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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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CPR Buddy: reading an old first-aid app review responsibly
Historical context for Divide by Zero’s CPR Buddy and why a legacy app listing cannot establish current emergency guidance.
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Hot Dog Down a Hallway: tilt-controlled iPhone arcade absurdity
The Metaversal Studios game launched a hot dog through a corridor of obstacles, then let players influence its flight by tilting the…
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RecordStudio: a four-track studio on an early iPhone
MEDIA [ 1fourFIVE ] brought four-track recording, a metronome and audio import to RecordStudio. Revisit the original app and its portable-recording idea.
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TripIt for iPhone: keep the itinerary together without losing the originals
How TripIt organizes travel confirmations and the checks that make a digital itinerary easier to trust.
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SushiGuru: using a food reference app at a restaurant
How to evaluate a sushi reference on your phone, and why a menu guide cannot establish the ingredients of the dish in…
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How To Text A Girl: a look at the early message-template app
The 2009 Spendthrift Studios app offered text-message examples. Its useful lesson today is to treat templates as prompts, not promises.
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iChemistry by Kyle Moore: equation balancing on early iPhones
Identify Kyle Moore’s original iChemistry app and understand how equation balancing connects to calculations of chemical amounts.
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SmackTalk!: the small pleasure of a voice that talks back
The early animated-animal app illustrates a simple creative loop: speak, hear the transformed result and try something different.
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iTriage: the early health-information app and how to assess medical content
A historical look at Healthagen’s app, with reliable questions to ask of any health-information service.