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- Official YouTube app arrives in the App Store, complete with YouTube ads
- Higher quality pictures of the iPhone 5 design
- iPhone 5 only a day away, even Best Buy reportedly getting ready...
- T-Mobile USA goes after "bring your own iPhone" users with unlimited and unlocked program
- Dear President Obama, ask not how you can dial an iPhone, ask how iMore can help you dial!
- Learn acronyms, abbreviations and codes with Acro-Dict for iPhone
- ION iCade vs Atari Arcade vs a real arcade cabinet: Classic gaming gear shootout!
- Remains of the Day: Chip off the old block
- GoDaddy goes down, Anonymous takes credit
- Find great, affordable apps with AppTerrier for iPhone
- iMore show 311: Storytelling
- Apple SVP of retail, John Browett, addresses Apple Stores, stresses people and service
- T-Mobile appeals to unlocked iPhone users
- TechHive: Google Drive gets iOS update
- Crowd-sourced online storage service Symform charges bytes instead of bucks
- September 12 preview: Imagining Apple's new iPhone event
- Filtering faked email messages
- UDID's leaked by Anonymous belonged to Florida publishing company, not the FBI
- Nvidia to release Quadro K5000 graphic card for Mac Pro
- PaperHelper: iPad App Splits the Screen for Document Writer and Web Browser Combo
| Official YouTube app arrives in the App Store, complete with YouTube ads Posted: 11 Sep 2012 12:59 AM PDT
The official YouTube app is surprisingly not a universal binary so this it only runs well on an iPhone or iPod touch. Of course you can still install it on your iPad but you would have to run it in 2x mode. The YouTube app is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. Free DownloadGoogle and the YouTube engineers are working on an optimized version of the YouTube app for the iPad which should be available in the coming months. If you give the YouTube app a whirl, let us know how you think it compares to the stock iOS YouTube app. Source: YouTube Blog 
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| Higher quality pictures of the iPhone 5 design Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:52 PM PDT
Remember those iPhone 5 dummies that were floating around Germany and Taiwan last week? Well it looks like they're starting to hit U.S. shores, social networks, and tip boxes. iMore previously reported that this is indeed the basic design for the new iPhone, though the final design details will no doubt differ (pentalobe screws, properly typeset branding, etc.) But if you're still eager to soak in as much hype as you possibly can before tomorrow's iPhone event, check out the image above and the one below, and let us know your pre-release thoughts.
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| iPhone 5 only a day away, even Best Buy reportedly getting ready... Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:32 PM PDT
If these pictures are accurate, and we're being flooded by so many tips this week it's getting harder and hared to parse, it seems like everyone and their biggest big box chain are getting ready for iPhone 5 tomorrow. These come by way of a Mobile Nations source, and, yes, the box clearly says iPhone 5, but who knows if that's an official name or just an in-store place-holder Best Buy is using? The dates read September 18 to October 27, 2012. The iPhone event is scheduled for September 12 and iMore has previously reported the planned release date as September 21. One more picture below. We'll find out for sure when Tim Cook and co. take the stage.
