What good is the slightly annoying and creepy Facebook Places feature if you can’t turn it into some sort of competition? Well, with the InCrowd iPhone app, you can do just that.
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Twitter for iPhone, the official Twitter iPhone app, has received an upgrade to support iOS 4 multitasking. You can get the update through iTunes now. [iTunes]
Wave goodbye to productivity and head over to the App Store. EA is having a 48-hour sale and many popular iPhone games are only 99 cents each. Here are the ones that are supposed to be on sale:
The Street Orchestra iPhone app is like a simple version of Rock Band that lets you play classical music with up to 200,000 synched iPhones. Simple, classy, and free.
I’m sorry, you’ll have to excuse me for a moment. I’m quite in demand as you can see by all these message notifications on my iPhone. Obviously things like this can’t be faked and my Settings app really needs me.
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Remember Karate Champ? It was one of the very first fighting games – coming far before Street Fighter and Tekken – and we loved it dearly. Now this arcade classic will be coming to the iPhone and it looks damn good.
It’s been over two years since we first heard of StyleTap, a Palm OS emulator for the iPhone. Now the app is finally available through Cydia, meaning you’ll have to spend $US50 and jailbreak your iPhone. [StyleTap via Engadget]
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Lifehacker’s favourite exercise tool, RunKeeper, has added a feature that’s as creepy as it is useful. You can now opt to have your location and activity level broadcast live on your RunKeeper profile by using the iPhone app.
David Quinlan is a normal guy with day job and just a bit of coding experience. But he and a friend lived the dream and cranked out a simple iPhone app in a weekend. Here’s how they did it.