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The App Store hits a milestone: 10,000 apps
The Apple Core —
... that shows the icon of every application available in the store. Although the collage is one large image, every icon is clickable courtesy of an invisible imagemap. (I hope that they automated it!) The 148Apps tribute page also lists a ton of fun stats about the App Store: My current “page 1″ apps are: PCalc (replaces Apple’s Calculator) , Tweetsville, Notebook, Google, Briefcase and Sonos. Favorite Web apps are: ...
App Store Enables Developer Promo Codes, Still Has Work To Do (Updated)
TechCrunch —
Apple’s App Store has finally given developers the ability to release up to 50 promotional codes for their applications, allowing them distribute their apps to press and friends free of charge directly through the App Store.
While the feature may seem like a minor addition to most people, it will be a boon for developers looking to help spread the word about their new applications. Before now, developers looking to share their application with the press or friends would need to include them as part of Apple’s Ad Hoc program, which lets developers test their applications before they are ...
2008 Best App Ever Awards: Honoring the best iPhone apps and games
Macsimum News —
... are now open to receive nominations. Sponsored by 148Apps, the inaugural competition is the first iPhone OS Application achievement awards to recognize the best iPhone apps and games released in the iTunes App Store in 2008. The goal is to help publicize the very... ...
2008 Best App Ever Awards: Your Vote Counts!
TheAppleBlog —
iPhone news and review site 148apps.com has announced the launch of Best App Ever, a new site which allows you to nominate your favorite apps and games in any one of thirty categories.
Most Innovative App - The most innovative app on the iPhone OS platform
Most Useful App - The app you just can’t live without
Best Free or Ad Supported App - The best free or ad-supported application - must currently be free in the US App Store
Best 99 Cent ...
2008 Best iPhone App Ever winners announced
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... a while ago, but they've just announced the winners for the 2008 Best App Ever awards, celebrating (according to 148apps.com and the people they got to nominate and vote in their contest) the best iPhone apps of last year. As I said for the voting, you can probably take most of this with a grain of salt, but there's no question that there are some awesome apps in here, and probably at least one or two you'll be interested in checking out if you haven't yet. ...
Best iPhone App Ever Winners for 2008
TheAppleBlog —
It may not be the most authoritative source (what is?), but the winners of the Best iPhone App Ever Awards have recently been announced. The awards are organized and run by 148apps.com, an iPhone and iPod touch App review site whose main feature is a top 148 list. Awards were decided based on ...
iPhone App Store: 40,000 and counting
MacBytes.com —
... ) opened it up for native application development a year ago last March. The site, which went live on Thursday, is the handiwork of Jeff Scott, the creator of 148Apps.com and the ...
Finding an app in a haystack
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... As of July 11th, the iPhone/iPod touch App Store housed 56,081 different apps according to Jeff Scott of 148apps.com. Taking a quick look, I found over 400 different fart apps. This alone is pretty scary and would lead me to believe that any app that might be either useful or funny, or even totally pointless, has so many variations that without knowing an app name, searching for something that interests me would soon become a Herculean task. Apple hasn't made this easy since using the iTunes store search is pretty rough and usually brings up many ...
Soon We'll Be Able to Search the App Store For More Than Exact Product Names [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
The iTunes App Store is somewhere near the bottom of list of good app discovery tools; one step above asking Jeeves, and about 20 below virtually any of the many app-review-cum-storefront sites. Apple's at least trying to fix this, apparently. App developers have received a message passed down from on high, asking for their help. Snagged by Macrumors: It is important to enter keywords for all applications as soon as possible so your application can continue to be successfully located on the App Store. Keywords can be ...
Update: Apple Working On Fix For iPhone Email Bug
Cult of Mac —
... . Meanwhile, it appears the bug is limited to POP email accounts, not IMAP accounts. It is probably a Spotlight caching issue. Spotlight on the iPhone/iPod creates local copies of emails, which aren’t deleted when the originals are. There seems to be several ways to fix the bug. Sometimes, simply waiting works; the message cache is eventually cleared. It’s also possible to erase the cached messages by loading and reloading them several times, according to Richard from 148Apps .“From my messing around with email, the message actually disappears after viewing it a few times. At ...
How the iPhone’s App Store Could Stimulate the Flash Economy
Wired: Gadget Lab —
Thanks to new tools provided by Adobe, the iPhone has the potential to transform the Flash programmer community from an experimental playground into a lucrative industry.
Adobe last week announced that its new version of the Flash Professional CS5 developer kit will include tools to convert software written in Flash into standalone iPhone apps. That creates the opportunity for Flash developers to submit Flash-ported iPhone apps to Apple; if Apple approves those apps, they can then be sold through the iTunes App Store.
The community of Flash programmers is 1 million strong, ...
Top 5 Sites to Discover iPhone Apps (Review)
iSmashPhone —
... the blogosphere. On a recent day, the feed was topped by posts
from The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Download Squad from just 10
minutes earlier. A few spots down, there was even a link to a
Spanish-language post from Esfera iPhone. Like Apptism, you
can look through the apps based on pricing, category and the hottest
and newest. You can also search according to how many stars the
community has given an app and create custom searches.
148Apps Full index + forums The gimmick ...
Monkeys In Space: Contest!
TouchGen —
... A big thank you to the sponsors who donated prizes for the contest:
Mplayit Provides iPhone App Discoverability Via Facebook [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
I spend an awful lot of time poking around in the App Store in both iTunes and on my iPhone, just in the hopes of finding something new and exciting to download and use on my device. It’s not an ideal situation, and I often wish Apple would throw out its tired model and completely restructure the ...
Mplayit Provides iPhone App Discoverability Via Facebook
TheAppleBlog —
I spend an awful lot of time poking around in the App Store in both iTunes and on my iPhone, just in the hopes of finding something new and exciting to download and use on my device. It’s not an ideal situation, and I often wish Apple would throw out its tired model and completely restructure the ...
