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Read it Later introduces iPhone app
Read It Later is a service that lets you bookmark webpages to, as the name would suggest, read later. We first covered it when it was just a Firefox extension, but it's evolved quite a bit since then. The new iPhone app is particularly nice, offering offline reading of your saved pages, and a text-only reading mode that brings to mind the similar Instapaper app. Read it Later's iPhone app brings all of the web features of Read It Later elegantly to the iPhone. Even without an Internet connection, you can view saved pages in their original form or as plain text. Quite importantly, the iPhone app also syncs article with the web version. If you buy the pro edition of the app, you can also save things from Safari in your iPhone via a bookmarklet.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...