I must admit, I have been using the much talked of Twitter, which you have most likely either never heard of, or are sick of hearing about. For those who haven't heard about it, it's a "micro-blogging service", which allows you to make 140 character updates or less to your page, and follow your friends' Twitter pages.

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This short video shows how I try to digest Twitter, RSS feeds and my Friendfeed 'River' on one of my screens, when I am in my office (ok... not too often, really;). Juggling this ocean takes some practice... but I am getting there.

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In one corner, iFart Mobile and Joel Comm, who are now suing to have a judge rule that “pull my finger” can’t be trademarked (honest, we couldn’t make this stuff up):

In my app description on iTunes, I have testimonials. One of them is direct from my site, WorldVillage.com, in which I give the opinion, “Way better than Pull My Finger!” Of course, I have the right to state my opinion, especially one I believe to be true! [...] I also used Twitter to search for people who were discussing any of the competing fart apps and engaged in conversation with them. Air-O-Matic didn’t like that. Perhaps they believe they own Twitter and the people using it?

In the other, Pull My Finger and Air-O-Matic, who wants to get paid:

we estimate he cost us about $500K in sales. His app leapfrogged ours immediately after he started doing these things. That happened to be Christmas week. He sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of his app in the next month, in the spot he kicked us off of. We talked to our attorney, and decided to try to end this swiftly by asking for 1/10 of our estimated lost sales, plus attorney fees. $50K is about one week in the top spot in the App Store. We thought that was about right.

In the audience, whole heaps of developers wondering if the App Store is viable in the face of “gaming”, and millions of users who chuckle at cheap flatulence rather than voting with their wallets for innovative, world-changing mobile applications.

(via @chockenberry)

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App-ocolypse Now: iPhone Fart-App Wars have Begun. Seriously.

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Filed under: Software Update, Bad Apple

Over the weekend, the mailbag caught a few notes of problems starting up once Leopard users had applied the 2009-001 Security Update (thanks @danielbru), and on Friday the spotty issue was noted by MacFixIt as well. Affected users report a variety of symptoms: the dreaded 'boot disk not found,' a 20-minute hold before the login screen shows up, and a disabled keyboard & mouse -- making the usual first troubleshooting step (a Safe Boot, triggered by holding down the shift key at start up) rather more difficult. As with most Mac OS X patches, the majority of those who applied the security update did so with no reported problems, but that's cold comfort if you're one of the unlucky few.

While it's always a good idea to verify your backups before updating to major dot releases, I doubt most users would bother with that due diligence when facing a 'simple' security update; unfortunately, since these updates often touch multiple subsystems, issues do emerge for some folks in the aftermath. MacFixit's thorough guide to troubleshooting startup problems is a good starting point if you're having problems, and if you've already been through the mill this weekend, let us know how you resolved your problems in the comments below.

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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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Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/2009/02/14/featured-iphone-theme-minhimalist/.

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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Tap Tap Revenge has been a hugely popular game on the iPhone forever it seems - from way back in the early jailbreak days right up to today on the App Store.

It seems a new version of TTR is coming - as its developers, Tapulous, have got a short teaser video up for it. The video is very short, and very ‘teaser’ - it doesn’t reveal any real detail about when the app may come out, or what new features it may have. What it does promise is: more fun, more music, and more cowbell.

Allrighty then - those all sound good. Let’s hope that when Tapulous says it is ‘coming’ they just forgot to add the word ’soon’. Check out the teaser video HERE.

Via: iPhoneFreak

 

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