Twitter updated its official iPhone/iPad apps on Thursday, offering improved and enhanced photo options, auto-url shortening and the ability to easily follow friends via the contacts in your address book.

• New Photo Options
There is now a camera button in the new tweet toolbar, which makes it easy to add photos from the library or to take a new photo using the built-in iPhone camera.

• Quick Bar
On the main timeline, users see a notification bar that shows current trending topics.

• Local trends based on location
• A new autocomplete implementation that works for @usernames and hashtags
• A new direct message conversation view
• Refined tweet box design

Twitter for iPhone and iPad with new features

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Back in August 2008, Google launched a Google Translate HTML5 web app for iPhone. Now, the official Google Translate for iPhone app is available for download from App Store. The new app has all of the features of the web app and some significant new additions designed to improve the overall translation experience.

• Speak to translate
• Listen to your translations
• Full-screen mode

And the app also includes all of the major features of the web app, including the ability to view dictionary results of single words, accessing your starred translations and translation history even when offline and also support romanized text like Pinyin and Romaji.

Google Translate app for iPhone

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1. World Cup Countdown
This app counts down the excitement by the days, minutes, hours and seconds until it all begins on June 11th. The app also has an interactive photo slideshow with a series of cool pictures of South Africa. You can click on the photos to learn more about each scene.

2. ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup
With a full schedule, you??™ll never miss your team in action. The app allows you to select your favorite team or teams so you can easily keep track of all the news surrounding them. It also has full biographies and stats for each player for all 32 teams, so you??™ll know exactly who is playing the game.

3. World Football Live!
This app gives you the latest news about all things football/soccer from BBC Sports, Yahoo! Euro Sports, and ESPN. News is updated in real-time and you can bookmark your favorite articles or e-mail them to your friends.

4. AP 2010 World Cup Coverage
The Associated Press has been covering the games since the very beginning and is committed to giving fans full coverage. Once the games start, the app will provide up-to-the-minute news from more than 100 journalists in South Africa who will be covering the action. It has a multi-language platform and users can choose to get their soccer fix in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese.

5. World Cup Factoids and History
With lists of every winner, host nation, defending champion and number of appearances since 1930, you??™ll be able to make some informed predictions as to who will take home this year??™s big title.

6. World Cup Trivia Challenge Lite
Once you??™ve brushed up on your facts and history, you??™ll be ready for this game. Set on a soccer field, the lite version of this app has 50 questions that will test your soccer hooligan mettle. It??™s a fast-paced game. With 90 seconds on the timer, you must answer questions like ???How many nations appeared for the first time in 2006????

Source: Mashable.com

6 Free World Cup iPhone Apps

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Apple has a history of holiday-themed ads.

What apps are on your Christmas list?

12 Apps of Christmas

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Raytheon Company is the largest contractor to the U.S. Army and it has undertaken a difficult task to turn the smartphone into a modern instrument of warfare. Raytheon will develop a series of applications that are designed for soldiers involved in military actions in areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

The first scheduled program is called One Force Tracker. Through satellite positioning and connection with mobile networks the program will display constantly renovated map of the battlefield on the screen of the Soldiers’ iPhone. It will be depicted the actual positions of friends and enemies.

Applications will run on regular iPhone devices. In terms of hardware they will not be diffirent from ordinary iphones. The goal is to save money.

War App for iPhone

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The application allows access to IMDb’s full offerings, boasting information on over 1.5 million movies and TV shows and over 3.2 million celebrities.

The application also offers access to trailers and photos for a wide variety of movies, as well as information on movie showtimes and TV listings.

IMDb App Comes to the iPhone

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The 171MB Touch DJ app is beautifully designed, with polished graphics and packed with a ton of features that will satisfy even the professional DJ

Download Touch DJ for iPhone

Touch DJ App For iPhone

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1. Pack and Go Deluxe
Before the travel even begins, packing yourself and the other family members requires a great deal of organization.

