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Release Date: August 05, 2009
Genre: Games
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Release Date: September 29, 2009
Genre: Rock
Release Date: September 20, 2009
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Genre: Rock
Release Date: August 25, 2009

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Release Date: April 22, 2009
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Release Date: March 31, 2009
Genre: Games
Bloons $0.99
Release Date: April 05, 2009
Genre: Games

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  • Every Day: The Best of the Verve Years

    • 8 out of 10
    • Joe Williams
    • Joe Williams was Figure Two in my three-man education in singing. A brilliant vocalist, scatter, and interpreter of jazz and blues, Williams produces music that's totally unique, yet sounds so effortl
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

    • 8 out of 10
    • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    • When I first got hooked to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the only place I could get their debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was through the band's Web site. I listened to the two tracks a

  • Modern Lovers

    • 10 out of 10
    • Modern Lovers
    • This timeless masterpiece is little known, but it has inspired almost as many bands as The Modern Lovers' own inspiration -- and only slightly better known -- The Velvet Underground & Nico.

  • Wolfmother

    • 8 out of 10
    • Wolfmother
    • Black Sabbath, The White Stripes, The Stooges. There aren't many bands worth their salt that want to be compared to other bands, but when I listen to Wolfmother's self-titled American debut, I can

  • Mezzanine

    • 6 out of 10
    • Massive Attack
    • "Black Milk" knocks me off my feet in this collection of moody and eclectic songs. Massive Attack uses samples and keyboards in a very unique way, but not all the songs pack the same punch.

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WSJ: Best Thing About iPhone 3G is App Store

The best thing about Apple’s new iPhone 3G isn’t the increased speed or built-in GPS. It’s the App Store, according to Walt Mossberg at the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

"In just the first 10 days since the new iPhone and the App Store launched on July 11, more than 900 programs ... have been introduced by numerous developers. Over 90% cost less than $10 or are free," Mr. Mossberg noted. [More than 100 of those 900 claimed by Apple are books, however.]

Best of all, the process searching and downloading these iPhone apps is quick and easy. They’re well designed, easy to use and in some cases entertaining.

The range of applications is amazing. Some are serious, like business programs from Oracle, Salesforce.com and Bloomberg. However, many others are zany, like a Star Wars light saber, a rotary phone dialer, and even an app that turns the iPhone into a flashlight for emergencies.

Mr. Mossberg recapped some of his favorites, a good place to start for the curious or those who’d like an expert overview. Notably, however, Mr. Mossberg characterized the state of iPhone app development:

"Apple’s baby isn’t the first smart phone that has attracted developers. Thousands of third-party programs already exist for Nokia phones, BlackBerrys, and phones running the Palm and Windows Mobile operating systems. But, compared with the graphically rich, snappy iPhone apps -- many of which fetch data from the Internet at high speed -- the typical program on these older platforms looks positively primitive.

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