One thing that many of the iPhone application websites have in common is their beautiful and artistic work of art. They overall design is simply fantastic, and befitting that of the iPhone itself. The colors are great, the typography is classy, the photos, spaces and reflections are astonishing. The websites are so visually appealing that it served its primary purpose to a T – to sell those apps!

Web Design Ledger has in fact compiled a top 50 list of such website designs for our enjoyment.
Go ahead, but beware – an overdose of eye-candy ensues!

[via Web Design Ledger]

WELCOME TO TOWER DEFENSE EVO
Things are tense; you wipe the sweat from your brow. The enemy is closing in, flanking you on all sides to break through and take the tower. It’s your job to see that doesn’t happen, no matter what the cost. You’ve got some Hummers and an arsenal of B2 bombers and spy drones; what are you going to do? Better think fast because enemy fire is getting heavy and you don’t have much time.

Tower Defense EVO – by Color Stone Ltd – is the massively addictive, action-packed strategy game that will challenge and excite you to the core. Choose your tower, playing level and battleground then get busy protecting your base. If you die while defending it, well that’s the price of honor and doing what’s right.

The gameplay, graphics and high quality movie style music is thrilling. It hooks you from the very first game, as your determination to win builds along with the dramatic Hollywood style music playing in the background. Each time you play, it’s a different experience to your senses and you continuously crave another game.

GAMEPLAY FEATURES
* Includes Hummers, B2 bombers, spy drones as part of 17 different units


* Use 6 different towers with 3 upgrade levels


* Play on three battlegrounds with totally different strategies


* Play again and again, it will always feel different!
* Action movie quality music becomes more dramatic with build up of action
* Game is played in real time
* Massive amounts of action – enemies, explosions
* Score is displayed on screen while you play

AVAILABILITY
Destroying the App Store, one game at a time right now. For only $.99!

With the recent unveiling of the Apple iPad on Jan 27th, Apple failed to convince new buyers and lost potential buyers of the iPad if a recent survey by Retrevo is to be believed.

Retrevo’s latest study asked consumers whether or not they had heard about the tablet before the tablet was introduced and again after the announcement.

The word definitely got out as the number of respondents saying they had heard about the tablet rose from 48% shortly before the announcement to over 80% after the media frenzy on January 27th. Unfortunately for Apple, the number if respondents saying they had heard about the tablet but were not interested in buying one, doubled from 25% before the announcement to over 50% following the announcement.

The full article can be accessed over here.

[via iClarified]

ZoomMediaPlus has announced zoomIt a new accessory for the iPhone which allows you to read and write to SD cards.

With the zoomIt accessory connected to your iPhone or iPod touch device the zoomIt application enables you to:
- copy or move files from the SD card to a local File Manager
- delete or rename a file in the local File Manger or in the SD card
- display/view a file with a format supported by SDK3.0
- interface to Photo Album to move/copy photos to/from SD card or local File Manager
- interface to iPhone Camera to snap a picture and store to local File Manager or to SD card
- interface to Email to share a file or photo

The zoomIt SD card accessory is expected to ship in April for $60, and is available for pre-order now.  Customers who pre-order now will be given a $10 discount and a free 4GB Kingston SD card.

According to the WSJ, via a note from Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope who met recently with Apple executives, the following was reported:

Apple wants the iPad to be the best device for a few key use cases. For instance, the company believes it could eventually be seen as superior to both handheld and notebook devices for browsing the Internet, using the App Store, and consuming mobile media (video, photos, and e-books). Nevertheless, in other areas, notebooks, the iPhone, or an iPod may be more appropriate. This clear segmentation of capabilities suggests that cannibalization may be less of a concern than most currently believe.

While initial reports have looked favorably on the $499 price tag Shope writes, “it remains to be seen how much traction the iPad gets initially, management noted that it will remain nimble (pricing could change if the company is not attracting as many customers as anticipated).”

Appulo.us is no more. Yup, you heard it right. If you were to check out the site now, you will – in fact – see a french sounding website with nary an iPhone app/game in sight. So, what happened to Appulo.us?

Glad you asked.

Well, as part of a major overhaul, Appulous has been replaced by the all new Apptrackr. According to Hackulo.us, this is what the developer behind Appulous/Apptrackr has to say:

If you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks, earlier this month I announced apptrackr, a replacement for Appulous. We took the time to make apptrackr very nice looking, and I’ve done my best to optimize it and increase its performance to handle a large, large audience of users.

First and foremost, I’d like to thank all of our beta testers (Advancements) for not only their contributions but for making so many great suggestions and finding quite a few bugs for us to fix. Without you, apptrackr would not be here today!

Apptrackr is advantageous to Appulous for several reasons. In theory, the website should be faster than Appulous (considering we’re on three times the hardware that Appulous is) and the website’s caching functionality is advanced (it uses ideas from Kyek’s RECache algorithm). The website is much better looking, running a theme that we’ve refined for the best presentation and user experience. We also support most iTunes stores, instead of just the US store, for app submission.

You can use apptrackr by visiting http://apptrackr.org/. Make sure that you’re going to apptrackr.org and not a scam website!

So, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Apptrackr right now and reap the ‘benefits’ of a jailbroken iPhone!

iPhone repair site iResQ claims to have obtained parts for the 4th Gen iPhone. Its unclear if these are authentic parts; however, you can find the photos and their observations below.

1) The LCD appears to be factory glued to the digitizer which is more similar to the first generation iPhones than the iPhone 3G and 3GS. The digitizer can be separated from the LCD on the 3G and 3GS models, which should be interesting to all, but for the repair folks like us – this means that the 4G screen repair price will be higher since both parts will have to be replaced at once.

2) The iPhone 4G front panel seems to be about 1/4″ longer than its predecessors.

3) There is an interesting reflective, mirror-like surface directly above the speaker. This is likely a spot for the proximity sensor. If that’s what is is, it’s in a different location than previous models.

WordPress for iPhone has been updated to v2.2 and adds the ability to reply, edit, and highlight comments.

Manage your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod touch. With WordPress for iPhone, you can moderate comments and create or edit posts and pages. All you need is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted blog running WordPress 2.7 or higher.

You can download WordPress from the App Store for free.