Last week, AT&T announced that they are working on ways to use the iPhone as a remote control for their Uverse high speed internet / cable system. This strikes us as a great potential area for iPhone integration. As mentioned before, we love using the remote app with the genius feature to drive our home [...]
Developer Angelo DiNardi reports in his blog that his mail-consolidation app "MailWrangler" was rejected from the App Store with the following explanation: … Your application duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion. … MailWranger seems to be a partial iPhone [...]
We now know that the Android Marketplace will launch on Tuesday of next week. Google has spent $10 Million in prizes in order to seed the marketplace. The complete list of the 50 finalist apps includes: cab4me, a way to locate cabs near you, gocart, an app for scanning barcodes and looking up prices online, Share Your Board, an application for whiteboard sharing. It's expected that companies like MySpace, Facebook, Pandora, Shazam, and Electronic Arts will all support the Android platform.
At the Mobilize conference in SF, Trism Developer Steve Demeter just revealed that the revenue for Trism had reached a quarter of a million dollars over the last 2 months. If this is true, the monetization potential of the iPhone is huge - even larger than the earlier revelations by Tap Tap Tap. This makes [...]
There are a number of tools to graph equations in the App Store, but the "Graphing Calculator" by Gabor Nagy has the dual advantage of being both excellent and free. As a math major myself, and a former user of programs such as "Mathematica", I was genuinely impressed with the interface and functionality of this tool.
Note: This post is an update of an earlier post where we were a little too harsh on the app. Also, in the interim, Earthscape has reduced its price to Free (with the "for a limited time only" caveat). Thanks to our readers for pointing this out. Earthscape is best described as a Google Earth [...]
Meet Phil "The Complete Package" Hassey -- the developer of one of the best (and soon to reviewed) games for the iPhone -- Galcon. Phil has "over 100 years of experience during his 28 year life-span. 18 years experience software development, 14 years experience classical viola, 6 years experience fiddle, 4 years experience story teller, 13 years experience game development, 10 years experience web development, 8 years experience being married, 5 years goat ownership, and over 28 years experience being alive."
There are a lot of apps that allow you to do simple voice recordings in the App Store, ranging in price from free (EverNote -- includes this capability)on up. However, perhaps because of its generic name, "Recorder" from Retronyms, is the leader in the space, with a ranking of 15 of all paid apps on [...]
The Apple Remote app has always been one of our favorite all around apps. As of last week, it has been upgraded to version 1.1, and now fully supports the new "Genius Mode" of iTunes 8. We can now give it the perfect 10/10 rating. For those who still haven't downloaded the remote, the idea [...]
Lots of news on the Android Front. Apparently next Tuesday, September 23 will be the unveiling date for the first Android phone, the "Dream" from TMobile, manufactured by HTC. The phone will actually go on sale in early October. According to the International Herald Tribune, "Anyone expecting the Google mobile OS to change the market [...]
A number of people have written to AppCraver asking how to create a custom ringtone on the iPhone. It's easy, but not very well documented. Here are the steps: 1. Go to iTunes and open your Music library. In the second column, some of the tracks will have a little bell next to them, indicating a [...]
The iPhone is only 70 days old, but with 12 million devices out there and 100 million apps downloaded, its clear that there is a real emerging market in ads specifically tailored for the iPhone. Already, a number of new ad networks are targeting the app developer community. The largest of these appears to be [...]
BlackJack Run from SeaHorse Software is a variant on the classical game of BlackJack where you play 5 hands simultaneously against the clock. That doesn't sound like much of a game, but in practice, the format is highly addictive. The way the game works is that a clock starts ticking down from thirty seconds and [...]
The iPhone 2.0 is only 70 days old, and over 12 million units have been sold. The AppStore is a huge success. iPhone firmware 2.1 fixes many of the bugs. But there a lot more things that need fixing. Here's the Appcraver list: 1. Support background GPS background broadcast on an app-by-app basis. One of [...]
The last week was one of the busiest ever for the iPhone and iPhone Apps. Of course the centerpiece was the "Lets Rock" Apple Special Keynote on tuesday — and the release (finally) of iTunes 8 — with the new "genius mode" — and iPhone Firmware 2.1, which solves many of the bug and speed issues that have plagued the phone since its launch on July 7.
