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Engadget

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It's no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps -- it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter just bought the app and hired developer Loren Brichter in back in April. That ...

ReadWriteWeb

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Sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program. Check it out.

Today we're launching our fifth channel, ReadWriteHack. Sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program, ReadWriteHack is a resource and guide for developers. In this channel we will outline best practices for designing and developing applications. We will also provide examples of hacks and how they work, to...

Touch Arcade

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WANT. Definitely on my wish list. :-)

There is nothing worse than getting a FedEx tracking number late on a Thursday, knowing full well that your package will not arrive until Monday. Even as an adult, I'll still obsessively refresh tracking information, even when I know something won't be delivered for days. Still, that didn't stop me from tracking the Parrot...

Official Google Reader Blog

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As Google Reader is all about reading, we thought we should give our users a chance to maximize their screen space whenever possible... thus fullscreen mode was born. You can toggle the fullscreen mode through the 'f' key. Additionally, you can use 'shift + u' to show and hide the navigation panel so you can easily...

App Advice

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Great for word nerds. Love it on the iPad.

Terminology Ph ($0.99) by Agile Tortoise is a dictionary/thesaurus that helps to expand on your vocabulary on a daily basis.

The premise of Terminology Ph is simple – start the app up, and start looking up words. The first word that you’ll see on the screen is ‘Terminology.’ This will be the ‘browser’ section of the app...

ReadWriteWeb - Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking ...

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Sad. Sold out.

One year ago this month, the best iPhone app for finding out what's happening around the world, fast, launched to the public. Breaking News Online (BNO), the incredible team lead by Dutch then-teenager Michael van Poppel and funded by revenue from van Poppel's bizzarre sale of an Osama Bin Laden video to mainstream media outlets, built the...

Macworld

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It's gorgeous, and uses data from Weather Underground. Love it.

App Advice

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Looks great. Downloading now.

Distinctive Development’s Dead Runner has arrived in the App Store, giving distance game fans an eerie and invigorating experience that differs from the normally bright and more arcade-like games that currently dominate the genre.

Dead Runner is an endless distance game that places you in a horror movie environment. The game’s perspective i...

Smoking Apples

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Boston.com's Big Picture. Been waiting for this one!

The greatest photo news site now has an iPad app →

You’ve so far been amused by The Guardian Eyewitness iPad app in the way it provides you with amazing photography and news, every day. But we all know where the real photo news lies — Big Picture from Boston.com. Since day one I’ve been waiting for the Big Picture on ...

Touch Arcade

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A no-brainer. Get it while it's free.

Last month, we were treated to the fun and fast-paced Fastar! from developer John Kooistra and Cat in a Box Games. Fastar! is a sarcastic take on action-RPGs that has you blazing through side-scrolling levels as fast as possible, all while collecting coins and upgrading your character as you defeat the game's many square enemies. ...

Wired Gadget Lab

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Great update, though I'm dallying with Elements for my notes.

Simplenote, our favorite note-taking application for the iPhone, iPad, Android, the web and PC or Mac, has just seen a rather important update. Simplenote version 3 adds a treasure-trove of new features, but don’t worry about that: If you don’t want them, you won’t even notice them.

Simplenote’s strength is i...

RBDLC News

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At least 25 songs in there that I love. Can't wait.

A video from Harmonix at Gamescon 2010 shows them *accidentally* revealing the entire setlist. Clever bastards, aren’t they? Here’s your entire setlist from Amy to Yes.

Amy Winehouse – Rehab
Anthrax – Caught in a Mosh
At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
Avenged Seven Fold – Beast and the Harlot
B-52s – Rock Lobster
Beach...

Lifehacker

Signing up for free travel planner TripIt has a magic feeling to it, as the service instantly understands and organizes your flight, car rental, and hotel confirmation emails. Now TripIt can monitor your Gmail and automatically compile itinerary information for upcoming trips.

That's right—TripIt will check your incoming email for messages from JetBlue, Expedia, Hertz, Marriott, and other...

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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If you use Camera+ -- and you should; we love it -- you might have been excited by the recent talk of using the volume control buttons on the side of your iPhone to take pictures with. We've all found fumbling with the touchscreen button a little fiddly from time to time, right? I've come worryingly close to dropping my iPhone on...

App Advice

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Yin to Flipboard's Yang.

Calling all news reader fans!  Today and today only, Alphonso Labs’ two extremely popular visual news reader apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, Pulse News Mini and Pulse News Reader, are available for 50 percent off.  Now you can have all of your news feeds in one place without breaking the bank.

Pulse News Mini, the iPhone version, allows...

Touch Arcade

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Get it.

Backflip Studios' CEO Julian Farrior let us know that his studio is handing out the neon glow of Tunnel Shoot [App Store] for free, today only. The game is a universal application that renders at full screen resolution on all iOS devices. We took a close look at the title when it went live in late June.

Tunnel Shoot is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a tunnel shooter...

Boing Boing

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Impressive. And a little creepy.

[It] is the network of connections Google uses to identify relevant social search results. It is based on a combination of the following:

• Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts
• Direct connections from links that appear on your Google profile
• Secondary...

Touch Arcade

We got word this afternoon that the Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter is going to be sold exclusively through Brookstone and is available for pre-order right now for $299.99. Brookstone plans on shipping orders on September 3rd, and the first 300 orders get a free flight bag. (Tempting, I know.) Currently, Brookstone is only willing to ship the Parrot AR.Drone to customers inside of the USA, and...

MAKE Magazine

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Want.

Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which he calls The Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process requires a special key. Once diassembled, about 20 of the pieces can be recombined to make a functioning single-shot pistol. Other parts of the puzzle...