The Apple AppStore is now probably the most extensive application repository with apps for almost anything!

I’ve personally been looking around for an app to remind me of my friends birthdays, there were tons of alternatives but none which provided me with just the right blend of features I was looking for.

1. Facebook friends birthday fetching: Since almost all of my friends are on Facebook, fetching data from Facebook was what I was looking for.

2. Adding Entries to the iPhone’s Calendar: This was important to me since I want reminders set not just on my iPhone, but also to every device (including Android) and Google calendar syncing was one of the most required feature.

3. Locally set Notifications: Another obvious feature was that I should be reminded of my friends birthdays automatically without me needing to do anything!

4. Wishing on Facebook: Posting on the birthday boy/girl’s wall was also something I wanted to be able to do.

5. A Beaufitul interface!: This one was of the most importance to me. The app HAD to be have a beautiful UX.

Being an iPhone developer myself, I thought that this would be a good (personal) first app and something which would be useful to others as well.

Birthdays for iPhone is now available on the AppStore. I strongly suggest you go buy it simply cause I couldn’t find any other birthday reminder app that had just the perfect blend of the above 5 core features!

Birthdays for iPhone – App Store Link

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Specially for the readers of this blog, I’m giving out 7 free copies.

Simply Tweet this post and I’ll send out promo codes for this app to any 7 randomly selected people!

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iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices continue to increase in popularity, driven in no small part by the thousands of games and apps available for them. Fans of gambling games have had plenty to enjoy from the release of the first iPhone, as Apple Texas Hold’em was one of the very first apps developed and distributed for the iPhone. Mobile phone gambling is one of the fastest growing niches of mobile gaming, with not only plenty of great apps to choose from but even more in the pipeline and on the way.

Most gambling apps fall into one of two broad categories: one that let you play for free or play chips or apps that let you wager for real money. While there are a few apps that let you play for real money, the vast majority are for amusement purposes only, or to learn the rules for various casino games or how to count cards at blackjack. Both Apple and Google has been highly restrictive when it comes to approving apps for gambling for real money, so most of the free and premium apps you find will only let you compete for play money.

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The Dream Team as they are liked to call themselves have revealed on their blog that, they are closing in on A5 Jailbreak for iPhone 4s. As mentioned by these iOS hackers on their blog a jailbreak “is only a matter of days away”.

A renowned iOS hacker had gathered the Dream Team to assist him on this jailbreak which is for both iPhone 4s and iPad 2. Also he has other hackers  like planetbeing, MuscleNerd, and p0sixnija are also involved.
Pod2g mentions on his blog:

“Here are some news about the current work on the A5 research. @planetbeing escaped from the sandbox with the help of @saurik. Thanks to their awesome work, there should be nothing left blocking for the A5 jailbreak. Now it should be a matter of days. Still no precise ETA of course. We all want this to be finished ASAP, we’re getting tired!”

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Many of the older version iPhone and iPad users who were not able to get their hands on the new phone were disappointed because of the fact that they were not able to use the new personal assistant Siri which came with the new iPhone 4S.

For such users who have previous version of the iPhone and have jailbroken them can make use of this new tool developed by “chpwn” which will  enable iPhone 4 users to run Apple’s personal assistant application, Siri, on their handset. A few days back “chpwn” broke this news on  his blog where he mentions of a tool named “Spire” which enables to port Siri on iPhone 4 without any copyright issues.

Excerpts from chpwn:

Spire is my (along with Ryan Petrich) new tool for installing Siri on previously unsupported, but jailbroken, devices. Spire is a small download, but while installing it will download Siri itself (directly from Apple). However, Spire is not a complete solution. Apple still requires authorization to use Siri, so information from an iPhone 4S is still required. To insert this information, Spire allows you to enter your own proxy server address. Spire uses a new method to obtain the files necessary for Siri, so it doesn’t have the copyright issues encountered by previous attempts. Similarly, rather than directing all traffic through a specific proxy server (and the associated privacy issues), Spire allows you to specify your own proxy server.

iPhone users who want to get their hands on this new tool can acquire it on Cydia. It will take about 100MB so hurry!!

To install Siri on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad follow these simple steps:

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It’s the last week of December, the week of holidays and gifts. This is the time when every app company expects maximum amount of sales. A lot of developers out there have either heavily discounted their applications or are just giving them out for free!

Here’s a list of some famous apps which have gone free or are heavily discounted:

Discounted Apps :

1. Grand Theft Auto 3 – Originally $4.99 – Now for $2.99 – [iTunes Link]

2. Real Racing 2 – $0.99 [iPhone Link] [iPad Link]

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In past, not many emulator apps have passed the litmus test, which is to get nod of approval from Apple. But, there have been very few emulator apps that have received Apple’s approval, namely Manomio’s Commodore 64 and a select few. More often than not though, these apps seem to appear on the App store, but are also quickly revoked once noticed. The current status of iMAME is not known(whether its approved or not) but its free and available so, I suggest just go ahead and grab it before its too late.

Although a number of emulators exist on the App Store, Apple has always been very restrictive about these open emulators, due to some legalities. iMAME is an application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.It comes with nine arcade ROMs to play and you can download your free version here.

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Apple has just released a new iPhone 4S Ad just in time for Christmas.

Check it out below:

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Looks like Microsoft is doing what the big software companies do,make software !Even if the company is one of the toughest competitor,that doesn’t stop them from releasing their beautiful line up of softwares and games.

Last week we saw the release of X box Live app for the iOS devices release from Microsoft and now Microsoft has released their first Game for the iOS platform with the launch of the Microsoft Studios Kinectimals.Kinectimals originally an Xbox 360 title which was recently released for the Windows Phone platform not long ago is now available for download over the iTunes for a price tag of 2.99$.

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With Christmas right around the corner and so many apps to choose from, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to choose from such an array of apps. Also, many of these apps are charged and that makes even more challenging to choose from. However there is some good news for iPhone and iPad users who are into gaming. Earlier, games which were charged, now are available for free for some limited time.

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Notorious Siri from robb on Vimeo.

Video Info: SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple’s servers. Based on your song request, Notorious Siri then sends your choice of Notorious B.I.G.’s Hypnotize and an a-cappella rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody to the device (the latter requiring 4 iPhones 4S).

Siri’s speech synthesis is synced to the beat using the timestamps obtained from the Echonest API which were then manually tweaked, to smooth out delays in the text-to-speech engine.

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