There’s no shortage of news these days, though there frequently seems to be a shortage of time, which is unfortunate. Still, that’s what this series is about: Quickly covering a bunch of smaller news bits so keep you all up to date and informed about the latest developments and updates. To that end, [...]

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Time once again for another edition of the news roundup for people with short attention spa– ooh, a birdie! Right on my windowsill! Did I lock the front door? Nice hat. I– oh, yeah. Touching Up the 12th. Today, we’re going to make Crepe Suzette cover BiteSMS 1.11-1, Psyl 0.90b3, SpoofAPP 2.0, ruBooks, NemusSync 0.5.3, [...]

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I’m falling behind, folks, and I apologize. Real life sometimes tends to intrude in ways not entirely conducive to tending to my blogging responsibilities. Or sleep. But I plug away where I can. I’m going to play a little catch-up here, so forgive me if some of these have a bit [...]

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I’ve got news for you. Lots of news. In fact, I have a surplus of news! I’m completely overstocked, and I need to clear them out at crazy insane prices! Hell, just take it away! I don’t want it anymore! Seriously, just walk in, grab the whole lot and [...]

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When I started this column, I thought it might be a once or twice weekly thing. How’s that for short-sighted? Nevertheless, it’s time once again for everybody’s favourite collection of the best, the worst, and the individually-wrapped-for-freshness bits of news too numerous and not verbose enough to dedicate an entire article to.
It’s a [...]

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News piles up pretty quickly these days. Fortunately I’ve got another stack of it here for you, and this time I’ve roped up some EverNote Beta invites, uShow Beta registration, a shiny iPhone, a preview of Freeverse’s upcoming games, a mouthful of Grub on the Go, updates to iPhone Video Recorder and StreetFlow, and [...]

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Ready for another serving of news nuggets just like Mama used to make? Good, ‘cos I’ve got a whole heaping skilletful in tons of fun shapes like Firmware.app, ClickOnce 0.0.2, ToggleBacklight 0.0.1-2, DropTXT, Excuses.app, iPokedex, Real Estate Search, ReadBurner Mobile, iMemory 0.4.1, the latest update to FlyTunes, repo amalgamation, and Xiaxue the Bottle Blond [...]

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You truly don’t realize just how much is going on in the iPhone and Touch scene until you have to write about it. But that’s why I started Touching Up — because there’s just too much to talk about to spend time writing separate articles for everything, and my contract states that I get [...]

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Gather round the campfire, kids, it’s time for another edition of Touching Up. In today’s episode, we’ve got news of a DDR-style drum banging game called TKO, MS Live Maps, a great big sack o’ Theme Builder icons, the first native Google RSS reader, and updates for Hahlo, GuitarChords, and iMemory. Sit a [...]

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Is it that time again already? Yes, we do indeed have another course of enteric-coated, easy-to-swallow news capsules for the popping. Today’s menu includes Earth 3D 1.1, PicoCalc, AOL and Associated Press’ iPhone-friendly portals, Apple’s lost MVNO dreams, Mobile Twitter, Mobile Flickr, iCalls 0.7, Vehicular Pack 2, and Wiki2Touch.
Check it out:
PicoCalc
Remember PicoMemo? [...]

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The iPhone and Touch are continuing to gain in popularity both with users and developers. Even being more than two months away from the unveiling of the App Store and official third party apps, there is a ton of news to go around — frankly, more than the two of us can reasonably handle [...]

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