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The official Post-it® notes have made their way to iOS and they’re called Post-it® PopNotes. These are no ordinary notes however – you can place them anywhere you want and share with friends with family.

This is how sticky notes are meant to be on the iPhone! Being able to digitally stick them around places is very neat. My mom has a serious Post-it note addiction and leaves them around for everyone else to read (don’t ever dogsit for her, the house will be one big sticky note), so the sharing option is perfect for people like her.

Create. Place. Share. The PopNotes App creates geo-triggered Post-it® Notes for the digital world. Create and place notes anywhere you want. Choose to leave a note just for yourself or share it with friends, family or everyone. You can even set a note to pop up at a specific time and location.

• Create notes by typing and/or drawing.
• Place notes at specific locations.
• Control who gets to see the notes you post – just yourself, your friends and family or anyone with the app.
• Invite friends and family to connect through the app.
• View notes posted by you and others within 500 yards of your current location via an interactive map.
• Set location-based reminders anywhere in the U.S.
• Simple and fun to use, encourages creativity and spontaneity.
• Choose from nine different Post-it® Note colors.

Potential Uses

• Leave a sweet note for that special someone at the airport when they land.
• Share reviews at theaters, recommendations at restaurants or tips at fishing holes.
• Leave a note at the store that reminds you to pick up milk when you get there.
• Create notes and reminders for yourself.
• View notes at the local salon so you can make an appointment with the best hair stylist.
• Explore new cities by finding notes with advice and recommendations left by others.
• Whatever your creativity allows. Have fun!

Post-it PopNotes is available on the iPhone and iPad for free.

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Not even two weeks after releasing iOS 5 Beta 6 to developers, Apple just released iOS 5 Beta 7. If you’re already on Beta 6, simply go to Settings > General > Software Update in order to update your iDevice. That is, unless you are jailbroken, in which case, you will not be able to update over-the-air. But you can always update via iTunes.

Seven beta versions for an iOS firmware is unheard of so far. Apple sure is polishing this new software, which should be released to the public in the next few weeks.

We have the full change log below…(...)
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Apple has just pushed out iOS 5 beta 7, another over the air (OTA) update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. As with previous betas, go to Settings > General > Software Updates to grab it.

It apparently hasn’t shown up in Apple’s development portal yet, but I imagine it will shortly along with the Apple TV beta 7, iTunes 10.5 beta 7, Xcode, and perhaps new iCloud betas.

UPDATE: It’s available for download from Apple’s developer center now. [developer.apple.comhttp://www.developer.apple.com)

No word yet on new features, if any.

[Thanks @JNHohol

If you’ve been around the Apple community for a while, you’re likely aware of the company’s habit of seeding beta version of upcoming software to developers.They do this so app-makers can test their software, and it’s also a nice way to help iron out the kinks.

But lucky for us, it’s also a way for us to get an inside look at Apple’s future plans. We’ve been able to spot unannounced Nuance and Siri features from within the betas, and now we may have just gotten a glimpse of what the iPhone 5 will look like…(...)
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According to CNET, Apple has once again lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, this time Cava2 in San Francisco’s Mission district.

Apple electronically traced the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, according to the source.

When San Francisco police and Apple’s investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing, the source said. Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, the source said, adding that the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.

The prototype may have been sold on Craigslist for $200 but the details sound sketchy, as does the nature of the prototype itself (iPhone 5?) and what version of iOS it was running.

Last year Apple famously lost or had stolen an iPhone 4 prototype which ended up sold to a gadget blog, touching off an industry wide controversy and almost a year long criminal investigation.

Any bets what happens this time?

[CNET]

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Meta

• iPad Live 71: Hurricane straps and sex wax
• ZENandTECH 13: Priority one
• Superfunctional 8: Causes and responsibilities
• Create a new Marimba remix for iPhone Live, win fabulous prizes! [Contest]

News

• Could Apple replace iPod touch with a budget iPhone?
• AT&T, T-Mobile US merger opposed on anti-trust grounds
• iPhone 5 also headed to T-Mobile USA this fall?
• Apple releases iTunes Match beta to developers
• iTunes Match and why streaming vs downloading isn’t supposed to matter
• Podcasts streaming as music samples in iTunes app? [Bugs]
• Prototype iPhone N94 back plate gets leaked?
• US Samsung Galaxy S II Android invasion begins [Competition]

Jailbreak

• Comex answers questions about his position at Apple
• Add more functionality to the stock Messages app with SMS+ [jailbreak]

Apps

• Developer Spotlight: Mike Smithwick of Distant Suns
• Android’s Dolphin Browser now available for iPhone
• 4G LTE Verizon iPhone probably not leaked via App Store screenshot
• App giveaways

Tips

• Daily Tip: how to create free iPhone ringtones in GarageBand (Mac only)

VintageZen has a post up asking what place in Apple’s lineup the iPod touch would serve once a budget iPhone hits the market, especially if it’s ultra-cheap and Apple can strong-arm the carriers into offering pay-as-you-go plans and iPad-like month-to-month data plans.