2. Rest Area Finder
With this handy app, your location is constantly updated and rest stop information, i.e. rest rooms, gas, food, pet walking, vending machines, etc., is available so you can determine where to stop based on whether the kid needs to go or the dog does.

3. MotionX GPS Drive
MotionX GPS Drive is a ???super app??? that combines the functions of multiple applications into one.

4. Family Car Games
This app blows the license plate game out of the water.

5. Campwhere
For the more adventurous families who like to rough it, Campwhere is the perfect app for you.

5 iPhone Family Travel Apps

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1. Palettes
Palettes is a great app that allows you to create color schemes.

2. CliqCliq
CliqCliq allows you to find the exact colors you wish to use and immediately converts them to a variety of scales and formats.

3. ZeptoPad
ZeptoPad is a sketch pad tool for your iPhone.

4. Caliper
Caliper is a nifty measuring tool that like its names states uses caliper like jaws to measure objects.

5. Photobucket
Photobucket allows you to upload all of your photos to Photobucket and share them with your colleagues or clients all through your phone.

Source: 13 iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

5 iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

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Britney Spears also appears in the App Store with her own app. With It’s Britney fans of the singer will receive the latest news, messages and even Britney herself will be able to create their own pictures with her. Users will also have access to a gallery with pictures of the pop star on her tours and interesting footage taken during the years of her career.

Britney Spears iPhone App

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Once over the past few weeks have been registered first security threats against iPhone – software companies and developers began to include proposals to address the problem. And so did Cisco. They are finished with an application for iPhone, which serve to secure the mobile device.

Application named Cisco SIO To Go iPhone and will be available free of charge. Users will customize their own way to be warned about possible danger to the security of their mobile device. Once this occurs, the application will help you deal with it. Information that Cisco SIO To Go iPhone will offer will be received directly from the System Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) of Cisco.

Cisco Offers Antivirus App For iPhone

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Magellan and will compete TomTom in the market for navigation applications to work with the iPhone and even now has a point more – a Magellan plugin works even with the iPod touch without any additional provisions. Of course, you will need and the appropriate application for the iPhone, which contains maps from NAVTEQ, voice navigation, 3D objects, audio control and pedestrian mode. The price of the device and the date of which will be available are not yet known but the application costs $ 79.99 from App Store.

GPS App and a Stand For Cars by Magellan

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Cerulean Studios are finally ready with their version of the very popular application Trillian for iPhone. Users can receive push updates through Trillian server for new incoming messages, even if the application is not active. Moreover, Trillian technology allows you to include more than one client for the same register in different devices such as your actions are automatically synchronized between multiple open clients. Since the iPhone version of Trillian may have problems at work with a long list of contacts for the small screen size, users can create a group with a preference in which to add the people who most often interact and they are more easily accessible. Moreover, have a search feature in contacts list, which returns results instantly. The price of Trillian App for the iPhone is 4.99 dollars.

Trillian App for iPhone

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NASA IPhone App Now Available

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Mozilla, which are more famous with Firefox and Thunderbird, have acknowledged that work on application for the iPhone. But what will be it for now remains a mystery. CEO John Lilly mentions that it will be surprising for consumers, we assume, especially for fans of Mozilla. Since, as we know, Apple does not admit to App Store applications directly to duplicate the functions of their own programs, we can hardly expect the full versions of Firefox or Thunderbird. Since the premiere of the application is expected in the next few weeks, we hope not to wait too long to understand what will be it.

Mozilla preparing application for iPhone

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Adobe Systems has announced it is launching Photoshop graphic editor in the smartphone version of Apple iPhone. The program allows to edit photos taken with your phone and download from the gallery on Photoshop.com.

Images can be uploaded in reverse order of Photoshop.com.

Photoshop for iPhone has the basic functionality of the graphic editor – image can be rotated, crop, change the color range or to impose some simple filters.

Version of Photoshop for iPhone is free. Moreover, and Photoshop.com is free to store images up to 2 GB. For more space will have to pay.

Photoshop App for iPhone

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Scientists from George Washington University have created application for iPhone, which will help smokers to quit smoking, according to a message posted on the pages of The GW College Media Network.

