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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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True or Lie: remembering a novelty app without trusting its verdict
The 2009 FEYNMAN app turned microphone input into a detector-like display. Its role was entertainment, not evidence about honesty.
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Apple’s early iPhone RSS reader: a web-shaped beginning for mobile news
The reader.mac.com experiment belongs to the first iPhone’s browser-based era and still offers a useful lesson about choosing a manageable news feed.
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Color Splash on iPhone: use selective colour to guide attention
Color Splash’s developer describes converting a photograph to monochrome while retaining selected areas in colour.
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Danger Cats!: the early iPhone puzzle about removing the right support
A look back at Fire Maple Games’ Danger Cats!, where tapping away objects safely was the puzzle—and why the creator’s archive matters…
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Point Inside Shopping & Travel: when iPhone maps went indoors
Point Inside’s historical shopping and airport app focused on the places a street map leaves out: floors, gates, shops and indoor landmarks.
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Early Bird for iPhone: planning every swipe in Booyah’s flying puzzle
Booyah’s Early Bird turned a flight to a landing target into a limited-swipe puzzle. A retrospective of the original iPhone edition.
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GAMEBOX 1: Triniti’s early iPhone collection of miniature games
A retrospective of GAMEBOX 1, the Triniti Interactive bundle that put action, puzzle and arcade games behind one iPhone app icon.
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Invoice2go on the early iPhone: taking the invoice to the job
The original Invoice2go app moved customer paperwork onto the iPhone. Here is what its historical listing means and how to build a…
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Apple’s M5 MacBooks just landed: MacBook Air gets smarter, MacBook Pro gets seriously faster
Apple just refreshed MacBook Air with M5, and rolled out a new MacBook Pro lineup powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max.…