Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch As of July 11th, the iPhone/iPod touch App Store housed 56,081 different apps according to Jeff Scott of 148apps.com . Taking a quick look, I found over 400 different fart apps. This alone is pretty scary and would lead me to believe that any app that might be either useful or funny, or even totally pointless, has so many variations that without knowing an app name, searching for something that interests me would soon become a Herculean task. Apple hasn’t made this easy since using the iTunes store search is pretty rough and usually brings up many choices that don’t seem to contain what you want. i really hope that Apple addresses this in the future since the current method just isn’t nearly good enough. As is often the case, intrepid app aficionados have jumped into the fray and given us some help in finding just the right app: Freeappalert.com prints a listing, updated daily, of apps that have just gone from paid to free. This is a great place to start a search because more than once have I run into the situation where I bought an app and later found that a free one did just as good if not better. To give you an example, the site has listed fifteen apps that just went free today, July 13th

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