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Big Stone Phone today released Twittelator Pro 3.0, a free upgrade to its top-selling Twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch. Twittelator Pro has been optimized for iPhone OS 3.0. Video and audio tweeting with Twittelator Pro 3.0 on iPhone 3.0. Cut, copy, paste, shake to undo, paste image from other apps. Email tweets and links from within Twittelator. See google map of a tweeter’s location: street, satellite or hybrid. Optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 experience.

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The early reviews for the iPhone 3G S are in and the conclusions seem pretty common across the board. As advertised, the new iPhone 3G S offers a faster experience, better camera, and impressive video recording. Al…

SkypeCap today announced SkypeCap for Mac 2.0, their Skype video and audio session recorder for Mac OS X. With a focus on ease-of-use, SkypeCap for Mac allows recording of audio and video conversation from Skype to most popular video and audio files. SkypeCap for Mac saves your Skype sessions so that you could hear and watch them again later or share them with someone else. It fully integrates the process into the Mac experience by allowing human interaction during recording and conversion.

Apple rolled out its iPhone OS 3.0 software update Wednesday through iTunes. The software brings new features like landscape typing and copy and paste to the handsets. Other features like MMS and data tethering are technically enabled …

While today’s big news has been the release of iPhone OS 3.0, AT&T today also announced that it is expanding the eligibility window for determining which customers are eligible for upgrade pricing on the iPhone 3G S. Customers who previously would n…

Apple today released the long-awaited iPhone OS 3.0 (Build 7A341) for both iPhone and iPod touch via iTunes. Users should sync their devices with iTunes and check for updates in order to access the new version. iPod Touch owners will need to purcha…

The Pragmatic Programmers today released iPhone SDK Development, a beta of their book for developers interested in targeting the iPhone 3.0 SDK. The “iPhone SDK Development” book contains more than 50 sample programs for iPhone SDK 3.0, along with explorations of the big picture, and an eye to the little details that programmers need. “iPhone SDK Development” goes beyond basic developer docs to help developers succeed on today’s most popular mobile application platform.

The Art Department at Catholic Memorial High School today announced the launch of the CMHS Art Department Wallpaper Gallery application for the iPhone. The CMHS iPhone application was created by START MOBILE, which is donating 100% of revenues from the sale of the mobile art gallery to the Catholic Memorial High School Art Department.

I have recently discovered a solution to a long-time annoyance of mine with 10.5 server and managed preferences for 10.5/10.4 clients: How to force the Applications and Downloads folders into the Dock.

I ‘took apart’ and examined the com.apple.dock.plist file and found the options for the Applications folder and the Downloads folders. If you simply place these folders into the Workgroup Manager (WGM) area for dock preferences, you end up with a broken downloads folder and an Applications folder that won’t show its contents. Instead, when you click on Applications in 10.5, you just get a new window instead of the list of its contents.

The secret is to take a com.apple.dock.plist file and take out everything but the entries for Applications and Downloads. Use this file in the Details tab of preferences plists that you can force out — don’t forget to …