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Pandora’s app was one of the iPhone’s best of 2008 on iTunes, and while I’ve only recently started using it, I have to agree: even over EDGE, it’s a great way to get some music you’ve never heard on the iPhone. And they aren’t sitting on their laurels, either — they’ve just updated the app to version 2.0, and it’s better than ever.

New in this version is the ability to access a progress bar for the songs you’re listening to, and the option to create new stations from songs or artists right there in the app itself. It’s definitely worth a look [iTunes link], and you can’t beat the price of admission (still completely free).

I’ve followed Pandora from the beginning, and they’ve constantly updated both their website and their features since they first released — it’s all developed into a really impressive set of functionality for listening to and finding new music. They have suffered some rumors of shutdowns, but hopefully those rumors are just that. Between the remarkable set of functions on their website and this iPhone app, they’re becoming more and more invaluable for serious music listeners.

Apple iPod Nano16 GB Black color, a new curved design, and great new features, iPod nano rocks like never before. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a playlist for you. With its built-in accelerometer, iPod nano is made to move. Give it a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your library. Turn it on its side to flip through your album art in Cover Flow. And tilt, move, and play accelerometer-inspired games (games available separately). Watching movies, TV shows, and video is even more fun on the sharp 2-inch screen. And your photos (up to 14,000 of them) look great in portrait or landscape view. Available in 8 GB and 16 GB models, the 16 GB iPod nano puts up to 4,000 songs or 16 hours of video in your pocket.

Technical Details
16 GB capacity for 4,000 songs, 14,000 photos, or 16 hours of video
Up to 24 hours of music playback or 4 hours of video playback when fully charged
2-inch LCD with blue-white LED backlight and 320-by-240-pixel resolution
Supported audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Supported video formats: H.264, MPEG-4; Supported image file types: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG

Apple iPod Nano 16 GB Black (4th Generation)

Buy iPod Nano 16 GB Black at Amazon.com

A Musical Genius
Say you’re listening to a song you really like and want to hear other tracks that go great with it. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a Genius Playlist for you. It’s like having your own highly intelligent, personal DJ.

Find Your Music Faster
It’s even easier to find the song you want to hear. Now you can view your album art in Cover Flow. Or just press and hold the Center button to browse by album or artist. When you find the right song, press the Center button to add it to your on-the-go playlist.

Rock and Roll Over
Tilt or turn iPod Nano 16 GB Black on its side, and you’ll listen, watch, and play in new ways. You can flip through your album art with Cover Flow. Or, vertically speaking, see more albums and artists on the screen at one time.

Shake Your Groove Thing
Sometimes, we could all use a little unpredictability. And now you can shake to change your music. Just give iPod Nano 16 GB Black a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your music library. You’ll always be surprised by what you’ll hear.

Let the Games Begin
Now you can get in on games made especially for iPod Nano 16 GB Black and the accelerometer. They respond to the way you move, so they’re immersive, addictive, and a blast. The iPod nano comes with Maze, which lets you work your way through vast mazes by tilting and moving. You can find even more games on the iTunes Store.

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Even Your Photos Rock
Pull hundreds of photos from your pocket and share them wherever you go. Hold iPod Nano 16 GB Black upright and see your photos in portrait view. Turn the player on its side to see them in landscape. Your photos look beautiful in their proper aspect ratio on the vibrant, 320-by-240-resolution display.

The World’s Biggest Small Screen
Watching movies, TV shows, and videos is big fun on iPod Nano. And the high-resolution picture looks crisp and vivid on the 2-inch widescreen display. So you can always have a little video with you.

Reduced Environmental Impact
The iPod Nano 16 GB Black embodies Apple’s continuing environmental progress. It is designed with the following features to reduce environmental impact:
Arsenic-free glass
Brominated flame retardant-free
Mercury-free
PVC-free
Highly recyclable

What’s in the Box
Apple iPod Nano 16 GB Black (4th Generation ), earphones, USB 2.0 cable, dock adapter, quick start guide

Main functions:
- Go live on the answering machine of someone else. Not want to talk to someone? Just leave a message! Their phones do not ring but will show a missed call with your call forged!
- Save and replay your calls directly from your phone. iSpoof also includes your address book.
- Counterfeiting number caller also in international format.
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With the recent releases of three new BlackBerrys across three different wireless providers, Research In Motion Ltd. has fired back at Apple Inc. in the Great Smart Phone Skirmish of 2008.

The introduction of the touch-screen BlackBerry Storm, business-savvy Bold 9000 and consumer-geared Pearl Flip 8220 may not have come a moment too soon for RIM, which has long dominated the market for high-end cell phones that double as e-mail devices. Consider that Apple reported selling 6.9 million iPhone 3Gs during its last quarter, while RIM sold 6.1 million BlackBerrys in roughly the same period.

