Twitter 360 is an iPhone app that lets you visually see the flow of tweets from locations nearby, layered on top of your natural “real” environment.[...]

This isn’t the first stab at the Augmented Reality Twitter app but, as far as we are aware, this is the first app to use the feature with Twitter’s new geo-tagging feature. That said, while this may be the first, don’t expect it to be the last. We’re certain a flurry of these will appear over the coming weeks.

What else does it bring to the table?

“Latest Tweets” mode. See the latest tweets of your friends (iPhone horizontal position), and the location from where they were posted (iPhone vertical position) using the Augmented Reality functionality. When a tweet is selected, a blue arrow (compass) is displayed to show the direction and the distance to the location from where the tweet was posted. The distance is updated in real time as you walk in the streets.

“Locate my Friends” mode. List of all your best friends. Twitter 360 lets you track geographic movements of your friends, you can now see where are located your nearby friends via Augmented Reality. If you want to hang out with a particular friend, use this tool to go meet him / her. Unlike the “Latest Tweets” mode (which is more focused on the tweets), the location of each of your friends is calculated with the “location” field data on the Twitter account. When a friend is selected, a blue arrow is displayed to show the direction and the distance to the location of that friend. The selected friend is highlighted in blue. The distance is updated in real time as you walk in the streets.[...]

via Introducing twitter’s first augmented reality iPhone app with geo-tagging built in.

Not many task managers keep things simple.  Most over stuff features that a fair amount of us wouldn’t think of using.  Well, those of us without OCD.  Today, I want to share two that I found to capture the iPhones simplistic UI and capabilities.

The first is Done [iTune link] by Chilli X [website].

I really love this app!  The look and feel are just “right” to me – possibly because I am a minimalist at heart.  The developers are clear in their approach: high functionality with simplicity.  Done definitely delivers on this.

The UI is sleek, sharp, and somewhat customizable with the two themes built in.  Key elements like buttons and text fields are standard size., unlike several other task apps which use custom designed UI elements that can be too small or too large for some people.  Everything down to the shades used for designating list colors and text fonts just seem so perfect for the iPhone.

At its core, the app is as simple and straight forward as you can get without becoming unusable.  Performance is snappy and transitions between lists are clean.  Navigation is simple and easy to pick up as the app relies on the native UI button set so everything is very familiar.

A helpful tip Chilli X themselves gave, was to incorporate Emoji icons into your lists and tasks.

The soft freaks are on a roll! It won’t be long until gamers all over can get their hands on our next iPhone adventure.

Soft Freak Fiesta is our new multiplayer iPhone game where you take control of crazy critters called soft freaks. It’s all about turn-based multiplayer rivalries in various game modes, squashing bugs for power-ups, waking up a few, silly zombies, earning tons of awards and a whole lot of bumping.

This release includes 3 types of soft freaks to choose from, 3 different game modes and 5 beautiful levels. We also crammed some fun extras in there as well. We’re already planning a bulging upgrade with new exciting game modes, even freakier soft freaks, new levels and a bundle of extra features.

We’ve been hard at work over the last few months so we could bring you a fun and engaging multiplayer experience. The guys over at 148Apps have already taken it for a spin and we were delighted to hear that they think our little adventure could be a huge hit. You can read all about 148Apps’ first thoughts here.

The game is currently waiting Apple’s approval and it shouldn’t be long until players can immerse themselves in some bumpy cartoony action.

We’ll let you know when Soft Freak Fiesta hits the App Store. Hopefully you’re all as excited as we are.

Given mounting frustrations over Apple’s App Store standards and surging interest in writing for Google’s rival Android platform, you might think it’s all puppies and rainbows in Android developer circles, but tensions are simmering there as well. In a recent interview with About.com, id Software co-founder and technical director John Carmack (the lead programmer on bestselling titles including Doom and Quake) said he has no interest in Android, citing financial questions: “Android really has the support and the flexibility, but I’ve been talking with the Electronics Arts people (who publish some of id’s products) about Android, and many folks are saying the money isn’t there.” Carmack’s concerns are echoed by mobile games publisher Gameloft, which said it will slash investment in its Android efforts: “We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like… many others,” Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort recently told an investor conference. “Google has not been very good to entice customers to actually buy products. On Android, nobody is making significant revenue.” Rochefort adds that Gameloft is selling 400 times the number of games via iPhone than on Android.