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With the coming fall event, this is Apple’s opportunity to make a trademark dramatic move and kill off the iPod Touch from their product line. However, they shouldn’t just leave a void where the iPod Touch once was, they should replace it with the much rumored low-end iPhone. The low-end iPhone would fit perfectly into the market where the iPod Touch was, and in many ways would be better than the iPod Touch for most consumers.

Daring Fireball thinks it could help equalize the iPhone product vs. Android OS numbers metrics companies love to trot out.

It makes sense in a lot of ways for Apple. Simpler product lineup. It would even help with “smartphone market share” numbers — iPod Touches are dark matter in such comparisons that only count “phones”. Plus, I don’t recall seeing (or hearing privately, myself) any rumors about a new iPod Touch for this fall.

TUAW battled this out back in June. The whole debate is worth reading (check this link below) but in sum:

Apple has removed the “iPod” branding from iOS 5. In iOS 4 and earlier, both the iPhone and iPad handle music playback via an “iPod” app, but in iOS 5 these two devices instead have a “Music” app just like the iPod touch. It may mean nothing, but it’s still an interesting move considering the iPod was Apple’s top-selling product for so many years.

Apple certainly has killed products, even best selling products like iPod mini (which was replaced with iPod nano). Right now iPod touch sits in the middle of the road — no phone, no 3G, no large screen. If the budget iPhone really is cheap to buy and cheap to run, is there any space left for the current style iPod touch? Or do those two lines become one?

[VintageZen, Daring Fireball,

The infamous Gizmodo/iPhone 4 debacle grabbed all kinds of headlines last year. No one believed that a company as secretive as Apple could let an iPhone prototype device loose in the wild months before it was slated to be announced.

Believe it or not, it’s happened again. CNET is reporting that they have learned that another unreleased iPhone has been lost in a — wait for it — bar in San Francisco…(...)
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Two is always better than one, right? Well, in the case of PasswordPilot and StayOpened, two is indeed, most definitely better than one.

StayOpened is the Robin to PasswordPilot’s Batman. Their mission? To make App Store purchases easier!

Inside, I’ll show you why you should consider this Lebron James + Dwyane Wade type of combo to conquer what ails you about the App Store…(...)
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It seems the trend of discounted tablets isn’t over yet. Word on the street is that HP is gearing up for another production run of its TouchPad slate, and even Amazon sounds like it wants to get in on the action.

But if the obsolete tablet or the rumored beefed-up Kindle haven’t peaked your interest, you might be happy to hear that Apple’s online store is now offering refurbished iPad 2s for at a decent discount…(...)
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Every so often a story comes along that requires a second read. This story took three or four.

If we’re fully understanding this, and we fear we might be, the council of one UK town is set to spend £9000 ($14,680) on iPads. iPads for what you ask?

iPads for garbage trucks. Yeah, really…(...)
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With iOS 5, Apple has made some significant changes to help us “cut the wire.” Instead of needing to plug your iDevice into your computer to sync with iTunes, the new firmware will allow you to do this over the air via iCloud.

But it doesn’t look like the Cupertino company is stopping there. HardMac is reporting that the iPhone-makers have passed an internal  message on to employees that it is planning to roll out a wireless iDevice diagnostic tool this Fall as well…(...)
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Online music streaming service Spotify has launched a new API that will allow independent iOS developers to bring the service to their own apps. The API, called Libspotify, means we could see Spotify built into all kinds of iPad, iPhone and iPod touch applictions moving forward.

While there is currently no word on whether the new Libspotify API will find itself to Android, it’s perhaps interesting to note that the API is offered on a none-commercial basis, meaning paid-for apps will not be allowed to use it…(...)
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Elgato, the company well known for making TV tuners and the like for the Mac, is set to release an iPad accessory that will effectively turn an iPad 2 into a freeview television.

Aimed squarely at the European market, Elgato’s tuner will come complete with a telescopic aerial and will receive the DVB-T frequencies. A companion app will also be available in the App Store, which promises the ability to record live television using the dock connector tuner accessory…(...)
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Much like Google’s buyout of Motorola Mobility we told you about a few weeks ago, I don’t think anyone saw the AT&T/T-Mobile deal coming. The nation’s second largest carrier unveiled it’s plans earlier this year to acquire the operator for $39 Billion.

