Great news! Apple has increased the download cap on iPhone’s AppStore and iTunes Store. It used to be 10MB but has been increased the limit to 20MB – What does this mean? It means those applications you’ve tried to download on-the-go only to find out you cannot because of the 10MB download cap, now, you can as long as the application is under 20MB.

The download cap only affects users when using AT&T’s EDGE or 3G network, it does not affect users using Wi-Fi.

Today, Apple announced that users have now downloaded over three billion iPhone and iPod touch applications from AppStore since its July 2008 launch.

“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months — this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

The AppStore reached 2 billion downloads just over 3 months ago. The new milestone represents continued acceleration of growth for the store as Apple’s handheld devices continue to attract significant numbers of customers. The App Store continues to be available to customers in 77 countries, offering applications in 20 categories.

- source: apple.com

Apple is rolling out a new look to their App Store individual app pages tonight which brings it in line with the rest of the iTunes 9 design that was revealed a few months ago. The changes will be of primary interest to App Store developers who rely on the App Store pages to drive sales.

Changes that may impact developers include:

• Much larger icon is shown
• Multiple screenshots are more obvious to viewer
• App description is truncated to the first 2 lines by default. While users can expand to see the rest of the description, many will likely not. This places much more importance on the first two lines of the App’s description
• More apps by the same developer are listed automatically

Overall, there seems to be a bigger focus on the icon/screenshots on first glance of the page. By now, all pages in the AppStore should be updated with the new look.

Today, Apple announced that iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded over 1.5 billion applications in AppStores’ first year of operation. There are over 65,000 available applications in the AppStore.

Apple today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The App Store is also growing at an incredible pace with more than 65,000 apps and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone™ Developer Program.

“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”

The AppStore passed 1 billion application downloads around three weeks ago. Today’s announcement demonstrates continued acceleration in the download rate.
Apple also notes that it has sold over 40 million iPhones and iPod touches capable of running AppStore applications.

- source: apple.com

Wow, just wow. 1 billion (thats no typo, billion is correct) apps downloaded from the AppStore in 9 months! That’s just crazy awesome. Apple had put a contest, where whoever was the one to download the billionth app would win a ton of sweeet stuff. The winner would receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro.

Lucky winner, Connor Mulcahey, 13 year old from Weston, CT won the contest when he downloaded the billionth app – Bump. As a winner he received all that awesome stuff.

The one billionth app, Bump created by Bump Technologies, was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT. As the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest, Connor will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro.

Congratulations, Connor Mulcahey.

- source: apple.com

Calling all iPhone developers developing for the AppStore, are you tired of them dirty pirates stealing your work? Are you tired of loosing a big chunk of money because of pirates? Say no more! RipDev comes to the rescue with Kali Anti-Piracy, it’s a service for developers that protects their applications from being pirated!

With Kali Anti-Piracy your application is being wrapped in the additional layer of protection engineered by experts in Mac OS X and iPhone OS architectures, giving potential hackers much harder time in achieving the precious “crack”. Moreover, we are constantly monitoring the current trends and news in the underground hacker communities to make sure Kali AP stays on top of the “competition”.

Compliance with the iPhone SDK

Kali Anti-Piracy uses only documented and allowed calls, therefore, it is fully compliant with the Apple iPhone SDK. Products protected with Kali AP are passing the Apple approval process and are currently successfully selling in the AppStore.

Kali Anti-Piracy isn’t free – it would be bad ass if it were – Look at the image above

Pricing Example:

Royalty fee is calculated based on the developer’s cut (70%) after Apple Inc commission (30%). Let’s take a look at how the royalty payment is
calculated by running a few examples.

• You have a $0.99 product that was sold 2500 times in the past quarter. Your cut will be (2500 * $0.99 * 0.7) = $1,732.50. Based on the volume tiers
  above, you are eligible for the discounted 4% royalty rate, which results in ($1,732.50 * 0.04) = $69.30 payable to Ripdev.
• You have a $4.99 product that was sold 13000 times in the past quarter. Your cut will be (13000 * $4.99 * 0.7) = $45,409. Based on the volume tiers
  above, you are eligible for the discounted 3% rate, which results in ($45,409 * 0.03) = $1,362.27 payable to Ripdev.

