WolframAlpha.com officially releases its own iPhone portal, and with good reason, too.
For those of you that haven’t heard of WolframAlpha yet, I highly suggest you take a look at what the future of browsing has in store. Actually, WolframAlpha and Google Wave in particular. Stop reading now, and take a look at both of those [...]

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Apple has invited a large number of iPhone OS 3.0 beta testers to participate in a second high volume Push Notification systems test. This time around, AOL’s AIM instant messaging application is being used.
Apple’s letter to specific iPhone OS 3.0 beta testers, went as follows:
As a developer actively working with iPhone OS, we would like [...]

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A featured demo at the WWDC on Monday that stuck out to many, was the TomTom for iPhone presentation. This is a forthcoming turn-by-turn GPS navigation for your vehicle.
TomTom has mentioned that they would be bringing this to us in the past, but things have gone south since then. Now, they’re back in action, and [...]

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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 (and some crap stuff) to those who may not know about Frapstr or don’t [...]

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Yep. We’re back again. Frapstr celebrated its 18th by getting smashed off its face and ending up two miles out in the Nevada desert with no memory of the preceeding events, and the only clues being an empty bottle of MD 20/20 in one hand, a rider’s crop in the other, and the [...]

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Well now, that’s more like it. I was beginning to worry that the tide of freebies had slowed to a trickle, but it seems it was merely a temporary lull, because we’re back in full force with another chunky vat of fresh freebie slurry cascading down the sluice for y’all. (And the award [...]

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Do you know what time it is? Do you know what time it is?? Seriously, my watch broke. Well, never mind that, because we’ve got a piping hot batch of new freebies right from the compiler for your perusal, and this edition’s theme seems to be trials — as in, playable demos, or [...]

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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 those of you not up on your weights and measures.) Some of it is even pretty good! [...]

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I know a lot of people have been waiting for this one — especially those users of this most excellent PIM who came over from the PocketPC platform. Thankfully, WebIS have finally stepped up with a vague release date set in this press release:
Cedar Park, Texas – Mobile PDA and Smartphone market leader, WebIS [...]

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Seattle, WA – Coinciding with the opening of Apple’s App Store for iPhone applications, Black Pixel Luminance is proud to announce Aria Touch to the public. Aria Touch turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a standalone task management system.
Aria Touch can sync with accounts on the free Mentat social task management webservice, import tasks [...]

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New York City – Magnetism Studios today announced four new applications for Apple’s iPhone. They include FileMagnet, which enables users to easily copy and view desktop files and documents on the iPhone and iPod touch. It views Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, images, movies, songs and more, while allowing the user to navigate and zoom with [...]

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