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  • Rapid Review: Masayuki Akamatsu’s Banner.

    We first saw Banner [App Store] appear on the store back in late July. Since then banner was renamed to ‘Banner Free’ [App Store] signaling to pretty much the entire world the developer was gearing up to launch a charged version, and on Friday, that’s exactly what Masayuki Akamatsu (the developer) did … (more…)

  • Want Me as Your BETA Tester?

    Hey guys/gals, Ok, I figured I enjoyed beta testing Instamapper 1.1 so much, before it hit the store, I’d like to beta test applications for more developers, more often. If you have an application you’d like tested and reviewed on RazorianFly please contact me at arron_161@hotmail.com asking for my device identifier (UDID – Ad Hoc Helper [App Store]) and I’ll be sure to respond to you, within 24-48 hours … (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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  • Jaadu VNC: Remote Intuative control of your PC or Mac – [Updatedx5]

    [Updatex5 – 04.09.08] – (02.12am GMT)

    Connected via 3G and Edge thanks to Jugaari Support! It is recommended to load a webpage (fully) in Safari before attempting to connect Jaadu VNC through 3G or Edge. Jaadu VNC needs a push to realise you’ve switched out to Edge or 3G – Jugaari are aware of this bug and promise a fix soon.

    [Updatex4 – 04.09.08] – (01.35am GMT)

    Currently in talks with Jugaari support, and they are excellent. Manually setup port forwarding .. still a little hitch … but nearly connected via 3G and Edge 8) – I now get as far as ‘Authorising’ …

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  • Apple Hiding Issues from Public View, due to ‘Image’ concern?

    Although this is not a new occurrence, In a recent post over at Mac Rumors, member Mcdj notes:

    “In a Google search for answers to the problems I described in this post, I came across a page on the Apple discussion boards. When I clicked the link, it came up as a non-existent page on the discussion board…i.e. the post had been deleted. I went back and clicked Google’s cached version of the page. I expected to find a long flame war or profanity laden rants…the kind of stuff Apple usually yanks.

    Instead, I found this…

    http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache …

    Why would Apple go out of their way to delete a seemingly innocuous post?” …

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  • What in God’s name is iTunes Backing Up?! – [Updatedx2]

    iTunes becoming ridiculous over syncing iPhone.

    [Updatex2 – 02.09.08] – (15.07pm GMT)

    There is however a temporary fix. The following instructions are how to completely disable iTunes from backing up your devices. Note: This is not an ideal solution by any means, and could mean, in the event of a system crash and/or factory restore, you may not have an up-to-date backup to restore from.

    1) Quit iTunes
    2) Open Terminal.app
    3) Type (or copy and paste) the following command, then hit Return:

    defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

    4) Open and run iTunes …

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  • Breaking: Peter Boctor’s ‘Tomatoes’ Pulled from the App Store? [Updated]

    [Update] – Hot Popcorn is now LIVE [App Store]

    Original Article:
    Tomatoes, designed by Peter Boctor [More information …] was a client aimed at bringing the ever popular film review site Rotten Tomatoes to the iPhone in a user friendly, clean interface.

    Originally available here [App Store], Tomatoes is no longer available. It is not yet known what caused Apple or Peter to pull this application …

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