Apple just announced that iTunes users now have the ability to gift apps to one another. The process is quite simple, like gifting a song – all you have to do is click the ‘gift app’ button. You must use your credit card on the account and cannot use gift cards or any other types of promotional payment to gift apps.

If you want to use this feature you have to sign into your iTunes account and accept the new terms policy.

From Apple:

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Acrobat.com mobile allows you to access your acrobat.com account from anywhere to view, share, and fax your Acrobat.com documents.

You can use the iPhone 3Gs camera to scan physical documents right into your Acrobat.com account! The application comes with the ability to scan up to 5 pages and fax 2 pages for free; then it will prompt you to purchase additional scan and fax pages through in-app Purchase. This is the perfect complement to your Acrobat.com account to let you work from anywhere, at anytime!

You can download Acrobat.com mobile from the App Store for free (link).

The iPhone game F.A.S.T. (Fleet Air Superiority Training) is an air combat simulation game with online multiplayer functionality. Yesterday it was updated and today it became free. The regular price was $0.99. The discount is probably due to the addition of some new paid content that is avaliable through the in-app purchase.

Why not try it for free? Go ahead and download via AppStore (link).

Watch the video:

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On Tuesday, December 8, the official Playboy iPhone app hopped into the App Storу. Everybody can buy it for just $1.99.

The app is a scaled-down iPhone version of the largest selling men’s magazine, Playboy, and includes portions of the text from the following well known features … Playboy Interview, Playboy Advisor, 20 Questions, Party Jokes, Fashion and more.

However do not expect to see everything you can find in the magazine. Apple does NOT allow nudity in the App Store. So the application includes the Playmate’s intro, data sheet, preview pictures and exclusive behind the scenes preview video. Theresa Hennessey explained: “The pictures are all non-nude or cropped, either from the magazine pictorial or from the Playmate’s Playboy.com pictorial.”

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Apple has just announced that all iPhone developers can now use the In-App Purchase in free applications! In the past the use of these APIs was reserved only for commercial software.

This is great, because developers can completely eliminate the Lite version, creating only a limited free version with full function unlock through an in-app purchase. All this is also intended to provide greater security for developers.

Here is a list of 113 new features in 3.0 firmware. The information is  from hackint0sh site forum:

1. Cut/Paste
2. Copy/Paste
3. Shake to undo/redo typing
4. Text selection for easy mass deletion
5. MMS
6. Landscape keyboard in Notes
7. Landscape keyboard in Mail
8. Landscape keyboard in Messages
9. Forward texts or picture messages
10. Delete individual texts or picture messages

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Here is a changelog of new iPhone firmware 3.0 beta 3:

• The “Store” entry in Settings App still links to a blank page.
• The keyboard background becomes black in every phone number box. It may be a bug.
• The Skype app gives an error on its first launch.
• Greater overall speed.
• Sometimes the SMS sending freezes. It could be caused by the keyboard bug.
• Better integration for Push Notifications APIs.
• Better Audio APIs (probably for A2DP).
• Error correction works better.
• iTunes synchronization now requires less time.
• Youtube app now works on every device.
• The MMS and Tethering old bundle does not work anymore.
• Spotlight saves last seach data.
• Users can assign home screen.
• Parental control.
• Users can disable In-App Purchase.
• Ability to hide the text of a message just received.

Here is an unofficial changelog of iPhone 3.0 beta2 firmware:

• Better Spotlight feature
• Better Copy-Cut-Paste
• Greater speed and overall stability
• MMS natively supported (without any hack) for a lot of new countries
• In-App Purchase first APIs released
• Push notifications first APIs released
• New APIs available to developers
• Bugs afflicting Beta 1 fixed
• Safari’s lower bar is no more transparent
• New “Store” entry in Settings App: it links to a blank page
• Contacts now divided in “All contacts”, “All contacts on My iPhone” and “All contacts (Mobile Me)”
• New Safari’s landscape mode when clicking on a image or a link
• Anti-phishing mode in Safari. Activate it in Settings App > Safari, switching Fraud alert ON. The green title bar on 3.0 firmware means a security certified and reliable website. The “htpps” protocol icon instead has been moved on the left of the title.
• SpringBoard has now up to 11 pages and 180 applications.

via ispazio