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It’s a given that any new platform goes though its initial stage of growing pains.  Developers, new to the platform, struggle not only with learning to program on it, but ultimately with learning the finer points of programming on [...]

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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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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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DataViz, the publisher of the Palm OS application Documents to Go, has made the announcement that they plan on bringing a version of said app to the iPhone App Store [...]

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One of the very first greatest and most sleek looking free iPhone games has a sister app, this one based on the new Nine Inch Nails CD.
Although this one isn’t free, it’s still very worth the price it is retailing at, [...]

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A few weeks back I had planned to start doing weekly digests of the previous week of releases on Frapstr, the Free App Store Review.  Partly to maintain a connection to its original home, but also to bring some cool stuff [...]

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Polar Bear Farm is today celebrating their 1 year anniversary. Polar Bear Farm has four applications on the App Store as of today, and in celebration of their 1 year anniversary, is marking them [...]

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Peter Hosey, especially known for his Growl (App Store) and Adium (pre-App Store) applications, has had the idea of starting a website where he can display any and all iPhone applications that Apple [...]

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Have a look at a wonderfully written post by Steven Sande via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (see here or via source link) sharing the three best first aid / medical assisting applications available on the iPhone App Store.
“If [...]

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It’s a serious case of potential infringement of intellectual property, and yet it almost couldn’t be more absurd.
In this corner, you have Steve Sheraton and Hottrix — you may not be intimately familiar with the names, but I’m certain everyone has heard of [...]

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Oh man, I had such a tough time keeping this on the down-low when Mark let me in on this one last week.  Y’all know what a fan I am of LED Football, with all of its plasticky, [...]

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When we last left our friends at Iron Square, I had given their fun little virtual game show Mr. Trivia Lite the twice-over because they had spiffed up and fixed the issues with the first version I had reviewed and [...]

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It’s Tokyo Game Show time in the land of the rising sun, and it’s making veteran developers HudsonSoft giddier than a Japanese school girl.  So giddy that, from now until until midnight Sunday (Japan Standard Time — [...]

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