- source: ripdev.com

Update: These browsers are WebKit-Based. We probably won’t be seeing Opera or Firefox in the AppStore any time soon. But we may see Chrome, a webkit-based desktop browser by Google, in the AppStore one day. Apple is taking baby steps at the moment, and that’s just fine.

Released Web Browsers so far:

Edge Browser – Free - No loss of screen real estate to the address or navigation bars

Incognito – $1.99USD - Now you can browse without leaving a history of any kind.

WebMate: Tabbed Browser – $0.99USD - Web Mate simplifies browsing by queuing up all the links you click on, then allowing you to view them one by one when you’re ready.

Shaking Web – $1.99USD - adds a sophisticated algorithm to compensate for small hand shaking to allow for easier reading.

Apple has not made an official announcement but finally Apple has lightened up and allowed 3rd-party web browsers to be used on the iPhone!

Paramount Digital Entertainment has released a pretty neat game in the Appstore, Iron Man Aerial Assault.

Iron Man: Aerial Assault is an action-packed airborne shooter where the player uses the high-powered weaponry of Tony Stark’s armored suit to battle Iron Man’s most dangerous enemies.

Game Features:

• The latest technology: Iron Man: Aerial Assault pushes the iPhone and iPod Touch’s accelerometer and touch functions to new levels of gameplay.
• High Altitude Battles: Engage a variety of menacing enemies in mid-flight through a series of melee combat quick-time events. Battle through 12 levels as you gain precision flying and skills
• Explosive state-of-the-art weapons: Including repulsor blasts, lasers, missiles and Iron Man’s distinctive unibeam. Arsenal buttons fire weapons with the touch of a thumb

Iron Man: Aerial Assault costs a whopping $7.99USD in the AppStore

Download/Buy Iron Man: Aerial Assault – Here

Are you a craigslist fanatic? If you are, this will probably be the app you use 24/7, while standing in-line to cash that check or on that 2 hour train ride. If you don’t know what craigslist is, it’s local classifieds and forums for more than 550 cities in over 50 countries worldwide – community moderated, and largely free. Next Mobile Web has developed Craigsphone which allows you to access craigslist right from your iPhone!

From Next Mobile Web:

Why wait till you get home to post that missing connection?
Better yet, upload a picture of yourself while you’re still on the bus and if he’s got a craigsphone, perhaps you can connect right there?
The Internet is raw and beautiful because it is Us, and no is more Us then craigslist.

Next Mobile Web is honored to being craigslist to mobile people. Our first tasks were simple:

• A usable Mobile UI
• Ability to post, with photos and current location
• Clickable phone numbers
• History
• Nearby postings
• Best Of!

Craigsphone is completely Free and you can download it in the AppStore

Download Craigsphone

- source: nextmobileweb.com

Ever tried to print a photo from your iPhone? Nope, neither have I… but if you ever want to, HP has released a free application to enable you to do just that, print from your iPhone via your local network to your HP inkjet printer. This neat application also works with Apple’s famous bonjour technology

HP iPrint Photo is a fun and free application which enables easy and fast wireless photo printing to HP inkjet printers connected to a local wireless (WiFi) network.

Key features and benefits:

• Quick and easily print compelling, borderless 4×6 / 10×15 cm photos anywhere anytime from an iPhone or iPod Touch to an HP inkjet printer connected to a local Wi Fi network.
• Easily and effortlessly wirelessly print photos through a print interface developed and optimized by HP.
• Get improved print quality from image de-noise filtering technology.
• Enjoy full compatibility with Apple’s Bonjour technology, which automatically identifies HP wireless printers or other supported HP printers available on the network
• HP iPrint Photo is compatible with industry-standard Wi-Fi environments, including Apple Airport, Linksys, D-Link and netgear.

HP iPrint Photo is free and you can get it Here in the Appstore

- source: hp.com