Even with Android games enjoying a 53 percent month-over-month gross revenue increase in October 2009 according to data issued by strategic market research and consulting firm Fade LLC, the numbers are still alarming–Fade indicates that October’s best-selling premium Android title, Lupis Labs Software’s Robo Defense, sold 7,600 units at $2.99 each, translating to gross monthly revenues of just $22,724. With developers retaining 70 percent of Android Market revenues, Lupis Labs took home about $15,907 in Robo Defense sales over the month in question. Now a new survey released by location system provider Skyhook Wireless indicates that 57 percent of Android developers express dissatisfaction with their Android profits, with 90 percent of respondents reporting individual app downloads of 10,000 or less. In fact, 52 percent of Android developers indicate their total app downloads fall below 5,000.

The Skyhook survey identifies a number of additional factors contributing to Android developer frustrations, including the Android Market storefront’s design and discovery options as well as the absence of an effective billing system. Eighty-two percent of respondents argue Android Market’s layout contributes to their application going unnoticed by consumers, and 43 percent of developers blame Google Checkout for their lackluster download volumes, believing they would sell more applications if Android switched to operator billing or adopted a simpler payment process. Fragmentation is another major concern among developers–with an increasing number of Android-based smartphones hitting the market, 46 percent of coders surveyed say they anticipate different versions of Android complicating their developmental efforts. The end result: Sixty-eight percent of respondents tell Skyhook they are somewhat or not likely to invest additional time and energy into their Android applications. Manufacturer announcements indicate there will be more than 50 Android smartphones available in the very near future, meaning there’s no time like the present for Google to make Android Market a more hospitable environment for software sellers and buyers alike.

via Over half of Android developers dissatisfied with app profits – FierceDeveloper.

GymGoal is a premium fitness app with an amazing number of features. It’s sale priced at US$3.99 (normally $4.99 to $7.99). It has a 4-star rating with 465 ratings and 115 reviews.

Undercroft is on sale 40% off until Dec. 2. If you like the icon and screenshot, then head over to the App Store and check out this RPG. It has 102 ratings with an average of 4.5 stars and 47 reviews. The most critical review is 4 stars.

AppStore Solutions will port your physical catalog to a virtual catalog. Coming soon to the iPhone App Store.

AppStore Solutions will port your physical catalog to a virtual catalog that can be downloaded in the iPhone App Store.

Early last week, startup MiKandi launched a 3rd-party app store for Android phones which will allow any developer to sell adult-oriented content for the Google Android platform, which includes devices such as the Verizon/Motorola DROID, the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and the Samsung Moment/HTC Hero on Sprint.

Click to read the rest of this article at ZDNet Tech Broiler.

Smart Vocab SAT is 75% off this Cyber Monday at $US0.99. Originally priced at $9.99 a year ago, this SAT prep app has one of the most visually appealing interfaces of them all. Check it out and see for yourself – we just did!

Brain Quest® Blast Off: Grade 7, and all of the other Brain Quest Blast Off Grade levels, are 80% off today. Pick up multiple grades for the price of 1. Each app has almost 2000 questions that cover a particular grade level (2-7).

Bonjour,

D’après certaines infos sur le net, le développeur de l’application iBart, un guide des transports de San Francisco, a lancer la rumeur comme quoi le nouvel iPhone pourrai ressembler à ça.

En effet, ce dernier aurait vu apparaître dans ses fichiers log un iPhone sous la référence 3,1. Pour rappel, l’iPhone Edge était désigné par l’appellation 1,1, le 3G par 1,2 et le tout dernier 3GS par 2,1.

Alors qu’en pensez vous ??  :)

Amicalement, The Jailbreak Bay !!!!!!

