A new approach to iPhone panoramas


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There are plenty of iPhone apps that shoot panorama photos. You take a picture. Move to the left or right, and after you have 3 or 4 images the panorama software stitches the images together.

Now, Occipital is offering 360 Panorama, a different approach to getting wide, or even 360 degree images. The app is dead simple. Click on a button to start the process, then slowly turn left or right. You appear to be taking one continuous image, and as you move you can see the image filling in on a grid. You don’t do any stitching, the software does it in nearly real time. You can go wide, or even shoot vertical images. Or you can do both, panning up and down, and moving left or right. The image will fill in. It’s pretty cool to watch. When you tap ’save’ the image goes to your camera roll.

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The art and science of the iPhone 4 CAD drawings


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If you’re a sucker for technical drawings, then feast your eyes on the CAD drawing / iPhone 4 photo mashups recently published on Core77.

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A wiki for prepaid (iPhone compatible) SIM cards around the world


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Here’s a great resource for any iPhone user who frequently travels. The Pay As You Go SIM with Data Wiki provides an ever-growing list of disposable SIMs that will work with the iPhone all over the world.

The project’s goal is to collect a list of iPhone (and Android) compatible pay-as-you-go (PAYG) SIMs from around the world. Since the card is pre-paid, they’re useful for someone who will be traveling for a brief time. To make the list, a card must be capable of handling data as well as voice.

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TUAW giveaway: HexaLex for iPhone


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We featured HexaLex as our daily app a little while back. It’s an excellent Scrabble alternative, and it mixes up the tried and true formula just enough that, if you and your friends are looking for something different to play, it’s worth checking out. And we’re here to make that easy for you. TUAW’s got 10 promo codes to give away to 10 lucky readers, so you can download a copy of HexaLex for free!

To enter the giveaway, leave us a comment telling us the highest word score you’ve ever earned in a word game (or make one up if you’ve never played before). Here are the official rules:
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TUAW’s Daily App: The Screetch


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Parrot AR.Drone now available for pre-order at Brookstone


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TUAW giveaway: Fusion of Ideas StealthArmor for iPhone 4


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Rumor: Sprint working on iPod touch-friendly 4G hotspot called “Peel”


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iPhone 4 launch may be cancelled in New Zealand, confusion reigns down under


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Imagine if Apple’s handset prices in the US weren’t announced at WWDC, and the subsidy pricing was up to AT&T. Imagine if AT&T told potential iPhone customers that the iPhone 4 would launch on July 30, and pricing info would be released well in advance of that.

Now imagine the weeks leading up to July 30 went by, and AT&T didn’t say a word about the iPhone 4’s pricing, even though many other countries had already released handset and plan info. It’s July 29, and instead of working with its customers, throwing them a bone, giving them some sort of information, AT&T instead remained utterly reticent and deleted any posts on its forums remotely critical of its handling of the situation. Imagine AT&T followed up by deleting all mention of the iPhone 4 from its website: no pricing info, no pre-orders, not even a “coming soon” link.

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First Look: Rocknor’s Donut Factory


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Rocknor’s Donut Factory is due to hit App Store on Monday. It is an iPhone update of a Windows game that was critically acclaimed back when it was released in 2003. It offers terrific puzzles and fun gameplay that’s unfortunately hampered on the iPhone by a too-literal transition from the original game.

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App demo: BistroMath


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Why Apple’s “walled garden” is a good idea


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Many developers and users of Apple’s iOS devices bemoan the “walled garden” of the App Store approval process, but it appears that the company’s measures have prevented mass data theft from iPhones, and iPads.

At the Black Hat security conference being held in Las Vegas this week, mobile security firm Lookout announced that an app distributed in Google’s Android Market had collected private information from millions of users, then forwarded it to servers in China. Worse than that, the exact number of affected users isn’t known, since the Android Market doesn’t provide precise data. Estimates are that the app was downloaded anywhere from 1.1 million to 4.6 million times.

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App Review: Hexaphone


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Interesting, impractical iPhone concept lamp


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