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Midway plans five iPhone game releases this month

Game publisher Midway plans to release five new iPhone and iPod touch games later this month, each priced at 99 cents ...

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Digital City: Episode 15

On this week's installment of the Digital City podcast, we discuss Steve Jobs' health problems, CES highlights, airplanes with Wi-Fi, and which video game console is selling the best. Plus, a special remembrance of The Prisoner ... Listen now: ... Download today's podcast ... Originally posted at Digital City Podcast ...

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Clippy Adds Copy and Paste to Jailbroken iPhones [IPhone Apps]

It's not App Store approved, but for those in the audience who've jailbroken their iPhones, the Clippy add-on offers some reasonable functionality to copy and paste across apps ... Clippy works by adding copy and paste buttons to the iPhone's keyboard which can be activated on any editable text (emails and SMS). To begin copying, you click "copy." Then you highlight the text. Then you click "copy" again ... Alright, copying is done ... To paste, you just click "paste." ... The solution is

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The top 10 things we hate about the iPhone

Look, we love our iPhones as much as the person, but at this late point in the game, there are some things that are just inexcusable. Here’s our top 10 things we hate about the iPhone, and we’ll post up our top 10 things we hate about the Bold later on. Feel free to chime [ ... ] ...

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Unofficial copy / paste comes to the iPhone... again

There have been several efforts to bring some semblance of a clipboard to the iPhone since Apple has stubbornly, steadfastly refused to do so. So far, they've been somewhat meaningless and unhelpful (though totally well intentioned) largely because they've only worked with apps specifically designed to take advantage of them, when in reality, probably 80 percent of the stuff you want to copy from (or paste to) is in the iPhone's built-in apps. Enter Clippy, which attaches to the standard

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VUDU releases iPhone / iPod touch app

VUDU keeps on rolling with new additions and this week it's an application for all those iPhone and iPod Touch owners. The free download allows you to browse or search the selection -- something that previously required a VUDU, or registered users could do on VUDU.com. It works pretty fast over 3G and even allows you to queue up rentals or purchases on the go -- nice. But it seems there isn't a way to add things to your wish list or to even rate titles; and worst of all, you can't use it as a

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Obamania hits iTunes

Here's how to rock your inauguration party with a little help from Apple and iTunes ...

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Clippy brings copy/paste to jailbroken iPhones

Those with jailbroken iPhones who use the Cydia package manager discovered a new add-on in the past day or so -- Clippy, from iSpazio, which introduces a method for copy and paste to the iPhone ... According to users, the add-on inserts two buttons into the system keyboard -- one for copying and another for pasting. Those who have tried it out say that it only accepts user-entered text and copies over one line at a time, which can get cumbersome ... Sebastien over at the iPhone Download Blog

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iPhone Dev 101: Introduction

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Obama Wallpapers Inaugurate Your iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, or Palm [Wallpaper]

I have to say that some of these Obama wallpapers—created to celebrate the Presidential Inauguration—are incredibly naff, but others are actually quite cool looking. And hey, one day is one day. [GX-5] ...

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