The Apple Bites

“Thousand Apps!” on one page, the Million Dollar Homepage for Apps.

Posted on 03. Jul, 2010 by Renzo.

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Remember the Million Dollar Homepage? Well now there’s a similar thing, but for iPhone apps! Mika Letki and Danilo Yasuno have carefully placed thousand 30 by 30 smiley faced icons on their website ThousandApps.com. After we took notice of this almost half the page was already filled with icons from iPhone App developers. Even some [...]

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Make money with your iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted on 14. Feb, 2010 by tABStaff.

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Bit Mantra, has released the latest version of their amazing iPhone and iPod Touch application. The app breaks down the details of daily stocks and picks the best one to display for a user’s consideration, based on fifteen different criteria. Stock genie 2 has been tracked and found highly accurate and profitable by Tickerspy. It [...]

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Indie Relief, iPhone developers donate revenue to Haiti on 20/01

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Renzo.

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On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Haiti was hit by an earthquake which destroyed the capital Port-au-prince completely, left millions homeless and made more than a hundred thousand deadly victims. The people who are left behind can use all the support they need and therefore the world is coming into action. That includes the independent iPhone developers community and therefore over 60 other iPhone and Mac developers have decided to donate all revenue their apps generate on the 20th of January 2010 to a good cause which is currently aiding the Haitian people.

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Review : Syncopy – Synchronized Copy/Paste between your Mac and iPhone

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by Renzo.

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One of the main features of an iPhone is that it integrates perfectly with Mac OSX. For Mac users, the iPhone boasts a native way to transfer media, to synchronize contacts and tasks and to set up email accounts. But one thing that’s missing is a way to synchronize clipboards. And that’s where Syncopy comes in.

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Facebook 3.1

Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by tABStaff.

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It took a while for the next update to come but the App Store just approved Facebook version 3.1 “4 months after version 3.0?. The previous version missed two important thing. Push Notification and contact syncing. With this new update facebook finally included these two options, something a lot of facebook users where looking for. [...]

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Phix Photo Contest! [iTunes Gift Cards for giveaway!]

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Renzo.

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we are organizing a contest in which we give away a 150$ iTunes Gift card. The gift card goes to the person who can show us the most amazing picture that is edited with one of the Phix apps.

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App Store listing broken, has Apple tampered too much?

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Renzo.

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Today reports started flooding the internet of a malfunctioning App Store. According to various sources, iPhone reviewers and iPhone developers, recently submitted applications have gone missing from the “New” listing and this listing isn’t being updated anymore…

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App Store Paid Apps rate well, free apps don’t

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Renzo.

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When people visit the App Store to download themselves a nice iPhone App you should assume that quality free apps get high ratings, well…euhm, because they are free. But this isn’t true. Apparently Free apps are less likely to be rated more than 2.5 stars out of 5 than paid apps. A free notepad will get ratings which are approximately 30-50% worse than a paid notepad app with exactly the same features.

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Apple’s (failed) attempt to clean up the App Store

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Renzo.

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While you were all asleep, Apple quietly made minor changes to the App Store. This is good news for all users as it’s the first step to a less cluttered App Store, but it’s a real pain towards developers.

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The Terminator story continues (Free Promo Code)

Posted on 11. Jul, 2009 by tABStaff.

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(FIND A PROMO CODE OF THE TERMINATOR IN THIS POST) Big Head Games and Dark Horse Comics are pleased to announce the release of the new update, ‘Episode 2’ for The Terminator iPhone and iPod Touch game. Since Episode 1 was released in May to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic film, BHG has [...]

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Brawn GP Formula One Team brings F1™ racing and real life winnings to iPhone and iPod touch

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by tABStaff.

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The Brawn GP Formula One Team is currently leading the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship after the first eight rounds. To reach out to its fans and make the thrills of winning available to a wider audience, Brawn GP has teamed up with Upstream, to create the Brawn GP Racing Game for Apple’s iPhone [...]

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Apple goes cool on nudity/porn apps!

Posted on 25. Jun, 2009 by tABStaff.

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Apple has broken the borders of approving apps on the app store. Good news for porn lovers though. Apple has approved first app which contains nudity called “Hottest girls – 2200+ Topless, sexy babes and nude models” ($1.99) This application downloads content from the Web, bypassing Apple’s censorship. There is no censorship here, as this [...]

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AT&T releases Turn-by-Turn App in the US App Store

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by tABStaff.

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AT&T releases Turn-by-Turn App for the US iPhone users.There are many new GPS apps being released in the App Store since 3.0 launch. The AT&T Navigator is free to download, but there’s subscription charges of $9.99 billed every month of usage. AT&T Navigator was developed in partnership will TeleNav and includes some of the following [...]

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IM+, BeejiveIM and AIM now supporting push notification

Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by tABStaff.

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Major Instant Messaging client, IM+, BeejiveIM and AIM now support Push Notification. Push notifications require the 3.0 firmware that was released last week. Instant messaging apps always lacked this feature on iPhone and iPod Touch. Before release of iPhone 3.0, if we were to switch out of these apps, there was no easy way for [...]