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Official TQB App Live on App Store

The official TQB App for iPhone and iPod touch is now ready for download on the Apple App Store! The app allows you to browse TQB posts using a beautiful mobile format on your iPhone or iPod touch; and the app costs just $0.99! Download the app using the App Store link below! Here’s a quick [...]

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Apple Releases iPhone iDisk Application

Apple’s long-rumored iDisk accessing iPhone application has been released to the App Store for Free. Download the application using this link. The application allows MobileMe members to easily browse and view files stored on their iDisk and share files with others via integrated e-mail links. - View files on your iDisk - Access Public folders - Easily share files [...]

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RUMOR: Hulu Planning iPhone App

The new kid on the rumor mills says that he’s got wind of a certain video mega-service Hulu prepping an iPhone app for the App Store. This app will be a video streaming app with capabilities for multi-touch browsing of TV shows. Not many other details are offered at this time, but hey: wouldn’t it [...]

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Review: iPhone Leaf Trombone from Smule

Stanford Assistant Professor CCRMA Ge Wang’s Smule has struck again with its sequel to the stunningly popular “Ocarina” ($0.99 – Download) iPhone app. Smule yesterday released “Leaf Trombone: World Stage” ($0.99 – Download), a similarly innovative music toy. Leaf Trombone allows you to take advantage of the fascinating multi-touch system to manipulate a ’stem’ as the [...]

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Birdhouse Allows You to Perfect Your Tweets

The guys over at Sandwich Dynamics have just released a new iPhone/iPod touch app called “Birdhouse” ($3.99 - Download here). The whole point and purpose of Birdhouse is that it allows you to write ‘drafts’ for your intended tweets, and edit and perfect them before publishing. Sure, this sort of goes against the ‘impulse publishing scheme’ [...]

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Apple Launches 1 Billion Apps Countdown

Apple has just launched a webpage, displaying a countdown to 1 Billion (yes, the BIG B) total downloads from the App Store. In addition to the snazzy iCal-like countdown animation, Apple has also launched a download-to-win competition that can be viewed here from the iTunes Store. Here’s what the page says: “As of today, nearly one [...]

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Review: Free But Fantastic iPhone Dictionary.com App

Dictionary.com (free download) is a freebie from the App Store, but is worth much more than its zero cost. It puts the entire database of Dictionary.com at your fingertips, even without the need for a live wifi/3G/edge connection. Features include a dictionary (duh!), a thesaurus, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and the coolest of all: word origins. [...]

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Did Apple Provide Skype with Private APIs?

Remember back when Google first released “Google Mobile” for the iPhone, and the media was all over how Apple secretly provided Google with private APIs that are not publicly available to developers? Well, one of those APIs included was the ability to use the proximity sensor, i.e. when the phone is brought close to one’s [...]

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Google Voice Coming to the iPhone

Google Voice is a service which allows VOIP-like functions. GVMobile will soon be available to the iPhone and iPod touch. Do we have another skype-like hype situation on our hands?

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Review: Best iPhone Twitter Applications

Given the App Store’s variety of applications for all uses and functions, I wanted to post a surface review of the best iPhone Twitter applications on the App Store. In this review are: Twittelator Pro, Twitterrific, and Tweetie. These are the three which I perceive to be the best in the market. Enjoy this screenshot [...]

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