the way they did with the iPhone 3GS? Namely, will your reservation get you first shot at an iPad pick-up until stocks run out? Or have analysts “misunderestimated” (in the words of a certain American Idol judge) supplies, and there will be… read more

How To Find Your Files Faster with Tags

March 5th, 2010
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Mac App Storm

As more online web apps such as Flickr, Delicious, and Gmail adopt the filing system of tags over a folder structure, tagging is growing more and more popular as a way to keep hoards of digital files organized.

Tags, from Gravity Applications makes tagging files universally across your Mac a breeze…. read more

Sony Working on a PSP Phone and iPad Competitor

March 4th, 2010
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Mashable

Consumer electronics juggernaut Sony is apparently stepping up to the plate to tackle Apple’s iPhone (and soon iPad) pantheon with a PlayStation Portable Phone, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.

If you haven’t been following the vicissitudes of the mobile rumor mill for as long as we have, you might… read more

Paid app upgrades coming to App Store?

March 4th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Developer Fraser Speirs came across an unexpected iTunes dialog earlier today that could be a hint of a new, long-sought App Store feature: the ability to offer for-fee upgrades to apps, complete with discounts for those who bought older versions.

Up until now, App Store vendors have worked around… read more

100 sci-fi stories in your pocket

March 4th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

You can adjust the text size, and when you relaunch the app, it picks up where you left off. Books you’ve already started are also marked on the contents page.

The developer claims future updates will include more books at no additional cost. You can scroll the pages continuously,… read more

Enjoy background audio with MLB’s At Bat

March 4th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

While Apple doesn’t allow 3rd party apps to run in the background on the iPhone or iPod touch,* Silicon Alley Insider notes that you can listen to audio in Mobile Safari while using other applications. It’s this trick that MLB exploited with At Bat 2010. With the tap of a… read more

Omoby: Visual Search for the iPhone

March 4th, 2010
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Mashable

Omoby can essentially be summed up in four words: Google Goggles for iPhone. The visual search app allows you to snap a pic of any object and get back a list of convenient search results, retailer pricing, and information about that product.

The technology behind the app is visual object… read more

Send Email and SMS Messages Using Voice Commands With Vlingo for iPhone

March 4th, 2010
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Mashable

Since Vlingo first introduced its voice control app for the BlackBerry more than a year and a half ago, smartphones and voice-to-speech technology have evolved quite a bit. Today, the company has launched a pretty major update to its iPhone app, adding the ability to send e-mail and SMS… read more

iPhone photo of “ghost” makes UK tabloids look foolish

March 4th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<poesn't take much to make yourself look like a fool, but in the case of The UK's Sun and Daily Mail newspapers, they have to be feeling quite idiotic right about now. Perhaps not, as these tabloids have a history of running fabulous stories about celebrities, politicians, and the supernatural… read more

Apple pressuring music publishers over Amazon Daily Deal

March 4th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

According to Billboard, participating labels entered into the program with Amazon in 2008 without paying a thing. It was simply meant to increase the store’s publicity. Two years later, that’s changed. An unnamed major-label head of sales told Billboard that “[the] promotion morphed into something where the labels make arrangements… read more

Dear Aunt TUAW: Does size matter (when it comes to iPads)?

March 4th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

I am planning on getting an iPad WiFi+3G when they become available, but I am still undecided on which (storage) size I should get. I currently have a 16GB iPhone 3GS which comfortably, for now, holds all my media needs. While I have a lot of music and photos and… read more

Interview with Zen Bound creators on iPad and iPhone games

March 4th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Secret Exit echoes a lot of other developers in saying that it plans to make completely different apps for the iPad, not just upscaled or updated versions of iPhone apps. The hardware and the market, says Secret Exit, both call for completely separate releases.

They also say, however, that… read more

Vlingo 2 adds more voice power to iPhone

March 3rd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<po make your dictation process easier — at least when it comes to getting your text to go where you want, when you want — there's the latest update to the Vlingo app, which we first reviewed last June. Vlingo 2.0 is trying to up the ante for text recognition… read more

Put yourself in the picture with PixyMe

March 3rd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

PixyMe (US $1.99) brings a static version of this technology to your iPhone or iPod touch. This beautifully designed and rendered app lets you incorporate any name or short phrase seamlessly into an eCard or postcard, appearing as though it were part of the photograph. The resulting personalized photo can… read more

