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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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Tic-tac-toe for two: making a shared iPhone game enjoyable
A second guide to the classic game focuses on local play, teaching, and clear touchscreen design.
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Avot mV: video search and playback for the early iPhone
Avot Media’s mV service combined finding, personalizing and playing internet video on iPhone and iPod touch.
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MMS Inbox: a workaround from the first iPhone’s messaging era
The 2007 O2-specific project illustrates how early developers filled gaps in the original iPhone.
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Myf2p and Files2Phones: desktop access from an early iPhone
What the 2007 Myf2p service promised, how its desktop-access model differed from carrying a file, and why the distinction still matters.
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Free SMS from Dynadel: an early iPhone web-messaging idea
Identify the original Dynadel web SMS service and distinguish composing a message from confirming that it arrived.
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Change Your Caller ID: identifying the original 2007 iPhone service
A historical explanation of the Official Spoof Card web listing and why a displayed phone number does not establish identity.
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Solar System: an early iPhone web orrery
Revisit Chronita’s 2007 iPhone web app and learn what an animated overhead model can explain about the solar system.
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iPhone Update 1.1.1: when music purchases moved onto the phone
Revisit the 2007 software update and the importance of distinguishing a historical release note from current update advice.
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Elevator Words: a multilingual letter-alignment game
The original web puzzle at kprobe.com challenged iPhone players to align letters into words.