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Description: The App Show features in-depth discussions with prominent and emerging iPhone applications developers, reviews of iPhone applications and news related to the iPhone.

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The App Show - Episode 49 - 2009 Rewind

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The App Show - Episode 49
Saturday, December 13, 2009Phone number:  (517) 917-0480

Talking Topics A look back at 2009
  • We moved into the video studio
  • Some great interviews
  • The great Spyware debate
    • The release of Pr1vacy in Cydia
  • Google introduced gmail contacts and calendar sync as an Exchange account
  • Cydia store opened, followed by Rock Your iPhone
  • iPhone 3.0 Released - link
    • Push notifications
  • The 3GS went unjailbroken for months until @geohot stepped in and released his Purplera1n
  • Google Voice apps pulled from the App Store pending indefinite review

Steve’s 5 most innovative apps of 2009

  1. Simplify Media 2.0
    1. Introduced photo sharing
    2. Shares all of your pics and music to your phone over the Internet
    3. Others can subscribe to your collection
  2. Multifl0w/Backgrounder
    1. Jailbreak required
    2. Free in Cydia
    3. Lets you run applications in the background
    4. Flips through them like the Palm Pre
    5. Best on the 3GS for memory reasons
  3. Looptastic
    1. Made it super easy to make awesome sounding loops
    2. 8 different looptastic apps LINK
  4. MyWi - $9.99 in Rock
    1. Jailbreak Required
    2. Turns your iPhone into a wifi access point
    3. Shares the 3G or EDGE Internet connection
  5. Waze - Social GPS and Mapping
    1. Free in the App Store
    2. Results still aren’t very good
    3. First social app
Dave’s 5 best Social Media apps of 2009
  1. Tweetie 2
    1. Twitter client
    2. Good clean design
    3. gool geo search and integration of other services like twitpic
  2. Boxcar
    1. Push Notifications
    2. Must have for
  3. Ustream Broadcaster
    1. Broadcast live video from your iphone to ustream
    2. Record video to your phone for later upload
    3. Live Chat, Live poll, tweet link, record and save
  4. TiltShiftGen
    1. Photo processing app
    2. Makes your ok photos look good
    3. iPhone camer is not that great but this app makes the photos artistic
  5. Trapster
    What is coming in 2010?

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