Boston creates app to report road problems

March 3rd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Since moving to LA, I haven’t quite had to deal with the potholes that Spring in Chicago usually brings (not that roads are any better out here, but at least they don’t have to deal with all of the freezing and thawing). But despite the yearly flat tires and ruined… read more

The Top 10 Apps for Music Streaming

March 3rd, 2010
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Web App Storm

Whether you’re at home, work or on the road, music surrounds us. In the age of the internet though, we’re no longer limited to the radio you hear in the elevator, in your car or maybe while you’re at your desk working. Not only are we no longer limited by… read more

Voalté One iPhone and iPad apps streamline healthcare communications

March 3rd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The free Voalté One app works to integrate VoIP calling, text-messaging, and all of the alarms and alerts from patient monitoring systems onto an iPhone or iPod touch. Of course, there’s more to using this than just installing the app on an iPhone — the company designs and builds communication… read more

GetGlue Add-on Brings Social Recommendations Across the Web

March 3rd, 2010
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Mashable

Social recommendation service GetGlue, which started out as a browser plugin, has recently added some new features to the Firefox and Google Chrome GetGlue add-ons, including a service called “Glue Tips.”

How the GetGlue add-ons traditionally work is that when you are on a page like IMDB or… read more

Buzzie: Google Buzz Gets Its First Third-Party iPhone App

March 3rd, 2010
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Mashable

GMAIL USERS: You’re welcome to join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account.

Hankering to access Google Buzz on your iPhone outside of Mobile Safari? Pardon us, but there’s an app for that. The Next Web reports that Buzzie [iTunes link] is now in the App Store for $1.99.

Buzzie… read more

Rupert Murdoch confirms WSJ for iPad

March 3rd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

What’s most interesting about this story is the extreme secrecy with which Apple is handing the process. it seems that WSJ developers do have access to a pre-release iPad, which Murdoch confirms is “kept under padlock and key.” Not only that, but an Apple employee turns the key every night… read more

Layers TV: Episode 127

March 3rd, 2010
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Layers Magazine

Corey has some resolution tips for large format printing out of Photoshop. RC sits down with Dreamweaver author and instructor Janine Warner to talk about her upcoming courses on KelbyTraining.com

You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes.

Thank you so much to iStockphoto… read more

iLuv iPhone dock includes “bed shaker”

March 3rd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<phe iLuv iMM178 shares a lot in common with many iPod docks available in the market today:

Play and charge your iPhone or iPod — check.
Alarm clock scheduling based on full-week, weekdays and weekends — check.
Alarm clock with customizable… read more

MacHeist nanoBundle: 7 Apps for $20

March 3rd, 2010
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Mac App Storm

MacHeist, known for their regular “bundle” sales of OS X software, have announced a new nanoBundle. This offer consists of 7 applications, usually priced at over $260, for $19.95. Here’s what to expect from this year’s bundle:

MacJournal ($39.95) – A good choice for any amount of writing, whether that’s just… read more

How to use the updated Instapaper Pro with Tweetie 2

March 2nd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

I’ve been using Instapaper Pro a lot more recently after making a few changes to my workflow on my iPhone and Mac. I setup the “Read Later” bookmarklet installed properly from the Instapaper website. (An even easier method is to use Quix which I mentioned the other day.) I also… read more

Apple Wants to Bring Hollywood Into the Cloud, Too

March 2nd, 2010
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Mashable

A couple of months ago we discovered Apple was in talks with major music labels about securing their permission and support for storing iTunes users’ music in the cloud. Now it looks like the company is also making the rounds with film studios, eyeing the parallel goal of allowing… read more

MLB.com At Bat 2010 out now

March 2nd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

There’s no lite version yet, but last year MLB released a free version sans audio and video, so if you just want the scores, you can wait and see when that one shows up.

Meanwhile, if you want official baseball info beamed straight to your phone all year long,… read more

iBookstore expanding internationally … eventually

March 2nd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

According to MacRumors, a new job listing has been posted on Apple’s website for “Manager, iBooks Asia Pacific & Canada.” Part of the managerial position’s role includes being “the primary person responsible for building the book business in Asia Pacific and Canada” — for now, “Asia Pacific” is only loosely… read more

Developer quacks about ‘minimal user functionality,’ but it’s not a new rule

March 2nd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<pe the early days of the App Store, it's been a virtual Wild West out there — people can release apps that do whatever they can imagine, from a virtual cowbell to a mirror, silly as the functionality may be. Still, there has always been a (very low) hurdle for… read more

Netflix survey inquires about iPhone streaming, even though CEO says ‘not coming soon’

March 2nd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<py's movies-in-motion tidbit comes courtesy of Mike over at the Hacking Netflix blog, who let us know that some of his readers are receiving the popup survey above. It inquires as to the reader's interest in a form of Netflix streaming (Wi-Fi only, unsuprisingly) for the iPhone. That's the same… read more

Macmillan trying to sell readers ‘hardcover’ e-books

March 2nd, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Macmillan is sticking with an old pricing scheme even in a brand new marketplace. Just what exactly makes the difference between a “hardcover e-book” and a “paperback e-book”? Read on to find out.

