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So you have an Iphone and your with At&t and your wanting the At&t Navigator App for free… well yes you can get the app for free in itunes  but At&t of courses wants your hard earned money so the execs can get their big bonuses! Don’t fall for this monthly fee crap!! Their is now a free alternative!

Google Maps Navigation already offers it, as does Nokia’s Ovi Maps, and now MapQuest is getting into the free turn-by-turn, voice-guided GPS navigation game. MapQuest has announced  that its MapQuest 4 for iPhone app has been updated to give users voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation service for absolutely free! The app will track your iPhone via GPS and alert you when you approach an exit, turn, or other navigation directions. It’ll even reroute you at the push of a button when you miss an offramp.

Google provides free GPS nav service on Android OS-powered phones, which gives Android phones a strong appeal among tech-conscious types on a budget. Nokia also offers free sat-nav through its clunky Ovi Maps for those of you still using Symbian-based phones. Now, the iPhone can lay claim to having a free voice-guided GPS solution of its own.

MapQuest 4 also sports power savings controls. Since using GPS on the iPhone 3G and 3GS can severely tax the battery, the app allows for three levels of power management. With power-management off, the app will keep the handset display fully lit and powered on, preventing the display from locking and shutting down. With low power management enabled, the app will allow the display to dim to save battery power, but will prevent it from locking and turning off altogether. With full power management enabled, the display will dim and turn off like normal.

If you have an iPhone 3G or 3GS running iPhone OS 3.x, you can download MapQuest 4 for free from the iTunes AppStore. Seeing as how it’s free and offers services that you normally have to pay through the nose for, we’d say it’s totally worth the few clicks it’s going to take you to download the app.

Ditch the At&t Navigator and save money!

(sorry I hate At&t… they ruined my life…so here is just little payback!)

A survey of 300,000 applications for both the iPhone and Android devices found that 14 percent of free App Store software has the ability to access a user’s contacts on their iPhone.

This week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nev., security research firm Lookout revealed that it analyzed more than 300,000 free applications available on both the iPhone App Store and Android Market.

As noted earlier, the mobile security firm revealed a wallpaper application for Google’s Android mobile operating system that allegedly captures a handset’s SIM card number, subscriber identification and voicemail password, and reportedly sends it to the website www.imnet.us, owned by someone in Shenzhen, China.

In addition, Lookout also discovered that 14 percent of the surveyed free applications available for Apple’s iPhone have the capability to access a user’s contact data. That’s more than on Android, where 8 percent of tested applications could view the contact list.

Additionally, 33 percent of free applications on the App Store have the ability to access a user’s location. The difference is, Apple’s iOS mobile operating system requires third-party software to inform users when the application is accessing their location. Such rules do not, however, exist for contacts. For comparison, 29 percent of free Android software has the ability to access a user’s location.

Finally, Lookout also found that 47 percent of free Android applications include third-party code, such as mobile ads and analytics tracking. That number is 23 percent on the iPhone. The survey found that 28 percent of software on the App Store is free, compared with 64 percent on the Android Market.

The iPhone Dev Team on Wednesday released the latest hack that allows a jailbroken iPhone 4 to be unlocked and used on any wireless carrier.

The unlock solution is called “ultrasn0w,” and works with the latest version of Apple’s smartphone, as well as iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.

But to use it requires an iPhone that’s been jailbroken. The same group released a jailbreak program for the iPhone 4 over the weekend by exploiting a security hole in the mobile version of the Safari browser. That jailbreak brought attention to the fact that navigating to a certain site via any iOS device can present the exploit as a simple PDF link, which requires no explicit user action short of clicking a link. It can then launch an exploit that takes advantage of the way the PDF viewer loads fonts, which could enable a program to have unrestricted access to the device. Apple says it is looking into the problem.

Jailbreaking an iPhone is still considered by Apple as a quick way to void the warranty since the act breaks the user agreement. But legally, it’s now allowed. Last week the U.S. Copyright Office amended the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow consumers to bypass a handset manufacturer’s protection mechanisms to allow “handsets to execute software applications.”

But while handset owners are explicitly allowed to jailbreak their own phones, the Copyright Office did not appear to extend that to allow third parties to supply jailbreaking software in order to switch carriers.

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I’ll bet there are many, many developers out there right now trying to figure out just what the perfect recipe is for App Store mega success. Well, there’s probably no ready-made formula that will guarantee you bucketloads of iPhone user cash, but studying the work of those who’ve already done well might reveal some basic truths about what customers are looking for. Go ahead and do so by checking out Apple’s recently released list of the top apps of all time (iTunes link).

Basic Truth #1: iPhone users like shooting things, or at least pretending to. That’s probably not very accurate, but there are two shooting-related apps among the top 20 paid apps, iShoot and iHunt. Shooting also occurs in Fieldrunners, but not in such a hands-on manner. I think the list of free apps might be more illuminating in some ways, since no doubt the 99 cent price point of many of the paid apps might have had more to do with their success than the content or function of the app itself. At least I sincerely hope that’s why iFart Mobile got a spot.
Among the top 40 (20 paid and 20 free), I have a few personal favorites, and quite a few have me scratching my head. The best, in my opinion, are:

Bejeweled 2 — Honestly, I’m a little surprised I’m including this one too, but recent events have made me realize just how perfect the marriage of the iPhone’s touch interface and this inane, time-killing game truly is. 427,962, level 24 on Classic mode, that’s how perfect.

Shazam — Not only is it actually really handy for when you’re listening to the radio or watching a movie or TV show and can’t quite place a great song, but this is also the ultimate ambassador app. Not everyone is familiar with the iPhone’s vast app library, but almost everyone knows about “the one that guesses what song’s playing,” and almost everyone wants to see it in action.

Pocket God — It was either this or Koi Pond, but Pocket God to me represents what Koi Pond paved the way for, and also what it should aspire to become. The regular updates, or “installments,” make sure this is one app that actually retains a space on my springboard even when other, more useful apps come and go.

Remote — The father of all apps, Apple’s own Remote for use with iTunes on your laptop or desktop computer. I use this constantly, since I have my iTunes on my Mac mini and a multi-room speaker system set up using Airport Expresses. Would like it to work with Quicktime, too, but it’s still more than wonderful for a free app.

Movies — I use this all the time to buy movie tickets en route to the theater. I love it, and love not having to print anything out. Built-in trailers and Rotten Tomatoes round it out very nicely.

By and large, it looks like the goodies are generally rising to the top, though there are the few exceptions I’ve already mentioned. I think that the new capabilities open to developers in iPhone 3.0 will shake up the landscape quite a bit, so look for a much different list the same time next year.