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SpotON radio has this week been launched for the iPad and iPhone devices and it offers a great way to listen to music on your iOS enabled devices. There has also been the launch of the Soundrop.fm app this week and believe it or not, both of these applications actually use Spotify in order to stream the music that you are listening to.

Spotify is a service that allows customers to stream music to their computers free of charge but they actually charge a hefty monthly fee for iPhone users to stream music to their Spotify app. The two apps that have been released this week actually make use of the Spotify API that was released earlier last year to be able to use the Spotify service to stream music to iOS devices. SpotON allows the user to actually type in an artist name and then generates a list of songs that are available to stream; directly from Spotify. You can actually save entire radio stations on the app as well which will allow you to easily get back to what you were listening to at a later date.

Spotify is not the only music streaming service to offer up its services through an API and in fact, the US based Clear Channel company actually launched an API for their iHeartRadio service last year. There are also a number of other apps that make use of API’s in the iPhone app store too.

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The Apple iPhone has one of the best cameras on a Smartphone on the market today and a lot of users actually use a variety of apps in order to be able to share the photos that they have taken with their phone. One of the most popular apps for the iPhone when it comes to photo sharing is the Flickr app. Flickr has this week issued an update for their app that features a tweaked user interface allowing users to upload multiple photos a lot easier than before.

The Flickr update brings a tweaked user interface when it comes to uploading and picking photos. Now, the Flickr app actually shows thumbnails of all the photos that you are about to upload the to Flickr website. This allows users to be able to see what photos will actually be uploaded in a much neater way than before. As well as this, it allows users to swipe on the screen to view other photos that they might have on their phone or to tap on an image to see a larger version.

There has currently been no Flickr update issued for the iPad version of the app although it is expected that this will be issued over the next few weeks. It is expected that the update on the iPhone will make the app much more user friendly and increase its usage amongst Flickr users.

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The BBC; a UK based broadcasting company, has finally released a native application for the Apple iPhone and iPad devices that will let users stream their favourite TV shows. The app that has been released by the BBC has been a while in the making and is now available to download from the iTunes app store free of charge. The app will require that users have an iPhone 3GS device or later and have the iOS 4.3 software installed as a minimum. The application allows users to be able to catch up on TV shows that they might have missed as well as radio shows on a variety of channels and stations owned by the BBC.

Previously, Apple iPhone and iPad users were able to use the iPlayer on their devices although there wasn’t a native app. This meant that users had to launch the iPlayer website in Safari on the devices and browse the iPhone and iPad versions of the iPlayer website. The application will make it easier than ever for users to be able to catch up on programming that they might have missed and users can even watch live TV.

Users will be able to stream the content over either 3G or Wi-Fi meaning that they will be able to catch up on programming anywhere they like. The BBC has said that they will shortly be rolling out 3G streaming on their native apps for Blackberry, Nokia and other devices.

If you need to make a simple calculation, iPod or iPhone provide the facility by offering a simple calculator that is sufficient for the most of the common calculations. But even this calculator can be used to make trigonometric calculations, just by turning it on its side! Trigonometric calculations are quite useful to make many engineering calculations.

But if you really need a much powerful scientific and engineering calculator, then you must turn to PCalc! PCalc is much more than a pocket calculator. This comes with many features that turn into a powerful calculation and analysis tool. It has two line display and multiple re-do and un-do operations make it possible to make the calculator work as more than a single operation calculator. You can also do unit conversion and there are many stored constants that help you to make engineering and scientific calculations. It also gives support for binary, hexadecimal and octal number systems.

The calculator interface on the iPhone offers more than a real calculator as here you are able to choose your own layouts on the screen and select the way it looks. RPN mode allows you to have multiple line mode. You can make bitwise operators on binary system of numbers. You have all the standard calculations that help you to crack any engineering problems.

Unit conversion of various parameters is a day-to-day requirement in the world of finance, business and industries. You may be required to juggle with currency rates of different countries or may be required to work out simple and complex unit conversion from Metric to British system every now and then. Convertbot is an app designed for iPhone that makes unit conversion so simple.

It handles the conversion of currency, mass, volume, length, temperature and area instantly. There are more than 400 conversion types offered that are sufficient for any kind of activities. The unit has an advanced algorithm that takes even mixed units like pound and ounces or feet and inches.

To work with this, you have to touch the dial that allows you to chose the units or the conversions that you need to make. The bottom of the dial displays both the units like kilograms and pounds. It is also represented by a corresponding icon; in this case the icon of mass is selected so that you are sure of what conversion the app is performing. The little arrow in the bottom lets you change the direction of the conversion. Then by simply entering the numbers and tapping the display screen you get the converted value. So simple!

