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The apps worth your time. The news that matters. More from your iPhone.
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iPhone app deals: compare the total offer, not the discount badge
Evaluate sale pricing against the edition, included features, renewal terms, and the task you need to complete.
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How to read iPhone app reviews and find evidence that matters
Look past the average score to the task, version and conditions behind a review before deciding whether an app fits your needs.
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Searchme: the early iPhone experiment with visual search results
What made Searchme’s page-preview approach distinctive and how to assess a search interface beyond its presentation.
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Travel apps for iPhone: prepare the trip before losing a connection
Build a compact travel kit around addresses, offline maps, booking references, and official information.
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iTunes Ping: Apple’s 2010 experiment in social music discovery
Following artists and friends inside iTunes was an attempt to make music purchases part of a shared conversation.
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Sports games for iPhone: choose play style before team badges
Compare hands-on matches, management, training modes, and the cost of keeping a sports game in your routine.
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CraigsPro: revisiting early Craigslist browsing on iPhone
What the old classifieds-app idea tells us about filtering listings, comparing items and checking the seller’s claims.
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WhatsApp on iPhone: make group conversations easier to follow
WhatsApp’s listing describes messaging and voice or video calling associated with a phone number.
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Fromage for iPhone: build a cheese notebook you will actually use
Steve Welch’s cheese reference combines discovery with personal notes; the most useful entry is one you can recognize again.
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Find My Friends: understand the older app name and modern location sharing
Apple’s lookup associates this app ID with Find My Friends and an older release record.
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Telekinesis: remote access through the original iPhone’s browser
A historical look at the mini web apps that exposed Mac functions to an early iPhone.
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OneTrip: a shopping list from before the App Store
Neven Mrgan’s early Safari demo showed how a simple everyday task could become an iPhone-shaped web app.