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PineDrama – Short Dramas: What the iPhone app offers
PineDrama offers short drama episodes, subtitles, and browse tools for iPhone users on iOS 15+.
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Remedial Health: iPhone medicine sourcing for pharmacies in Nigeria
Remedial Health’s iPhone app lets pharmacies and medical practices source wholesale medicines, track orders, and manage supply needs.
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Apple’s iPhone Duo app push is already showing up in the App Store
Apple is steering developers toward iPhone Duo screenshots and app updates as the new phone reaches stores.
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Mobile video monitoring with Mobiscope app
Mobiscope’s 2013 iPhone camera app revisited: original product imagery, live viewing, motion alerts and the difference between past features and current availability.
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An old iPhone or iPad as a second screen: the iDisplay idea
The 2012 post proposed a specific reuse for an older device through SHAPE’s iDisplay.
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iPhone 5 and app layouts: the question before the taller screen arrived
Revisit the September 2012 discussion of screen proportions, with the later announcement kept separate from predictions.
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Camera Awesome: SmugMug’s camera app and the photographs it left behind
Why Camera Awesome belongs in iPhone photography history, and what owners of an old installation should know about exporting images.
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Picksie and AroundMe: the local-discovery comparison behind Partnership Potential
The 2011 article proposed combining two approaches; it did not announce an actual business partnership.
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Microsoft’s Skype acquisition: what happened, and what it means now
Microsoft announced its $8.5 billion Skype deal in May 2011. Revisit the acquisition, its significance for iPhone users, and Skype’s later retirement.
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Hungry Penguins: the physics puzzle behind the 2011 headline
Identify the original penguin game and its fish-collecting, obstacle-navigation challenge.
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Facebook, Facely HD and iSocialize: a 2011 interface comparison
The original article compared three ways to reach Facebook from an iPhone.
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iPad 2 and the moment the tablet became a creative notebook
Apple’s 2011 tablet launch paired cameras with music and video tools, suggesting a useful approach to making small projects.