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iPhone Banking App Automatically Deposits Checks Via Photos

Your iPhone's camera--not just for Twitpic anymore?

ATMs have done their part to keep us off long teller lines since the first one was installed in the U.K. circa 1967. Now we stand on ATM lines instead. An upcoming upgrade to USAA bank’s iPhone app could cut those off, too; the app will allow bankers to deposit checks from their iPhone by sending two images of the check (one front and one back).

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How to Make an iPhone App: Part Three

You thought coding was hard; now it's time to get your app approved

In the previous two installments of this series, we labored through some ornery hardware wrangling and tested our mettle with some serious Objective-C coding, now it's time to deliver our app to the masses.

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How to Make an iPhone App: Part Two

Building a great app: that’s the objective, see?

The third and final installment in this series takes our App to market, err, the App Store.

In the first part of this series, we covered the "nuts and bolts" for assembling a workable iPhone app development platform. Now that our desktop is cluttered with a mess of cables, it's time to roll up our sleeves and start cobbling some code together.

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How to Make an iPhone App: Part One

Gain fame and fortune: become an iPhone app mogul

See part two on coding your App.

Love it or hate it, it's tough to argue about the success of the Apple App Store. While this venture might be a successful cash cow business model for Apple, how does business fare for the app developer? Pretty good, it turns out.

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