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Sorry for the slightly dopey post title, but I have a couple good reasons for it: I couldn’t think of a better one, and it’s probably the quickest way to get across the type of application that Nabbit for the iPhone is.

Shazam is the enormously popular iPhone application that takes a quick sample of any song playing around you (close enough to the iPhone’s speakers) and identifies the track’s artist and title for you. It’s one of those ‘wow factor’ iPhone apps that you just have to show to all your friends.

Nabbit also helps identify songs (and who sings them) for you, but only from radio stations. It may not have quite the same wow factor as Shazam - since it doesn’t listen to and analyze music playing near it - but if you’re a big radio listener, it may be even ore useful.

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Doh, and oops. I had just been looking at the new (and already soon to be deceased) iHomer iPhone app tonight, and wondering whether it was ‘legal’ or would be allowed to fly by the makers of The Simpsons. Looks like that would be a big NO. The screencap above is from the home page of the app developers’ site (the one listed on its App Store page).

This app provide classic quotes from Homer Simpson - some as just text, and some with audio. Something that would prove immensely popular probably. But it looks like its creators didn’t get their ducks in a row in terms of permissions to use the content included in it. Shame, hopefully Homer will get to the App Store for keeps sometime soon …

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Techcrunch has got a great post up tonight, from guest author Noel Hartshorn, who is the developer of the i-Doodz app for iPhone. Here’s the Techcrunch intro to his post, which is a sort of straight-from-the-trenches view of how the App Store experience has been:

Noel Hartshorn (left in the picture) is a 37 year old Wales (UK) based iPhone developer, working in partnership with illustrator Dennis Harrison (on the right). Formerly a contract technical writer, Noel became one of the many casualties of the global economic crisis. With the IT contract market in decline, and with a lot more time on his hands than anticipated, Noel decided to take the plunge into iPhone development. This is his story.

The article is a very interesting - and very funny - look at how things went from looking for iPhone devs to make an app for these guys, to realizing their budget wouldn’t cover that and they’d have to do it themselves, to the vagaries of App Store pricing strategies. It’s told with much style and wit …

Next, the tried and trusted Lite version strategy. Tried and trusted?! Despite the description of our no-cost Lite version stating its inadequacies, it received the apparently to-be-expected “needs more!”, “is that it?!” and “it should have….” comments. It seems all apps should be free and make you cups of tea whilst implementing global peace and eradicating Third World debt. Our Lite version does none of that. It simply provides a taster of the paid version. Apparently, this was naïve.

I won’t spoil too much here, but it’s a great read, especially for aspiring iPhone devs, as it sounds like Noel and his partner will be sticking round in the App Store for a while. Here’s wishing them very good luck with that too. Check out Noel’s full post HERE…

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So I spotted the recently added Jules Verne app for iPhone, and thought it might be a collection of his works or similar. Way off. Instead, it’s a calculator app. Huh? Well, here’s the description, which may leave you feeling more, or less, informed about this app in just a sec:

When Jules Verne was journeying to the center of the earth and he needed to do a quick sum do you think he grabbed a $5 plastic calculator. No! He picked up a solid well built device like this. Enjoy the craftsman ship of days gone by. Even though it’s free it’s far from valueless. Grab it now, while you’re here.

Easily, no contest, favorite part of that description: ‘craftsman ship’ - two words baby. It’s a calculator and it’s a ship!

If you need it - and there’s absolutely no reason I can think of that you would, as there is pretty much zero description of the calculator - you can find Jules Verne in the App Store, and it’s free.

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SmashWord is a different and fun word game for the iPhone, that is described as ‘a fast-paced blend of speed and vocabulary’. Here’s an idea how it works:

Connect the letters Boggle-style - vertically, horizontally, or diagonally - to form words of three letters or longer by dragging your finger from one tile to the next. Valid words are removed and new letters fall into place when you lift your finger.

I’ve never played Boggle, but have been enjoying SmashWord a lot on the iPhone. To me, this game feels like word search on steroids - because you can go in all directions, and combinations of directions, to form words.

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Spotted this one yesterday over at Apple iPhone School. It’s the Minhimalist iPhone theme for Winterboard.

If you’re not a fan of splashy colors, and you like small, simple icons, this looks like a good candidate for you. There are already icons for a number of 3rd party apps, and requests for more can be made at the theme creator’s web site, HERE.

As with all custom themes for the iPhone, you’ll need to be jailbroken to apply this one. If you are already jailbroken, you can find the Minhimalist theme in Cydia now.

Via: Apple iPhone School

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I recently posted to let you know that everyone’s favorite jailbreak-gone-legit podcatching app for the iPhone - RSS Player - was going to be bringing out a couple new versions, one free and one 99 cent version, to go alongside the full version of the program.

The free version - ‘RSS Player Test Drive‘ - is now out in the App Store. This version limits you to using two feeds, so you can get a feel for the app before moving up to the $0.99 (green icon) version (which caps you at 7 feeds) or the full program.

Now is as good a time as any to try out the new Test Drive version - as the full version of the app is also currently offered at a special Valentine’s rate of 50% off - $1.99.

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iSpeak Spanish is a text and spoken translator app for the iPhone, and part of a series of translator apps from Future Apps. Eight languages are covered so far by the iSpeak series - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, and Swedish - with translations to and from English in each case.

I’ve only looked at iSpeak Spanish, as I can speak it fluently and know what I’m looking at. The app has a basic and simple interface. You type your text you want translated into the top input box and hit translate when you’re ready (if you want to swap from English-Spanish to Spanish-English just tap a simple button to swap which is the From language and which is the To language). This will immediately return the translated text in the bottom box.

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I used to be a full-time ‘techie’ for a living (networks, tech support etc), so a couple of recently released iPhone apps that help your prepare to take technical certification exams have caught my eye. The two apps are CCNA Networking Practice Exam and A + Certification Exam 20-601, both from Wallsberg Inc.

The A + certification is an entry level sort of cert, usually taken by Level 1 support staff and hardware technicians. CCNA stands for Cisco Certified Network Associate (its exam number is 640-802) and is the first (and most junior) of Cisco’s rigorous set of cert exams covering internetworking and similar topics. The CCNA in particular is a very tough exam (or at least it was for me) that requires a lot of study and preparation.

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