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Landscape Email! TouchType App Now Available in App Store

Update: Wide Email developer Patrick Barry comments below that, according to Macrumors, FOUR landscape email front-ends popped up on the App Store last night, including his own.

We are finally getting closer and closer to the perfect iPhone no? If Apple will not give it to us, 3rd party developers are our only hope. [...]

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Need a Reason to Jailbreak? Backgrounder App is Now Available!

A new application, Backgrounder, is now available for jailbroken phones! This allows you to run official App Store apps in the background. Yes, you can now listen to music while you are in your favorite App Store app!

With Backgrounder, you don’t have to log into a secure shell session. You don’t have to [...]

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Tetris Gets Another App Pulled: Only 5 Hours to Get Your Shaker On!

Brian passed on this tip from Kevin Doel. Looks like Tetris is being ever-zealous in broadly defending their “look and feel” trademarks:

Phunkware’s Shaker game is being pulled from the market in about 5 hours. The Tetris Company contacted Apple claiming the game is too close to Tetris for comfort.

If this is legit, and you read [...]

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Don’t Touch Steve’s iPhone Dock! The Reason Apps Get Rejected?

Daring Fireball has posted an interesting article that focuses on trust-issues developers have with Apple’s current App Store approval process. In a pod-shell, they can’t depend on Apple not to reject Apps they’ve invested time and money on, hence they are reluctant to develop the kind of Apps that require time and money, which are [...]

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Return of the Web Apps?

Is it possible that web apps can return from the dead? It seems to me that the 2.0 firmware pretty much buried the poor web apps six feet under. Even if they are not used nearly as often since we have 3rd party apps along with the App store, it seems as if [...]

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Today on the Forums Special Edition: TiPb AT WORK – Vote Now and Win!

Today on the forums come a few hot threads from one user! ExBBUser want to know, what are you current top 5 apps from the App store? He’s a newcomer to the iPhone and would love to hear your opinions! In this next thread ExBBUser wants to know do you use any [...]

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Survey Says: iPhone Users in Love… But Have Issues.

So, we’ve heard all about how the bloggers feel about iPhone 2.0 and the issues surrounding its launch, but we’re not what anyone would call — by any stretch of the imagination — normal. We love our gadgets hard, and hate their flaws with a breathing passion, so we’re skewed from the outset. What about [...]

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Apple Drops [Redacted] NDA for Released iPhone Firmware!

Apple has just released the following statement (via Daring Fireball, who thinks it might have flowed from Steve Jobs’ pen):

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.

We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that [...]

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Rock Out With Nine Inch Nails On Your iPhone

I am a big music lover and I hold a special place in my heart for Trent Reznor’s music. Nine Inch Nails has been one of my favorite bands since freshman year in high school (when nobody really knew who Trent Reznor was, let alone Nine Inch Nails). This is an iPhone dedicated [...]

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iPhone 2.2: More Leaks With App Store Tweaks?

On Saturday we covered some MobileSafari browser makeovers for iPhone 2.2, now it looks like its the on-board App Store app that’s getting a (minor) fresh coat of paint. Apple Insider reports on the changes:

Among them is a new categories page that will feature large category icons — not yet functional — and more generous [...]

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