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Heading to CES

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My son and I are heading to CES (Consumer Electronic Show) today.  I will focus on cool stuff for moms and kids.  My son will focus on what every 19 year old boy will focus on.....Games!!!

I will post updates of the cool things I find - right from the CES floor - using my iPhone, of course.

Watch out Vegas - here I come!

Bonus points if you can name the girl with my son.  (Not his girlfriend, he wishes!!)



Moodagent — free app for generating playlists

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Moodagent has only been out about three weeks and already has over 200,000 downloads and is currently averaging 25,000 downloads a day. Pretty impressive. It's a freebie that lets you move sliders to indicate the type of music you want to hear, and in seconds it generates playlists. It uses the song's actual content to make recommendations based on digital analysis of the music. This is in contrast to Apple's Genius, which makes recommendations based on purchase history.



Mashable.com's 700+ Apps Reviewed by Category

For 2010, Mashable.com - which has just retooled its look for the new year - had compilied a list of all 700+ iPhone Apps they reviewed in 2009. 

As we begin 2010, there are over 100,000 iPhone apps available for download — an overwhelming array of choices, but plenty of gems if you know where to look.



Why Christmas is the best day to sell iPhone Apps

Nick Campbell of ShakeItPhoto fame noted:

So, I updated my AppViz software when I got home today and surprisingly, I saw a big bump in my ShakeItPhoto sales on Christmas day. This got me thinking about what would cause such a spike. What would cause my sales to practically double going into Christmas?

And here's the video he made on the subject: 



148Apps.com Hosts Annual Best App Ever Awards

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 A few of us posted up recently on our personal iPhone and touch favs for 2009, but if you want to get in on the fun (and vote for the best), 148Apps is hosting it's second annual "Best App Ever Awards". Go here to the site and check it out, or read on for the full gory press release.

 

"San Francisco, CA - The Second Annual Best App Ever Awards nominees

have now been announced and the voting is open. Sponsored by 148Apps,

this is the second annual competition is the iPhone OS Application

achievement awards to recognize the best iPhone apps and games in the



Battle Bears Contest Winners!

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 Everyone who posted a comment is a winner this time. Thanks to SkyVu for sponsoring a giveaway of Battle Bears (and T-shirts), and everyone who commented. Winners and instructions for claiming prizes appear after the break. Please tune into our blogs in the future for more great giveaways, and if you happen to be at CES, don't hesitate to stop by our booth to say hi (#4642 North Hall)!

Winners:

alpha94



Best apps of 2009

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I've just been looking at some of the "Best of"' lists that have been posted, and thought that I'd share a couple. It's a great way to get ideas from great apps that will be useful to you. TechCrunch has posted a list of the Best iPhone Apps of 2009 that was compiled by the lead reviewer at AppVee. Erik has identified the top 10 apps and the top 15 games, as well as the top 5 innovations. Each app listed includes a link to the AppVee review, and there are also embedded video reviews of quite a few of the apps.



What Google's "Nexus One" Means For Us

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The Last several months have seen an avalanche of new Smart Phones with brand new operating systems, incredibly sophisticated hardware crammed into ever shrinking form factors with wildly changing pricing schemes and carriers vying to be the first to have an exclusive on it.

The latest much hyped device is the "Nexus One" from Google which is scheduled to be launched tomorrow. This new Smart Phone has all of the press and Blogging world commenting how it may (or may not) be the next, "iPhone Killer" that the industry has been lusting for for the last three years.



At CES #N4642 Say Hello to Nate, Todd, Tracy, Marge and me

Thaddeus Computing (iPhone Life magazine) will be exhibiting at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this Thursday-Sunday. I will be at our booth much of time (#4642 North Hall), so come by and say, Hi! Nate Adcock, Todd Bernhard and Tracy Sebastian will also be there blogging and working on an article for the magazine. Marge Enright, who sells advertising for us, will also be making the rounds.   We all hope to see you!


 


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