Turning Ideas Into iPhone Applications
Raven Zachary, O’Reilly Inside iPhone: “The demand for iPhone developers exceeds the supply and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. The going rate for iPhone developers, at least the developers I know and trust, is $125/hour and up.”

(Via Joe Pezzillo.)
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Incredibly Useful Bookmarklets for Developers
The NewsGator Technical Blog posted a list of bookmarklets useful for anyone doing web development.
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Sloshspot: iPhone App for drinkers
Mashable: “Sloshspot is an index of bars and nightspots, where users can leave reviews, post photos, and check out other ‘regulars’ of different locales.”

I sometimes wonder if we shouldn’t have a no-technology exception for things like bars. Not on moral grounds but for poetic reasons. If word-of-mouth was good enough for Dylan Thomas and Charles Bukowski, it should be good enough for us.
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iPhone pirating app pirated
Ars Technica: “The Hackulous pirating site is dedicated to cracking and distributing iPhone applications without paying any money to their developers. In what can only be described as hilarious irony, a beta version of that application was itself pirated and released before it could enter a full open-source distribution.”
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The Mobile Application Rush: Is the iPhone Really Leading the Way?
blog.compete.com: “But are iPhone owners really interested in mobile applications any more than other Smartphone users, or is it just hype?”
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iPhone 2.2 Software Enhances Maps, Tweaks Interface
TidBITS: “The iTunes app also gains the capability to download podcasts over either Wi-Fi or the cellular network.”
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