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| T-Mobile USA goes after "bring your own iPhone" users with unlimited and unlocked program Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:38 PM PDT
T-Mobile USA, which looks like it'll once again be the only major American carrier left without the iPhone on September 12, is trying to turn lemons into magenta-colored lemonade with an amped up unlimited and unlocked program for "bring your own iPhone" offers. Suzanne Lowry of T-Mobile's blog went over the highlights:
So they're going for the triple-threat combo punch of unlimited data, faster downloads, and lower bills. This is for unlocked AT&T/GSM iPhones only, of course, but if that's you, it could at least be worth a look. Check out their full pitch via the link below. Source: T-Mobile blog 
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| Dear President Obama, ask not how you can dial an iPhone, ask how iMore can help you dial! Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:49 PM PDT
U.S. President Obama seems to have had some problems using an iPhone -- the most usable phone in the world -- this week. He'd borrowed it to make some thank you calls, but couldn't get it to dial. Years of living with BlackBerry had apparently hard-coded hard keyboards into his muscle memory, and made capacitive touch a challenge. Dave Boyer from The Washington Times reports:
Anyone who listens to the iMore show knows that I use the dialer almost exclusively to making calls and it works fantastically well. Clearly, all President Obama needs is an iPhone of his own, and a little time on iMore, particularly our iPhone help and how-to section and our iPhone help and discussion forums. They're friendly, fast-paced, fun, and guaranteed to get anyone from the chief executive of the United States to the chief media officer of Mobile Nations familiar with all the features of modern, mobile touchscreen computing in no time. Source: The Washington Times 
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| Learn acronyms, abbreviations and codes with Acro-Dict for iPhone Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:58 PM PDT
A few weeks ago, I was in Target and overheard a conversation between a teenage girl and her mom in which the daughter used the acronym "FTW" and her mother was completely confused. The daughter was annoyed at having to teach her mom its meaning yet again. Too bad the mother didn't have Acro-Dict installed on her iPhone, as this would've probably never happened. Acro-Dict is an iPhone app that lets you look up the meanings of acronyms, abbreviations and codes (AAC for short) and mark ones you may need to frequently look up (like those used by your teenager) as favorites.
When you first open Acro-Dict, you are presented with a great little tutorial on using the app. It isn't hard to learn how to use Acro-Dict by discovery, but the tutorial is a great way to learn little tips like double tapping on a letter to erase it and all characters that follow it.
To quickly search for an AAC, tap the first space at the bottom of the screen. A keyboard with the alphabet and numbers 0-9 will slide up allowing you to enter up to 5 characters. As you type, the search results will refine in the background. If the AAC is longer than 5 characters, entering only 5 characters will still be plenty for it to appear in your search results. However, if you would rather search for it specifically, you can include all the characters by taping the search (magnifying glass) icon. To the right of your search results, you'll see a list of categories that you can sort them by. This is great if you're doing a broad search. For example, maybe you wan to search all ACC in the Medical category that begin with P.
Each search result in Acro-Dict will include its category, meaning, and a star and globe icon. The star icon lets you save it as a favorite and the globe will give you options for looking up the AAC in Wikipedia or Google or to share to Twitter, Facebook, SMS, or email. There are two version of Acro-Dict available. The free version of Acro-Dict includes only 80% of the AAC included in the full version. Unfortunately, they are completely different apps and the free version does not include an in-app upgrade. Instead, if you want to upgrade, the free version will direct you to the App Store where you can purchase the full version. This is annoying because you have to delete the free version off your iPhone. The good
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The bottom lineAcro-Dict is a great app for learning acronyms, abbreviations, and codes. It features a very nice UI that is both functional and great to look at. If you're a student or professional who encounters AAC on a daily basis or even a parent with a teen who uses more acronyms than real words (both in text and "real life"), then you should definitely take a look at Acro-Dict. Free - Download Now$0.99 - Download Now
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| ION iCade vs Atari Arcade vs a real arcade cabinet: Classic gaming gear shootout! Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:11 PM PDT Ah! the 1980's. A time when hair was big and so were the arcades. Sure, it's 2012 now, and we have more computing power in our iPads than we used to have in our houses, but there's still many a retro gamer just itching to play the classic arcade games on a classic arcade gear. Both the Atari Arcade Duo-powered joystick for iPad and ION Audio's iCade for iPad promise just that -- to give you a flashback of the '80s on the iPad of the '10s. But which is better, and which gives the best real arcade experience?
Since the Atari Arcade vs. ION iCade has been done to death, I decided to up the ante and go full out -- I decided to put the Atari Arcade and ION iCade not only against each other but to put both of them against a full size arcade machine as well. That's right. It's on like Pong! Literally!
