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Mayo Clinic has announced the creation of two mobile applications (Symptom Checker and Meditation) for release in the first quarter of 2010 with the second one becoming available in the iTunes store today.
Symptom Checker
In the above video, Scott Eising, director of Advance Market/Product Development at Mayo Clinic, describes the use and benefit of Mayo Clinic Symptom Checker. The app Symptom Checker is Mayo Clinic’s first free application for iPhone and iPod Touch, and was released today. Download the free app (App Store Link).

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Late last week, the it was announced that Apple was removing all “overtly sexual” applications from the App Store. So far the list of applications that have been removed from the store have included a number of games as well as novelty apps and adult themed slideshow apps. The above graph, provided by AppShopper.com, shows that on a normal day, around 100 apps are removed from the App Store including forced removals by Apple as well as instances where a developer has chosen to remove an application from sale.
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Once again the Dev Team has pulled through with some very important updates to both the Pwnage Tool and QuickPwn. Their latest comes in the form of PwnageTool 2.0.3.1. You can download it here.

Also, QuickPwn Release Candidate 3 has been released. Supposed to be fixed in this release is the issue for 64-bit Windows users and the new version is supposed to work for all Windows versions. Download QuickPwn RC3 here.

If you’ve been having a problem with jailbreaking, these releases should address your issues and as always, as much as we love the dev team we cannot guarantee that they will work properly. Please understand that you will use these programs at your own risk.

A reported email from Steve Jobs pointed to an acknowledged an ongoing issue that has been reported by many iPhone users that result in 3rd App store applications repeatedly crashing:

Many report the iPhone 2.0 firmware suddenly failing to load non-default apps regardless of their nature, briefly loading them before abruptly jumping back to the home screen.

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Not glued to the iPhone dev team’s blog? Oh, you are? Oh well, for the rest of you about an hour ago they announced that a GUI version of their latest Windows release, QuickPwn, is ready for you to download. We’ll have some instructions on this very quickly. In the meantime the following is the post from the dev team:

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