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iPhone For Dummies: Includes iPhone 3GS

A full-color guide to the iPhone, including the new iPhone 3G S With its new 3G S model, the iPhone is definitely the must-have mobile device. This fully updated guide covers all the cool features of the fastest iPhone ever...
Facebook Roundup: Events, Facebook in D.C., LivingSocial, ...
Facebook Partnering With EventBrite? – Does the screenshot below show an as-yet-unannounced way for people to tickets for events on Facebook via EventBrite? Or does it just show a way for people to buy tickets to Facebook’s developer conference in...
From: Inside Facebook | By: Sara Inés Calderón | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Opera on the iPhone? Yes, and Soon
AUSTIN, Texas — Opera Software has a version of its Mini browser prepped and ready for the iPhone. Opera Mini 5 for the iPhone will be available in the App Store in a matter of weeks, but the company is demoing a beta version of the tiny mobile browser...
From: Wired | By: Michael Calore | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Synching Jailbroken and Non-Jailbroken Iphones from Same ...
Going on vacation, I'll jailbreak my old iPhone so it can accept a local SIM for voice/data. I need to figure out how to set up the synching...which I'm slightly hesitant about because my regular in-use phone is (and will remain) non-jailbroken. I own...
From: Ask Metafilter | By: jimmyjimjim | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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TomTom iPhone app hits 1.3, gains real-time traffic and ...
Here lately, Navigon has been crushing it on the iPhone GPS front. Every couple of weeks, it seems that MobileNavigator is getting yet another fantastic update, all while TomTom's lackluster offering hangs back in the land of complacency. Thankfully...
From: Engadget | By: Darren Murph | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal
Steve Jobs of Apple and Eric Schmidt of Google, once friends and allies, are now engaged in a gritty battle over the future of mobile computing and cellphones....
From: New York Times | By: BRAD STONE and MIGUEL HELFT | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Dead iPad battery? Never mind replacing it, Apple just ...
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Dead_iPad_battery_Apple_not_replacing_just_sends_new_iPad'; Whoa, Nelly! Isn't this something? Apple has just posted details on its iPad battery replacement service, which is really not a battery replacement service...
From: Engadget | By: Darren Murph | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Eco-Beat, 3/12
Filed under: NewsWhich high-profile celebrity couple is joining the Earth Hour party? Have you stockpiled your non-hybrid seeds for a crisis garden yet? Is your carbon footprint growing while you sleep? Today's Eco-Beat has the scoop on all the latest...
From: Green Daily | By: Josh Loposer | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Hearst's Smart Bet On Niche iPhone Apps
Hearst's plan to create thousands of cheap, topic-centered iPhone apps has real potential to buoy its journalism....
From: The Atlantic | By: Niraj Chokshi | Friday, March 12, 2010
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The Great Salt Lake
I took this with my iPhone yesterday as we were approaching cruising altitude over Utah on a flight to Los Angeles yesterday. All the apps that you can get for photography on the iPhone have sparked a new interest in this hobby for me, so we left all...
From: Dooce | By: dooce | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Cheaper iPhone Plans from AT&T?
From: Business Week | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Hearst's Cynical New Strategy: App Spam
Hearst Corp. has app fever. The media giant has developed 70 apps for the iPhone and plans to unleash thousands more, according to the Wall Street Journal. Some are praising the company for finding a cheap way to subsidize its journalism. But I think...
From: The Big Money | By: Kevin Kelleher | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Opera browser for iPhone may be 'weeks' away
The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday....
From: CNN | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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What should I do with a spare mobile phone?
I have an extra prepaid mobile phone. What cool things can I do with it? I've come into possession of a prepaid mobile phone with 100 dollars of credit (it's on T-Mobile). I already have an iPhone so I don't really need it as my primary phone–I just...
From: Ask Metafilter | By: ooklala | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Sent to jail for throwing a single bottle
London, March 13, 2010 (Pal Telegraph; by Simon Hattenstone and Matthew Taylor)- Badi Tebani and his wife were sleeping peacefully when all hell broke loose. He shudders at the memory. The front door was forced open, and then came the screaming. "Wah,...
From: Palestine Telegraph | By: Mohammed Said El-Nadi | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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German student shows off camera-based input on an iPhone ...
Using a camera as an input device is hardly a new idea -- even on a mobile device -- but most examples so far have been to enable functionality not possible on a touchscreen. As Master's student Daniel Bierwirth has shown in the video after the break,...
From: Engadget | By: Donald Melanson | Friday, March 12, 2010
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SXSW 4: Tocquigny Party in the Frost Tower + Parkside
This party comes with a following. The full-service advertising agency Tocquigny matches well with SXSW Interactive. Several folks who attended last year recommended it. But I didn’t commit until I’d been contacted directly by Craig Saper, and, later...
From: Austin American-Statesman | By: By Michael Barnes | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Netflix Cancels 'Netflix Prize' Sequel Because Of Privacy ...
