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The Spotify app for iPhone has been released.

Phone version is very similar to the Spotify you’re already familiar with and will allow you to listen to your music even when you’re not connected to a network. Sadly, only Premium subscribers to the streaming music service will now be able to access Spotify’s catalog on their iPhone, iPod touch and Android.

Actually, Spotify is only available in certain countries: Sweden, the UK, Norway, France, Finland and Spain.

The Spotify app is downloadable in Apple’s App Store .

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uquery.com is a new search engine focused on the emerging market of iPhone & iPod Touch applications. We have listened to many requests of the community and the frustration of being able to search and find applications on the iTunes AppStore. With 72,290 applications available on the AppStore, it has become tremendously difficult to find the right application.

Their goal is to index and offer a very fast and easy way to find the application that you need. Utilizing new indexing technologies we have created a huge index of all the applications currently available in the United States iTunes AppStore. With features like: filtering by price, date and category and a full-text index of the application description, Uquery allow all iPhone & iPod users to quickly improve their app discovery experience.

Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, has launched free software  for iPhones available at Apples online App Store.

“Everybody recognizes with the growth of mobile tools globally that this ishow people access information,” foundation spokesman Jay Walsh told AFP on Wednesday.

“Our mission is to spread free knowledge; we want to do everything we can to meet and embrace that audience.”

“Our intention is to house the source code and continue to update the application through Apple channels with subsequent releases,” Walsh said.

“Then, obviously, take it to other platforms like Palm and Android. We want to take the same tool and make it work in other spaces.”

Wikipedia can be reached using Web browsers in iPhones and other Internet-linked mobile devices, but the pages are scaled-down versions of what is accessible using desktop computers. However, users can use  iphones to edit entries and upload pictures or other digital content to the website.

The Wikipedia application for iPhones is an open-source, first version that the foundation hopes to incrementally upgrade with input from software savants worldwide, according to Walsh.

“In a perfect world you would be able to do everything on a mobile you could do on a personal computer,” Walsh said of using Wikipedia on smart phones.

“It is a platform we are going to build on. The sky is the limit; we can do whatever we want.”

Download the Wikipedia on you iPhone from here

With Moviefone’s free application for iPhone and iPod Touch. You can search for films, find theaters closest to you and store them for easy reference, watch high quality trailers and even invite your friends to the movies. In addtion, you can get movie showtimes, tickets and trailers on the go. All in one place.

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Okimok is a free social network platform that allows users to instantly share their photos with friends by using a superdeluxe slideshow.

A photo says more than a thousand words, but a photo stream tells you a whole story. This is why okimok is a web platform with a photo stream and not a single page view per photo. Okimok claims to be dedicated and simple and that is exactly what we found it to be.
The platform is based on the idea that people would like to see what is going on anywhere, anytime. They want to share these little photo moments with their audience, while being part of another’s audience as well.

Three types of photo streams are available on the platform. First, there is your solo stream displaying the last 15pictures that you made. Next, a combo stream showing the last 30 pictures of the users that you are following. And on the homepage, there is a world stream that shows all pictures made by the entire okimok community.

The app can be found in the Apple App Store and is for free. -download Okimok-

After installing and opening the app, the first thing you do is create a new account. The developers have well thought over the sign up process since you can do everything from the iPhone application itself. After signing up, the main screen appears. The application is nice and simple. Three buttons do the work, “take photo”, “pick photo” and “go okimok.com”.

The first two buttons let you upload a picture, either by taking a new one or picking one from the camera roll. Next, a preview screen is shown with the possibility to add a title that is displayed in the slideshow. The time to

upload a picture is surprisingly short, but that is also due to the fact that the photos are downsized before they get uploaded. The original photos that you upload are stored on your camera roll as well.
The “go okimok.com” button appears to open a safari browser with your combo stream in it. In our opinion it is not very neat to open the safari browser, but the developers of okimok assure that in an upcoming version the iPhone application will be extended to show photo streams inside the app.

The web platform has a lovely design. After signing in, you are brought to your combo stream. In your overview you can see who is following you and who you are following. Like Twitter, only for photos instead of text.It is also possible to change user settings on the web platform. There’s also a Twitter link in the settings menu. When entering your Twitter account details, an update is sent to your Twitter stream everytimeyou upload a new picture. The update consists of a link to your solo stream and not to a specific photo.

With Apple running a promotion to give away $10,000 downloads to the billonnth App download there has never been a better time to download and try Metamenu

Trend Smart Surfing is the first secure browser to provide enhanced Web threat protection for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.  Smart Surfing is designed to block access to harmful websites.  If you attempt to access a bad or malicious URL, a notification will appear in the browser.

Trend Smart Sufing is powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network using advanced “in the cloud” Web Reputation technology to protect users from Web pages with malicious intent.

This free security software is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch devices iPhone software v2.1 or higher and can be downloaded for free from here

Skype is a VoIP software application that allows people to make free phone calls to other Skype users over the Internet. Now you can make free calls to other Skype users with your iPhone.

Skype for iPhone delivers a true Skype experience: make free Skype-to-Skype calls and low cost calls to landlines and mobile phones – and participate in conference calls – from any WiFi zone. You can IM to your heart’s content, and participate in group chats too, whenever you have network connectivity, whether it’s WiFi, 3G, EDGE or GPRS. Skype’s VoIP app for iPhone looks more like your traditional iPhone app than it does Skype 4.0 for Windows

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The Spotify application is coming to the iPhone. It’ll let you listen to Spotify from your iPhone.

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Want to be a  D. J.? Aero Synth Free will help you live out that fantasy. Turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a simple synth music game . Tap along as the electronic music plays and keep the beat going, but if you miss one of the bubbles in the four streams, the music goes back to its original intro until you are on track again.

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