Yes, we’ve been over the App Store approval thing a hundred times already, but never quite like this.
Apple’s got a pretty strong policy when it comes to nudity, right? Right?
So Beauty Meter - an application that allows, hypothetically, a fifteen year old girl to share a nude pic to be rated would be totally out [...]
I wrote the other day about the iPhone version of AIM, and how it takes advantage of push notifications in iPhone 3.0., but since then I’ve been testing a different chat client that really takes things to the next level: BeejiveIM. You might be put off by the $10 purchase price, but if you’re an [...]
Now that version 3.0 of the iPhone operating system allows third-party apps to take advantage of push notifications, we’re starting to see some of the first major push apps popping up. AIM for iPhone, available as a free ad-supported app or a $2.99 ad-free version, now offers push notifications. Now AIM doesn’t have to be [...]
2147483647. You might recognize it as the maximum value of an integer in several programming languages, or the highest score you can get in a lot of video games, or a number that pops up when you get a database error message. Well, Twitter’s numbered tweets are fast approaching 2147483647, and, although I’m sure Twitter’s [...]
Facebook plans to roll out an update to the way it assigns URLs for user profiles later this week. Up until now, when you signed up for a new Facebook profile you were assigned a random string of numbers for your profile ID. But starting Saturday June 13th at 12:01AM you’ll be able to sign [...]
Sharing your location via a mobile device is a great way to let friends and family know where you are, and encourage people you know to meet up with you. The challenge is in making it as easy as possible for the right people to see your location while hiding it from random Internet strangers. [...]
A couple of years ago, there was a site called ficlets, a home for collaborative fiction stories put together in super-short 1024-character bursts. Ficlets was great, because anybody could jump in and add to a story in no time at all, and some interesting work grew out of it. When Ficlets disappeared, the active community [...]
Longtime Download Squad lovers and fans may be shocked to hear that our occasional blogger and always friend Drew Olanoff has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Anyone who knows Drew knows full well his incredible personality is immutable, and likely won’t be surprised to find that a bit of serious health news hasn’t dampened it [...]
Have you ever looked at the list of trending terms in Twitter and wondered what the heck “#momoams” (or some other esoteric term) means? What the Trend is out to try to solve that problem for you. In What the Trend you will find a list of all of the current trending topics in Twitter, [...]
If you use a lot of social networking sites, and different groups of your friends are scattered across all of them, it might be time to start a lifestream. AmpliFeeder is an open source platform that pulls in everything you share on other social sites and displays it in one convenient location. It works with [...]
