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AppMakr now supports GeoRSS tagging

AppMakr is a service that allows you to make simple, Internet-fed apps for the iPhone, Touch, or iPad. Historically, AppMakr has been called a glorified RSS reader but, with the addition of push notifications, a native image viewer, and GeoRSS support, they’re trying to shake that image. GeoRSS is the latest addition to the product [...]

[ More ] June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Software |

Oh, by the way: iOS 4 is now available.

In the off chance that you’re not already running the leaked iOS 4 gold master  and haven’t been pounding the iTunes update button all morning, we figured you’d probably like to know: iOS 4 is now available for iPhones and iPod Touches. I could blather on about the new features, like multi-tasking, folders, wallpapers, digital [...]

[ More ] June 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Software |

Oops! HTC Droid Incredible takes snapshots of sites you visit, hangs on to them after a hard reset

Thinking of selling your Droid Incredible? If you’re a mob-boss, peruser of the freaky-deaky, or someone who visits websites with sensitive data on their handset, you might want to hold off. Turns out, the Droid Incredible is snapping shots of the sites you visit for use with the built-in Bookmarks widget. That, in itself, isn’t [...]

[ More ] June 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Software |

Facebook Also Said To Have A Deal With Localeze For Facebook Places

On Monday, Twitter rolled out Twitter Places, its attempt to add a layer of actual venues to its geolocation data. This was made possible by a deal  with Localeze, a local business listing service with over 14 million businesses in their database. Now we’re hearing that Facebook has struck a similar deal with Localeze to [...]

[ More ] June 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Software |

CLIQ and Backflip users to get 2.1 this year (but where’s 2.2?)

This little chart indicates pretty clearly that the CLIQ and CLIQ XT will be getting the 2.1 update in Q2 2010, which is to say pretty soon. The Backflip and DEXT variant of the CLIQ will be getting it in Q3. Man, people can talk all they want about the definition of fragmentation and all [...]

[ More ] June 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Software |

iPhone 4 doubles your RAM (doubling of fun not confirmed)

Some time during WWDC, it was mentioned at a meeting that the new iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM, twice what’s in the iPad or 3GS. This magical  number isn’t mentioned on the “tech specs” page, or else somebody probably would have noticed it by now. Anyway, it’s just getting out that the 512 megs [...]

[ More ] June 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Software |