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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 [...]

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 [...]

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)

Wide Mail Keyboard is an iPhone/iPod touch web app which allows you to comfortably write e-mails using a wide keyboard with larger buttons while holding your device in landscape orientation which isn’t currently supported by Apple’s Mobile Mail application. Read more on how to use Wide Mail Keyboard. To launch Wide Mail Keyboard point your [...]

I’ve just noticed the Google Mobile App for iPhone/iPod touch appeared on the German iTunes App Store — finally. The reviews aren’t good, though so be sure to read them first. Update: After one test the app is gone again. It wasn’t useful to me and it rendered my Settings app useless, even after removing [...]

As soon as Apple announced iPhone 3G would feature GPS support a mental image of Nike + iPod sans the iPod came to my mind. About a month after the arrival of the iPhone App Store the first applications to keep track of your running workout are available: Path Tracker is an inexpensive tool to [...]