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Right on schedule, a report — in this case from Apple Insider — claims that Cupertino’s star player is issuing “advisement bulletins” to some of its distribution channel partners to come and get it while the getting’s good, suggesting that an [...]

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I think I may have to start doing this column thrice weekly, because since Saturday there have been a dozen hogsheads worth of new freebies to check out. (That’s three and a half metric buttloads for [...]

Posted in App Store, Application Related, Entertaining, Free App Store Review, Gaming Related, Productivity Apps, Round Up's, iPhone 3G, iPhone OS 2.0 1 Comment »

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Mirroring their bump for standard data rates, the AT&T Deaf Death Star will apparently also bump up the data plan rates for the hearing impaired by $10, bringing them to $50 for the standard plan, or $65 for the [...]

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Are you protecting your brand new iPhone 3G like a baby? Well good if you are, ’cause iPhone 3G users are reporting that their iPhone 3G plastic back pieces appear to have tiny thin cracks on various areas.
Though most cracks have [...]

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It’s kind of a no-brainer, what with the next iPod refresh event due in 1-2 months, but the idea of a completely new model of iPod Touch (as opposed to simply the same model with a boost in [...]

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Apple has hit a bit of a rough patch lately, no doubt resulting from having bitten off more than they could chew due to being completely unaware of how big the morsel was. 3G launch day activation problems, the [...]

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It was only a few days ago when we talked about ZodTTD porting Quake 1 to the iPhone and iPod Touch. The day has finally come that Zod has released this beast into the wild.
But there’s a catch. You [...]

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Ever since the release of the iPhone, the use of mobile maps has sored, and now that the iPhone 3G has been released, this sore has skyrocketted to new heights.
ComScore reports that use of mobile maps has jumped [...]

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The Torque engine is a fairly powerful 3D engine that makes developing great games on the Mac easier. Now they’ve released a version of the Torque engine for the iPhone, allowing for multi-touch input and screen gesture recognition.
Have a look [...]

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So, 2.0 has been Pwned. But what exactly does that allow you do? As it turns out, not a whole lot, because a good 99%+ of toolchain-developed software has yet to be updated to work with firmware 2.0.
You see, I decided to [...]

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Here’s a good reason for someone to take Apple up on their job offering of a hacker extraordinaire: Expert security researcher Aviv Raff recently revealed in his blog that both the E-Mail and Safari applications in firmware 1.1.4 and 2.0 are [...]

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Although we didn’t cover it, because frankly I didn’t want to give that attention-whoring tabloid escapee the satisfaction of more spotlight, New York Times reporter Joe Nocera decided last Friday that it would be a [...]

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Wohoo! Apple’s App Store not providing enough free applications for your newly owned iPhone 3G? No problem! It is being said by those working closely with the project, that Installer.app 4.0 is coming along nicely, and nearing completion.
Currently they say that they [...]

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July 23rd, Benjamin Ling revealed that Facebook will be releasing a Cocoa framework for the iPhone that will application developers to integrate with Facebook Connect. It is expected that the framework will be released sometime this coming fall, and [...]

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