San Francisco, CA – The 2009 Best App Ever Awards nomination period is quickly drawing to a close. The awards team has been tracking the leaders in each of the 56 categories. With less than two weeks to go in the nomination process for the 2009 Best App Ever Awards, the team is proud to present the top nominees in all open categories. The top five apps that have received votes from the iPhone app community are presented in alphabetical order here:

Ewcastle Upon Tyne, England – Satosoft, indie iPhone software producer, today announced their third application, MP Expenses, is now available exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. MP Expenses, from Satosoft, gives you the information that UK MP’s have tried to cover up for years. It gives you the ability to view each MP’s expenses. You can also send them an email to their own email address. Additionally, you can ring their Parliamentary office or Constituency office or even view their website.

Odessa, Ukraine – Today Readdle announced the release of Scanner Pro 1.2, the latest version of their popular iPhone application which transforms the device into portable scanner. Scanner Pro 1.2 introduces integration with Print n Share from EuroSmartz, the all round iPhone printing application. This integration will enable owners of the both applications to seamlessly scan and then print documents to any USB, WIFI, Bluetooth or network printer via a Mac or PC. Another highly anticipated addition of the new version is the ability to upload scanned documents to Dropbox cloud storage.

Springville, Utah – Clever Coding’s latest iPhone App Milkcaps appears on the iTunes App Store on November 26th, 2009. Milkcaps is another app in a long line of innovative iPhone applications that they have developed for themselves and for clients around the world through their custom iPhone development services. If you were alive in the 90’s, chances are you played Milkcaps (Pogs as they were commonly called). If you didn’t get a chance to play them then, here is your chance! The first Milkcaps game on the iPhone/iPod Touch is here!

Prological Solutions is launching a new licensing program that will let designers and engineers to link iPhone applications and accesories to create an even wider market for new accesory ideas and usage.

Enhance your accessory by developing an iPhone app to extend its functionality, or create entirely new integrated solutions that combine an iPhone app with dedicated hardware. For example, you can display a fully interactive Multi-Touch equalizer for your speaker system. Create an inventory app for your barcode reader. Or, build an app that logs and tracks the readings from an attached heart-rate monitor. The potential solutions are limitless.

Samsung doesn’t want to be left behind and is rolling its own applications store to be launched later this year with big names in the mobile gaming and application development like EA, Gameloft, Capcom and others.

The service will be available to Omnia mobile phone in U.K., France, and Italy on September 14, more countries to follow.

Visit the Store here: http://www.samsungapps.com/ Via desinformado.com

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Microsoft is not sleeping this time and want to take a piece of the searches made from the iPhone, it’s now launching the bing.com SDK that will help developers to easily integrate Bing search results into their applications.

The Bing SDK for iPhone and Mac is a Cocoa Framework and was designed to remove the headache of manually having to parse XML or JSON in order to communicate with the Bing API.

The popular and revolutionary application Spotify is now ready to change the way We listen our iPhone and iPod music, it’s been approved and it’s a matter of time to have this tremendous application avaiable at the AppStore. Spotify transform our music experience, it’s a new discovery and an elevation of our music taste.

With the approval of Spotify, Apple seems to be changing its trend on what application can be included and we hope that Apple drops the duplication of features as a normative to approve or not an application, it’s a people choice to select the most convenient one.

With an extensive selection of browser-based and iPhone-enabled applications such as customer relationship management, project management, conference management, the Etelos Marketplace is the place to find business applications such as Etelos CRMâ„¢ for the iPhone, Etelos Projectsâ„¢ and other business applications that make the Mac and iPhones powerful business tools.

At Macworld last week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs made the icons on his touch-screen iPhone jiggle. That’s right, jiggle. “They all get a little restless,” he said.

The jiggling comes courtesy of Apple’s January 2008 iPhone Software Update, and it’s a feature that indicates a new mode of customization that lets you change the position of application icons on the iPhone’s home screen. Plus, with a side flick of your finger, you can create up to nine additional screens — neighbor screens, so to speak.

Not all preferences appear in your iPhone Settings application. As I discussed rather thoroughly in my Modding Mac OS X book, it’s not that hard to dig through applications and discover undocumented–or in this case unpromoted–preferences that add spice to your Mac or iPhone. I decided to put the iPhone’s SpringBoard to the test. That’s the app that runs your main home page. This core application contained over a dozen user-settable preferences. I tested them all and selected my six favorites. If you have access to the command line, you can start having fun with these settings yourself. This post shows you how.