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QuadCamera is the 4th camera-app by Art&Mobile. This is their best app, imo. It’s inspired by the Lomo Oktomat and loads of fun fun fun!

UPDATE: Some first experiments. Best app ever!

The guys from taptaptap.com have made a crazy mosaic iPhone image to congratulate Apple for the 10.000+ iPhone apps. Check it out in large or original format.

Bolt is another Walt Disney animation movie about animals and will be in theaters by next Friday (November 21). Bolt is a dog that plays an action hero in a television show, but doesn’t realise it’s all fake. When he’s accidentally shipped to New York the adventure begins.

Now, you’re probably wondering why the title of this post is “The future of mobile”? Well, while people in London are getting ready for the next Carsonified FOM event, I found a neat app on my iPhone and realised that the future of mobile is already here. So Bolt is a movie. But it’s also an iPhone app. The people at Walt Disney made an iPhone app to promote the movie. It’s a game, but most of all a place to check out the trailer.

That’s so clever. They made a free iPhone app where you can play a fun game with the accellerometer, and also made it possible for the user to view some trailers. So as I said before, the future of mobile is not about a device, it’s about location. It’s about bringing your app or product to the masses, instead of getting the masses to your product!

Actually… it works with ANY iPhone app that’s not available in your local app store. Officially, this is not possible, but there is a workaround. Clearly Apple has made it possible to download all free items from any app store around. Here’s how:

1. Open iTunes on your mac/pc
2. Click the ‘Sign Out‘ option in the ‘Store’ menu
3. Switch to an other iTunes Store (at the bottom of the store’s homepage)
4. Go to the app’s download page and click the ‘Get App‘ button (make sure the app is free, otherwise it won’t work)
5. A popup window will open, click the ‘Create New Account‘ button
6. Register a new account and select ‘None‘ on the payment methods page (next to Visa, Mastercard, amex, …)
7. All done… Your app is downloading. Just sync with your iPhone or iPod Touch and you’re done!

Busy times. Since the day we decided to get married I haven’t had the time to finish off some of my projects. I’ve got several ideas for iPhone apps, but with each new feature I add, a week passes by. That’s because I’m still learning the basics of Cocoa and the iPhone SDK. Unfortunately everything has to go fast these days, especially on the web. Most ideas are only good for a couple of weeks/months and it’s best to keep it a big secret until the launch (the Apple style). It’s important to have time on your hands and the skills to put your ideas into practice asap. I’m not going to keep my project a big secret until launch, because it’s just a big experiment and most of all an exercise for me to learn Cocoa.

My Coffee Counter app is just a button and a counter. But during the development process I’ve added some neat features like twitter support and location services. So if you just drank a coffee and add it to the app, it would know where you drank it and twitter it automatically. The only thing I would have to do is to make a site where all coffees are grouped on a map like the Smule project. Sounds cool, now I just need to find the time to make it all worth more than words.

(photo from sharaff on flickr)