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It’s barely been a year since the App Store opened its metaphorical doors and yet developers have not ceased to continue their plot to create an app for every damn problem or non-problem you might or might not be facing. 100,000 apps later and here we are. We have apps to help you look up Asian girls’ skirts, apps to help you get jailbait porn and of course about half of these apps are some sort of variation of a farting sound machine.

While the app creation process has certainly slowed down from its fervent beginnings, hundreds of apps are still released every single day. The App Store has become a pretty incredible result of what innovation can achieve if done right.

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According to sources Google Wave will almost certainly have an application marketplace, where users will be able to purchase third-party applications for the new communication tool.

Google Senior Staff Engineer and Wave co-developer Lars Rasmussen has said that he would be very surprised if the applications model was not followed by Google. Google might be making the jump into the application marketplace model sooner than later.

“So we haven’t 100 per cent locked this in, but all the developers are asking [about paid-for apps],” said Rasmussen.

“…developers have asked us a lot for a market place where we’ll help them sell their extensions to our users including a revenue share so we’ll also make some money from it.

“I’ll be very surprised if we don’t go down that route.”

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Upskirts are sort of a phenomenon in the porn industry, especially the among the Japanese population. Creepy men with hidden cameras scout the streets for unsuspecting ladies and broadcast their unbelievably sexy findings on the web. Watching these videos is sort of a blurry area of the law.

Avoid the legal system by producing your own upskirt shots right on your iPhone. Flick the screen or blow on the speaker and watch as the model gradually unveils their gorgeous cameltoe. Hit the jump for video demonstrations.

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Even being the uber-geek that I am, I think I might be too lazy to go through the trouble of creating my own personal iPhone icons… for every single Apple-made application. Let’s be honest. I don’t think… I know.

Nevertheless, this dude went through the trouble of taking pictures of himself, with each photo branding the same dorky expression, acting out each of the app’s functions or titles. Example… in the YouTube photo, he is holding a literal tube.

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Normally, when you think of Vizio, you think of decent plasma and LCD television sets that cost about half the price of a Sony BRAVIA. Now there’s even more incentive to run out and buy a Vizio: web apps. The company announced that it’ll be bringing Facebook, Twitter and plenty of others to its new line of Vizio XVT HDTVs. But that’s not all: Netflix, Amazon VOD, Rhapsody, Vudu, Blockbuster, Revision3, Showtime, Flickr and Pandora will all be available on said HDTV sets. That’s a huge incentive that really blurs the line between computer and TV.

You have to see the remote, though. Hit the jump to view Vizio’s new remote that has a built-in keyboard.
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Ovi. What sounds like a menstruation period for a woman is actually Nokia’s attempt at an application store. According to TechCrunch and several other blogs, the service has launched but it’s hardly working. Search results yield nothing of value and the categories are all screwed up. Looking for a top ten apps list? No one’s been able to accomplish that yet. It’s not looking good for Nokia with a fucked up launch like this. Let’s hope that by Friday, Nokia has everything it needs to in place.

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The T-Mobile G1 is really enjoying its time in the limelight thanks to it being the only available Android phone at the moment. With that said, it’s taken Google quite awhile to roll out paid apps on the Android Market. This is no good considering that Apple’s App Store is the undisputed king of application shopping. It’s good to see that Google is finally catching up.

Unfortunately, as you can see in the above screenshot, there’s no real useful applications yet. This is still a huge sword in Android’s foot. For the OS to be successful, it needs strong, likable apps that people will actually want to pay money for. Makes sense, right? After all, who the fuck wants to spend $6.99 on “To Do Projects”?

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I have to hand it to Macheist for really upping the ante this year. Normally, they’ll give away 10 or so solid applications for OS X in a bundle for around $20 to $50. This holiday season, you won’t be paying jack shit. Macheist has a Mac Giving Tree that gives out applications as presents. A few are currently available, with more on Christmas Day. If you’re a Macintosh owner, I suggest heading over and getting on top of that.

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Not going to lie here. I picked up a 16GB iPod Touch from Apple on Black Friday for a pretty cheap $279 after taxes. I’m hooked. Addicted. I can’t put the damn thing down. It seems I also managed to go on an app buying spree. Hit the jump to see all the shit I bought/downloaded off iTMS in a three day period. I feel eerily similar to Lisa Simpson.

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With the age of Bit Torrent upon us, computer users demand more storage than ever before. I myself am in dire need of a new 1TB hard disk to hold all the movies, applications and other garbage I download. However, I tend to have a problem with most external hard drives. They usually work fine for two years and then clunk out and need to be replaced. Mucho sucko, I know.

That’s where Cucku comes in. You and a trusted friend both install the Cucku application. You’ll then be able to back up your data onto your friend’s brand spankin’ new computer. Sure, your buddy dropped $900 last week on new hard disks but hey, that’s not your problem. All you’re concerned with is moving Season 4 of The Wire off your hard drive. Cucku can do this for you. Right now, it’s Windows-only software, which is fine since Apple offers iDisk. If you want to learn more, hit the link below.

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