From Forbes: On Friday, Netflix announced on its corporate blog that it has settled a lawsuit related to its Netflix Prize, a $1 million contest that challenged machine learning experts to use Netflix's data to produce better recommendations than the...
From: Business Insider | By: Taylor Buley, Forbes | Friday, March 12, 2010
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The Engadget Show: Inside chiptunes and 8-bit visuals
Greetings humans! If you've seen The Engadget Show, then you've been privy to some pretty incredible performances by a group of musicians and artists who eschew familiar instruments in exchange for hacked and modded handheld gaming devices. We grabbed...
From: Engadget | By: Chad Mumm | Friday, March 12, 2010
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FCC comes through with a Consumer Broadband Test app for ...
We talk about the FCC a lot here, but usually the ways ye olde Commission affects our lives are indirect. A little extra spectrum here, a nice leaked image there, that kind of thing. Not this time, though, as the FCC is getting involved directly with...
From: Engadget | By: Vladislav Savov | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Solar Slumber May Have Been Caused by Magnetic Flows
Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums. From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a puzzling dearth of sunspots, flares and other storms, extending...
From: Wired | By: Ron Cowen, Science News | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Slacker Radio Secretly Preparing On-Demand Music Service ...
The Slacker music service, the critically-praised interactive radio service our readers helped us discover in ‘07, plans to launch an on-demand subscription service combining elements of Pandora, Rhapsody and Spotify in the next few months, Wired.com...
From: Wired | By: Eliot Van Buskirk | Friday, March 12, 2010
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iPad mute switch magicked into a 'screen rotation lock' ...
Apple's pushing out a few more scraps of info about the iPad in conjunction with the launch of pre-orders. One of the quirkier details is that what was previously known as the mute switch on the iPad -- similar to the one on the iPhone -- is now known...
From: Engadget | By: Paul Miller | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Smartphone Users Want Mobile Coupons, Barcode Scanners ...
Once upon a time, smartphones were mostly about connecting busy professionals with their email accounts while on the go. Now that smartphones have reached the mainstream consumer market, however, people are looking for more than just email access - and...
From: Read Write Web | By: Frederic Lardinois | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Review: Power Cam for iPhone
Power Cam is one of many apps trying to make your picture-taking a bit easier, and while the $1 offering does add some interesting features, it doesn't measure up to similar photography apps....
From: Macworld | By: Rob de la Cretaz | Friday, March 12, 2010
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'30 Rock': Liz meets her future husband (we hope)
It’s been a long “30 Rock”-free month (thanks a lot, you selfish Olympians!) ,so I'm going to start out by saying something bold: I’d like to see Liz Lemon maintain an adult relationship. It’s a controversial desire, but it probably...
From: Los Angeles Times | By: Meredith Blake | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Hearst Slices Content Into Apps
The transition from print to digital hasn't been easy. But the most likely outcome, as I've been banging on about these last few weeks, is a media world where a central editorial brand produces content that is accessed (and paid for) in a variety of...
From: The Big Money | By: Marion Maneker | Friday, March 12, 2010
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EA Confirms 'Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11' Won't Use Project ...
It turns out that we weren't reading too much into that "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11" press release this week that mentioned PS3 motion controller and Wii MotionPlus support but left off any mention of Project Natal. That's not to say EA Sports doesn't like...
From: MTV | By: Brian Warmoth | Friday, March 12, 2010
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CBRE launches iPhone app, with Cushman waiting in the wings ...
Click image for larger versionCommercial real estate services firm CB Richard Ellis announced today the launch of its new iPhone application. While it appears to be the first corporate iPhone application launched by a commercial real estate firm, Cushman...
From: The Real Deal | By: Amy Tennery | Friday, March 12, 2010
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UIALertView - retreive textfield value from textfield added ...
Here is the code I have to create an UIalertView with a textbox. UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Enter A Username Here" message:@"this gets covered!" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Dismiss" otherButtonTitles:@"OK!", nil];...
From: Stack Overflow | By: George | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Week in review: Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Package, ...
Here’s our roundup of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories published in the last seven days: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 announces Stimulus Package for Xbox Live — Activision announced during the Game Developers...
From: VentureBeat | By: Anthony Ha | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Through the Looking Glass
Look what I found in the attic!  It appears to be a small old book, but actually it’s a game for the 1984 Apple Macintosh.  It appears for a moment at time stamp 2:41 in the original Steve Job’s announcement for the Macintosh. The game was written,...
From: Ben Hyde | By: bhyde | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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iPhone UIWebView touch cause Toolbar to appear
I am trying to have a UI which is a full screen UIWebView. When the view is touched the tool bar appears. I can do everything but get the touchend event in the UIWebView. I have tried putting a UIColor.Clear'd UIView ontop and catching TouchEnd there...
From: Stack Overflow | By: BahaiResearch.com | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Boo Hoo! SimplifyMedia dropping products and changing direction ...
