iOS 4 App Updates: Foursquare, Pulse News Mini, Paypal, iTranslate, eBay Mobile

We’re still keeping our eye out for great iOS 4 apps that take advantage of the new APIs and features available to developers under iOS4. We’ve found a couple more good ones to share with you guys, and as always, if you see any good ones, drop ‘em in the comments so we can check them out too!

Foursquare

Even though Foursquare has already received a general update for iOS4, it seems they’re still adding new features. Along with several ..read more

iOS 4 updated Apps: Twittelator Pro, GoodReader, Echofon, Reeder, Apple Store Mobile App

We’re still lurking the App Store for signs of apps that have added iOS 4 support and we’ve found some more good ones. Some apps are only adding compatibility while some really take advantage of the new APIs Apple is offering to developers. Adding compatibility isn’t the same as adding new APIs and features to increase not only user experience, but productivity and ease of use.

Read on to see what ones intrigued us this time.

Apple Store Mobile

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Why not all iOS 4 compatible app are “awesome”

Not all app in Apple’s growing “awesome iOS 4 apps” list are “awesome” — at least not in their implementation of iOS 4 or for iPhone 4.

We touched on this already in our iPhone 4 review — in iOS 4, Apple has set up several types of behavior that, when taken together, create the multitasking experience for the user. What the user sees is the fast app switcher that launches when you double click the home button, and the carousel ..read more

Does iPhone 4 support the iPad camera kit?

Does iPhone 4 support the iPad camera kit? Turns out no, at least not under iOS 4. I plugged mine in and immediately got the error you see above. Since I’ve gotten compatibility errors using other accessories in the past that turned out to work just find if I ignored said errors, I plugged in a camera to see if anything magical would happen.

It didn’t.

Whether or not Apple will chose to add that functionality in a future iOS software update, ..read more

Facebook for iPhone 3.1.3 hits iTunes App Store

Facebook for iPhone has once again been updated, this time to version 3.1.3. Here’s the update list:

You can now watch Facebook videos. You can now view and write on walls of events. Uploaded photos are now 720px wide.

And the bug-fixes:

Could not comment on photos accessed from Notifications Could not upload photos smaller than a certain size No more than 2 notifications were highlighted as unread Status updates appeared out of order in News Feed Broken photo album links in News Feed Birthdays view had months in wrong ..read more

Apple’s magic developer numbers: 100, 100 million, and 1 billion

We’ve all heard huge numbers thrown around as measures of iPhone and iPad App Store success — over 200,000 apps and 5 billion downloads being some of the most recent and most impressive. There’s a couple of other numbers that are even more interesting when it comes to iPhone and iPad development: 100, 100 million, and 1 billion.

Roughly 100 million iOS devices have been sold to data and they are all broadly software compatible. There’s some fragmentation to be sure ..read more

Will you be spending some FaceTime with iPhone 4?

Steve Jobs brought back the “one more thing” bump for FaceTime, Apple’s new iPhone 4 feature that promises no setup, Wi-Fi only, one-on-one video calling. You start a call or choose a contact and you’re video chatting.

We’re curious if you think you’ll be using it? Nokia has had video chat for what seems like a century and half, and the Android-based Evo 3G has it via Qik, but it’s hardly a mainstream phenomena yet. Apple has a history of taking ..read more

Safari 5, now available for Mac and PC

Apple has updated it’s flagship web browser to the latest version, 5 without even a plug during today’s Steve Jobs keynote. The new release promises even more HTML 5 compatibility as well as a new “reader” view that removes unwanted ads,etc.

Summary of the new features include:

Safari Reader Even Greater Support for HTML 5 Better Performance Bing Search Safari Extentions

I can attest to the fast speed, websites load noticeably faster including tipb.com. My super scientific tests had me loading our page in 2 seconds, not ..read more

TiPb Advisory: Not a developer and thinking of going to 4.0? Think twice!

iPhone OS 4.0 is already readily available over the internet. Somewhat less than honorable “developers” are even offering to “sell” access to the 4.0 beta. This has led to a lot of users getting, or at least thinking about getting, the 4.0 beta for their own iPhones (it’s currently not even loading on iPod touches — and forcing complete restores for recovery, so don’t even consider that at the moment!). Well before you take the jump think carefully. And ..read more

Rhapsody Expands Compatibility to Android

Rhapsody recently announced that its music-streaming service is now available to handsets running Google’s Android platform. The application lets users stream an unlimited amount of music to their handset for $10 per month. Rhapsody is offering two weeks …(follow link to read)

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