Shootout criteriaSo how close do the Atari Arcade and ION iCade get in terms of bringing that real arcade experience to the iPad? We've run a series of tests that compare our iPad accessories to the real deal arcade cabinet. For each test we've awarded a point for matching the arcade experience, half a point for effort, or no points for getting it wrong.
Tests included looks, feel, sound, coin feeding, coin staging, aggression proofing, kick resilience, trackball options, awesome art, and two player compatibility. There were also a few ways the pretenders were better than the real thing, so so we have some bonus points for the competition. Those include portability, power efficiency, home convenience, and cost. So which comes closest? Here's the point where you watch the video up top and find out! Bottom line
If you want the genuine arcade experience then get a genuine arcade cabinet! However, for those who have a more limited budget or more limited floor space and want to relive some of the glory days of arcade gaming, judging from our results, the iCade is your best choice. 
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| Remains of the Day: Chip off the old block Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:30 PM PDT  The next iPhone is down with LTE, Apple's bolstering the corporate computer market, and HP's gone a little crazy with its latest iMac, er, all-in-one PC.
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| GoDaddy goes down, Anonymous takes credit Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:20 PM PDT  Popular domain name registrar and Web and email hosting provider GoDaddy is experiencing a severe outage, one that appears to have taken out not only its hosted...
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| Find great, affordable apps with AppTerrier for iPhone Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:36 PM PDT
There are hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store and many of them go on sale every day; AppTerrier is here to help you find the best apps and great deals on those apps. With the focus of finding you quality apps at an affordable price (often times free!), you can't really go wrong with downloading AppTerrier to your iPhone.
There are three main tabs in AppTerrier: Featured, Free, and On Sale. The featured tab will display apps that have been handpicked by the AppTerrier crew. They are displayed somewhat awkwardly as icons on a big canvas. I think a banner-look would be much more appealing, but this approach does get the job done.
The Free and On Sale tabs in AppTerrier do display the apps in a list, but if you prefer, you can have them displayed in a cover flow style. As with the Featured tab, the cover flow view has a bit too much empty space for my taste. Both Free and On Sale have sub-tabs for Today, Best in Show, Rising Stars, and More. Each section is organized into categories, making it easy to search for specific types of apps. It's important to note that the Free tab isn't displaying apps that are simply free, but apps that are normal not free, but currently on sale for free. The regular price will be displayed with each app so that you know how big a bargain you're getting. The On Sale tab displays apps that are not free, but on sale.
When you tap on an app, you'll be taken to a screen that displays all the app's details such as the price, it's star rating, the developer name, it's size and age category, a description, screenshots, and options to share to Facebook Twitter, or Email. If you tap on the price button, you'll be taken to the App Store to download. Most of the graphics are surprising not Retina-ready (even though the description in the App Store says it features Retina Support), but it's something I'm willing to get over it since AppTerrier does do a great job of finding apps. Also, even though AppTerrier lets you browse through iPhone and iPad apps, it's not a universal app for both the iPhone and iPad. If you use AppTerrier on your iPad, you'll have to use it in 2x mode. It's a shame that the developers of AppTerrier have such a lazy approach to its design -- the content is great, but the presentation is terrible. The good
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The bottom lineIt's no secret that the App Store is horrible for actually discovering all the great apps that are out there, so using apps like AppTerrier is almost a must. What sets AppTerrier apart from some of the other similar apps out there is that it focuses on getting you a great deal. There are no ads, surveys, or spam, just quality apps at affordable prices. If you can get over some of its design flaw, AppTerrier is a great app to help you find apps. Free - Download Now
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| Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:24 PM PDT Rene talks to Clayton Morris of Fox News about the recent Nokia and Amazon events, then dives into next week's iPhone 5 event. How does Apple engage mainstream consumers, what's the competitive landscape, and what surprises are in store for us? This is the iMore show Sunday edition!
