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Monday is iOS 4 day. A great and very detailed overview of what’s new can be found in TiPb’s iOS 4 walkthrough. Another great overview just came live 10 minutes ago on Ars technica. Read it while you wait for your iOS 4 download to finish.

Apple held its iPhone OS 4.0 Sneak Peek event today and previewed some interesting features. Apple says the next major iPhone OS upgrade will offer over 100 new users features and 1500 new APIs for developers. Let’s see what’s new and most interesting: GUI You can now set a wallpaper for the homescreen. This is [...]

My iPhone web app GPS Coordinates is “Featured web app” and “Staff Pick” on apple.com.

Do what your iPhone’s Maps and Compass apps can’t and copy your current coordinates to your device’s clipboard and use them anywhere. Your device will use GPS, wireless LAN and cell towers to get the most accurate coordinates, just as Maps and Compass on the iPhone do. After a successful location process you will see [...]

GeoMapLookup, the web app to geolocate IP adresses and domain names, got a new icon and custom map marker. Furthermore GeoMapLookup is now on Twitter with an open ear for feature requests and feedback. The latest tweet will be displayed below the info box on geomaplookup.net. To update the icon of your iPhone home screen [...]

Follow the latest Apple news and keynote live coverage on your iPhone. The link collection at http://next.cinnamonthoughts.org/ provides access to iPhone formatted news and rumor sites and will be updated with links to live coverage once they become available. Please leave link requests to iPhone friendly Apple news sites (i.e. formatted to display nicely on [...]

GeoMapLookup now uses the new Google Maps API in version 3. The iPhone version includes a zoomable and pannable mini map while the desktop version benefits from the new technology and a clean and modern looking map. Try GeoMapLookup at http://geomaplookup.net

The geolocation app to identify the geographical source of an IP address or host name GeoMapLookup got a new mini map for its iPhone version. It is zoomable and cycles through the most important zoom levels (with a nice CSS animation) by simply tapping on the map. The button to open iPhone’s integrated Google Maps [...]

As a small gift for christmas, I’ve updated Emojinator with some nice changes: Added fullscreen mode. To use it, add Emojinator to your home screen: tap “+” in MobileSafari and select “add to Home Screen”. Replaced “Send to” buttons with text explaining copy and paste. Removed confirm dialog on Emoji selection to speed things up. [...]

Recently I came across Reeder which is a great news reader for the iPhone. It uses Google Reader as a backend so it is easy to sync your feeds across multiple devices and clients (e.g. NetNewsWire on the Mac). Reeder 1.2—which might get submitted to the app store as early as today—will be quite an [...]

GeoMapLookup is a great service capable of geolocating your current IP address or any hostname or IP you enter. The large map with further information about the host comes in handy when you need to know where that blog visitor lives. Visiting GeoMapLookup from your iPhone or iPod touch gives you an optimized version of [...]

You can now activate the useful “break mode” in Attendance Countdown if you prefer to add your break time to the calculation. (direct link)

With Emojinator you can use the popular Japanese Emoji icons without any hacks on iPhone or iPod touch and send colorful mails to your friends! This fun web app — unlike the native apps no longer available on the iPhone App Store — uses no hacks to enable Emoji: it is completely save. This web [...]

invertr — an iPhone/iPod touch web app which allows you to turn your written text upside down — sends the rotated text not only to iPhone’s Mail and Twitter.com but also to the popular Twitter client Tweetie available on the iPhone App Store. To launch invertr point your mobile Safari to: http://invertr.cinnamonthoughts.org/ Read more on [...]

invertr is an iPhone/iPod touch web app which allows you to turn your written text upside down, send it to your friends and colleagues and enjoy the confused looks on their faces! You choose whether to send the rotated text to your iPhone’s/iPod touch’s mail application or to Twitter.com to create an amusing tweet. Read [...]

After one week using Twitter I’ve decided which apps I’ll be using in the future with this micro blogging service: Safari140 – Twitter extension for Safari with auto-shorten for long URLs and a great shortcut: ^T I’m using Tweetie as my iPhone Twitter client. It’s just great! Decided to use Twitterrific and Safari140 on my [...]

Attendance Countdown was improved once again. It is now possible to edit the template used for sending an e-mail. To launch Attendance Countdown point your Mobile Safari to this URL: http://attend.cinnamonthoughts.org.

The web app version of GeoMapLookup (for iPhone/iPod touch) can now display more information about an IP or domain like the ZIP code, the area and country codes if available. (direct link)

This update of Wide Mail Keyboard allows you to enable and disable the auto save function, which stores your text in a cookie. Also the loading speed has been improved.

GeoMapLookup — a website/web app to geolocate a host, domain or IP address with Google Maps integration — has been updated to include a fullscreen web app mode. To view this web app in fullscreen mode, just add a link to your iPhone or iPod touch home screen (+ button in Mobile Safari). To use [...]