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Dave’s All-Time Top 5 iPhone / iPad Apps

September 1, 2010

This is my list of iPhone/iPod touch/iPad apps:

Elements (Universal – $4.99)

This is pretty much the best text editor for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad. It uses DropBox as its file system which is pretty much the best way to deal with storing files being edited.

Reeder (iPad – $4.99)Reeder (iPhone – $2.99)

A very well done RSS Feed Reader [...]

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Hargrove’s All-Time Top 5 iPhone / iPad Apps

August 31, 2010
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Okay, here’s my All Time Top 5 iPhone / iPad Apps. While they’re listed in no particular order, they’re coincidentally listed in the order that I use them the most.

1Password Remember The Milk Reeder Instapaper Pastebot

We’ll discuss these in more detail in the next podcast, so be sure to check it out!

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Another fine example of Apple’s useless review process

August 11, 2010
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Update (8/12/10 7:30am): True to Apple’s nature, Apple has now removed Camera+ from the App Store. Not for phishing passwords or lewd images. Nope, for using the volume control for something other than volume! Thanks goes to Krapps.com for reporting the bad news.

So a program called Camera+ was approved for the App Store back on [...]

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EU Joins Fray Over Missing Flash On Apple Devices

August 11, 2010
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The latest news in the conspiracy that Apple is trying to take out Adobe by not allowing flash on it’s iOS devices is that the European Union is joining the investigation. AppAdvice.com has the article about this.

I’m a little confused here. Since when is it illegal for a company to decide what software goes on [...]

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The state of twitter clients

August 5, 2010
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I have to say that I’m really disappointed in the state of Twitter clients for the iPad. I have quite a few; Twittelator for iPad, Twitterrific for Twitter, Osfoora HD, HootSuite, and TweetDeck. Yet, last night when I needed to do a specific task, I wound up using Twitter (previously known as Tweetie 2) for [...]

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PDF Security hole allows jailbreakme.com to work

August 4, 2010
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Update (2:30PM): Apple says it is investigating… Good idea Apple!

Thanks to an unpatched hole in Adobe’s PDF file format, the jailbreaking community has been given a gift. Super easy jailbreaking. Just point your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad’s Mobile Safari to jailbreakme.com, slide the “Slide to jailbreak” slider and in less than 5 minutes, your device is jailbroken [...]

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App Store Apps just as vulnerable as Android apps

July 30, 2010
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The biggest hacker convention of the season called “Black Hat Technical Security Conference” has come and gone and some interesting facts have bubbled to the surface. A mobile security company called “Lookout” has started a little project they call the “App Genome Project“.

The App Genome Project was created to identify security threats in the wild [...]

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It Took Longer Than I Expected

July 29, 2010
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While it took longer than I expected, the adult (i.e. porn) industry has started taking advantage of Apple’s FaceTime application.

So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. … [...]

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Apple looking into iOS 4 and iPhone 3G issues

July 29, 2010
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The Wall Street Journal has an article that talks about Apple looking into issues with iOS 4 and the iPhone 3G. There are a lot of users complaining that their iPhone 3G’s went from being a dream to use to being a nightmare ever since upgrading to iOS 4.

I can state from experience that there [...]

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Jailbreaking is Legal

July 26, 2010
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According to the EFF (and just about every other tech blog in the known universe), the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office have ruled jailbreaking is legal.

When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved [...]

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