Mobile 'muting' is on.
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Earlier this month, Google ingratiated itself with mobile users by refurbishing Gmail.com for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android devices. On Wednesday, Google followed up its initial redo with a small new feature that helps trim fat–or rather, keep it from accumulating in the in-box in the first place.
The capability […]

Since launching its Dictionary.com app for iPhone and iPod Touch in early April, the folks over at Dictionary.com have been plotting other iPhone applications that use the tools they’ve got: grammatical, orthographic, synonymic authority. And while they’re at it, maybe duplicate the numerical success of their reference app, which has floated among the iTunes Top […]

Like many people, I have a music library that’s way too large to fit on my iPhone. (Yo, Apple! Can we please get a 64GB model already?) Fortunately, I can still listen to every track I own thanks to Simplify Music 2.0 (formerly Simplify Media).
The app streams tunes from your PC by way of a […]

I recently learned about an Easter egg in Apple’s Texas Hold’em card game, which sells for $4.99 in the iTunes App Store.
If you’re playing the game in landscape mode, you’ll be able to see both your hand and the hands of the other players. Looks normal right? Indeed, the game will continue to look normal […]

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Apple’s engineering department is still working hard toward the summer release of iPhone OS 3.0. It has released beta 4 to developers only two weeks after beta 3 was released.
Like most Apple updates, we suspect that the new beta 4 includes several stability and performance enhancements that might make the beta more pleasing […]

Truphone 3.0 gives Skype a run for the free-call money.

A new version of popular voice over IP app Truphone just hit the App Store, offering better call quality, single-screen instant messaging, and various interface improvements.
In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Truphone leverages Wi-Fi networks to provide free voice calls–worldwide–to other Truphone users and to your […]

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The most I’ve paid for an iPhone app is $5.99. This is why I was so excited to get a a promotional code for the $19.99 Human Atlas and install the software on my iPhone 3G right away. The app also works on the iPod Touch.
Human Atlas offers 3D images and […]

Stanza: download 10 free e-books from Random House and thousands more from other sources.

I love reading books on my iPhone, but I don’t love e-book prices. I mean, digital content requires no printing, binding, shipping, storage, or heavy lifting–so why does Amazon charge the same price for the Kindle edition of “The Kite Runner” as […]

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Maybe Steve Jobs doesn’t think there’s a market for e-books on the iPhone, but Amazon seems to. On Monday, it acquired Lexcycle, the company that developed the popular Stanza iPhone and iPod Touch e-book reader application, for an undisclosed sum.

At first glance, it’s unclear exactly why Amazon would buy Lexcycle when it has its […]

No matter how long your iPhone or iPod’s battery life is, it’s never long enough. (In the case of the iPhone 3G, it’s not even long to begin with). So, it’s natural that you’d want to get a juice pack, which will provide extended battery power that can double or even triple the amount of […]