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In this episode, Josh talks about Mail Template Editor.

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In this episode, Grant talks about Google Quick Search Box.

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In this episode, Josh talks about the recent change in iTunes pricing.

For all the talk of the iPhone not being a gaming device it sure looks like the top 10 paid applications to date are all games.  1 Billion downloads today, and every single one of the top applications are games, with the exception of four.  That’s a lot of sales for an industry that the phone “couldn’t” compete with.  Anyway, 1 Billion applications sold in a little over 8 months is pretty damn exciting.  I wonder what 30% of those sales were.

A huge congrats goes out to Apple, and more importantly, all those application developers out there who’ve made the appstore a success.  Without you guys I’d have no way to kill time between meetings and blog posts.  *Cheers*  We’ll keep our eye out for the winner of the billion download contest and let you guys know who the lucky person was once we find out!

Just a little aside in case you missed it earlier.  The iPhone is a gaming device and it’s already competing with the DS in spectacular fashion.  If you’re looking for app recommendations for your touch or iphone check out our apple a day feed.

Evernote is in essence a notebook app. But it goes much farther than that. You can take clips, write directly into it, drop photo’s save webpages, and drop PDF’s into the app. It also has text recognition. Just sync your notes to the evernote server and the work is all done. Evernote is a cloud utility with native Windows and Mac interfaces along with iPhone and Windows Mobile applications. On top of all that, they even have a web interface that allows you to check and save to your evernote account from any computer. Check Evernote out. It is free and if you like it, go ahead and pay for the premium service to support this wonderful service.

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Apple finished up their financial second quarter of 2009 back on March 28th. On April 22, they announced their figures. And, per usual, they impress.

Apple made a killing in terms of sales. The revenue was at $8.16 billion. Yes, that’s eight times the number of iPhone OS applications sold. This is down from last quarter, but that’s to be expected. Last quarter’s revenue was $10.16 Billion. You can’t expect to duplicate the holiday sales for consumer electronics.

Let’s get into actual sales for products. Macs accounted for 2.22 million units, That’s down 300,000 or 11.9% from last quarter, but down 70,000 units versus the second quarter of 2008, which is 3.15%.

iPhone sales totaled 3.79 Million, which makes me feel less special for owning one. That’d down from 18,99/304.36 million during the first quarter, or 12.87% fewer units. Despite being down from last quarter, compared to the second quarter of 2008, sales were doubled. This is to be expected though, since they introduced iPhone 3G last year, and the original iPhone wasn’t selling quite as well, given the higher price of the original. That, plus more markets does help in bumping up the figures.

iPods were, of course, the dominant sales force. There were 11.01 million units sold in the second quarter. It comes to a 51.56% drop in total sales. However, this is no surprise. President’s Day, Valentine’s day and St. Patrick’s day iPhone gifts just don’t compare to Hanukkah and Christmas, in terms of consumer electronics, and given the economy this is to be expected.

Guidance for next quarter is definitely conservative. They expect revenue around $8 billion. Although, that’s not far from what they managed to do this quarter. Apple also said they expect to see Jobs back in action, as expected, in late June. Who knows, he may come back for the WWDC keynote, we’ll keep our eyes out for that one.

A couple of weeks ago I did a write up on MacTracker, a program that details the specs of pretty much any Apple product. Today I saw on Macworld that the creator, Ian Page, has released a version for the iPhone/Touch.

Again, just a great program for nostalgia or looking into that old relic you have kicking around.

iTunes Link - Mactracker

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In this episode, Grant talks about Boxee.