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5 Awesome iPhone Apps for Valentine’s Day

Valentine's Day is right around the corner, and hopefully you've thought of how you're going to make your significant other feel special.

There are some great apps on the iPhone that can help you navigate through a successful Valentine's Day. V-day can be especially stressful for us guys, but the iPhone is always there for moral support.

Here are 5 awesome iPhones apps for Valentine's Day...

Have You Confessed Your Sins? There’s an App for That.

Have you gotten lazy with your confessions? Good news for you: the Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that will help you confess your sins!

It appears the Pope has realized that less and less people are attending confessional regularly. So, in a move of forward thinking, the Catholic Church decided to help your forgetfulness by giving you an app to track your sins.

And before you stop reading: no, this is not a joke...

Google Translate Now Available on the iPhone

Google's popular translate tool now has its very own iPhone app. The company has had a Google Translate HTML5-based web app for quite some time, but Google Translate has now been given the full app treatment.

Among other enhancements, Google Translate for the iPhone allows users to speak their translation requests. With speak-to-translate support for 15 languages at launch, the Google Translate app makes a big splash in the mobile translation niche...

5 Awesome iPhone Music Apps

There are a ton of music-related apps in the App Store. If you sift through the thousands of stupid music apps, you'll find a few gems worth mentioning. The goal of this roundup is to showcase 5 awesome music apps for the iPhone.

These 5 apps all deserve to be called awesome. They each serve a specific purpose, and they all offer something special to the App Store's music app catalog...

Wi-Fi Sync 2.0 Beta Now Available

As of last night, British developer Greg Hughes has finally released the public beta of Wi-Fi Sync 2.0. For those of you who do not know, Wi-Fi Sync allows you to sync your iPhone over a WiFi network without connecting to iTunes via the USB cable.

We have been waiting for this release for quite some time, and we were quite pleased to see the developer post the link on Twitter last night. Today, if you are on the mailing list, you will receive an invitation to try it out. The bottom line is...

Google Shopper for iPhone is Now Available in the App Store

Google has released their popular Android shopping app in the App Store. Shopping results have been part of Google's web search for a long time, and the Android app is used by millions of people for mobile shopping.

Google Shopper for the iPhone delivers shopping results through text, image and voice search. If you've ever used Google shopping results on the web, you'll immediately understand how to use Google Shopper on the iPhone. Instead of restricting your results to, for example, Amazon's catalog (Price Check for iPhone), Google Shopper will present you with compared results from various vendors on the internet.

The goal with Google Shopper is to give you more informed and objective results from various product vendors. The app is simple and effective at searching for products you encounter on the go with your iPhone...

New Feature in iOS 4.3: Canceling App Downloads

Apple recently seeded the newest iOS 4.3 beta to developers. We showed you a preview of the multitouch gestures that Apple is working on for iOS 4.3, but there haven't been many more features uncovered.

However, a new and nifty feature in iOS 4.3 has been unearthed by AppAdvice. In iOS 4.3, you will finally have the ability to cancel an app from downloading and installing. As of right now, you can only delete an app from your iPhone's home screen once it has fully downloaded and installed....

Status Updates Hidden from Live Feed and Missing Privacy Settings in Facebook App

A couple Facebook for iPhone bugs have been reported by disgruntled Facebook users. Two known problems have recently started surfacing within Facebook's official app: status updates from the iPhone are not being sent to the News Feed, and Facebook for iPhone is missing from users' privacy settings.

We have no information as to how widespread these problems are, but there has been enough complaint to justify these bugs as real issues.

Here are the details...

Attention to Detail: How the iPhone’s Mail App Decides to Show New Email

This one can be filed under "incredibly specific." The question is simple: What happens when a new email arrives in the iPhone's Mail app?

That question may sound ridiculous at first. You may immediately say, "Of course I know what happens! I get a new email! Isn't it that simple?" But do know what really happens? How does Mail.app decide to deliver email?

The design of Apple's Mail app is proof that it's all about the details...

Infographic Confirms That iPhone Users Prefer Regular Apps Over Web Apps

Well, that's a big shocker. Apparently iPhone users care more about native apps than web apps.

The guys over at Appsfire, a cool app discovery service, made an infographic report demonstrating how most users like regular apps over web apps. Appsfire analyzed 1,000 of its user's devices to determine some insight into the web v.s. native app debate.

Web applications are becoming more and more advanced everyday, but they still can't replicate certain functionalities of native iOS apps. The infographic from Appsfire is pretty self-explanatory. Let's check it out...

Apple Posts a Roundup of iPhone Apps From TV Ads

We all love Apple's broadcast commercials. They're elegant, pretty, and a great way to show off what makes the iPhone special.

There have been many iPhone ads from Apple over the years. These ads show off some of the best apps in the App Store. Have you ever seen an app in an iPhone commercial and wished you knew its name so you could download it yourself?

Apple has posted a roundup of popular apps from iPhone TV ads on iTunes...

Rumor: Apple Bringing Landscape Mode to the Home Screen and New Multitouch Gestures in iOS 4.3

The Apple rumor mill has been churning fast and furiously over the past few weeks. There's been more white iPhone 4 speculation, some details about the iPhone 5 released, and the rumor that the next iPhone will be without a home button.

Details about iOS 4.3 have started to emerge in light of the beta that Apple recently made available to the developer community. Among these details, it seems that, after the failure of Ping, Apple may be trying its luck again with another social media attempt.

The iPad's home screen has had landscape mode compatibility since product launch, but Apple has not yet brought that feature to the iPhone. Many have asked for a landscape home screen, but it has been absent from the iPhone for years. Well, that is, until now...