Hrmm, this is interesting. I’m still a little skeptical about this great change from software that has routinely kicked my ass with its updates, but Wordpress 2.2 might just be…awesome. The change log is deceptively small, with three bullet points about how comments can now be edited, replied to, and even auto-highlighted when they’re pending approval. However, if this really does work out, it could well be the best bloody Wordpress app update ever. The app still can’t put pictures at the top of a post (have they ever looked at how blogs and websites seem to work?), but I no longer have to check the Wordpress app and load up JAiB separately on my MacBook just to reply to comments. It’s also a huge help to see – at a glance – which comments are pending approval and which ones need to be smacked down Spam Button style.
You’re probably still going to want to do your mobile blogging in another iPhone app (I’d suggest BlogPress), but this free Wordpress app is hopefully going to become my hub for convenient comment approving and replying, which means I should be able to answer questions a little faster now 
Tap Tap Revenge is a hell of a tough act to follow in terms of massive success in the iPhone App Store. Even if the latest new music game from Tap Tap’s makers – Tapulous – only achieves a fraction of its predecessor’s success, it will still be a big hit.
Riddim Ribbon feat. The Black Eyed Peas is the latest release from Tapulous and it looks like it may have a fair amount of instant appeal as well. Just for starters, it’s got three good Black Eyed Peas tracks (and eight remixes) bundled in the app.
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Patrick recently wrote a piece on how slow and painful using Cydia can be, so I thought I’d offer a little bit of information on the other major jailbreak app portal, Rock Your Phone. In my experience Cydia is still the top dog in terms of new app releases and popularity, but Rock has been doing some serious catching up – especially with the release of Rock 2.2. Rock Your Phone has access to almost all of the repositories on Cydia, and with the new License Central is able to recognize all of your purchased Rock and Cydia licenses, so Rock really can become the one jailbreak app to rule them all.
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For the duration of this news post I’ll be reverting to my eight year old self – you know, the one that sorta kinda remembers playing a demo of Rise of the Triad after it came out in 1994:
WOW! Rise of the Triad is suuuuuch a good shooting game! It looks like Doom but I think it is better because you can use a pistol gun and then pick up another pistol gun and then use that one two! Hahaha one two get it? I think the graphics are super good because I can move around all the bad guys with the left side of the screen an then shoot them (pew pew pew!) when I press the right side of the screen. I can’t believe how much fun this game is and I have been playing it all the time now before nap time and it’s the first thing I play after Saturday morning cartoons (if my dad is not using the computer).
The only sad part is that Rise of the Triad is not out yet but I have heard from people that it is coming soon. The other problem is that I don’t know how much it is going to cost, but I’m sure my dad will buy it for me.
(If this piece doesn’t read very differently than my normal pieces, that’s likely because I haven’t changed much since 1994…)
I like Chomp quite a bit as an iPhone apps discovery and recommendations app, but the more I use it the more I’m finding that its recommendations are utterly useless.
The parts of the app I like are the live reviews from users – seeing them and contributing my own. When I go to the Recommendations page though, it’s pure disappointment. The app claims that it makes recommendations based on my reviews. Well … I’ve made over 100 reviews and not one of them was for a ‘sexy bikini girls’ type app, or anything even close, yet I still receive numerous recommendations for just that sort of app.
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