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 time for anything else. Again, I apologize for my actions here.
But [...]

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NOTE: An update is at the bottom of the article regarding last-minute changes to the nature of the contest and slight change in the rules.
Last Thursday I posted about the release of Snapture 2.0 to jailbreak users via Cydia. I was at work at the time and hadn’t yet gone through the whole jailbreak [...]

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There is no doubt that Pandora is a great service. I used to listen to it back in the day — back before they pulled the plug on international broadcasting. It was an excellent service, though; the concept of cataloging music genetically, linking songs to other songs not merely by artist or genre, [...]

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I was hoping Apple would finally make good on their Push Notification Service with the September release of Firmware 2.1, but it appears that Apple have rather different plans.
The latest firmware beta (2.1b4) has been seeded to developers, and it’s a little bit lighter than previous betas as Apple have excised Push Notification Service from [...]

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By popular demand, Faber Acoustical’s latest iPhone app, SoundMeter, turns the iPhone into a handheld sound level meter. The iPhone’s built-in and headset microphones exhibit a frequency response which is flat enough to make them suitable for basic sound level measurements. SoundMeter measures average sound levels with fast, slow, and impulse time weightings. Peak, maximum, and equivalent sound levels are also available. All sound levels may be measured with Flat, A, or C frequency weighting.

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It seems Apple enjoys being in the middle of rants and customer and developer anger, but this time they’ve dug themselves in a deeper hole. The Slasher application will join the likes of Netshare, Box Office and I Am Rich for being pulled out of the App Store for no said reason.
Oddly, this application doesn’t [...]

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Bad Dog Apps, is a Mac OS X Software house with over 10 years experience with the Mac OS X and precursor NeXTStep/OpenStep technologies, today are announcing the availability of BdTranslator for the iPhone on Apple’s App Store and extend our already shipping productivity menu bar based applications BdContacts, BdCalendar and BdTranslator, too include our first of many new iPhone applications.

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Noise.IO is making progress on the first full-featured iPhone synth application, which is set to be released on August 25th within the App Store for $6.99.
There are a couple of other iPhone synthesizers out there, but none of which have enough features to do anything really all that great. We’ve got the Beatmaker, which is [...]

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Many have been bothered by the fact that the iPhone lacks support for Lotus Notes, but IBM is in the works for this issue to be resolved soon.
“Bring IBM® Lotus® Domino® email, calendar, and
contacts to your Apple iPhone. Planned for delivery in 2008 as IBM
Lotus iNotes™ software, Lotus Notes data will combine with [...]

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Alta Vida LLC is proud to announce Babelingo 1.1, their language translation utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. Containing more than 300 useful phrases and words in 7 languages, Babelingo is an easy-to-use phrase book communicator, allowing anyone to show a professionally translated phrase to a foreign language audience. Phrases are displayed in a large and beautifully rendered script, easily read from a distance. Version 1.1 includes professionally translated phrases in the Italian language.

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Ryan Ritchey, the producer of The Digital Lifestyle, today posted a blog entry challenging Apple CEO Steve Jobs to an iPhone factory visit in China. In 2006, Apple investigated wrongdoing at a Foxconn location due to press reports of inhumane conditions. Apple’s own report found overtime violations and some questionable living quarters.

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I’m epic, at least that’s what I call myself. Others refer to me as Adam Yan from Toronto Canada. I’ve fought many many other bloggers who wanted this position but I said NO. I took out my rambo knife and cut their literary devices in half, split their compound words apart and even used naughty [...]

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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 been reported on white iPhone 3G users compared to the black iPhone 3G users, [...]

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The most significant issue with the iPod Touch compared to the iPhone — as with any iPod — is its lack of speakers, and the portable speaker solutions have so far been pretty lackluster; they’ve tended to be rather bulky, and being powered by the headphone jack or dock connector, they end to be a [...]

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