The first question is: “Why would someone buy a hardcover book?” I can… read more

Assassin’s Creed II multiplayer, Rayman 2 out now on the iPhone

March 1st, 2010
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Two major league games have hit the App Store already this week, one of them for the surprise price of free. Ubisoft has released the multiplayer version of their Assassin’s Creed II game on the App Store, and it’s available for free for the first 48 hours. The game’s a… read more

Some things we may not see again from Apple

March 1st, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Conan O’Brien once had a recurring segment on Late Night called “Guests We Won’t Have Back,” during which he would look back at guests (who were fake) that he regretted having on the show. There was bug expert Sara Wiggins, who ate a live beetle in front of the camera…. read more

Live from the Red Carpet: E! Online mobile app relaunched for Oscars

March 1st, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

When we say popular, we mean it — there are apparently over 1.4 million iPhone and Android users who enjoy their celebrity and entertainment news direct from the free app. The new version of the app includes the “E! Talk Box,” which gives users a chance to record their own… read more

Best of AppStorm in February

March 1st, 2010
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Mac App Storm

We’ve collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in February. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month.

Now would be a good time to explore a part of… read more

Condé Nast reveals initial list of iPad magazines

March 1st, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<p GQ
Vanity Fair
Wired
Glamour
The New Yorker

Expect GQ to be the first one available, either at or directly after the iPad's launch. Vanity Fair and Wired should be available in June, while launch schedules for Glamour… read more

The Search for Better Music Streaming: Grooveshark

March 1st, 2010
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Web App Storm

Music streaming apps have advanced significantly in recent years, but perhaps not to the extent they should have. However, among the many available such as Pandora, Last.fm and Slacker, you’re bound to find something that suites your needs and fits your taste.

Grooveshark is a little different from the above listed… read more

Review: Viva il Re board game app asks to be crowned

March 1st, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Viva il Re (which means “Long live the King” in Italian) is a well-designed board game by Stefano Luperto that has been beautifully ported to the iPhone by by Pro-netics S.p.A. The object is to score points and hopefully get one of your characters to become the new king, because… read more

Top Condé Nast Magazines are Coming to iPad

March 1st, 2010
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Mashable

When the iPad was announced, some media partnerships were announced with it, but it wasn’t hard to guess that, in the period before the device actually comes to the market, we’ll see many more.

We already know that Condé Nast is working on an iPad version of Wired magazine,… read more

New iPhone ad: Family Travel

February 28th, 2010
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<pyou've been watching TV over the last few days (and who hasn't, with that USA / Canada hockey game and the tsunami coverage), you may have seen the latest in the series of iPhone ads.

The ad, titled “Family Travel,” features a voice-over by a Mom who gushes… read more

5 Best iPhone Apps For Controlling Your Mac or PC

February 28th, 2010
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Mashable

With more than 140,000 apps in the iPhone App Store, finding task-specific apps or utilities for your iPhone or iPod touch (and soon iPad) isn’t the hard part. The hard part is finding the best app for the job. That’s why we’re launching a new series here at… read more

Best of the Week #108

February 27th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to… read more

FastMall Is Foursquare for Malls

February 26th, 2010
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Mashable

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: FastMall

Quick Pitch: Think Foursquare-meets-Yelp for… read more

Associated Press sources report Associated Press working on iPad app

February 26th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Business Insider’s The Wire is reporting, rather humorously, that AP sources have the scoop that the Associated Press is working on its own iPad app. It will reportedly be a paid subscription news app that generates content from the AP and more than 1,000 member newspapers and broadcasters.

The… read more

TigerText Makes the Poor Decision Texts Go Away

February 26th, 2010
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Mashable

Do you frequently make bad-decision texts — the kind of texts that likely show up on Texts From Last Night? Well, then, you should probably download TigerText, a new iPhone app that will let you delete those digital mistakes from another person’s phone.