We just ended the Dutchcowboys logo design competition. This was a new experience for us and our members. Never before we asked them to design a logo. But they came up with a lot of great ideas and designs. We were impressed by the big amount of entries in such a short period of time. Now we’ll just have to wait on the Dutchcowboys professional jury to see which entries won great prizes.

After this successful competition we’ve launched a new one today! This is also a kind of strange but challenging one. We’re asking our members to design a start up screen for an iphone app.

On the 10th of November the wine market met a new name, 94Wines. This wine brand characterizes itself by combining the traditional wine market with innovative technology. The result is a fantastic wine in a modern and extraordinary bottle with a QR code. 94Wines brings you a unique way to send a personal message. You can attach a unique QR code to each bottle you send. This code can embrace every kind of message. If it’s a text, photo or even a video, you can send it together with your bottle of wine. The QR code can be read with almost every modern phone. 94Wines makes sure that your message is transferred to the right QR code.
 
An innovative concept like this couldn’t be introduced without an Iphone Application.
94Wines has launched an interesting App that can be downloaded for free from the App Store. But 94Wines asks the members of CreatAd to design the Start-up screen for this app. It’s up to them to design the best Start-up screen in the App Store.

The Start-up screen will be shown on the Iphone display when the App is started. The new design has to show in a blink of an eye that 94Wines is the winebrand of the future!

Our message to the CreatAd members, get creative and design the success factor for this application. Winners can take a chance on a lot of money and a lot of bottles of wine. So what are you still doing on this blog? Get crazy on your sketchbook or design software!

Brain Blaze Word Roots Flashcards for GRE* & SAT* Prep is FREE for Cyber Monday. Check out this Greek and Latin word roots while you can! No ratings or reviews, but other Brain Blaze apps have received great reviews.

Skreeky is on sale for FREE down from US$3.99.  It’s a position based audio chat without any reviews or ratings, but worth a peek at FREE.

Underworld: SweetDeal Premium is FREE, so check out this MMO street trade simulation game. It currently has a 4.5 star rating with 25 ratings.

Rumores con fundamentos. En esta ocasión vuelve a filtrarse en la red información sobre la siguiente generación de teléfonos iPhone en la que estarían trabajando los ingenieros de Apple, cuyo lanzamiento previsiblemente se produciría a lo largo del próximo año 2010.

Todo ha surgido a raíz de que la empresa auditora Pinchmedia, haya destacado como código de producto la etiqueta iPhone 3.1, con la que pone en evidencia que un nuevo modelo de iPhone estaría siendo probado en los laboratorios de la compañía. Recordemos que el iPhone 3Gs actual, está identificado como iPhone 2.1 a la hora de cuantificar los accesos a aplicaciones.

Como era de esperar, se desconocen cualquier nueva función o característica que pueda ser integrada en la nueva versión. No obstante, parece claro que Apple estaría potenciando algunas de las carencias que ofrece el modelo actual frente a terminales que se encuentran en el mercado, (Android entre otros), con una duración de la batería superior a la hora de hacer uso del terminal. También convendría dotar al iPhone 4G de una capacidad de proceso múltiple, de modo que pudiesen manejarse multitud de aplicaciones de forma simultánea sin tener que abandonar una de geolocalización, por poner un ejemplo, para retornar al navegador del terminal.

También recientemente se ha filtrado un anuncio de trabajo en el portal de Apple, lo que indicaría que la compañía estaría buscando un especialista en software, más concretamente en desarrollo e implementación de consulta de mapas. Esto hace pensar que la compañía desearía elevar el servicio de posicionamiento a un nivel superior y ofrecer herramientas más válidas para los usuarios de a pie, independientemente del medio de transporte utilizado. Al hilo de esta información, cabe destacar que Apple adquirió recientemente una compañía de mapas llamada Placebase, especializada en diferenciar sus productos con las ofertas de Google. Así pues, además de las novedades relacionadas con el hardware, el futuro iPhone promete ofrecer un giro de 360 grados en algunas de las aplicaciones que hasta ahora ha llevado implementadas en el iPhone OS 3.1, con el fin de eliminar cierta dependencia sobre otras compañías.

mAgiNotes is Cyber Monday priced at FREE. It doesn’t have any reviews yet, so too early to tell.  The toolbar controls look a little cramped together, but the icon is pretty! Check it out!