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| Apple SVP of retail, John Browett, addresses Apple Stores, stresses people and service Posted: 10 Sep 2012 03:21 PM PDT
Apple's new senior vice president of retail, John Browett, gave his quarterly address to Apple Store employees last night. While normally routine and not exactly newsy, it follows a series of staffing and PR gaffs that have raised concerns about Browett's role and Apple's devotion to its experience-over-profit model. Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac scored a recording of the address.
Apple Retail is one of the crown jewels of Apple. It's also a huge advantage over competitors who lack retail presence and can't or won't provide the same level of service. Being able to get help buying, using, trouble-shooting, and exchanging product is key to the Apple experience. Hopefully the rough spots are over and Apple is "doubling down" on what's important. Like Steve Jobs was so fond of saying -- take care of the top line and the bottom line can take care of itself. You can read the full transcript, or listen to the audio, via the link below. Source: 9to5Mac 
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| T-Mobile appeals to unlocked iPhone users Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:10 PM PDT  T-Mobile is making a play for users of unlocked iPhones, attempting to entice them with unlimited data plans and revamped networks that finally let the Apple smartphone achieve high speed cellular data on the carrier's network.
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| TechHive: Google Drive gets iOS update Posted: 10 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT  Google has unveiled updates to its Google Drive app for iOS (as well as for Android), a revamp that makes the service a richer competitor to other online storage offerings.
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| Crowd-sourced online storage service Symform charges bytes instead of bucks Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT  Symform's new free and unlimited cloud storage allows customers to pay with bytes instead of bucks, contributing local storage capacity via crowd-sourcing.
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| September 12 preview: Imagining Apple's new iPhone event Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:45 AM PDT
Back on July 30, iMore learned Apple would be holding a special event on September 12, 2012. Last week, Apple went and made it official. In between, we've been subjected to a flood of rumors fast and furious. Sorting the sane ones, the legit part leaks and software sneaks, supply chain gossip and retail chatter, from the 100% crazy stuff isn't always simple. Apple's a supremely secretive company. They take great pains to build hype without giving much, if anything away. But they're also a company that sticks to a tried-and-true formula. Based on their past behavior, we can try and predict their future behavior. And based on their past events, we can make some educated guesses about this week's event. Apple and iOS update
Apple CEO Tim Cook typically takes the stage first at Apple events, and is likely to do the same this time around. He'll talk about Apple, their goals and philosophy and vision. He'll give an overview of Apple and the Apple Store. He might show a video. His part of the show will be short and sweet, but it will be packed with the kinds of details Apple's competition always seems unwilling to unable to provide -- real numbers, and really good numbers. iOS 6 recap
Scott Forstall already showed off 10 flagship new features for iOS 6 at Apple's 2012 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) back in June. He'll likely review them again on September 12. The new Google-free Maps app, the newly improved Siri, Facebook integration, Shared Photo Streams, Passbook, Facetime over cellular, mail improvements, Safari improvements, and what, if any, new accessibility features pertain to the iPhone. But nothing really new. Not yet... iCloud & iTunes
Apple Senior Vice-President of Internet Services, Eddy Cue will probably do iTunes and iCloud duty. We'll get some numbers and usage data. Everything that's leaked previously, including web interfaces for Notes and Reminders, will get some attention, along with any and all improvements to existing services. If there's a new version of iTunes, even if it's not the long-in-development iTunes 11 total make-over, Cue will show it off, and its feature set. Likewise, if by some miracle Apple has gotten their even longer-in-the-works subscription/streaming music service green lit, or signed any major content deals, we'll hear about them here. There could be new videos and/or commercials here too. Whether or not it all happens at once, or whether Cue, like Forstall, comes back later, will depend on the size of the iTunes update, and if any of the new online services are dependent on new hardware. New Macs
October. New iPods
Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller will take the stage and warm us up. Perhaps with some new iPods. Whether or not the iPod shuffle and iPod nano get updates enough to warrant stage time and the debut of a new commercial, or whether they simply get dumped into a slide or press release remains to be seen. Recent leaks suggest similar price points, though perhaps more color options and less capacity options for the iPod shuffle and iPod nano. That makes a sense. So does the new miniature Dock connector iMore reported on back in February. But what else? The iPod is a significant yet ever-dwindling part of Apple's business. Quarter-after-quarter, year-after-year, Apple sells less-and-less iPods and more and more iPhones and iPads. The writing's not only on the wall, it's in the ledger. The transition is well underway. Apple isn't discontinuing iPods by any stretch of the imaginations, but the iPhone rather than the iPod anchoring the September event clearly shows where the focus is now. So, while I'll always hold out hope for an iPod nano with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity that can interface directly with my iPhone and show me notifications, that could make me Dick Tracy, I won't expect it until I see it. The new iPod touch is more challenging to predict. Not in terms of what it is -- iMore learned a while a new, 4-inch, 16:9 iPod touch to take its place at the high end of the lineup, and recent rumors suggest once again the old iPod touch will keep its place at the low-storage, low-cost bottom. (And It may or may not come in colors.) But the question is whether Apple will show the new iPod touch off before the iPhone, or save it for one last thing. The iPhone usually anchors the show, but with widescreen being one of the major new features, it seems unlikely Apple would let the iPod touch spoil that particular reveal before the iPhone. New iPhone
Phil Schiller will probably get the honor of showing off the new iPhone -- or iPhone 5 -- this year. He'll show us the tallness and the thinness, and talk about the new 4-inch, 16:9 screen, and the LTE 4G networking, and the antenna that makes it possible. He'll show off the new Apple A series processor and graphics, and without telling us many technical details, tell us how many times faster it is than the one before. We'll get battery life, talk time, and everything that goes with it. If, like the last 3 years, there's new and improved camera optics to go along with the new and improved iPhone, Schiller's the man to show that off too. The iPhone 3GS got video recording. The iPhone 4 got 720p and the iPhone 4S got 1080p. They all got better, brighter sensors as well, and features like HDR and facial recognition. They've been the subject of TV commercials. 4K on a smartphone is probably a few years off, but Nokia showed the world what's still possible last week, and Apple has their work cut off them now. Panoramas were never made public in iOS 5. Filters, both for stills and for videos, could be added to iOS. But the camera itself, even if it's not Lumia 920-caliber, will still need to be good enough to impress. Schiller will show us everything there is to show us about the hardware, and then he'll turn to software. iOS 6 redux
Schiller and Forstall will show off whatever makes the new hardware sing. In addition to camera features, gaming might get a mention, either for iPhone or iPod touch, to show off the new chipset. VoiceControl got the spotlight for the iPhone 3GS, FaceTime for the iPhone 4, and Siri for the iPhone 4S. What iOS 6 features will be spotlighted for iPhone 5? Maps and flyover will get some time, perhaps highlighting some the transit apps they'll be integrating with. Siri will make a great demo. Again. Whether Apple still has more Siri services and partners to show off, or if it's just a rehash of WWDC, it should get some stage time. We heard rumors a while ago that Apple was looking into doing more background actions with iOS. Not dissimilar to Power Nap on OS X Mountain Lion, pre-fetching local maps, downloading subscribed content, and other activities could join iCloud backups and Newstand updates. If Apple has any device-to-device communications to show off, be it Bluetooth 4.0 or Wi-Fi Direct based, or specifically AirPlay Direct, that would also make for a great demo and commercial. So would Passbook. Apple demos features, not specs, so showing someone paying at JC Penny or Starbucks with their iPhone and Passbook is a also a great demo, and maybe a great commercial. New iPhone redux
