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Dec

Reach Out And Text Someone — For Free

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Those clever lads who gave us TouchType (the landscape-mode email program) may have outdone themselves… With SMS Touch, you type out a message and send it as a regular email to anyone in your phonebook.  Here’s the clever part: they receive it (and can respond to it) as a normal SMS message, BUT their response comes back to you as another email.  Considering that AT&T wants an extra US$15/month for unlimited texting — and SMS Touch only costs five bucks (most of which goes to ongoing backend support) — the savings are obvious.  And if they’re not obvious, the following video should correct that: [Available from iTunes ]

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Dec

Ten Thousand iPhone Apps? Let’s Make a Mosaic!

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To celebrate the App Store breaking the 10,000 app mark, TapTapTap celebrated with this (visual) “tasty bit:” No, you eyes aren’t deceiving you: that a mosiac of a typical iPhone made up of screenshots of all ten thousand apps. Go here to get the mosaic in various resolutions, including a (gulp) 4674 x 7011 pixel, suitable-for-hanging-on-the-wall monstrosity. (Hey, considering the eyestrain incurred just by MAKING the damn thing, it’s the least you can do.)

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