ReelDirector is a 4-star video editing (iPhone 3GS only) program.  It’s holiday priced at US$4.99. It’s excellent reviews make it worth checking out.

Traffic Rush is a popular 3-star game that was a TOP 100 game in Aug 2009. At the cyber Monday price of FREE, it’s definitely worth checking out.

With yesterday’s release of Tweetie 2.1 for iPhone I decided to purchase Tweetie from the App Store. What do I think of Tweetie? I love it. In this post I am going to be giving you my thoughts on Tweetie (2.1) and telling you if you should buy it. However, I am not going to go in too deep on Tweetie 2.1 and all the new features.

The Good:

• Fast
• Retweet feature
• Twitter Lists
• URL shortening
• Geotagging
• Great UI
• Highly customizable

The Bad:

• $2.99 price tag

My rating:

5/5 stars

Price:

$2.99 from the Apple App Store.

The bottom line:

Before Tweetie, Twitterific was my main iPhone Twitter client but now I am considdering switching to Tweetie. That’s how good Tweetie is.

Should you buy this app?

If you tweet more than once a day, yes.

More info:

To visit the creator’s website, Click Here

To read more on Tweetie 2.1, Click Here

이 사이트는 “애플이 나를 퇴짜놨어요 – 퇴짜당한 아이폰앱들의 숨겨진 이야기들”이란 타이틀을 달았지만 사실은 “애플 비꼬기 Joke 마이크로 블로그”라 볼 수 있다. 2-3일 전에 만들어진 사이트로 보인다. 11월 30일 Mashable의 소개로 알게 되어 보다 많은 사람들에게 알려지게 된 것 같다.

인기있는 글들을 몇 개 뽑아봤다. (ARM은 Apple Reject Me.의 약자다. ARM이라고 써있는 부분을 “그래서 애플이 나를 퇴짜놨다” 정도로 해석하면 될 것 같다.)

I made an app that caused AT&T to drop a call randomly based on a 50/50 chance. Because of duplicate functionality, ARM.
통화가 무작위로 50%만 되게 하는 앱을 만들었다. 아이폰의 기본기능과 중복된다고 ARM

Apple suggested that I charge 9.99 for my Flashlight app, I decided to give it away for free. ARM 33
애플은 내가 만든 플래시라잇 기능 (화면에 아무 것도 안 뜨고 하얗게 해서 아이폰을 Flash 대용으로 쓰게 해주는 가장 단순한 기능)을 $9.99에 내놓으라고 권유했다. 내가 공짜로 배포하겠다고 하자 ARM.

I made an app that froze the touch screen whenever you activated safari. they said it was “duplicating functionality” ARM
사파리 브라우저를 작동할 때마다 화면이 멈춰지게 하는 앱을 만들었다. 애플은 그 작동이  아이폰의 기본기능 중복된다고 ARM

I made an app that unlocks the built-in FM radio that apple wants to save for firmware version 9001.0. ARM 35
애플이 펌웨어 버전 9001.0에 발표하려고 아이폰 안에 숨겨둔 라디오 기능을 언락해주는 앱을 만들었으나 ARM

I made an app that remotely broke your iPhone. I got rejected because Apple said only they could do that. ARM.
원격으로 아이폰을 폭파시키는 앱을 만들었다. 애플은 그들만이 그 기능을 할 수 있다고 ARM

I made an app of Tic-Tac-Toe for the iphone. Apple sent me a letter saying it was too confusing for the average user. ARM.
아이폰용 Tic-Tac-Toe 게임 앱을 만들었다. 애플은 일반 아이폰 사용자들에게는 너무 어렵다고 ARM.

