MerchantWARE Mobile is a FREE, user-friendly, virtual credit card terminal application which gives iPhone & iTouch users the ability to run credit card transactions directly on their device. This solution is perfect for anyone who is on the move, and who needs to process credit cards on the go. All you need is the MerchantWARE Mobile virtual terminal application, a merchant account from Merchant Warehouse, and a connection to WiFi, Edge or 3G networks.

Features :-

• You can easily run secure credit card transactions such as sale, refund, and void with this virtual credit card terminal.

• Unlike other solutions on the market, MerchantWARE Mobile is offered for free and does not require any 3rd party gateways. In other words, you get all the advantages of mobile credit card processing without any additional fees on top of your actual merchant account costs.

• Uses an encrypted and secure SSL connection to protect your customers’ information.

• The MerchantWARE Mobile virtual credit card terminal supports robust reporting such as transaction summary, totals by card type, and transaction details. You can simply set the date settings then view the reports.

• Automatic end of day batch processing to avoid hassles and downgraded transactions on your merchant account.

• Easy end of day review feature enabling you to quickly review your credit card processing sales.

• Includes access to the MerchantWARE Virtual Terminal. Merchants may use this online application to process credit card transactions through the same merchant account from any computer connected to the Internet.

• Easy access to a quick reference guide, which guides users though each transaction or reporting process.

• MerchantWARE Mobile is also known as MWare Mobile, MerchantWARE Mobile Virtual Terminal and MerchantWARE Mobile Virtual Credit Card Terminal.

Merchant Warehouse is a trusted provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing services, and has a Low Cost Guarantee on the merchant services they offer.

Courtesy: Merchantwarehouse.com

It is somehow fitting that University of Chicago business school students would develop an iPhone app that works by bump, not touch, on Apple’s famed screen. After all, it was a former U of C professor, President Barack Obama, and his wife, Michelle, who helped to popularize the fist bump.

The new iPhone app, called “Bump,” transfers data from one iPhone to another (or an iPod Touch) simply by bumping each other. While one person holds an iPhone, he “bumps” hands with another user holding her iPhone. Then detailed contact information or just select data, such as a phone number, is shared.

The company says information is exchanged in less than 10 seconds. Take a look at how it works here

Source: Chicagotribune.com

Tumblr is a popular blogging service, that authorizes one to create a microblog and provides lots of features that allows you personalize the service to a whole new level. The Tumblr team has renamed its Tumblrette application (for iphone) to Tumblr for iPhone. This application used to cost $1.99 earlier and now its free. In fact, Tumblrette proved so effective and efficient, the Tumblr team bought the app, made a few more changes, dropped the price to free, and redubbed it Tumblr.

Tumblr’s popularity is built on the ease with which people can post text, photos, links, sound clips and more. The iPhone app gives you access to all of these posting options except video. One great extra feature in the Tumblr app is the ability to record audio clips on the phone and post them directly to your tumblelog.

One of Tumblr’s core features is the Dashboard; you can access it through the iPhone app, where you can view updates from other Tumblr sites you follow as well as “re-blog” individual posts. The addition of the iPhone Dashboard, an iPhone optimized version, was a tremendous boost to the rebranded app.

If you’re a Tumblr user, then this app is essential. Not only does it make it very simple to post on the run, but now catching up on your Dashboard updates is just easy.

Tumblr is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.2.1 software update.

One of the most important sets of information on your iPhone is your contacts. Many users have been faced with an issue when trying to sync their iPhone contacts with their computers. If you have entered your contact information on your iPhone first (not on your computer) and would now like to retrieve those contacts for your computer, this post is for you. Please read the entire post before attempting:To Sync your iPhone contacts from your iPhone to your computer:

1. Be sure to have a backup of any contacts (export a vCard or .csv file from your contact management program) you may have on your computer that you want to keep.

2. Plug your iPhone into your computer and launch iTunes. iTunes automatically creates a backup of your iPhone (including contacts).

