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Karthik is your geek next door and loves technology especially his iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Besides posting pics on Instagram as topiphone, he writes on iPhone here and on his tech blog ShanKrila. Twitter: @KIntheHouse Want to find out what else he is upto? About me
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StarWalk – Best iPhone Star Gazing App

StarWalk – Best iPhone Star Gazing App

Are you an amateur Astronomer or an astute star gazer? StarWalk is going to keep you looking at the sky even more with its elegant visual stars gazing iPhone app making Astronomy fun and easy for everyone. You can discover all stars, planets, constellations and learn more about them. StarWalk features some amazing graphics and [...]

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Instagram 2.0.0 Adds 4 New Filters

Instagram 2.0.0 Adds 4 New Filters

Need I say more? It is a fantastic update. Grab it now if you haven’t already. My handle is topiphone if you want to look me up.

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Meebo Free IM iPhone App With Push, Always On And More

Meebo Free IM iPhone App With Push, Always On And More

Meebo is a popular name in the web based multi-protocol chat client. In fact, their iPhone-friendly web interface worked great so far with multi-account support. Meebo iPhone app is an integrated all-in-one instant messaging app with Push Notifications. It is free and now available in the App Store. Meebo supports all major IM networks AOL/AIM [...]

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Get SIMS 3 World Adventures for Free

Get SIMS 3 World Adventures for Free

EA has put their massively popular SIMS 3 World Adventures game for FREE for a limited time. TODAY ONLY! GET THE SIMS 3 WORLD ADVENTURES FOR FREE! Also, don’t forget to check out The Sims Social – now living large on Facebook! Take your Sims on thrilling adventures to world famous destinations! “Al Simhara,” Egypt… [...]

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Handsfree Windshield Mount for iPhone 4 and 3GS

Handsfree Windshield Mount for iPhone 4 and 3GS

One thing I am still getting used to with my iPhone 4 is using it optimally while driving my car. Our car has a audio-in which I use often by plugging my iPhone and listening to Pandora via car’s speakers. But, there is no real hold for the iPhone while I am turning or breaking [...]

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How to Fix iTunes Error 1013 While Updating to iOS 4.3

How to Fix iTunes Error 1013 While Updating to iOS 4.3

I mentioned that I am taking my iPhone 4 into Apple Store tomorrow to get a fix for my iPhone 4 won’t turn on issue. So, I just wanted to take it in after a backup and update to iOS 4.3 in a non-jailbroken state. However, when iTunes started to update to iOS 4.3, after [...]

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Quick Tip: How to Prevent iPhone App Deletion? [jailbreak]

Quick Tip: How to Prevent iPhone App Deletion? [jailbreak]

I was just listening to Today in iPhone podcast, which I highly recommend, and came across a listener question and answers to one I have been asked many times as well. How to prevent iPhone app deletion or how to protect iPhone app from being deleted? You might have a little one or let your [...]

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iPad, Happy Birthday to You!

iPad, Happy Birthday to You!

Wow, it has been an year since we laid eyes on the ‘magical and revolutionary’ device – Apple iPad! Steve Jobs introduced the first Apple iPad on Jan 27th 2010 and was made available in April. We even launched this iPad blog in May as soon as we got our hands on this beloved device [...]

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Lifehacker’s Top 10 iPhone Applications

Lifehacker’s Top 10 iPhone Applications

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Flickr Lightbox Gets Touch Friendly On iPad

Flickr Lightbox Gets Touch Friendly On iPad

Flickr has had the lightbox feature on the website where you can view any photo in full browser with black borders. This way you can enjoy the picture without any distractions. Now, Flickr has added some HTML5 magic to the webpage. On the iPad, you can now tap on the photo in the Flickr webpage [...]

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Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2011 Free iBook

Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2011 Free iBook

Best In Travel 2011 by Lonely Planet is now a free download in the iBooks store for a limited time. The book focuses on best places to travel in the world. The book ranks the top 10 countries, regions and cities to visit in 2011. There are over 35 events mapped out month by month in a [...]

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Get a Free App With Your Starbucks

Get a Free App With Your Starbucks

Starbucks has been offering free music track with the purchase of a coffee for a long time. In a new marketing initiative, Starbucks is now offering a free app to download from Apple App Store with a purchase of a Starbucks drink. As you buy your drink, you get a card with a redeemable code [...]

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Fring Gets Video Calls Over WiFi & 3G

Fring Gets Video Calls Over WiFi & 3G

Fring is one of the super awesome iPhone apps that had support for Skype calls as well as other instant messaging services such as AOL, ICQ, GTalk, etc. The most recent Fring iPhone app update has brought support for video calls over 3G. We can now make Fring calls over WiFi and 3G including video [...]

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Dev-Team Warns Against Updating to Firmware 2.2

Dev-Team Warns Against Updating to Firmware 2.2

We love jailbreaking and our beloved iPhone Dev-Team warns against updating to firmware 2.2 yet.

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