Spotify is a new music service, in beta, that gives you access to a HUGE music database. In a sentence, you to play/stream any song in the world as if they were on your computer. Imagine searching on iTunes and hearing a preview of a few songs. Spotify is essentially the same, but faster, and full length songs.

You ask, “How is that possible.” Well, Spotify has cut deals with EMI, Warner Music, Sony BMG and three other major labels, which all responded positively to the new concept. Spotify also uses a new kind of P2P technology that allows you to double click a song and have in playing as if it was right on your computer.

There are only a few downsides to Spotify. You cannot download the songs and therefor cannot put the songs on your iPhone or iPod. This is obvious because if you were allowed to do this, lets just say musicians wouldn’t be making nearly as much money as they do now.

Spotify is also in beta. US residents cannot signup for the service due to some legal problems. So, if you’re not in UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Spain or France, send me a shout out and ill be sure to give you an invitation.

Satpal Sharma came up with an amazing idea and prototype for spaces on the iPhones. If you look at his flash prototype, you will see how cool this would be.

Simply click and hold the empty space in the right corner and spaces comes up. Here you will see all of your screens. From there you can move icons from one space to another or move one whole space (screen) to another spot. So lets say I want to move all my apps on the last page to the third page, instead of moving all the icons one by one, I can move them all at once, with spaces.

This is one of those things that you know Apple will not make, but you hope a developer will release a version for jailbroken iPhones.

I love new ideas for iPhone apps. They keep me active and they keep me thinking. If the idea is possible, I’ll try to make it
Please though, try to keep it simple, I am no genius.

If your like me, you’ll love this application. Here is a just a sample of the kinds of great puzzles you will get if you buy this app.

I bet you thought there was no way to do it without breaking the bottle…

TouchArcade gives a good summary of the gameplay in Kroll:

In Kroll you play the hero in a side-scrolling 3D environment. The objective of the game is to defeat your enemies across 3 stages to “learn the secret behind the legend of Kroll”. The gameplay, however, is quite simple. Virtual buttons on to the left and right of the screen allow you to move forward, quick swing and hard swing in either direction. There is no jumping. You are either moving your character forward/backward or swinging at your enemies. There is a special attack that can be invoked at times by shaking your iPhone.

Kroll does not feel like a mobile game to me. The real time strategy really is what makes the game amazing. I have to figure out exactly how to kill a certain guy and come up with a strategy that works best. This is what good games do. Good games make you think, they have good graphics, and they are challenging. Kroll meets all of these necessities.

Kroll is unbelievable. Buy it.

So far there is only one major feature which is shake to earse. I am working on getting colors and a full eraser, but these things take time. As of now, it is simply your 99 cent sketch application. Have fun!

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As you can see, it is as simple as you can get. Set the phone number, touch, call.

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It seems as though the game has been totally revamped ever since it was out on jailbroken iPhones. Were looking at new graphics, WIFI multiplayer, new physics, customizable controls I am expecting Raging Thunder to be the best racing game in the App Store. It prices at $7.99 and I am sure its worth the money.

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This app is called Number One (App Store link). It is a simple speed dial app for one tap dialing. You set a phone number, when you click the icon, it dials that phone number. If you want to reset that phone number, you can do that at anytime.

I do not expect to get great reviews for this app and I don’t think it’s anything special. I am glad I have an app out there though, and hopefully I can make better ones over time.

If you would like to donate for whatever reason, this would be the best way to do it.

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He wrote a great post today highlighting the great new changes in iPhone firmware 2.1. In his words, iPhone FW 2.1 Rules.

The 5 main improvements he gives are:

1) 3G reception is so much better.

2) Appstore Works!

3) The lag is gone.

4) Sync time is fixed.

5) Mail sync fixed.

Read his post for the details.

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