3. Once your iPhone is backed up, uncheck the “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” box.

4. Under the “Info” tab, check which contacts you would like to sync.

5. Click the “Sync” button in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window.

6. iTunes will see that you are changing the contacts information for more than 5 percent of your data and ask if you would like to replace the data on the phone, replace the data on the computer, or merge all data.

   Replacing the data on the iPhone will erase everything you have entered on your phone and only show you what you had on your computer.

   Replacing the data on the computer will erase everything you have entered on your computer and only show you what you had on your iPhone.

   Merging the data will combine the data from each– a process that can create duplicate contacts.

7. Choose the appropriate action for your situation.

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Source: MacFixIt.com

The web applications are computer software applications, accessed via web browser over a network such as the Internet. It combines the power of the Internet with the simplicity of Multi-Touch technology. These are coded in a browser-supported language such as HTML, JavaScript, Java, etc. iPhone web applications are popular and are convenient in use. To make your life easier, a large number of developers have churned a number of cool apps for iPhone. It offers a lot from entertainment to news, free magazines to sports, games, movies, music, travel, cook books, and many more. When you find a web app you like, you can put it on your home screen for easy, one-tap access. iPhone web apps use Web 2.0 technologies to deliver a core result that looks and functions like an integral iPhone application.

iPhone web apps run in Safari. Its unique implementation provides full-featured web browsing on iPhone OS–based gadgets and reciprocates touch-based gestures. If you want to develop a web app for your iPhone, you need to optimize the specific web content for safari that describes how to begin the process of transforming your web content into an iPhone web app. The next step would be designing a user experience and user interface that follows Apple’s guidelines.

Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday. We got a chance to sit down with the application’s principal engineer before the announcement was made at CTIA 2009, to see Skype for iPhone do its thing. While most of the features aren’t too surprising–Skype does want to maintain some consistency across its mobile applications, after all–there are a few capabilities that are notably missing, and a few iPhone-only perks that are refreshing to see.

In terms of navigation, Skype’s VoIP app for iPhone looks more like your traditional iPhone app than it does Skype 4.0 for Windows. For many who already prefer Apple’s sleek interface archetype, that’s a triumph, but those who enjoy Skype’s branding may feel disappointed.

Skype’s screens are well organized and use the iPhone’s ability to add filters, for instance, to sort your contacts alphabetically, or by who’s online. There’s chatting as well, though Skype’s flagship feature is its VoIP calling that’s free to other Skype users and an inexpensive per-minute fee to landlines. Calls on Skype for iPhone work only if you’re in range of a Wi-Fi network, so your call quality will in part be at the mercy and strength of wireless networks nearby–calls will not work over the cell phone network on the iPhone (but chatting will.) Assuming your connection is solid, you can dial a number or quickly call a contacts stored in your address book. iPod Touch users will need earphones with an embedded mic to talk. During a call, you can mute the line, go on hold, or put the call on speakerphone. In the My Info window, you can follow a link to buy more SkypeOut credit online.

Courtesy: CNET Reviews

Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features — more than 100 in all — in the third major revision of the iPhone’s basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at the company’s Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for — in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:

• Cut, copy and paste across applications
• So-called “push notification” — for example, of breaking news or sports results
• Multimedia messaging service (MMS) for sending pictures or voice memos in instant messages
• Landscape viewing when the iPhone is turned sideways in the major applications, including Mail
• The ability to search Mail, Calendar and other Apple applications for key words
• Improved calendar functions
• Stereo Bluetooth for wireless earphones

And much more. At the end of the 90 minute presentation, senior vice president Scott Forstall (who stood in for the ailing Steve Jobs) was rattling off features faster than reporters could type: Notes Sync, audio/video tags, live streaming, shake to shuffle, Wi-Fi auto login, Stereo Bluetooth, LDAP, iTunes account creation, YouTube ratings, anti-phishing, call log, parental controls, media ccrubber, OTA profiles, VPN on demand, languages, YouTube subscriptions, YouTube accounts, encrypted profiles, auto-fills…

“Many minor features add up to a major change,” was Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s take-away message.

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Courtesy: CNN