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Apple continues to try to make iPhone app ratings genuinely useful—first by making sure you own 'em before you slam 'em—and in the iPhone 2.2 update, apparently, by getting you to actually rate them. A new 2.2 screenshot shows it asking users to rate an app when they delete it from the phone, which would presumably be uploaded to the App Store and ... Full story

by Dan Moren, Macworld.com If you’ve ever found yourself in an unfamiliar neighborhood, wondering if a particular restaurant is any good, or in the book store trying to decide what should be next on your reading list, you might be a candidate for social-networking service LivingSocial’s new iPhone app of the same name. The idea behind LivingSocial is simple: share your opinions on ... Full story

30 per cent to the bag man By Ted Dziuba • Get more from this author Posted in Developer, 27th October 2008 13:02 GMT Fail and You "Listen up, friend. We take care of the community. We all protect each other. You wanna set up shop in this neighborhood, you're gonna need some protection, you know what I'm sayin'? I mean, you got a real nice business here, nice store, nice people. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it. Fire, robbery, these things happen all the time, but we can make sure they don't - at least to you. Let's say 30 per cent of your daily take? It's not in your best interest to say no to guys like us. It's bad for your health." Does this shakedown sound familiar? If you're an iPhone developer, it should. When a developer sells an application through the iPhone Application Store, they only see 70 per cent of the revenue. The rest goes to Apple for “system upkeep.” There's no other way to sell iPhone apps. Apple's distribution channel is the only one. Users can't buy your program from their computer then load it onto an iPhone without jailbreaking the device, which is a gamble. Full story

Box.net—one of our Hive Five Best Online File Sharing Services—has just released their free iPhone and iPod touch application. You can now easily access collaborative files and view Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF documents from your Box.net account on the go from your iPhone. Full story

Dougie Moo’s Aqua Antics features 30 unique levels of addictive puzzle action. Using the device’s accelerometer, players can control Dougie Moo to combine sets of coloured balls that float on a body of water. Spread over 5 worlds, Dougie needs to navigate through all sorts of hazards, like sharks, bombs and even homing blowfish! Full story