Apple announced that 13-year-ancient Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Connecticut won its billion App countdown contest, receiving a MacBook Pro, $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod Touch, and a Time Capsule. The App he downloaded to win was Bump, by Bump Technologies, which allows users to bump their iPhones together in order to exchange contact information.
– The winner of Apple’s
billion App countdown contest is a 13-year-ancient from Weston, Connecticut, who
downloaded Bump, an application that lets users bump their iPhones together in
order to exchange contact information.

Winner Connor
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infection. According to a statement issued by Cambridge
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Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of fantastic Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter (including us). What this says about Twitter’s native functionality we aren’t sure, but we know we’ve had upwards of 10 separate scripts installed and active at different times.

All that is going to end, at least for the next small while, as we have just found the GM script that does everything (and we mean everything). It’s the innocently named, Troy’s Twitter Script (made by Troy Thompson) that we first noticed written up over on TechRaga.

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After installing the script and visiting Twitter, we found so many useful tweaks to nearly every Twitter view that it was nearly overwhelming. Here’s what it does broken down into three main functionalities:

• Enhancement: Links in tweets are automatically expanded and replaced with the target page title if available. Media like YouTube videos and Twitpic images are included in-line. Hashtags are converted to Twitter search links. Auto-pagination is enabled as you get to the bottom of the current page. The ‘definitions’ area is hidden. Last but not least, answers are included underneath the latest tweet, indented and smaller (fantastic for those of you still using the default "include all @answers" in your settings!)
• Functionality: Hovering over a tweet shows default actions like star (save), answer, and retweet. Long URLs are automatically shortened if the tweet you are typing in exceeds the length limit. Twitter names get autocomplete launched by typing an @ in a tweet. Twitter bio text gets inserted into following/followers list.
• New Hotness: A new search field added to Twitter sidebar. Any searches performed from sidebar get saved and added to the sidebar (removable). A tiny smilie face is added to the Twitter icon of those people who are following you. When viewing a specific Twitter user, their social graph is inserted in the bio area. Local time is added if the user’s time zone is in their profile. Map to user’s location is inserted if location or geo coordinates are in their profile. Finally, the most awesome addition: Groups support in your followers/following tabs, you can add people to groups that show up in the Twitter sidebar.

Troy’s Twitter script, in our opinion, is crazy awesome. If you find yourself in a memory crunch and prefer not to use a standalone Twitter application, and use Firefox, this script is a must-have. In fact, it’s too terrible that Greasemonkey scripts really only work well in Firefox, because it sure would be fantastic to have all these features in every browser out there. To that end, you can try using Greasemetal (covered here) for Chrome, or GreaseKit for Safari on Mac OSX.

Update: There’s a modified version of Troy’s script that adds a link in the user profile to the Mailana user analysis app, Top Twitter Friends. This feature should be rolled into the main script in the next version.

You can find ReadWriteWeb on Twitter, as well as the entire RWW Team: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Bernard Lunn, Alex Iskold, Sarah Perez, Frederic Lardinois, Rick Turoczy, Sean Ammirati, Lidija Davis and Phil Glockner.

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Today, Apple announced that its customers have now downloaded a whopping one billion applications from its App Store. Here at ReadWriteWeb, quite a few of us have iPhones, so we thought that this would be a excellent time to feature some of our favorite apps. We download and test a lot of iPhone apps, but here are the ones that have stood the test of time for us. The App Store is now home to over 35,000 applications, so this is obviously only a small selection of applications, but these are the apps that we don’t hesitate to recommend to our friends.

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We couldn’t get feedback from everybody on the RWW team (and our BlackBerry users weren’t very forthcoming with suggestions either), but here are the recommendations from Richard MacManus (R), Marshall Kirkpatrick (M), Frederic Lardinois (F), and Phil Glockner (P).

Music Apps / Internet Radio

• Pandora (M)
• Slacker Radio (F) – our review
• Last.fm (R)
• Tuner (P)

News

• New York Times (M,F) – our review of version 2.0
• USA Today (P)

Photo Apps

• Photon (F) – our review
• Pixelpipe (F) – upload your photos to over 70 different photosharing and social media services (we just posted a review of Pixelpipe’s new Firefox plugin today)
• Mobile Fotos (P) – browse and upload photos and videos on Flickr
• iview (P) – share photos on Tumblr

Social Networks

• Facebook (P, M)
• Foursquare (P) – our review

Twitter Clients

• Tweetie (M, P)
• Twitterfon (F, R)

E-Books

• Kindle for iPhone (F) – our review
• Stanza (P) – part of our list of seven must-have offline apps

Productivity

• Todo (F) – lots of to-do list apps for the iPhone – this one is $9.99, but worth the money
• Groundwork (R) – access Basecamp from your iPhone
• YouNote (R) – note taking app, but also works with photos, drawings, and audio
• Soonr (F) – access documents from your desktop on the iPhone

Chat / Voip

• Skype (P, F) – our review (“It’s Real and It’s Spectacular”)

Health

• Diamedic (R) – for tracking glucose levels, insulin injections, lab results etc.

What are Your Favorite Apps?

These are the apps that we use every day, but you surely have your own favorites, so feel free to leave a comment and let us know which apps you prefer.

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