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Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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Gauss: An iPhone app for managing credit cards, budgets, and debt payoff
Gauss is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app that helps users manage credit cards, budgets, and debt payoff plans.
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Apple updates App Store Connect for iPhone Duo, signaling broader app rollout
Apple’s App Store Connect now supports iPhone Duo, opening the submission path for optimized apps and new App Store badges.
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Zoom Workplace iPhone Guide: Meetings, Chat, Scheduling, and AI
Zoom Workplace combines meetings, chat, phone, docs, and AI tools in one iPhone app.
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Pinch texting: what “free messaging” meant and what to check
The legacy Pinch messenger’s data-based model, with a practical distinction between service fees, connectivity, and privacy.
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Watching iPhone video on an iPad: choose sharing or streaming first
Sending a video file, opening a shared library and mirroring a screen are different tasks. Start with the result you need.
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The Waze of the road: plan with live information, keep your judgment
A practical guide to using a navigation app as a planning aid while keeping road conditions and attention in perspective.
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Macs and apps: how the App Store idea reached the desktop
A historical look at the Mac App Store launch and the practical differences between choosing phone and desktop software.
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Five iPhone alarm ideas from 2010
Revisit the different approaches in the original alarm-app roundup without treating old promises as current guarantees.
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Plancast and the promise of sharing tomorrow’s plans
A look at the social-planning idea behind Plancast, and why arranging an event differs from posting an update.
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Gyro Draw: sketching by moving the iPhone
Candywriter’s motion-controlled drawing experiment and the difference between an expressive interface and a precision tool.
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Mobiola WebCamera: an early way to turn an iPhone into a computer camera
The SHAPE app’s wireless camera idea remains useful when planning a second angle for calls, demonstrations and desk recordings.
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Mobiola WebCamera: the iPhone as a second camera
Understand the phone-plus-desktop design of Mobiola’s webcam app and the checks that matter for a current camera workflow.