Schiller will likely take the reins back at that point. He'll sum up everything so far, and there's every chance he'll introduce a video with Jonathan Ive, Greg Jozwiak Bob Mansfield and/or Dan Riccio showing us just how amazing the technologies behind the new unibody frame, the new antenna, the new in-cell display, the new camera, and everything else truly are. Then he'll talk specifics -- storage capacities, price points, and shipping date. We'll finish with a clear, understandable product grid. We'll know what's coming and when. My guess is Apple will keep that the same as last year. $199, $299, and $399 for 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB respectively, on contract. Likewise, my guess is the iPhone 4S will move down to $99 and the iPhone 4 will become the $0 on contract phone. Importantly, it will work not just on AT&T/GSM like the iPhone 3GS, but on Verizon and Sprint as well. Speaking of the 3GS, if Apple wants to go toe-to-toe with Nokia and RIM in emerging markets, and the bill of materials is low enough on the iPhone 3GS that they can practically give it away off-contract, it could make for an interesting year in parts of Asia, Africa, and South America... As for when, last month iMore heard pre-orders were planned to start the same day, like they did with the iPad 3 back in March. We also heard they'll hit stores September 21 in the U.S. and first-wave countries, and October 5 in second-wave countries. It'll be a fun month. New iPads
We originally heard October as the timeline for the iPad mini. Then we heard September. Now smart, well informed folks are saying October. If that's the case, the mini-Dock updated iPad 3 will likely be the same. Wrap upTim Cook will likely end the show by summing up everything we saw.vThat's Apple's real magic. They tell us what they'll be telling us. They tell it to us. Then they tell us what they told us. It's a linear product narrative in highly digestible form. They told a story. The same story they've been telling us for 5 years. And it will be just as compelling in September of 2012 as it was on January of 2007. Again, this is pure speculation. It's trying to predict the future based on what's happened in the past. But it's pure fantasy at this point. We'll find out reality on Wednesday. 
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| Filtering faked email messages Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:30 AM PDT  You'd like to filter a particular kind of email crud but either identifying information is missing or faked. How do you go about it? Chris Breen reveals all.
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| UDID's leaked by Anonymous belonged to Florida publishing company, not the FBI Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:54 AM PDT
Not too long ago, hacker Anonymous claimed to have stolen over 12 million UDID's from a hacked FBI laptop. While the FBI and Apple denied the claims, no one was sure where the data actually came from. Blue Toad, a small publishing company in Florida, has stepped forward saying the data was most likely stolen from them. Paul DeHart, CEO of Blue Toad publishing company, has come forward and stated that they believe the data was actually stolen from them about 2 weeks ago which does not match up with Anonymous stating that the data was stolen back in March. After they ran the data through their own list of customer UDID's and information, there was a 98% correlation between their data and the leaked data.
An outside researcher, David Schuetz, approached Blue Toad and DeHart after he had found that around 19 of the device UDID's leaked actually belonged to Blue Toad themselves, some of them appearing to be shared among employees. Among the data leaks, the name that a person had given to their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch would also be given.
DeHart has said that Blue Toad won't be individually contacting users that were affected but instead leaving it up to individual content providers and publishers to contact individuals if they see a need for it. Source: NBC 
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| Nvidia to release Quadro K5000 graphic card for Mac Pro Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:45 AM PDT  It will be available inside Apple's Mac Pro, another piece of hardware that's taking a long time to update.
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| PaperHelper: iPad App Splits the Screen for Document Writer and Web Browser Combo Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:44 AM PDT
PaperHelper is an interesting and impressive iPad app from a pair of teenage developers. It offers a writing app and web browser app rolled into one and seems to be aimed primarily at students writing essays. Here's a little slice of its App Store intro:
The initial promo email for the app caught my attention because it was a well-written approach from a 17 year old who is the co-CEO of RumbleApps, the publisher of PaperHelper. The other co-CEO is 16. As impressive as that is, it wouldn't generally be enough to write about an app – but a quick look at the App Store page for PaperHelper had me interested enough to install the app and take a look. And I'm glad I did. (...) © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
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Google has unleashed its own YouTube app for the iPhone today. Google has built the app with the help of YouTube engineers with the aim of giving iPhone and iPod touch users the best mobile experience. You may recall that 
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