MacRumors iPhone and iPad Blog: Apps, News, and Rumors

Macenstein notes that the popular and free PhoneSaber iPhone application has been pulled from the App Store at the request of Lucasfilm. The developers note: As of now, PhoneSaber will no longer be available, Ive had a chat with a guy from THQ Wireless (who own the rights for Star Wars apps on mobiles) and apparently the guys from Lucas dont...

JBrink.net has released TouchTerm [$2.99, App Store], the first SSH client for the iPhone. Features include: - Wi-Fi and EDGE/3G support: access and administer your servers from anywhere - Control over font size and color - Landscape mode support - The ability to scroll over terminal output - Saved connection parameters and passwords (if desired) ...

Armin Heinrich has released an app on the iTunes App Store called I Am Rich [App Store]. The $999.99 application displays a red icon on your iPhone and iPod touch to remind others that you were able to afford it. As the developer notes, "it's a work of art with no hidden function at all." Update: I Am Rich has been removed from the App...

Two iPhone apps with similar names and similar functionality have appeared to offer those with artistic ability a chance to create their own flip book type animations on their iPhone. FlipBook [$9.99, App Store] by Josh Anon provides what appears to be a relatively sophisticated set of tools to create animations right on your iPhone. FlipBook has everything you need to get started...

At TouchArcade.com, we recently looked at the two crossword puzzle games found in the App Store and have also provided gameplay videos of each app. The two crossword puzzle apps include Eliza Block's 2 Across [$5.99, App Store] and Stand Alone, Inc.'s Crosswords [$9.99, App Store]. Readers may remember ...

HRL Technologies has released VoiceThis Dialer [App Store] to the iTunes App Store. The $9.99 application tries to bring voice dialing to the iPhone. This is not the first application to try, but does take a different approach than existing solutions. SpeechCloud's VoiceDialer [Free, App Store] was the ...

iLounge provides an extensive roundup of all of the iPhone voice recorders presently available in the App store. These apps are, of course, only compatible with the iPhone and not the iPod touch due to a lack of built-in microphone for the iPod touch. A summary of their ratings are provided here (prices link to App Store): • Voice Memos ($4.99, D) - no-frills. no way to get recordings off...

NullRiver, Inc has posted an update to their site about the fate of Netshare, their iPhone tethering application: We've finally gotten in contact with Apple. Looks like the lack of communication was due to automated e-mail systems being employed on both ends, which resulted in e-mails being lost in transit. We're working with Apple to get NetShare back up on the ...

Proximi's MagicPad [App Store] application we covered last week has been released into the iTunes App Store. Besides being a more fully featured text editor than Apple's own Notes application, MagicPad offers its own implementation of copy and paste. The $3.99 app allows you to: - Cut, Copy and Paste - Choose from 6 different font styles, 5 different sizes, and 8 unique colors - Send...

Growing threads in our forums and the Apple Discussion Forums are pointing to what may be an issue with the plastic casing of some iPhone 3Gs. The majority of the reports revolve around the white 16 GB model; however, a few users of the black model have reported cracks in their casings as well. See the gallery below for a sample of images from our forum: ...

Agile Web Solutions has released their iPhone-native version of 1Password. The free application provides a long needed feature on the iPhone: password management. While the iPhone's on screen keyboard provides reasonable predictive capabilities when writing a text or email, it comes in no use when entering logins and passwords in Safari. 1Password provides a free solution for iPhone and...

Apple has updated their retail page to reflect their new retail store policies to accommodate the ongoing demand for the iPhone 3G: Your favorite Apple Retail Store is making it easier and more convenient to purchase an iPhone 3G. All stores will now open at 8:00 a.m. every day but Sunday and, to accommodate demand, were adding staff to help you get up and running as quickly as possible. Customers ...

AppleiPhoneApps.com posts a video of an upcoming text editor called MagicPad that implements its own Copy and Paste functionality. The solution appears relatively elegant, but does appear to change some of the natural functionality of the magnifying glass. Normally, if you want to position the cursor in the proper location, you press and drag to position the cursor. MagicPad has...

Multi-iPhone households have likely already been thrust into the dilemma of whether or not to purchase their favorite iPhone applications multiple times for multiple iPhones in their possession (but synced to multiple iTunes libraries, as in a family situation). Now, one user has discovered a way around the predicament. The solution uses the abilities currently present in iTunes to authorize...

Games are the biggest seller on the iTunes App Store, and no matter what your style, there are a number of high quality games available. Here are a few highlights of some of the games recently reviewed at TouchArcade: Critter Crunch - original variant of a classic puzzler ($9.99). Zen Pinball - convincing Pinball simulation ($4.99). Imangi - addictive cross between Scrabble and Rubik's cube ...

Apple is on the hunt for an iPhone Security Engineer, according to a job posting on their website. Apple's CoreOS organization is looking for an exceptional individual to validate the security architecture for the iPhone. As an implementer of advanced technologies in OS X, you will have the opportunity to have a major impact on Apple's embedded operating system products. The discovery, originally ...

Appleinsider points us to an AT&T Research project called Watson. The goal of Watson is to provide speech processing capabilities as a web service. At AT&T we extended this successful paradigm with speech processing capabilities and created the AT&T WATSON Speech Mashups - a new...

Apple has approved and released the WordPress [App Store] application into the iTunes App Store today. The WordPress app allows blog publishers to update their site through a native iPhone application. - Support for WordPress.com blogs and self-installed WordPress blogs (version 2.5.1 and higher) - Full support for tags and categories - Photo support for both camera pics and library...