But while RIM’s latest offerings are packed with features like stereo Bluetooth, standard headphone jacks, video recording, multiple e-mail options and, in the case of the Storm, a unique touch screen, the multifront attack may not be enough to unseat the mighty iPhone.

BlackBerry Storm was released through Verizon Wireless, the much-anticipated Storm — RIM’s first touch-screen smart phone — has slick looks and tons of features. But while the device gets some things right, a number of issues make it difficult to use.

The Storm ($200 after rebate, with a new two-year contract) is similar in size to larger BlackBerry models but eschews the standard QWERTY keyboard for a high-resolution 3.25-inch touch screen that covers most of its face.

The screen smartly marries the tactile feedback you’d get from a physical keyboard or mouse button with the finger-swiping convenience of a touch screen. So you can scroll around with your finger but nothing should happen — no words typed, no links clicked — until you physically push on the screen.

I found it much easier to type messages with the Storm’s keyboard than with the iPhone’s. This could make a big difference to business users who have been lusting after touch-screen smart phones but hesitant to make the switch. Sometimes, though, I had a hard time clicking on icons I wanted: At times, the browser would zoom in on the icon rather than activating it. Or I’d end up clicking an adjacent link.

High-definition videos I had taken on a camcorder looked pretty good on the Storm, and its big screen is great for showing large photos, or album art when you’re listening to songs. There’s plenty of storage for your multimedia goodies, as the device includes 1 gigabyte of memory and an 8 gigabyte microSD card.

One neat feature is the Storm’s ability to take videos in two different resolutions, the lower of which is meant for sending clips in messages. You can also take still photos with the Storm’s 3.2 megapixel camera.

I dug the visual voice mail feature — something also available on the iPhone — that shows you a list of your voice messages and lets you hear them in any order you’d like.

And calls sounded pretty good on the Storm, which is rated for 5.5 hours of talk time.

But the Storm seemed to labor at processing requests if I tried to do too many things too quickly, such as scrolling through photos while listening to music. And while the screen should easily change from portrait to landscape mode when you turn the Storm on its side, I often found it quite slow to react.

The Storm includes GPS. But its lack of Wi-Fi capabilities means you can’t get online in the absence of Verizon’s data network.

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There’s a big wide world out there. Fortunately, your iPhone can help you stay on top of things, courtesy of apps that keep you up to date on the latest news, help you connect to radio stations around the world, and let you take chunks of the World Wide Web with you wherever you go.

The App Store offers plenty of worthwhile news readers, radio apps, and other fonts of information. But in our opinion, six apps stood out. And they join the list of games, communication tools, and productivity boosters on our list of favorite iPhone apps from the past year.
Best news reader

As a standalone news reader, the free iPhone version of NetNewsWire () can’t hold a candle to NewsGator Technologies’s Mac version. But as an on-the-go article-filtering app, NetNewsWire shines. Whenever you’ve got some free time, you can quickly browse new RSS articles and “clip” the interesting ones for later reading. The next time you run NetNewsWire on your Mac, the read/unread status of each article, along with your clippings, are synced to your Mac, so you can pick up right where you left off.—DAN FRAKES

Read our review of NetNewsWire; get more info on NetNewsWire at the App Store.

Best way to read Web articles at your leisure

Allowing you to download articles from nearly any Web site to your mobile device, Instapaper Pro () is a first-class reader with gewgaws and gizmos that meld readability with convenience. The $10 Pro version of Marco Arment’s app features a nifty tilt screen feature that lets you scroll text without touching the screen. It also marks your place and lets you customize fonts and text sizes to your liking.—BEN BOYCHUK

Read our review of Instapaper Pro; get more info on Instapaper Pro at the App Store.
Best way to watch your net worth dwindle

In today’s roller-coaster economic times, it’s good to keep an eye on the market—even if the news isn’t good, better to have that data than be surprised by it. With Bloomberg (), a free app from the news agency, you can see market news, index values, charts of indexes and individual stocks over time, and the value of your portfolio. You can even drill down from a market index all the way to an individual company within that index, all with a few taps.—ROB GRIFFITHS

Read our review of Bloomberg; get more info on Bloomberg at the App Store.
Best way to know the score

While there are many sports scoreboard apps for the iPhone, the free SportsTap () from the developer of the same name stands out, thanks to its home screen. You’ll find icons for 10 different sports with a red Mail-like count badge on each, indicating the number of new scores within that category since you last ran the program. A LocalTap icon shows results from within 25, 50, or 100 miles of your current location. You can mark favorite teams in each sport, and those results will move to the top of the results page—which is a very nice, minimal-scrolling-required, two-column format.—RG

