Top iPhone apps get more iTunes exposure

Apple on Thursday night rolled out a new look to its App Store directory, putting more of an emphasis on both the top paid and free applications within each category's listing pages. These lists now appear on the left and right sides of the results, giving users a chance to see what's currently the cream of the crop.

While this information has been available on the iPhone version of the App Store since the 2.2 firmware update, users searching for new applications in iTunes have had a less exploratory experience.

According to a developer who had contacted AppleInsider about the news, the change means that some applications are getting more exposure among iTunes shoppers. Developers had even gone so far as to change their pricing to get better screen real estate on the store's pages.

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The most underrated use of a mobile phone

Keeping numbers.

I'm not sure about you, but every time I make a phone booking for a cab and get assigned one by the operator, I will punch the license plate number of the taxi, hit dial and hang up immediately so it gets stored in my phone log. No, I don't have a failing memory, but there are simply too many numbers to remember (PIN codes especially) and I don't need another four digits added to the list even if it's for a brief moment.

I rely on my phone heavily for contacts management, schedule keeping and emails, but the most underrated use of my mobile phone is to keep these four-digit confirmation numbers for a few minutes.

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Microsoft releases its first iPhone app

Is it possible some at Microsoft find the iPhone a more attractive platform than the software giant's own Windows Mobile?

Engineers in the company's Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's popular smart phone--even before making it available on Microsoft's own mobile platform. Seadragon Mobile, which was added to Apple's App Store on Saturday, is a free image-browsing app that allows users to quickly "deep zoom" images while online and is intended to demonstrate what is possible with a mobile platform.

Seadragon is the backbone for Microsoft's Photosynth, which allows users to take a grouping of photographs and stitch them together into a faux 3D environment.

Other iPhone apps are reportedly in development in Redmond; Microsoft's Tellme unit was expected to release the company's first iPhone app in the form of a voice-activated search for a variety of phones, including iPhone and BlackBerry. A Microsoft representative told my colleague Ina Fried in September that a public version of that program would likely be released in a few months.

So where's the Windows Mobile version of Seadragon?
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The most underrated use of a mobile phone

Keeping numbers.

I'm not sure about you, but every time I make a phone booking for a cab and get assigned one by the operator, I will punch the license plate number of the taxi, hit dial and hang up immediately so it gets stored in my phone log. No, I don't have a failing memory, but there are simply too many numbers to remember (PIN codes especially) and I don't need another four digits added to the list even if it's for a brief moment.

I rely on my phone heavily for contacts management, schedule keeping and emails, but the most underrated use of my mobile phone is to keep these four-digit confirmation numbers for a few minutes.

What's yours?

A reason you'll want to scratch your iPhone

If you've been champing at the bit for a way to really scratch up your iPhone, this may be the application for you. No silly, I don't mean "scratching," but more like "scratchin'."

Hiroshi Okamura has released an iPhone application that lets you try out your mix-mastering skills by scratching on a virtual record. The application is called Re<", you know, for coolness' sakes.

If you've never tried scratching before, you have to start somewhere, right? And this way you don't run the risk of embarrassing your in front of a crowd or forcing you neighbors to make late-night calls to the police. I mean, if people are willing to learn to play the Ocarina via the iPhone, why not scratching?

From the looks of the video, the virtual record functions as a real record would. I would have tried it out, but $1.99 is too much for this cheapskate to spend on applications that would probably amuse me for an hour or two before I got bored. Not a reflection of the product, but I just know me. Your results may vary.

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