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Here is an alternative to the normal texting services offered by your local mobile carrier. This application allows you to purchase credits and use them in place of your phone’s mobile carrier to send SMS messages anywhere in the world.

This third party program called biteSMS for Apple’s iPhone, gives you an option to send your text via biteSMS or your mobile carrier when you select a conversation. There’s even an option to make biteSMS your default text application if you find the rates more reasonable, as well as the ability to reset the counter.

Buying credits from the biteSMS site is based on the currency you will be using for the credits. Payment methods include PayPal, Visa, or Mastercard and cost approximately US 0.10 per text. Once you purchase your credits, you might have to restore your iPhone before it reflects on your mobile phone.

Here is what biteSMS can do:

• Forward text messages by swiping on the text in a SMS Conversation.
• Auto correction visible.
• Improved scrolling of text field when entering or editing a message.
• Support credit voucher SMS delivery to China.
• Changed 3 retries to 2 when sending via biteSMS, and improved information text when offering to switch to Mobile Carrier.

The program can be downloaded from the Ste Packaging community source 

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Here’s a really cool 3D iPhone application  coming soon. (Only the beta version is available for now)

With the iPhone Earth, you can view satellite imagery of the globe in 3D, a bit like on Google Earth, but it is customized for the iPhone so you can rotate it back and forth for control.

“I was particularly impressed when I saw they had used the iPhone accelerometers to allow you to tilt and rotate your view by tilting the iPhone. They weren’t downloading the imagery data over the net, it was all running local with just imagery for the San Francisco area. But, it was still very cool! The application is under development using the Apple iPhone SDK. So, assuming they finish the product, it should run under iPhone 2.0. You would definitely only want to run a real app like this if you had a WiFI connection or 3G - imagery and 3D takes a lot of bandwidth“.

[via techeblog and gearthblog]

MooCowMusic has recently released a native iPhone application called Band which as the name suggests brings all of various musical applications together into a single application along with a lot of interesting features.

With the native iPhone application Band you can now play and record multiple instruments such as drums, bass, guitars, keyboards into one song. There are also no limits on the instrument interface as it allows for expansion and additional user-created instruments via ‘instrument packs’. You can play these multiple instruments along with your MP3s.