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App Store gets 100,000 approved apps

Keep in mind, 100,000 approved apps doesn’t mean 100,000 GOOD apps, but according to the App Shopper, a major milestone has been hit. There are a few technicalities though.

Posted: October 28th, 2009
at 1:15am by Dave Freeman

Topics: Apple, Headline, app store, iPhone

Augmented Stupidity Lands on the iPhone

Whether you’re having a bad day at work or you’re stuck in traffic, the iPhone app Firepower will simulate your fantasy of unloading a gatling gun on your sources of frustration. It’s kind of like playing Doom on your iPhone with real life as your surroundings: You point your camera at your target and tap the “Fire” button to shoot bullets while painting the screen with virtual blood.

Software developer Magnificent Library is attempting to market Firepower as an augmented reality app, but we think given its intrinsically useless nature, it deserves a whole new software category: Augmented Stupidity. Congrats!

Firepower is $1 in the App Store. See a video of Firepower in action below.

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Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 8:11pm by Brian X. Chen

Topics: Augmented Stupidity, Novelty, Phones, app store, iPhone, software

Google Wave to have its own app store

We’re still not entirely certain what Google Wave is for — or even if humans are capable of comprehending it — but we do know that we’re super-intrigued by the idea of third-party extensions that hook into the fledging messaging platform, and it sounds like the folks in Mountain View are as well. Google’s planning to launch both an extension gallery and extension store in the coming months, which would allow users to easily find, buy, and share apps for Wave. It’s not clear how the sharing will work, or how much Google expects extensions to cost, but it’s certainly an interesting way to capitalize on Wave’s flexibility. Our first request? An extension to kill live-typing. Let’s make it happen.

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Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 2:34pm by Nilay Patel

Topics: AppStore, ExtensionStore, Google Wave, GoogleWave, GoogleWaveExtension, GoogleWaveExtensions, Wave, app store, extension, extension store, extensions, google, google wave extension, google wave extensions

Harvard Medical School’s H1N1 App Let’s You Panic On the Go [IPhone Apps]

Swine flu! It’s the panic du jour, far less dangerous than eating poorly cooked chicken or getting in a car, yet apparently infinitely more scary. And now Harvard will take $2 to scare you on your iPhone.

Harvard Medical School has just released HMSMobile Swine Flu Center, a $1.99 app that offers all sorts of stuff that doesn’t quite seem worth $1.99. This includes:

-Videos on how to protect yourself (spoiler: wash your hands)

-A quiz on whether or not you have swine flu (spoiler: you don’t)

-An outbreak tracker to see if the fever has swept through your area

-Advice about survival kits, just in case shit gets really fucking serious

Combine this with the Pedophile Finder app and the HealthMap app and you’ll scare yourself into never leaving the house. Awesome? [HMSMobile Swine Flue Center]

Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 1:17pm by Adam Frucci

Topics: Apple, CellPhones, Medical, Swine flu, app store, harvard, iPhone, iPhone Apps

Keep an Ear on Crime With Scanner 911 for iPhone

You know there’s an iPhone app for just about everything when you stumble upon a piece of software you don’t completely understand. An app that got me scratching my head was Scanner 911, a live police radio scanner.

Yes, an app that listens to police officers responding to crime calls (including the really boring, trivial calls, too), and dispatchers phoning in fender benders, shootings, bar fights and so on.

Scanner 911 features an aggregated list of police radio stations, organized by state and city. For when the crime gets really juicy, there’s an option to record the audio, which you can then play back within the app. Also, a “Near Me” button displays local stations so you can stay plugged in to what’s going on in your hood. Scanner 911’s slick, clean interface makes the police-scanning experience quite fun.

Call me naive, but having never tried radio scanning in the past, I was confused about who exactly would be into this app. After polling some friends, I learned many people would find police scanners useful, such as journalists chasing hot crime scoops, parents keeping an ear on safety in their neighborhoods, or rubberneckers who are curious about why there are a whole bunch of cops parked outside a house. (Of course, we’re sure criminals would enjoy this app, too.)

Clearly, the audience for police scanners is pretty broad: Scanner 911 is currently no. 19 in the App Store, and a similar app, Police Radio, is no. 7 (though we prefer Scanner 911 for its immaculate design.) Both apps are $1 in the App Store.

Download Link [iTunes]

Product Page [Scanner 911]

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