TigerText [iTunes link], which was… read more

Line2 adds a second line to your iPhone for $15 a month

February 26th, 2010
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Would you like to add a second line to your iPhone? Perhaps you’d like to add a business number to the phone, but your existing phone is currently tied to your personal mobile number. You could always carry a second phone, but that’s an expensive proposition, particularly if you’re an… read more

Plants vs. Zombies breaks records on the iPhone

February 25th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<pap has released some sales information on their latest iPhone game, Plants vs. Zombies, and it's a runaway hit: the game has sold over 300,000 copies in just the nine days it's been out on the App Store, which means the company has garnered over $1 million in sales already…. read more

TUAW review: Smoother iPhone browsing with VanillaSurf

February 25th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Many of the alternative browsers have passed by my iPhone home screen at least once before being summarily dismissed, but there is one that has actually been getting some use lately; bitStorm’s VanillaSurf. The free browser, which is now at version 2.1, offers features that seem more at home on… read more

Final Fantasy Has Arrived on the iPhone

February 25th, 2010
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Mashable

Both Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy II [iTunes links] — two games from one of the most revered console game franchises of all time — are available for purchase in the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch right now.

We knew they were coming a while… read more

Leaked file might be the first promo list of iPad books

February 25th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<pauthors include Stephen King, Timothy Ferris, Malcolm Gladwell, Dubner & Leavitt, Kennedy, Agassi, Palin and Beck. There's bestselling fiction (The Lovely Bones), fact (A History Of Modern Britain) and autobiography (Wishful Drinking). The prices range from $14.99 (for Too Big To Fail) all the way down to the magic of… read more

Discover New Music with TuneGlue

February 25th, 2010
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Web App Storm

Your favorite song right now most likely won’t be the same a year from now. After listening to the same music for awhile, you probably start craving something fresh and new. The great thing about the music industry is there’s never a shortage of new music to discover, but discovering… read more

Apple announces winner of the 10 billion songs promotion

February 25th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

What was the 10 billionth song downloaded? “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash.

Apple’s vice president of Internet Services Eddy Cue remarked on the milestone in a recent press release. “We’re proud that iTunes has become the number one music retailer in the world, and selling… read more

Quicken Essentials for Mac now available

February 25th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

After a four year absence, the next version of Quicken for the Mac is here. It’s called Quicken Essentials for Mac and is a ground up Cocoa rewrite. I’ve been using the program for a few weeks now. Is it worth the wait? Well that depends what you need in… read more

TUAW Quick Plays: Alchemize, Dizzypad, Alice in Wonderland

February 25th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

<p's a quick look at three games for the iPhone and iPod touch we've gotten a chance to play lately.

Alchemize is an interesting twist on the old Tetris/Dr. Mario dropping block gameplay. The idea is that you twist and drop pairs of potions that will match up whenever… read more

Battle of Puppets brings the fight to the marionette stage

February 24th, 2010
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Battle of Puppets fell through the cracks here when it was first released, and that was unfortunate — it’s a 2D real-time strategy game for the iPhone with a distinctive art style and a plethora of cool features that definitely deserves a look. The team has been updating the app… read more

Mac 101: How to use the iTunes parental controls

February 24th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Note that the screenshot at right is from iTunes 9.0.3. Older versions look slightly different. Parental controls are only available in iTunes 5 and later.

To access these settings, select Preferences from the iTunes menu, and then click the Parental tab. Here you’ve got several options.

First, you… read more

Tune Runner rises to the top on a wave of free

February 24th, 2010
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog

FaceFighter hadn’t been doing badly, but offering it up for free not only increased its downloads to several hundred thousand (which sounds like a lot for Appy), but put the new game in front of a whole bunch of people who otherwise might not have heard about it. And Tune… read more

Apple sells 10 billionth iTunes download

February 24th, 2010
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As speculated earlier today, Apple did in fact manage to sell their 10 billionth iTunes download. This represents a huge milestone for both Apple and the music industry. Apple has revolutionized the music industry with the iPod and iTunes. It seems like only yesterday that Apple sold the 500… read more

Milestone: iTunes Breaks 10 Billion Song Downloads

February 24th, 2010
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It’s official: Apple has broken the 10 billion song barrier. Just a few minutes ago, Apple’s song download counter hit the mark, something it has been counting down to for the last two weeks.

