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Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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Elevate Pay: a USD banking app for freelancers and remote workers
Elevate Pay offers non-U.S. residents a U.S.-style USD account for receiving, sending, and holding money.
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Apple is pushing foldable-iPhone apps from day one with a new App Store badge
Apple is spotlighting foldable-friendly apps for iPhone Duo and adding a new App Store badge for optimized titles.
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TikTok Pro – Events: what the iPhone app does and who it’s for
TikTok Pro – Events is a TikTok short-video app with event-themed challenges, sharing, and iPhone requirements.
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Moviefone’s iPhone site: finding a film and a nearby showing
The original Moviefone mobile website used ZIP-code search to connect movie information with local showtimes.
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Encrypt & Store: a bookmarklet-based vault on the early iPhone
The 2008 web tool encoded password-protected text into a bookmarklet, an unusual approach to saving sensitive notes.
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Infiltrator for iPhone: DS Effects’ 2008 web game
Identify the original DS Effects browser game behind this 2008 link, with clear separation from later games that use the same title.
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Books on iPhone: build a reading setup you will actually use
Make a small phone comfortable for reading, organize a manageable library, and check how books remain accessible.
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FlyTunes: an early attempt to bring internet radio to the iPhone
The original FlyTunes offered personalized music channels through an iPhone web service. Revisit its place in the early mobile-radio landscape.
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Pocket Express Travel Edition: Handmark’s early mobile information service
Revisit Handmark’s Pocket Express Travel Edition and separate its early mobile-service history from later App Store versions.
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Mobiscope for home and SOHO: the remote-camera idea in context
What SHAPE’s early surveillance service offered and why a current camera system needs more than a working phone view.
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Mahjong by 38i: the original iPhone web solitaire
Explore 38i’s original iPhone web solitaire, its tile sets, and the small-screen strategy behind matching accessible pairs.
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iPhoneMarks: visual bookmarks for early mobile Safari
Explore SpeedyMarks’ original iPhoneMarks web tool and the practical role of visual bookmarks on a small screen.