Top iPhone apps

1. Backbreaker 2: Vengeance
Backbreaker 2 again raises the bar for graphics, physical animation and pure fun. You spoke, we listened: tackling, trucking, jumping – it’s all here! Take down the ball carrier in Vengeance Mode, or fight your way to the endzone in the classic Tackle Alley mode. Whatever you do – this is the best Backbreaker yet, so enjoy the ride!

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2. FIFA 11 by EA SPORTS™
Now kick it to the next level with LOCAL MULTIPLAYER via WiFi or Bluetooth! Also featuring visual excellence made to maximize the Retina Display, precision controls, authentic teams, and real players, this is the total soccer experience on the App Store.

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3. Flick Golf!

Flick Golf is unique, beautiful, and so challenging it’s hard to put down. The question is, can you really Master it?

No clubs. No rules. Just flick, spin and curve your shots to try and sink that perfect hole in one. Watch out for the usual hazards; bunkers, trees, sand… and of course the wind!

It’s not that easy, just madly addictive.

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iOS 6 Beta 2

Latest iOS 6 Beta 2 Hits Developers

Two weeks back, during the WWDC, Apple announced iOS 6. Following that event, registered developers got access to the beta, giving us our first hands-on look at the newly refreshed platform. Now Apple’s ready with its first follow-up to that initial release, starting distribution of iOS 6 beta 2.

Based on the release notes that have been made available, it looks like Apple’s implemented quite a few bugfixes that address issues existing in the first beta. Quite a few of those work on improving the operation of Apple’s Game Center; iMessage also sees a couple bugs squashed, as does PassBook and the Movie Player. On the UI side, keyboard sound effects now shouldn’t cut-out when typing quickly, and the keyboard will more gracefully handle device rotation.

Users also report some icon changes; when installing the update itself, the gears icon now animates. We’ve also heard that the default Weather app now changes its icon to reflect what the actual weather’s like.

As developers start to play around with this release, we may get to hear about some even more interesting changes hidden away in iOS 6 beta 2. In the coming weeks, we’ll be getting additional opportunities like this one, as Apple continues to release more iOS 6 betas.

Update: We’ve already started hearing about some of these new features. There’s a new toggle for sharing Photo Streams, new icons to reflect Twitter’s recent redesign, and a new option for controlling Reading List cellular data usage.

Source: Apple
Via: 9to5 Mac

link: http://pocketnow.com/2012/06/25/latest-ios-6-beta-2-hits-developers/

iPhone & Android mobile apps

Twitter updates iPhone & Android mobile apps with expansive experiences

One hundred and forty characters are no longer enough for microblogging platform Twitter. As social media users gravitate towards a more visual web, Twitter has started rolling out the second phase of its “expanded tweets” tweets feature.

Both Twitter’s iPhone and Android mobile apps have been updated to include Twitter’s new expanded tweets -- enabling microbloggers to see image and video content previews from Twitter’s selected partners when they click on a link contained within a tweet.



“When you tap a Tweet linking to a Kickstarter project, for example, you can play its video directly from the Tweet details view in your app. You can also read article summaries when you tap Tweets linking to sources like The Atlantic or play videos or view images when you expand Tweets linking to websites like Etsy andVimeo,” said Twitter project manager Sung Hu Kim in a post on the company’s blog.

The change reflects a wider trend towards visual storytelling taking place within social media. As image- and video-sharing social networks like Pinterest, Instagram and Viddy gain viral popularity with users, more mature social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are updating their design to cater for a more visual community of users.

Twitter introduced expanded tweets on its website less than a month ago partnering with websites including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Breaking News, TIME, WWE, BuzzFeed, TMZ, Lifetime and Daily Motion.

Twitter has also made updates to notifications and search within its mobile apps.

Both Twitter for Android and iOS now support push notifications for tweets so you can configure the app to send you a notification when one of the people you follow posts something new.

Twitter has improved the search experience on its mobile apps too with enhanced autocomplete and additional name suggestions when you search for people.

The updated versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android are available for download now from https://twitter.com/download.

iPhone 5 preorders

iPhone 5 preorders start today – even though it doesn’t exist yet

Apple’s mythical “iPhone 5” — which does not yet exist and probably won’t be called the “iPhone 5″ when it does become available this fall — is already available for preorder on Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao. 

iPhone 5 preorders start today …

As Reuters reports, Far Eastern vendors are looking to capitalize on the flurry of rumors that have swept the Web over the past few months. Independent sellers on the Alibaba-owned site are including mock-ups and rumored specs with their listings, and they’re asking for as much as $1,100 to secure a preorder for the world’s most eagerly anticipated smartphone. Apple’s next-generation iPhone, which is expected to look much like the mock-up pictured above, will reportedly feature a taller design, a larger 4-inch display, a slimmer profile, a new dock connector and 4G LTE connectivity when it launches this fall.

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Apple’s App Store

Corrupt apps sweep Apple’s App Store

A laundry list of iOS and Mac apps updated over the past day are crashing on launch due to an issue withApple’s App Store that is causing the application files to become corrupted. The issue was first noted by Instapaper developer Marco Arment, who received a number of complaints that the latest build of his popular Instapaper app for iOS was crashing on launch.

Arment found nothing wrong with the code he submitted to the App Store, but similar reports from other developers led to the discovery that the app files were somehow being corrupted by Apple before being made available to the public. Dozens of apps have been affected by the bug, including Angry Birds Space, Pinball Maniacs and Dolphin HS Browser, Arment notes.

Updated to reference list of apps compiled by Arment.

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Apple looks to spoil Samsung’s Galaxy S III party

Apple requests U.S. preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone

Late on Tuesday, Apple brought a motion, in its second California litigation against Samsung, "to supplement the record regarding Samsung's Galaxy S III product". Apple formally asks the court for permission to add the S III as another product targeted by Apple'smotion for a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus, a smartphone Samsung co-developed with Google.

Apple made this move approximately 20 hours after I wrote about the Galaxy S III being "the obvious next target". In my blog post I speculated that Apple might bring a preliminary injunction motion against it, possibly after awaiting tomorrow's preliminary injunction hearing. Apple decided to forge ahead now. Apple is on the offensive against Android. Earlier this week it filed an ITC complaint requesting an immediate import ban of 29 allegedly-infringing HTC devices. There's an important overlap: the "data tapping" patent that Apple is seeking to enforce against HTC's current generation of products is one of two patents Apple is using against the S III.

Apple purchased the S III in the United Kingdom, where Samsung launched it on May 29. The U.S. launch date is June 21 -- precisely two weeks after the preliminary injunction hearing.

Apple's motion notes that "[a]ccording to press reports, Samsung has already sold over nine million preorders of the Galaxy S III; indeed, the Galaxy S III has been reported to be the most extensively preordered piece of consumer electronics in history."

While the preliminary injunction motion filed in February targets the Galaxy Nexus over four patents, Apple is still analyzing the S III's potential infringement of two of those patents (the new slide-to-unlock patent and the autocomplete patent), but in order to accelerate the process and facilitate the court's analysis, Apple "will limit its current request for preliminary relief against the Galaxy S III to the '604 [unified search, i.e., Siri] and '647 [data tapping] patents, because it is clear that infringement can be shown with respect to these patents based on the current record".

Here's the full text of Apple's motion:

12-06-05 Apple Motion on Galaxy S IIIhttp://www.fosspatents.com/2012/06/apple-formally-requests-us-injunction.html