Update: MajicRank 1.3 has been released, and now has it’s own product page.

MajicRank is a free application for Mac OS X (10.5+) designed to give iPhone App Developers an easy way to see how popular their applications are around the world.

It automatically downloads top 100 statistics for any iPhone app, for any categories or game sub categories, for most regions from iTunes, and displays the results in a colored table. Note that though the screenshot only shows 8 regions, the rest can be added in the preferences menu.

MajicRank 1.2 can be downloaded from http://majicjungle.com/MajicRank.zip (0.5MB)

There's good news for those who want to double the usefulness of their iPhone: a developer will soon release an application that will allow Apple's smartphone to run Windows Mobile.

Norwegian Erik Kristiansen has created a dual-boot application for the iPhone, similar to Apple's Boot Camp for its PCs. It allows users to run either Windows Mobile or the standard iPhone operating system. This isn't an emulator, and the two OSs can't run simultaneously.

Kristiansen gave a brief demonstration and interview at the myPhone2008 event:

The beta being demonstrated certainly appears to have the basic functionality of Windows Mobile, but details are scant. For example, it's not clear if Windows Mobile applications will be able to access the iPhone's entire internal storage, or only a partition.

This iPhone application is scheduled to be released in January of next year. Pricing is not yet known.

Naturally, it will not be available through the official App Store, as Apple has forbidden emulators and similar software to be sold through its store.

Read an original article here

It's difficult to keep up the App Store these days as there are just so many cool apps to talk about. However, this one demanded some attention. It's a heart rate monitor and it uses the iPhone's built-in microphone to detect your heart beat.

See original article here

Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from 320480.com but we still found ourselves having to build out additional assets or heavily modifying bitmap based buttons and widgets.

Since we know we’ll be doing more of this, we created our own Photoshop file that has a fairly comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable.

You can download psd file and read original article here

One of the limitations of iPhone's Mail app is that it does not support landscape mode for reading or writing an email. iPhone app developer, Mark Schneider, addresses this strange limitation of iPhone's Mail app with his App called TouchType (Landscape Email). Read full article here

Finally Apple gets some serious competition with T-Mobile's G1. Here is how the two stack up against each other.

Since the iPhone was launched 15 months ago it has defined, for many, what a smartphone experience should be. But today T-Mobile gives the iPhone a run for its money with the launch of the G1 smartphone. From the details that have emerged today regarding the G1, Apple now has a reason to be looking over its' shoulder. Here is a look at how G1 and the iPhone compare to one another.