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The Best iPhone Apps

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Best iPhone Apps: The Essential Guide for Discriminating Downloaders — With over 50,000 iPhone apps to choose from, there's a mind-boggling number of ways to make your favorite device do just about anything you can imagine. But how do you which ones are the best? Best iPhone Apps shines the light on over 200 gee-whiz apps that delight, empower, and entertain. Check these excerpts to find some of the cool apps Clark recommends.

iphoneapps.oreilly.com is the site for discriminating downloaders. Be sure to make your vote count in the App Smackdown.

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iPhone Hacking - Intermediate & Advanced

iPhone Forensics 101: Bypassing the iPhone Passcode

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iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts

While a steady stream of so-called iPhone Killers are filtering into the market, Apple's momentum continues unabated. Inspired by his own experiences upgrading to the Blackberry Tour, the author ponders why so many solution provides confuse delivering a bunch of 'chicken parts' with producing an actual, living, breathing chicken.

Making an O'Reilly RSS iPhone App with TapLynx

There has been an explosion of interest in creating content for the iPhone in the past couple of years, and recently, a corresponding rush of libraries and frameworks to make building iPhone apps easier for those of us who are not experts in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch. Some of these libraries are targeted at web designers, some at programmers.

The Right Stuff: Apple's Q4 Earnings Call

The Fourth Quarter was Apple's most profitable quarter ever. Yesterday's earnings call was about two things. One, the iPhone Platform continues to deliver the goods. Two, the continued impressive growth of the Mac, especially MacBooks. As such, it was about the power of the platform as much as it was about the device itself. Read more...

Land and Expand: Why Apple Allowing In-App Purchases in Free Apps is a Big Deal

Yesterday, Apple announced that they are now allowing In-App Purchasing within free apps. I think that this is a big deal, an entree into what I refer to as 'land and expand,' and yet another reason that Apple remains the gold standard of mobile computing.

Josh Clark's Best iPhone Apps For Business Networkers - Keep Your Business Network Humming

"Once upon a time, everyone who was anyone had a social secretary, a person dedicated solely to maintaining the boss's personal network," writes Josh Clark, author of Best iPhone Apps. But those days are long gone. Indeed, it's time to meet your new social secretary: your iPhone. Clark reveals the 10 best apps for business networking in a new O'Reilly Insights on Forbes.com.

Flash to iPhone

Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant. As part of the Open Screen Project, it collaborated with multiple partners and will soon release Flash Player 10.1 to run on a large selection of mobile devices' browser. You can watch the related announcement made at the MAX 2009 keynote or read the article on Adobe Labs.

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iPhone Experts

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

Raven Zachary helps people create, develop, and launch iPhone products and services.

Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning.

Josh Clark is a writer, designer, and developer who helps creative people get clear of technical hassle to share their ideas with the world. When he's not writing about clever design and humane software, he's building it. Josh is the creator of Big Medium, friendly software that actually makes it fun to…

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