Read our review of SportsTap; get more info on SportsTap from the App Store.
Best radio app, terrestrial division

The wonder of WunderRadio () is that it allows you to stream tens of thousands of terrestrial radio stations from across the globe to your iPhone or iPod touch. The $6 Weather Underground application works over EDGE, 3G, and Wi-Fi networks and can find local stations based on the location of your iPhone or iPod touch. In addition to radio broadcasts, it can play audio weather reports as well as feeds from emergency scanners.—CHRISTOPHER BREEN

Read our review of WunderRadio; get more info on WunderRadio at the App Store.

Best radio app, Internet division

Pandora Radio () isn’t the only Internet radio app for the iPhone, but it offers more surprises, selecting music from a 500,000-song library based on your preferences. Pandora Media’s free app has a simple interface, effortless navigation, and a thumbs up/thumbs down button that helps determine how your station will evolve over time. Users can bookmark any song or artist, as well as purchase songs from the iTunes Store.—BB

This program allows you to connect your iPhone via USB instead of the usual Wi-Fi You can also use the iPhone as a modem via a Tethering.

What you need:

-Jailbreaker his iPhone

-Install OpenSSH from Cydia on the iPhone

-Install Cyberduck on the Mac

-Install iPhone Tunnel on the Mac

Once installed iPhone Tunnel, Turn On Tunnel in Tunnel iPhone that is in the menu bar

Cyberduck will open up and tell you

-Select Tools in connection SFTP 

-Allowing …

-Then it will ask the user name (which is root) and password (which is alpine)

You’re connected to the phone with the USB

A smartphone from Apple that integrates cellphone, iPod, camera, text messaging, e-mail and Web browsing. Data and applications can be sent to the phone wirelessly or via Apple’s iTunes software, which is used to organize music, videos, photos and applications (see iTunes).

Introduced in the U.S. in mid-2007, the iPhone is available exclusively from AT&T until 2012. The iPhone 3G, introduced in July 2008, adds GPS, higher data speed and an application platform that turns the iPhone into an ultra-mobile, general-purpose computer. With the 3G, the iPhone was finally introduced in Canada by Rogers Communications and its Fido subsidiary. It was also made available in many other parts of the world (see SIM lock).

The iPhone is operated almost entirely via an innovative 3.5″ touch screen. A major breakthrough in usability (see multitouch), the user interface was also carried forward in the next-generation iPod (see iPod touch).

Quite a Frenzy

In the history of the cellular industry, no phone ever created so much buzz; people actually camped out overnight to be first in line. AT&T stores closed early Friday, June 29, 2007 to set up the displays, reopening at 6pm and staying late to accommodate customers. iPhone activation can also be done at home via iTunes.

Specifications and Network Speeds

The iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone with music and video playback, a two-megapixel still camera, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Powered by an ARM processor, it uses a custom version of the Mac OS X operating system. The first model included up to 8GB of flash storage, which increased to 16GB a year later. The first iPhone, often called the “2G,” used only the EDGE cellular network, while the iPhone 3G supports both EDGE and the higher-speed HSDPA network. For example, HSDPA downloads are 200-500 Kbps compared to 70-150 Kbps for EDGE (see EDGE and HSPA). Although EDGE/HSDPA service is generally always available, and Wi-Fi hotspots are not, Wi-Fi still provides the fastest data transfer (see Wi-Fi and hotspot).

One major inconvenience is that, like the iPod, the iPhone has a sealed battery and must be sent to Apple or to a third-party company for replacement if not under warranty. There is also no memory card slot for expansion. See iPod, iPod touch, iBricking and iClone

The nominations are out and voting has begun for the “Best App Ever” awards for 2008, recognizing the best iPhone and iPod touch apps of the year. Nominations have already happened — the public submitted almost 18,000 nominations.
2008 Best App Ever Awards have now been announced in the inaugural competition honoring the best iPhone apps and games released in the iTunes App Store.

"The goal of the awards was to help publicize some applications that people may never have seen. Some of the best apps have never been featured on the iTunes front page or in an iPhone TV ad, yet they deserve recognition and publicity for the great work the developers have done.” said Jeff Scott, founder of 148Apps and the Best App Ever Awards.

Winner by category:

Best application: Shazam by Shazam Entertainment
Ltd.
Most Innovative Application: Shazam by Shazam
Entertainment Ltd.
The most useful application: Air Sharing by
Avatron Software, Inc.
Best free application or sponsored: Stanza by
Lexcycle
Best application to 1.10 fr: Ocarina by smule

Best iPhone application
WOW: Shazam by Shazam Entertainment Ltd.