The acquisition would leave only three major wireless companies in the U.S., angering both customers and other carriers along the way. But with the industry’s long history of buyouts and mergers, I think most folks just accepted that it was going to happen — until now…(...)
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MoneyWiz is a finance manager for the iPad. It just received a big update which includes French and Spanish translations, a Net Worth feature, financial forecasts, smart auto-completers, and the ability to manage Payees.

I am terrible when it comes to managing my finances and I keep telling myself that I’m going to get disciplined with it. When I do, I will likely use MoneyWiz to help. The UI is amazing – it’s packed with so many features, yet doesn’t feel cluttered.

MoneyWiz is a sophisticated personal finance manager for the iPad. It’s the one app that has it all: scheduled & recurring transactions, budgets, accounts, reports, sync, payees, custom categories, smart in-app help, multi-currency support and 100+ more features.

• Unmatched ease of use
• Advanced Accounting, Budgeting and Planning
• Syncs all your data with our free cloud service – Sync Everything! ®
• Interactive reports, Net Worth and Financial Forecasting

Update includes:

• Ability to configure credit accounts to show either available balance or used credit (all existing users- you can modify it for existing credit accounts too)
• Financial forecast/projection for any date in the future, based on your account’s current balance and scheduled expenses & incomes – just go to the calendar, in Scheduled, and tap & hold on any date in the future, and the projection will appear
• Net Worth – scroll up the list of accounts, and you’ll see your Net Worth (it’s hidden above the first account in the list). Net Worth is also visible in Reports (on the bottom of the screen)
• Ability to manage Payees (via Settings), and assign Payee to a transaction (with auto-complete and auto-create)
• The transaction’s description field now supports auto-completion
• New report added – Report by Payees
• Ability to filter transactions by predefined periods (like- Show me transactions from the last 30 days etc…)
• Polish currency added (PLN – Polish zloty)
• All transactions, now have a decimal part (even integers, have .00 at the end)
• Online Help is now available via Settings -> About & Help
• MasterCard Debit payment card was added to the list of cards (which you see on the second step of creating an account). The list was also re-arranged with the most popular cards being on top.
• Spanish and French translation of the entire app
• Accounts order & Budgets order in Settings are now merged into one section
• Added more in-app help tips, that appear during use
• Many UI tweaks
• Critical bug fixes

Giveaway

The good folks at SilverWiz have given us 5 promo codes to giveaway to our awesome readers! For chance to win, let us know how many accounts you’d like to manage with MoneyWiz in the comments below. Between checking, savings, and credit cards, I have five.

MoneyWiz is available on the iPad for $4.99.

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Arguably the best web browser available for the Android platform, Dolphin, is now also strutting its stuff on iOS. Dolphin’s claim to fame is its deep gesture integration, which reduces the need for quite so many on-screen buttons. Perfect for smartphones with smaller screens, just like the iPhone.

Offering its wares for free, Dolphin joins a long list of web browsers in the App Store which aim to take a piece of the browsing pie from the stock Safari software, but it may need to offer something unique if it’s going to make people switch…(...)
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The United States Department of Justice has filed its opposition to the AT&T – T-Mobile US merger on anti-trust grounds.

AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent low priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market

AT&T was pursuing the merger in an attempt to get T-Mobile’s AWS spectrum to use for a bigger, better LTE 4G roll out.

(Probably smart that T-Mobile wasn’t waiting on AT&T to get iPhone 5.)

This story is still developing and we’ll update with more information as it comes in.

[Bloomberg, thanks Jack!]

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• 15 Puzzle Challenge: Do you think you are smart enough??? Then try and win in the ultimate 15 Puzzle Challenge! Become the ONLY master of the classic puzzle game! [Free - App Store link]

• EGDR808 HD: A drum machine that emulates the vintage hardware from the 80′s. The stop button now lets the pattern finish playing. [$1.99 for iPad - App Store link]

• Flip-O-Matic: Transform your pictures into a fascinating composition of symmetric patterns. The realistic substance of the original picture is still noticable but gets an additional alien dimension. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• FiLMiC Pro: Take movie making to the next level and turn your iPhone into one of the most powerful and robust full featured HD video cameras around. [$2.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Planetary: An all-new, stunningly beautiful way to explore your music collection. Fly through a 3D universe dynamically created by information about the recording artists you love. [Free for iPad - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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