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I deeply apologize for my absence from TouchPodium for these last couple months. I’ve had some personal troubles I had to get through during that time. I had to fight an addiction (no not drugs or Runescape!) and deal with school. I had no [...]

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If you ever wanted any solid confirmation that Apple has a tendancy to A) play favourites, and/or B) is inconsistent in its approval process, here you go.
Ignoring the BdEmailer vs. MailWrangler debacle for the moment, we have Google Mobile.  Sure, it looks all innocent [...]

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showOdiogoReadNowButton (”70772″, “PwnageTool and QuickPwn for Firmware 2.2 Released”, “4088″, 290, 55);

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Proving that the Dev Team aren’t just on the ball, they’re dribbling it and shooting three-pointers with their feet, QuickPwn and PwnageTool have been released for Firmware 2.2.
These two tools will properly jailbreak your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G and first-gen [...]

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Our host is currently in the process of upgrading their servers and applying a huge bandwidth increase, moving everyone over from servers running regular platter hard drives to ones running server-capable SSDs. This will result in massive performance increases and far fewer [...]

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It’s been a short two months since Apple rejected MailWrangler because it “duplicates functionality” of the built-in E-Mail app, despite the fact that it was intended to work with multiple GMail accounts in a way the built-in app can’t.  Now, either [...]

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Okay, so Firmware 2.2 is out and we’re all pretty familiar with the changes now.  Street View, walking directions, bus schedules (none of which are relevant to anyone outside of the US), more stable browsing, yadda yadda yadda.  I spent some [...]

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You read that correctly. Apple has decided to release the iPhone firmware version 2.2 very late on November 20th, which was yesterday. The update adds Google Street View, public transit and walking directions, and more.
What’s new in this [...]

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Wal-Mart will begin selling the number one selling cellphone shortly after Christmas this year. Not sure why they’ve chosen to start selling after Christmas, in comparison to before Christmas, but that’s not our worry.
This news comes from Jamie Townsend of [...]

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American Airlines is joining Continental in offering boarding pass barcodes that you can download to your iPhone, BlackBerry, G1, or whatever it is you have. Presently the airline is only offering the option on domestic, non-stop
flights departing from O’Hare [...]

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There’s no doubt about it.  The App Store has exploded.  In the early days, for the first couple of months, I was able to keep up.  It was a challenge sometimes, keeping up with all the new freebies, but I managed [...]

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Well there you have it. Tethering for the iPhone is finally making its debut, sometime in the near future, according to the AT&T executive.
Harry McCracken of Technologizer reports that AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega told Michael Arrington [...]

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showOdiogoReadNowButton (”70772″, “iTunes Sales in 2008: $3.34 Billion; An Increase of $844 Million from Last Year”, “4034″, 290, 55);

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iTunes sales are doing well, and that’s just to say they are raising at a fair pace. Apple has managed to gain an excess of over US$840 million dollars this year more than [...]

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From the person that made an iPhone with an actual keyboard, comes an iPhone robot that allows the user to control said device via a nearby computer.
Using a jailbroken iPhone 3G running on some Ruby code, an [...]

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Apple Inc. has very recently released a new television spot for the iPhone named “Dilemmas”.
The advertisement lies solely on the urbanspoon application available via the iPhone App Store, and shows how the app will choose a random restaurant in your [...]

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