I started making an app. One minute later, Apple sent me an email saying “Don’t even think about it”. ARM.
앱 제작을 시작한지 1분도 채 안되어 애플에게서 이메일이 날라왔다. “꿈도 꾸지 마” ARM

I made an app that allowed the iphone to make and receive phone calls. ARM
아이폰이 전화 송수신이 가능하도록 한 앱을 만들었다. ARM

I made an app that made the browser slow until it ultimately crashed. Apparently it “duplicated the functions of Safari” ARM
브라우저를 점점 느리게 만들어서 끝내는 완전히 멈춰버리게 하는 앱을 만들었다. “사파리의 기본기능을 모방했다”고 하여 ARM

They rejected my app because they said it was to useful for the iPhone. ARM
내 앱이 아이폰 사용자에게 너무 유용한 앱이라고 하여 ARM

Chuck Norris를 희화화 시킨다고 해서 Apple로부터 거절당한 iPhone App iNorris

이 사이트에서 사람들이 말하려는 메시지는 2가지다.  첫째는 아이폰 성능이 생각보다 떨어진다는 것. 둘째는 애플은 횡포를 부리고 있다는 것.

첫 번째 말은 지금 한국에 막 들어온 아이폰을 접하는 처음 사람들이 들으면 이해하기가 어려울 얘기일 수도 있다라고 생각한다. 나도 작년 중순 아이폰을 처음 만났을 때의 충격과 감동(?)은 도저히 설명할 수 없을 정도였었으니까. 나는 아직까지도 아이폰이 내가 접해 본 스마트폰 중에는 최고라고 생각하지만 (아직 모토롤라의 드로이드를 못 만져봤다.) ‘외국에는 다르게 생각을 하는 사람들도 있구나’  정도로 생각하면 될 듯 하다.

두 번째 메시지는 Y Combinator의 창업자 Paul Graham이 쓴 “Apples’s Mistake“라는 에세이를 읽으면 사실 잘 이해할 수 있다.  첫 2단락에 그가 하은 싶은 말이 잘 요약이 되어 있다.

November 2009

I don’t think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken. Or rather, I don’t think they realize how much it matters that it’s broken.
내가 볼 때는 애플이 앱스토어의 승인과정이 얼마나 개판인지 그들은 깨닫지 못하고 있는 것 같다. 아니면 어떤 개판을 쳐도 그게 무슨 문제가 되는지조차 모르고 있던가.

The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they’ve ever done. Their reputation with programmers used to be great. It used to be the most common complaint you heard about Apple was that their fans admired them too uncritically. The App Store has changed that. Now a lot of programmers have started to see Apple as evil.
애플이 지금 앱스토어를 운영하는 방식은 개발자들 사이에 애플을 완전히 바보로 버리고 있다. 일찌기 이런 적이 없었다. 애플에 대해서 제일 많이 들은 불평은 애플 광신도들이 너무 무조건적으로 애플을 좋아한다는 것이지 개발자들은 애플을 절대 우습게 보거나 하지 않았었다. 앱스토어가 이를 싹 바꿔버렸다. 이제는 많은 개발자들이 애플을 악마로 보기 시작했다.

첫번쨰와 두번째 메시지가 너무 다른 얘기라서 둘을 묶어서 결론내기가 무척 어려운데.. ^^

아이폰은 훌륭한 폰이다. 하지만 완벽한 폰은 아니다. SMS의 기본 기능에 충실하지 못한 점, 배터리 문제 등 여러가지 문제가 있다. 애플은 이를 보완하는 보다 더 좋은 폰을 내놓을 것이며, 우리 사용자들은 부족한 부분에 대해서 끊임없이 지적하고 투덜대면 될 것이다.

아이폰 갖고 뭐라 하면 무조건 삼성에 돈 받아 처먹은 넘으로 매도하지 말고.

Vieleicht gilt die Aktion auch Bundesweit- zumindest im real,- in Nordwalde (NRW) gibt es iTunes-Geschenkkarten mit 25€ Guthaben nur für 20€

Das Ersparnis ist nicht so groß wie bei Media Markt/Kaisers vor einiger Zeit aber doch nicht ganz so klein.

Solltet ihr auch so einen Karte zu diesem Preis bei Real in einer Anderen Stadt gekauft haben,lasst uns das doch bitte in den Kommentaren wissen – Danke!