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[21 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 216 views]
Dev-Team Warns Against Updating to Firmware 2.2

We love jailbreaking and our beloved iPhone Dev-Team warns against updating to firmware 2.2 yet.

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[21 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 178 views]
iPhone Firmware 2.2 Available via iTunes

After much waiting and anticipation and a lot of guess work from folks who had access to 2.2 beta, iPhone firmware update 2.2 is here via iTunes.
Confirming rumors of Apple’s 2.2 firmware release of today, it was in fact made available last night!
Here are some of the new things iPhone 2.2 firmware brings:
iPhone 2.2 Software Update
This update contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

Enhancements to Maps

Google Street View
public transit and walking directions
display address of dropped pins
share location via email

Enhancements to Mail

resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
improved …

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[20 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 27 views]
OrbLive 2.0 for iPhone is in AppStore

OrbLive is an iPhone App that lets you watch live TV in your iPhone or Touch. You need to have Orb software installed

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[15 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 32 views]

We have seen a few Wii-Like iPhone Games here. Here is a Darts game that is very cool to play with your iPhone or iPod Touch.
If you love playing Darts, this is as close you are going to get to playing darts in your iPhone. It comes with very nice graphics and a few nice game modes.

X01 (301/501/601/701/1001) and Cricket included (Baseball and Killers coming soon in free updates)
Dart throwing by a flick of your finger
Cool 3D rendering of dart throwing
Play with bot in 3 difficulty modes
Sounds effects and visual …

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[12 Nov 2008 | One Comment | 140 views]
Apple AppStore Price Drops #12

More Apps on iTunes AppStore are on sale. Another day, another sale.

VFCaller - T9 Dialer (utilities) is now FREE (orig FREE)
Free for a week - promotional offer.
iFishing (games) is now on sale for $0.99 (orig $2.99)
ShopNotes (utilities) is now FREE (orig $0.99)
Allows you to add units to your shopping list like bottles, kg, etc.
MasterBrain (games) is now FREE (orig $0.99)
VoxBot (Entertainment) is now FREE (orig $1.99)
Type text and it will read it out loud.
Bankarama (finance) is on sale for $8.99 (orig $13.99)
Keep tab on all your account balances
MobileCan (productivity) is …

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[12 Nov 2008 | 3 Comments | 47 views]
Google Search Just Got iPhone Friendly

Google’s Mobile Blog is reporting that Google has rolled out an iPhone friendly search results page.
Google Search results are not dumbed down or anything. It’s just better laid out and optimized for viewing in iPhone or iPod Touch. This will help us from having to scroll side to side to see the whole result.
One of the best examples of this optimization would be the Local Search results in Google. It neatly lays out the phone number for the business and a link to get directions prominently. (see pic)

The phone number …

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[11 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 63 views]
Compare iPhone App Ranks & Trends - Mybefia

Mybefia is a web application that fills the niche where you want to get trend information for iPhone Applications that are available in AppStore.
You can see the Daily top 100 free apps, paid apps, etc. But, this doesn’t actually show how a particular App behaved over a time frame. It doesn’t show a App’s marketshare.
Yaniv Solnik of bee.tv saw this need and filled it with his own app that is Mybefia.com.
Mybefia Features

Lets you compare Apps ‘Alexa style’ - compare upto 3 apps and check its trend, rank, reviews, popularity …

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[10 Nov 2008 | One Comment | 983 views]
Watch Live TV in iPhone over 3G

Orb Networks makes software for streaming media from our home computers to other devices including cellphones, Xbox, Wii, PS3, etc as well as other computers.
I used to use Orb to share some big videos that I didn’t want to wait hours uploading with a family member across the world and just stream it with Orb.
They had previously released a iPhone App - OrbLive for iPhone. It used to work only on WiFi/EDGE. Now, OrbLive for iPhone has been updated to a new version that allows live TV streams over WiFi …

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[7 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 134 views]
Apple AppStore Price Drops #11

There are some huge deals to be had today at the AppStore. Even some $10 apps are on great sale.. Let’s check them out without any further wait.

TouchTerm (utilities) is now FREE (orig $2.99)
SaynDial (utilities) is now FREE (orig $2.99)
Darts (games) is on sale for $1.99 (orig $3.99)
Blue Skies (games) is on sale for $0.99 (orig $5.99)
Lonely Planet Mandarin Phrasebook (travel) is now FREE (orig $5.99)
Plum Caddy Golf Mapping and Scoring (sports) is now FREE (orig $9.99)
Starquake (education) is now FREE (orig $0.99)
Cro-Mag Rally (games) is on sale for …

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[7 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 243 views]
Free iPhone Task Managers FaceOff

One of the great things about the connectivity you get with iPhone is that you can get a lot of the online app you use in your computer to go. What other app could be essential than a Task Manager App that can help you be productive and help remember things no matter where you are.
Lifehacker has done a really cool post comparing different task managers for iPhone and iPod Touch in AppStore. And they have done a great job of picking a nice sampling out of the numerous one’s …