We knew this was coming and here it is: the Netflix application, heretofore reserved only for iPad users, has trickled down to iPhone and iPod touch devices. Version 1.1.0 makes the TV show and movie streaming app universal — so long as your universe is known as iOS — and looks to massively expand the available audience for Netflix’s mobile effort. What are you waiting for, go get it already.

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Facebook’s recently begun displaying user stats for its mobile apps for several platforms, and the numbers are downright overwhelming. The iPhone takes the largest slice of the cake with (at the time of writing) over 104 million active monthly users, with BlackBerry users at nearly 60 million, and just over 12 million using the Android client. So what can we take away from these numbers? Well, at last count, Facebook has over 500 million users, so a pretty sizable chunk of them are using mobile apps. Interestingly, the last reported number of iOS users was 100 million; that’s the number announced at WWDC, just back in July — but Facebook lists more than that amount of active monthly users, so we’re not sure how these Read the full story

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Apple loves to tout the HD video recording and editing capabilities of its new iPhone 4. Shoot.Edit.Share, says the slogan. Unfortunately, something nasty happens between the shooting and YouTube sharing: compression. Apple squashes your magical 720p memory into a rather glum looking 360p video just as soon as you select “Send to YouTube.” And there’s no easy way around it. That is, until we stumbled upon a little app called 720tube from Drakfyre’s Software.

It’s simplistic in its design but works exactly as advertised. Once you’ve shot or exported your video from iMovie, simply launch 720tube, login to your YouTube account (credentials can be saved) and select the video from the iPhone camera roll. Read the full story

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Independent app developer Dante Varnado Moore has announced the release and immediate availability of Songwriter’s Pad 1.0.3, a professional lyric writing app designed specifically for the iPad. Songwriter’s Pad allows songwriters to write, arrange and store all of their lyrics and song concepts in one app. It also includes a digital audio recorder for capturing vocal ideas when inspiration strikes. It contains “powerful idea generating tools that are designed to inspire creative expression and eliminate writer’s block” says independent app developer Dante Varnado Moore.
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Snappy, an iPhone camera app that launches quickly by pressing the status bar, has been updated with iOS 4 support.

Never miss a photo opportunity again! Snappy is a camera app for the iPhone that launches and is ready to take pictures in one second, without having to exit your currently running application. Snappy is also accessible directly from your lock screen. Simply tap and hold the status bar (the bar at the top of the screen with AT&T logo, signal bars, battery, etc) to launch and you are immediately ready to take pictures; compare that to the five to six seconds it takes to exit a running application and launch the native camera app.
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Now here’s a surprise. Apple isn’t exactly known to be super friendly when it comes to video compatibility, and we can sympathize to an extent. However, for some inexplicable reason, Steve’s brethren decided to give this CineXPlayer app the green light for general consumption, thus finally allowing iPad users to load up their stash of Xvid AVI files — sans conversion — via iTunes. While this is worth a quick celebration, it’s still rather absurd having to resort to underhanded apps for Read the full story

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