Filed under: Multimedia, Internet Tools, iTunes, iPhone, MusicThe problem is, we just don't know where they're going. In a Saturday blog post, the company announced it is "...taking a new direction" and won't be offering their current apps to new users....
From: TUAW | By: Mel Martin | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Former P.A. Semi chief leaves Apple for chip startup - ...
P.A. Semi founder and chief executive Dan Dobberpuh, who joined Apple as part of the acquisition of his company two years ago, has since left the iPhone maker for a startup venture, according to a published report....
From: Apple Insider | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Dead iPad Battery? Don't Replace It, Apple Will Just Send ...
Whoa, Nelly! Isn't this something? Apple has just posted details on its iPad battery replacement service, which is really not a battery replacement service at all. Check out the company's opening line: "If your iPad requires service due to the battery's...
From: Business Insider | By: Engadget | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 Might Deliver a Multitasking Solution ...
One of the biggest complaints surrounding Apple's iPhone OS is the lack of multitasking support, and it's a valid one. But if the latest rumor proves to be true, critics will soon be silenced, or at least redirect their disgust squarely on the lack of...
From: Digg | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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CitySourced app finally launches in L.A., aiming to help ...
A lot has happened since the Los Angeles start-up FreedomSpeaks made a splash in September with its CitySourced mobile application, a finalist at the annual TechCrunch 50 competition. The app enables anyone with an iPhone to snap a picture of graffiti,...
From: Los Angeles Times | By: Mark Milian | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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GDC 10: GDC Microtalks
Organized by Naughty Dog co-lead designer Richard Lemarchand, "GDC Microtalks 2010: Ten Speakers, 200 Slides, Limitless Ideas) accomplished pretty much what it said on the tin. Ten different game designers from drastically different background and areas...
From: Destructoid | By: Anthony Burch | Friday, March 12, 2010
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Appeal To Your Inner Nerd By Revamping Your Pad With Geek-Chic ...
I may be the ultimate fashionista when I'm out on the town (ha!), but behind closed doors I'm a total nerd. Beyond my pile of shoes is a neatly-arranged collection of Nintendo DS and Wii games (not to mention tons of movie musicals on DVD), and slightly...
From: StyleHive | By: Alex Gambardella | Thursday, March 11, 2010
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10 new iPhone games for everyone
Reports from this week's Game Developers Conference make one thing clear: Games on mobile phones are not just a niche category anymore....
From: Digg | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist...
From: Read Write Web | By: Admin | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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iPhone App Icons Make a Break For Your Coffee Table
If you were stoked to see your iPhone apps move from your handset to your fridge, don't let the party stop there - migrate them from your fridge to your table with these iPhone App Icon Coasters ($39). But here's the deal: you get the entire set of 17...
From: GeekSugar | By: GeekSugar | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Review: Pocket Chef for iPhone
Developed by Gameloft, Pocket Chef is a cooking simulation game for the iPhone designed for the cooking-impaired....
From: Macworld | By: Bryan Schell | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Roughly 10% of Microsoft employees said to be iPhone owners ...
Although it's no secret that members of Microsoft's leadership frown upon employees who choose an Apple iPhone over one running the company's own Windows Mobile operating system, approximately 1 in 10 still veer towards the forbidden fruit and sometimes...
From: Apple Insider | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Steve Jobs May Finally Have Approval to Tear Down House
Steve Jobs is accustomed to bringing the house down—unveiling remarkable devices like the iPad, the iPhone, and the original iPod make that a pretty common......
From: PC World | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Happening iPhone app breathes new life into Yahoo!'s Upcoming ...
Filed under: Utilities, Social Software, iPhoneUpcoming, the venerable social events calendar that was founded in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, has undoubtedly seen better days. There are other places to post events and invite friends now -- notably,...
From: Download Squad | By: Jay Hathaway | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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LMK launches more than 60 content-rich iPhone apps
New apps deliver dynamic and authoritative content on pro sports, celebrities, musicians and more
From: San Antonio Express-News | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Free today, Earth Vs Moon for iPhone
Save the world today. It seems Earth has been surprised by a previously unknown threat hiding on the Moon. Command the Earth’s satellite defense system to destroy the menacing evil Moon army. Neutralize incoming missiles, destroy U.F.O.s and obliterate...
From: Raleigh News and Observer | By: matthewfortner | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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iPhone backups a bit slow? Dump those images
Filed under: Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, iPhoneIf your iPhone backups and restores are taking a ridiculously long time, Apple suggests you take a quick peek at your Camera Roll. In a new Knowledge Base entry, Apple reminds users that photos are backed...
From: TUAW | By: Mel Martin | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Weekly Wrapup: Bike Trails, Location Madness, SXSW, And ...
Our top stories this week were about cutting the strings that tie us to our desks. And also about stalking celebrities at SXSW. Read on for our coverage and analysis. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010, including...
From: Read Write Web | By: Abraham Hyatt | Saturday, March 13, 2010
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