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24 Feb 2010

Real estate website Zillow.com told WebProNews today it has updated its free iPhone App with new features to allow users to share property details via Facebook and Twitter.

Zillow also said it has added listings for homes for rent to its iPhone App. House hunters can set search filters by home price or monthly payment, and at the same time find both for sale and for rent homes within their price range.

Users can now share Zillow’s property details, including values and photos on more than 93 million homes via Facebook and Twitter, whether or not the homes are for sale, in addition to being able to email properties of interest to a friend or real estate agent.

"The response to the Zillow iPhone App has been incredible, with more than two million homes viewed on the app every month. People are clearly using the app to satisfy their desire for real estate information exactly when and where they need it most – on location while searching for homes and neighborhoods," said Spencer Rascoff, Zillow chief operating officer.

"Now we’re improving their mobile experience by providing even more shopping tools and home listings, and giving users ways to share what they find instantly with family, friends, real estate agents and social networks."

The Zillow iPhone App has been downloaded more than 945,000 times since its launch in April 2008, making it the most popular real estate app in the Apple iTunes Store.

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Apple Fast Approaching 10 Billion Song Downloads

In: web resources

12 Feb 2010

Apple is rapidly approaching 10 billion song downloads. They’re counting down to the massive milestone download number, and doing it in style. But don’t blink or you might miss it.

To speed along the process — though it really doesn’t appear that iTunes needs the extra push — Apple is greasing the wheels and offering a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card to the individual credited with the 10 billionth song download. To increase your odds at the big iTunes prizes, you might want to keep your eyes on their nifty countdown mechanism (in fact I’m firing up iTunes as we speak).

The record iTunes event has been seven years in the making. In recent years, however, the song download rate appears to be speeding up at an astronomical pace, as less than two years ago Apple was merely touting 4 billion songs sold.

We’re going to keep a close eye on that timer and so should you if you want a chance at that $10,000 reward. Good luck.

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Apple iTunes Preview Feature Lets You Browse for Apps in Regular Browsers [New Apple iTunes Preview Feature Points to Browser-Ready App Store Version]

In: gadgets

5 Feb 2010

Looking for apps for the iPhone and iPod touch can be annoying if you’re not exactly interested in buying any. But what if one could browse the App Store in a regular, old-fashioned browser? Wouldn’t that be convenient? Well it looks like iTunes Preview can do that for you now!

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Apple has silently rolled out a web version of its App Store. All you have to do is select the “Copy Link” option from the iTunes application and the URL will take you there. The site offers you a full description, pricing details and screenshots of any application from the App Store. Not a bad feature, wouldn’t you agree?

Furthermore users have access to system requirements, customer reviews, update details and they also get information regarding the developer’s official Web site and support pages.

The website does require some more tweaking and tuning as it looks like it won’t be able to compare to the iTunes application when it comes to actually browsing the App Store. Looking for new software or music will not work as good as on iTunes and you won’t be able to search for any specific applications from within the browser.

iTunes Preview already works with music content and users can now preview songs thanks to those 30-seconds samples that can be played within the browser without the actual need of opening the iTunes player.

It looks like Apple might slowly be moving towards a new iTunes concept: direct access to all the content available, music, videos and apps, from any browser connected to the Internet. Such a move sounds very interesting as it won’t require you to download the application on your device and maybe not even store the content locally.

Nothing is official yet and in the mean time we’ll have to stick to buying music, apps and video shows from the iTunes app. But it will be interesting to see what happens with the whole iTunes concept in the future as Apple is getting ready for even more content with the introduction of their new iBook store.

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