MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

A new section of itunes lists the Top Apps of 2008 for every category (iTunes link). I’ve already seen a few I didn’t know about.

iPhone Your Life is a new section of the iPhone 3G’s page at Apple.com which details some top iPhone applications from 3rd party developers. Apple has really turned to hyping apps for the iPhone as a major selling point of the device, and rightly so. I’m glad to see a new place to find [...]

Google Earth (iTunes Link) is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Check the demo vid on YouTube. Yeah!

My mini-review of TextGuru for the iPhone and iPod Touch (on the TextGuru support forum). Something the developer does not tell you: there is a 5MB limit to files that you can view in TextGuru. Fine! But say so!

I’m excited for tomorrow’s Apple Event, for sure! But I’m quite happy with my current MBP. I’m more excited about my iPod Touch - which will be arriving tomorrow! Cheers to all the Apple FanBoys (and Girls) out there.

Macenstein:
So, if you are like me, and are a smug, iPhone carrying prick who is not happy unless your iPhone-less friend is sad, then read on for my top 20 apps I keep on my iPhone solely to impress people.
I’m impressed by the list itself!
A real upside about the terrible state of the Korean won [...]

iPhone Central: Apple drops iPhone development NDA. Happy times!

Wired on Cut and Paste in the iPhone 2.2:
It’s possible that Apple is taking so long to implement copy and paste not because it is difficult, but because Apple is reinventing it. Imagine a system-wide menu added to all applications which, instead of shuffling items off to a clipboard, lists all the places you can [...]

iPhone Central gives the heads up on a new Del.icio.us client for the iPhone. Del.icio.us is hands down my favorite for saving bookmarks - I don’t ever save anything locally (on my computer). Red Delicious looks really promising! Still 1~3 weeks of shipping time for an iTouch here in Korea…

Craig Hockenberry, main developer of xScope and Twitterific, trashes the Apple’s NDA and application approval process. This is a big stick.

Dan Moren from iPhone Central on Apple’s Non-disclosure ‘Agreement’ with iPhone developers:
There may very well be a good reason for the NDA to remain in place—but that shouldn’t prohibit Apple from explaining that reason to its developers. All it takes is for Apple to be a little more forthcoming to begin to undo the damage [...]

Macworld’s Jason Snell on the App Store. Condensed version:

Set transparent guildlines for what will and will not make it into the App Store
Publish every (non-malicious) app and let the market decide

This basically is an echo of Wil Shipley’s article. However, I’m hoping that Snell’s journalistic cred will quicken the process whereby Apple wakes [...]

Wil Shipley, the lead developer behind Delicious Library, offers his thoughts on the state of the iPhone App Store. Shipley’s thesis boils down to this: Apple should allow any and every app into the App store that isn’t explicitly harmful to users and drop all the ‘quality control’ affectations. He supports this claim [...]

Red Sweater Blog: “Perhaps the darkest angle of our ongoing wait for the lifting of Apple’s iPhone NDA, is that we seem to be “waiting for Godot.” The parallels to the fabled character are pretty weak, but I can’t help but think myself a fool when I observe that I, along with countless others, [...]

Macworld has published a short but thorough review of what’s new in the 2G iPod Touch. Somehow, I’ve managed to hold off buying an iTouch since they arrived (I’d love to have an iPhone, there’s no doubt. But I’m currently living in South Korea and travel too much of the world for an [...]

NetShare, the iPhone 3G tethering app, has now been completely banned on from the App store. I can understand why this might be the case - and why AT&T might be upset about such an app - but I think Apple really needs to get their act together about the app store. Who [...]

Daring Fireball on the app store. You’ve worked (slaved?) for months creating something innovative and new for the iPhone, only to have you efforts be rejected at the end of it all for undefined reasons. Insanity. Gruber is 100% right - Apples needs to lay some clear rules down for the app [...]

9 to 5 Mac points to this iFixit tear down of the new iPod Touch. The news: an onboard Bluetooth chip! It hasn’t bee mentioned by Apple, and it may only be fore the Nike+ running suite, but it sure makes me even more excited.

Korea Apple lists a 3 to 5 week waiting period for the new iTouch! Ahh - I’ve waited this long, I can endure…