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Tag: Applications

  • Upcoming on RazorianFly …

    We’d just like to let you know about what else we’ll be publishing in the coming weeks and months. From iPhone application reviews, to film reviews, the latest in tech and more … (more…)

  • Rapid Review: Out of My Way for iPhone

    On Friday, I was given a copy of ‘Out of my Way’ for iPhone and iPod touch. A new logical puzzler which tests your spacial awareness, logic and puzzle-solving capabilities … (more…)

  • iPhone 2.1: Selected Application’s Virtually ‘Broken’ – [Updated]

    With the sheer amount of anticipation 2.1 gained, it’s security improvements, bug fixes and more, when it finally did hit last Friday, people were starting to think this was an update Apple just ‘got right’, and in some cases, they did – In others, not so much. All attention has now shifted onto the growing list of third party applications which have been ‘broken’ by updating their iPhone’s software to 2.1 … (more…)

  • The Ultimate list of ‘Noteworthy’ iPhone Applications – [Updated]

    Ok, this is it. A few weeks ago I said I would sift through the App Store for you, ignoring the badly designed, to find you the cream of the crop. Now, the three separate articles, Part 1, 2 and 3 I originally posted, had to be pulled before the launch of RazorianFly.com as I had no time to edit them to look nice with the new template. Instead I am providing an ‘Ultimate list of Noteworthy iPhone Applications’, a culmination of part 1, 2 and 3, which will be updated continuously … (more…)

  • iTunes 8.0: “I Still Can’t Update your Applications, but Hey – I’m Shiny …”

    According to a few new threads emerging, it seems iPod touch and iPhone users are experiencing yet further problems with the application update process. I recently told you about the ‘I show you 5 updates but really mean 97’ bug, and thankfully that is yet to show it’s face in iTunes 8.0. What has shown it’s face however, is a problem much worse than mere graphic misrepresentation.

    It seems, iTunes 8.0 can no longer update applications, full stop … (more…)

  • Users Buying iPhone Applications based on thier Icons? – [Briefly]

    We all know the iPhone is seen as a status symbol, or a highly desirable object, but in a recent growing trend, style might just be swaying the deciding factor of application purchases by App Store users.

    In a quite controversial trend, It seems users may be looking at the one thing which hits you first, when buying any application from the store – it’s icon. With recent threads popping up on numerous message boards over the internet, App Store users seem increasingly more conscious of how the application icon will look on their home screens, without actually weighing up the functionality of the application, first …

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  • iTunes no-longer transferring applications bought using the mobile App Store?

    Since updating to iPhone software 2.0.2, a few users have e-mailed me reporting of strange behavior between iTunes and iPhone. These issues are said to cause their mobile application purchases to not sync back up to their main application library in iTunes.

    As you probably know by now, Apple’s App Store works on an ecosystem. You buy an application, it downloads over the air, you sync with iTunes, and the application is transferred to your main ‘Applications’ library to be available for a future sync. Bearing in mind a sync replaces all content on the device with that of whats in the iTunes library your syncing your iPhone with …

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