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Are you using Twitter frequently? Great. Try this new app: Summizer will help you tracking the most popular micro blogging service, following friends and trends you care about. Another Twitter app on the iPhone is Twittie.

Just in case you missed about this service, it's taken from Twitter's site:

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.  People write short updates, often called "tweets"  of 140 characters or fewer.  These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.

Summizer's features include:

• Search Twitter.
• View popular topics on Twitter.
• Save your searches.
• Check for updates.
• View links inside Summizer.
• View more tweets.
• Reply to users.
• Retweet tweets.
• Refresh saved trends from tweet view.
• New tweets highlighted.
• Safari button in web view.

Have Twitter account? Please leave it on the comment box below, I will follow you. And here is my Twitter account: http://twitter.com/budip.

Yes, you can try Summizer before you buy.

via Steve Rubel

Are you a big fan of the Oscars? The 81st annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday. As an iPhone user, there are cool apps for you to enjoy the award's show, trailers, news, history, outfits, wallpapers, games and so on.

Here are the apps:

• iSlumDog Millionaire: The best-picture nominee Slumdog Millionaire's soundtrack and production photos of . $0.99.
• Hollywood Trivia - The Oscar Quiz: Oscars-based games and quiz. $0.99.
  
• Access2Go: The hottest Oscars' celebrity news. Free.
• Flixster:  The Oscars movie's trailers. Free.
• Oscars History: The award's history and trivia. $0.99.
  
• Movie Challenge Oscar Special: The award's trivia. $0.99.
• And the Award Goes To: The Oscars' who's who since 1927. $0.99.
• Style: the Academy Awards' fashion coverage. Free.

And the Oscar for the best app goes to...

LA Times Blog | photo credit

A recent study found that most free iPhone apps are rarely used after the first day they're downloaded. According to analytics company Pinch Media, which analyzed over 30 million downloads from Apple's App Store, only 20 percent of users go back for more the following day.

When it comes to paid apps, only 30 percent of iPhone users actually use it the day after it was purchased and only 5 percent of them are actively using it in the next 20 days.

Using the apps at the same day or the following day (or even the following months) after they're downloaded, it's just the matter of habit, I think. Not a big deal. How do you think?

via CNET

Are you a fan of  the nineties hit-maker The Presidents of the United States of America? The pop band has released a $2.99 iPhone app that contains four of their albums plus live tracks, demos and regular updates. Any song you like can be bought from the iTunes store directly from within the app.

The songs are streamed, not downloaded, which means that you need a live Internet connection to hear them. In other words, imagine Pandora or Slacker, but focused on one band and with no restrictions on song order or skipping.

Dave Dederer, the band's singer and guitarist said, "IPhone apps are exploding, including for musical artists, but nobody's done anything like this." The application was built by Melodeo, where Dederer one of the company's executives.

via CNET