IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
iPhone apps, news, and accessories.
Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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PayPal – Pay, Send, Save: iPhone Guide to Wallet, Transfers, and Rewards
A practical look at PayPal’s iPhone app for payments, transfers, package tracking, rewards, and account management.
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Munily: a community management app for residents, guards, and admins
Munily is a Winter 2022 YC app for community access, communication, and building management.
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Capital One Shopping: Save Now for iPhone
Free iPhone shopping tool that checks coupons, compares prices, and tracks rewards, with Safari support and iOS 16.6 or later.
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Fotopedia Heritage: discovering World Heritage through photographs
Revisit the app’s map, photography and reference-information workflow, with the original project identity preserved.
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Ever Thought About Going to Cuba? Havana Good Time for iPhone
Revisit Havana Good Time, Conner Gorry’s 2010 iPhone city guide, with its original app screen, historical sources and current availability notes.
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StumbleUpon goes mobile: the appeal of finding something unexpected
A retrospective on mobile web discovery, the service’s later closure, and ways to keep useful discoveries from disappearing.
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iPub Boxing: a motion-based novelty game from 2010
Identify the game behind the old punch-strength headline and separate its score from a verified measurement.
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Bumps: the physics puzzle built around planning a bounce
The history and design of Utopian Games’ Bumps, a puzzle about placement, motion and collecting the right keys.
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Just Juggle: the appeal of a one-screen iPhone arcade game
Denki’s Juggle! provides a useful historical example of how a tiny set of rules can support a satisfying mobile game.
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Dragon Dictation vs Vlingo: what a useful voice-input comparison should test
Revisit the 2010 comparison as a practical framework for judging dictation accuracy, corrections, privacy, and workflow.
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Text’nDrive: why reading a message aloud does not remove every distraction
The early email-reading app is a useful reminder to distinguish spoken output, dictation and recorded replies—and to keep messaging out of driving.
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GPSed: turning a journey into a route and photo record
A look at SHAPE’s historical GPSed service, its iPhone trip-recording workflow, and the difference between logging a route and sharing a location.