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iTunes 12 Days of Christmas Returns

MaFt — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:00:23 +0000

Tunes have released their latest app for this years 12 Days of Christmas promotion. Last year they gave away free apps, free games, free music, free music videos and even a free movie!

Get the app now and get PUSH alerts from Boxing Day informing you of each days freebie.

100,000 App Anniversary

MostDom — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:23:59 +0000

On Wednesday the Apple AppStore reached the 100,000 app mark, it was announced, which is a huge milestone for the iProduct range.

The AppStore is undoubtedly the main stay of the iPhone market, that without it we question weather the iPhone would have been so popular. With 50 million of us downloading up to 10,000 apps a day, you can see how important the AppStore is to apple, and what this benchmark must mean to the other smartphone manufacturers.

Much of the AppStore’s current success has been contributed to the 3.0 firmware release which gave the developers up to 100 new features to experiment with like cut, copy, paste, compass, MMS, Bluetooth, and Push. With iTunes 9 Apple hopes to continue to give us new ways to easily search or wade through these apps with better search and discovery.

Now if only they could find a way to reduce the amount of useless, duplicated apps!

Evidence of Apple’s Killswitch? (Updated)

MostDom — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:38:49 +0000

Is this evidence of Apple’s controversial Killswitch in action?

Please note this now appears to be a bug which is being fixed.

A recent app that I, like many others, bought on the AppStore with real money appears to have suddenly stopped working. A simple application called Night Stand, which is now copied by other app developers in true AppStore style, designed to simply display the time and alarm while dimming the screen. Not exactly a controversial app to say the least and has been available for some time! Now it seems that you can load the app but it simply won’t run.

This app has also been tested on a colleagues phone with the same results. This is not as a result of any updates as it was seen to work recently and, stranger still, the app has been pulled from the AppStore itself. As of this moment I have not yet been able to find any reason for it’s disappearance, but am more concerned about the fact that any app can seemingly be pulled from your device without warning or reason.

I paid good money for that app, all be it 59 pence but it is mine, or is it?

OS 3.1.2 Update Released for iPhone, 3G, 3GS and iPod Touch

MaFt — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:28:28 +0000

Apple have released an update for the iPhone and iPod Touch update to take them to OS 3.1.2.

The release notes claim that 3.1.2:

Resolves sporadic issues that may cause iPhone not to wake from sleep
Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming

The update is available from iTunes in the usual way!