Users will be able to listen to music and send messages and also receive advice on rational behavior in a desire to stop smoking.

My Quitline is a free application for iPhone, which provides regular consultations with experts of the program to stop smoking the National Cancer Institute, USA.

iPhone App Can Help You Stop Smoking

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Here’s an application for iPhone, which will allow you to steal some time to sleep at work. nap @ work practically plays any “office” noise (such as how you write on the keyboard, clicking a mouse, etc.) while you sleep on the desk, which is trying to mislead others about all that hard work.

iPhone App Helps You Nap at Work

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Wall Street Journal has released an iPhone app for free, while their web version costs $103 per year, even on Amazon’s Kindle the Journal is $9.99 a month.

The WSJ’s app, though, prominently features videos and podcasts. One thing that’s missing: a search function. It does, however, include the other parts of the WSJ Digital Network like Barron’s and AllThingsD.

Wall Street Journal App for iPhone

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Connect with all your friends:
Instant message with your Yahoo! Messenger contacts wherever you are.

Show off and Stay in control:
Show yourself as available or busy, go invisible, or show off your status and let your friends know what you’re up to.

Share away
Share photos, emoticons and links, right from your iPhone.

Yahoo! Messenger App is Available

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The social media news and web tips weblog Mashable.com released an iPhone app. You can get posts and tweets from Mashable through this application. You will be informed of the latest tech trends and news from social site like MySpace, Twitter and other related venues. The site alsohas a Job board along with a featured apps page for iPhone, according to the editors of Mashable.

The app is free in the App Store right now.

Mashable App for iPhone

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This fun web app enables you to use the popular Japanese Emoji icons on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Important: This web app only works on iPhone or iPod touch because the Emoji icons are special unicode characters only interpreted by these devices.

http://emojinator.cinnamonthoughts.org/

Emojinator app for iPhone

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1. The Ultimate X-Ray

2. Fake Calls

It imitates you receiving a call. You can pick out who is calling, delay when the ???call??? actually occurs. Have President Obama give you a call requesting your help on a CIA mission.

3. Pranktionary

A $0.99 iPhone app that can randomly suggest pranks for the home, the office, or for that lovely date you??™re going on tomorrow.

4. Mister Prank

Mister Prank is a simple iPhone application that mimics the functionality of online soundboards. It has a series of pre-recorded phrases to use in lie of you talking on the phone.

5. iFart

5 iPhone Prank Apps

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Coming to you with remote scheduling and program browsing capabilities.

The application itself is free! Downloads can be made through the App store. What more do you really want in your phone…

You will need an iPhone with software 2.2.1 or higher and DirecTV subscription for the service. You will also need to review requirements for DirecTV Plus DVR (models R15, R16, R22) and DirecTV Plus HD DVR (models HR20, HR21, HR23). TiVo Series 2 receivers with 6.4a software registered to DirecTV.com can take advantage of the remote scheduling over WiFi, EDGE or 3G.

FEATURES

* Search for any television show up to 14 days in advance
* Browse programs by channel or date & time
* Get program information instantly, including description, length and rating
* Record a single episode or an entire series
* Program Pay Per View movies to be recorded and ready to watch anytime
* Record to any DIRECTV DVR in your home

REQUIREMENTS

* iPhone software v2.2.1 or higher
* Browsing capability is available to everyone, but programming functionality is available to DIRECTV customers only
* DIRECTV customers must have a residential home account registered on directv.com to access recording functionality
* Requires a Wi-Fi, Edge or 3G network connection to run. Remote connections may vary
* In rare instances, scheduled recording(s) may not be recognized
* Requires DIRECTV Plus DVR (models R15, R16, R22), DIRECTV Plus HD DVR (models HR20, HR21, HR23) or TiVo Series 2 receivers with 6.4a software

DirecTV app is now available

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1. Tap Tap Revenge

2. OurStage Radio

3. Shazam

4. Pandora Radio

5. FlyCast Mobile

Top 5 Social Music Apps

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