Presence on the Internet has become a necessity, more than luxury for all professionals and companies, small and big. It is necessary for you to measure internet responses and take corrective action if necessary. Ego is an app for iPhone that lets you monitor your popularity on the internet. The app offers you to get the results and statistics of online presence at a glance. You can track the number of visitors or their clicks to your site, number of subscribers for the site’s news feed and also the Twitter followers you have won over. The app called Ego gives all these statistics and more. Ego also keeps track of site’s authority with Google and shows the PageRank for your WebPages. Your prestige and the value on the internet can be easily measured by Ego.

You can take up to measure the effectiveness stats of your widgets also. You can do this by adding widgets to the dashboard. You can switch the widget for the counts in different measures like daily, hourly, monthly and yearly visits. These widgets can be added to many sites or multiple twitter accounts and you will be able to monitor the effectiveness easily on this app for iPhone.

Jaddu is the name of an app for iPhone that gives you complete access to your PC from your iPhone. Not only when you are around near the PC, when it can access it through Wi-Fi, but remotely using internet and some configurations. Jaddu helps you to put all the contents of your desktop to your fingertips on iPhone. Setting up the app on Mac is very straightforward and simple while it is somewhat involved in case of PC. Once the connection and set up is done, you can do all things on your iPhone, the things that you were doing on the desktop. The setup will give the total access to the PC from anywhere in the world.

Connect the iPhone to your PC and Jaddu ports it to the PC with the display of spinning wormhole which shows your desktop. You can pinch it to zoom in and out and by using touch screen to navigate the cursor around the screen. You have to tap to initiate click action.

With this technique you can browse all the files and programs on your base PC on the iPhone. You can tap the keyboard icon, which will present you the keyboard where you can type the text for sending in the mail.

The new photo sharing app for iPhone from Slide is now out of beta version and is now available for iPhone users to get it downloaded from iOS Apple Store. It has an interesting tagline “Plant a Photo- and watch it grow”. The app is described as Instagram meeting Pictu and with bit of Twitter thrown in!

The Photovine’s vine is a gallery of photos which are public collections with different tags like “cats”. It is possible to create and start your own vine. You can also use “Like” button on Facebook and Twitter friends and family and thereby share the photos.

It is not clear why the company owning Slide, Google assumes that people need a public photo sharing app on their device (iPhone). It is inconceivable that one can spend time to look at the pictures taken by someone else. Even the usefulness of sharing the photos on Facebook is questionable as Facebook already allows the sharing of the photos. Does it mean that everyone will love any photo taken by unknown persons?

It appears that Slide planned its release not on its own device first, but in iPhone and to see how it ‘performs’ on other’s devices, not its own Androids!

Fruit Ninja, a widely acclaimed game is now available on an Xbox Kinect through Xbox Live Arcade. The game requires you to smash the fruits and if you hate the fruits enough, then you can have the satisfaction on your device other than iPad or iPhone because it is now available on Xbox.

The game was just recently released for XBLA. It is possible to get a free demonstration version for you to just get the taste of it, you can buy it full version for 800 of Microsoft Points which is equal to $10. The price is really attractive as Xbox games will always cost you around $60. But of course, these games can not be compared to Fruit Ninja’s simple game play.

Fruit Ninja Kinect is a full port for iOS compatibility and the modifications are done to match with Kinect’s motion detection functions. You are using your hands to slice the fruits, and your silhouette is projected with Ninja clothing behind the fruit. Overall impression is of clever, innovative and humorous theme. There are three modes of the game, classic, Zen and multiplayer. You can also use it to play with another player in the same console.

The First iPhone app was developed intended to help the parents to know about the information of their children immediately. The app is called Child ID released by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The app can store pictures and other information, such as a child’s height and weight, for quick reference and dissemination to the police and other officials in case a child goes missing.

You’re shopping at the mall with your children when one of them suddenly disappears. A quick search of the nearby area is unsuccessful. What do you do?

Now there’s a free new tool from the FBI that can help. Our just launched Child ID app—the first mobile application created by the FBI—provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your children so that it’s literally right at hand if you need it. You can show the pictures and provide physical identifiers such as height and weight to security or police officers on the spot. Using a special tab on the app, you can also quickly and easily e-mail the information to authorities with a few clicks.

The FBI isn’t the first federal entity to publish an app in the App Store. First there was The White House app that hit the App Store in January 2010. Then we saw the Transportation Security Administration put out its My TSA app last year, followed by the U.S. Department of State’s Smart Traveler app last month.

Child ID is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (though it lacks an interface optimized for the iPad’s larger screen) and requires iOS 4.2 or higher.