Apple has been hitting some nice milestones recently. Just last month, Apple’s app store… read more

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Carry the Moon in your pocket with this free iPhone app

February 24th, 2010
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This very handy app gives you a complete map of our nearest space neighbor, showing you what is visible on any night and from any location. The on-screen display of the moon at the current phase is striking, and very detailed. You can zoom in or out with the usual… read more

10 billionth iTunes download going down today

February 24th, 2010
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<pa Pacman has done the math, and they claim that the 10 billionth song download on iTunes (which Apple is paying out a $10k gift card for) is going to happen today, February 24th. So if you've been waiting to buy some music, today's the day to do it –… read more

Layers TV: Episode 126

February 24th, 2010
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RC has a tutorial about how to create a simple flash banner using Flash CS4 templates and Action Script 2.0. Corey shows viewers how to create a star field in Illustrator using the flare tool and a color dodge.

You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on… read more

Back from San Francisco & Gearing for Photoshop World!

February 24th, 2010
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I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Hey everyone! Im finally back in the saddle from San Francisco and hanging out at the Photoshop 20th Birthday celebration! I had such a great time out there meeting the engineers of one of our favorite applications, as well as some of… read more

Apple Could Bring Sexy Back to the App Store With New “Explicit” Category

February 24th, 2010
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Apple’s been doing some early spring cleaning in the iTunes App Store when it comes to sexual content, but new developer parameters hint at a future where “explicit” applications could find their way back into the store.

Apple recently removed upwards of 5,000 apps with sexually “objectionable” content from the… read more

TaskPaper for iPhone, simplified to-do lists go mobile

February 23rd, 2010
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<phe interesting aspect of TaskPaper is that it uses plain text files with minimal formatting to create and manage to-do lists. The file is easily read by other applications, and things such as tags and due dates are handled in a very human-readable format. The iPhone version offers the functionality… read more

ZipList Creates Sharable Grocery Lists from Thousands of Recipes

February 23rd, 2010
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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: ZipList

Quick Pitch: ZipList is a… read more

10 Essential iPhone Apps for Runners

February 23rd, 2010
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For people who enjoy running, there’s nothing like lacing up the Nikes, heading out the door and hitting that stride. But every runner hits a wall at one point or another and day after day, run after run can soon become monotonous. Sometimes a little jolt to the routine… read more

TUAW Interview: Freeverse CEO Ian Lynch Smith on the Ngmoco purchase

February 23rd, 2010
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The first thing we wanted to do was what would happen to Freeverse’s extensive Mac catalog, and we were told conclusively that “it’s not going anywhere at all.” While Freeverse will still “sell and maintain” their Mac titles, Smith did tell us that they’ve “been pretty much exclusively focused… read more

Macworld 2010: We discuss iBird Pro with Mitch Waite

February 23rd, 2010
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Apple liked the App so much that it was included it in an iPhone TV commercial. Macworld liked the app too and it was awarded the best reference App of 2009.

This is one big App, since it contains over 900 beautifully rendered pictures of birds, that Mitch will… read more

15 Notable Note Taking Apps for Mac

February 23rd, 2010
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Ever wanted to keep your notes together and not create a bunch of text files which would eventually be strewn across your hard drive? Ever wanted more than just the ability to enter text, but also the possibility to include photos or other media in your notes?

If that’s the case,… read more

Found Footage: Photoshop v1.0 recreated on iPhone

February 23rd, 2010
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Photoshop, Adobe recently recreated Photoshop 1.0 — on the iPhone. Porting the venerable application over to the iPhone reportedly took Adobe a mere two weeks of development. The application is not available on the iTunes Store; Adobe only created the app as a promo… read more

Freelance Radio, Episode 43: Full-Time Experience

February 22nd, 2010
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The latest episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) talks about full-time experience and its value for freelancers. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will… read more

Macworld 2010: Twicular’s Grocery Pal

February 22nd, 2010
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<p I was young, my mother spent Sunday mornings with grocery store flyers, a pen, and a pad of paper. Once she had identified the best weekly deals, she'd send my dad to buy some items from Grocery Store A, some from Store B and so on.

Barclay Jiang… read more

TV networks continue to resist iTunes price cuts

February 22nd, 2010
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Music sales through the iTunes store have fallen off recently, at least partially because of record labels’ demands for a price hike to $1.29 per song for popular tracks. Meanwhile, though TV shows have been available for download in the iTunes Store since 2005, only 375 million shows have been… read more

Are you choking? Yeah, there’s an app for that, too.

February 22nd, 2010
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The free I am choking app could save your life if you are choking on food and can’t speak. If you have your iPhone in hand and can avoid panicking, then you can launch the app, wave your iPhone frantically in front of someone who is nearby, and hope that… read more