Are these the first screenshots of the iPhone AppStore?

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Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
One of our readers sent us in some screenshots of his iPhone showing what appears to be the anticipated iTunes AppStore. Could these pictures be the AppStore, or could it be some type of hack? It definitely looks legit to us! He says that after opening and closing the AppStore a [...]

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Apple faces patent infringement lawsuit with Time Machine, iPods, iPhone

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Apple certainly has had its fair share of trouble. It’s regularly happens in courts and lawsuits have been filed left and right against the company.
This time around the complaint is from Mirror Worlds, a company from Texas. They said that products Time Machine, iPod, and the iPhone infringe on four patents owned by Mirror [...]

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Puzzlemaniak v0.6: Daily Challenge crash fixed

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Alex’ homebrew game PuzzleManiak for the iPhone is finally updated with another bug fix (previous update here), and this time it addresses the crashing bug that occurs in the Daily Challenge mode. And it’s quite the important bug fix, since Daily Challenge is PuzzleManiak’s game mode that lets people compete for and compare high scores. [...]

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PuzzleManiak v0.5 released with bug fixes

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Fans of puzzle gaming on the go, take heed: Alex’s PuzzleManiak for the iPhone (previous version here) has been updated once again, ensuring oodles more fun to iPhone users who are actively participating in the Daily Challenge. The latest PuzzleManiak version is now available through Installer.
There may be no new games added in this release, [...]

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AppStore hints appear in Apple public protocols

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Whenever new technology reportedly meets the iTunes store, it’s prudent to check Apple’s online storebag protocol to see what’s what. Today, I downloaded the latest storeBag.xml from Apple’s public iTunes server. What I found was this:
There appears to be a new service, labeled “p2-panda” that offers access to the same functionality [...]

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Internationalize your iPhone .com key

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Today Mac OS X hints offers an easily overlooked internationalization hint. You’re probably well aware of the trick where you hold down an iPhone button on the keyboard to view accented variations on the letter being tapped. What you might not have know about was the regional domains. In settings, choose [...]

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Apple homebrew developer zodTTD revives old emulator projects

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If you’ve been wondering whatever happened to Apple homebrew developer ZodTTD and the steady stream of updates that usually come in, here’s an update: we were finally able to unearth some news regarding the status of some of the homebrew projects we’ve previously covered.
The developer has reassured everyone that he hasn’t fallen off a cliff [...]

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iBooter - interactive console for iPhone iBoot

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Homebrew developer Niacin just released a nifty application for the Apple iPhone that allows users to give commands to a bootloader of Apple’s gizmo. iBooter, an interactive console that gives everyone access to iBoot, can execute several commands and do its job on different platforms even without iTunes installed.
Niacin explained that a similar app, iPhuc, [...]

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