The iPhone App Store Adds “On The Grid” Category & it Looks Like Advertising

By Guest Author on Aug 30, 2010

I must say that I have enjoyed the anticipation that has come with waiting to see which category the App Store will add under their featured apps section. This week I was sorely disappointed by the organization of location-based apps entitled “On The Grid”.

It should come as no surprise that Facebook tops the list after adding their take on the service via Places. Foursquare and Gowalla are next on the list that only sports a dozen entries… Read More

 

Using Backgrounder to Speed up Categories

By Guest Author on Oct 7, 2008

I love Categories and use it to organize my apps on my iPhone but it takes forever to load a folder, especially when it contains a lot of apps. Two recent application upgrades have really helped with this problem. 

Backgrounder allows you to run processes in the background and the new version of Categories(2.2) takes advantage of this new functionality. By using the Background feature, you can set up folder by folder background loading. This makes it lightning fast to open  folders. In normal iPhone mode, open the folder you want to speed up. Press and hold the menu button until you see the message, “Backgrounding Enabled”. It will exit the folder but opening it again will be really fast. Press and hold the menu button again while the folder is opened to turn it off.