Best
Productivity Application: Things by Cultured Code


Best anti productive by Facebook

Best local application:

Now
Playing –
Cyrus Najmabadi
Best application for outdoor use: Free
RunKeeper by FitnessKeeper, Inc.
Best music application: Ocarina by smule

Best Social Networking App: Facebook by Facebook

Best Photo Application:

Paano by Debacle Software

Best

Entertainment Application: iChalky by Eric Metois

Best application using the

hardware of the iPhone: Ocarina by smule

Best software localization:

Urbanspoon by Urbanspoon

Applying the original Weightbot by Tapbots

Best interface: Twitterrific by The
Iconfactory

Application of the most original Thursday: Touchgrind by
Illusion Labs

Best original application: Fieldrunners by
Subatomic Studios, LLC

Best Porting iPhone application: SimCity by
Electronic Arts

Best casual game: Labyrinth by Codify AB


Best game of long-term by

Fieldrunners Subatomic Studios, LLC.

Best game 1.10 fr: Moto Chaser by
Freeverse, Inc..

Best game graphics: Rolando by ngmoco, Inc.
..

Best Arcade game: Air Hockey by
Acceleroto

Best Puzzle: Enigmo by Pangea
Software, Inc.

Better play traditional

Texas Hold’em by Apple Inc.

Best racing game: Cro-Mag
Rally by Pangea Software, Inc.

Best game for children:
JellyCar by Walaber

Best strategy game: by

Fieldrunners Subatomic Studios, LLC

Best game world:

Chicktionary by Blockdot, Inc.

About this award
from apps-
About The 2008 Best App Ever Awards is the first iPhone OS Application
achievement awards to recognize the best iPhone apps and games released in the
iTunes App Store during the past year. Our goal is to help publicize the very
best apps available, not just the best-selling apps. There are multiple award
categories covering both apps and games. The process for the awards starts with
the nomination phase. You are invited to nominate an app in any of the
categories listed on the front page of this site. An app may be nominated in any
category, but is subject to disqualification if that app does not match a
requirement of the category (such as price, app vs. game, etc.). One nomination
per app per category is allowed from an IP address. Nominations will be accepted
until December 30th, 2008. Once all nominations are totaled, verified, and
calculated, we’ll take the top 5 nominated from the site and combine those with
5 nominations from the list of bloggers, developers, and industry people we have
been contacting about these awards. That will give us 10 nominations for each
category. In addition, the 10 apps that get the most votes across all categories
will compete for the title of Best App Ever. Please come back on December 31st ,
2008, to vote for the winner of each category and to select one of the 10
nominees as the Best App Ever.
There will be one winner selected for each category. Voting for the winners in
each category will start December 31st, 2008 and continue for 1 week. Winners
will be announced at the 2009 MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on January 7th,
2009. 2008 Best App Ever Awards Timeline 12/15/08 – 12/30/2008 – Nominations
Accepted 12/31/08 – Top 10 Nominees for Each Category and Best App Ever
Announced 12/31/08 – 1/6/2009 – Voting for Winner 1/7/2009 – Winners Announced
There are no fees for nomination, voting, or awards from the 2008 Best App Ever
Awards. The Best App Ever Awards Committee reserves the right to disqualify any
nomination or vote it reasonably determines to be fraudulent or submitted by
bots or other computer generated voting application. The awards are produced by
148Apps.com. Developer InvolvementApplication developers are encouraged to
direct their users to the site to nominate their app in the categories the
developer wants to focus on
The easiest way to do this is to nominate the app themselves and then grab the
URL from the sidebar and direct their users to vote. Short HistoryThe 2008 Best
App Ever Awards was first conceived after the iTunes App Store opened in July
2008. At that point, we knew there would be a need to develop a site that could
help people find the very best apps, not just the biggest sellers. Then Apple
came out with their Best of 2008 lists based purely on sales. We do not believe
this is the best indication of a of a great iPhone app. Please participate in
the 2008 Best App Ever Awards to honor the best, not just the best-selling.
Nomination Committee :
The nominees for all categories came from 2 places. 5 came from nominations on
this site, and 5 came from our nomination committee.
 

Program: iTrail Application ($2.99)
Creator:

justindav1s
Purchased from:

Apple iTunes Store

TrailRunner is an application for sports. For example, running, cycling or trekking. With TrailRunner it is easy to plot routes. To export a slideshow special iPod that lets you follow the directions in order and to exchange routes with friends. A navigation system allows you to choose your place in the world, zooming and import a fraction of a map, just how GoogleMap.

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