Touchtip’s got a brand new bag, and a new look to boot

Way back in early 2007 the iPhone was announced. We were ecstatic. Finally, a mobile phone that wasn’t mediocre. Oh, we’ve had ‘em all: freebee LGs, tiny Nokias, slick Razrs, clumsy Qs and non-qwerty Blackberries (we still don’t get that one). The good, the bad and the ugly. And if anybody was going to do “excellent,” it was going to be be Apple. Still, we weren’t prepared for what was about to happen to us and the rest of the world when we started to actually use it.

Instantly we knew that this was going to be the hottest device on the planet. Then came the iPod touch: iPhone technology without the ability to dial and pay the AT&T tax. Sweet! We were in love, despite being made to feel a bit foolish.

This was around the time our two-man team feverishly wrote, coded, designed and edited Touchtip into existence. In not much time, we had a website with some useful tips and a glossy look to reflect Apple’s new line of icrack icandy. Soon after our first post, thousands of readers stopped by every day looking for tips, hacks and help for their new addiction.

Now, 250+ articles (posts) and almost a thousand comments later, the time has come to revamp the site and make room for the future. Aside form the visual design, the majority of changes are decidedly subtle. Reading articles and comments should feel easier. Navigating and searching should be more intuitive, especially finding the forums. There is also a new iPhone optimized layout that will make the site easy to read and more useful on the go.

The most important change has been under the hood and the room to grow in this new era of the iPhone 3G, 2.0 software and the App Store. In the future, we’ll be adding some more content and features that we hope will make Touchtip much more valuable to our readers. We’re also working on making the forums a better place to get help and discuss any topic our readers wish. We’ll write more updates as they come. For now, please continue to enjoy Touchtip as the best source of non-recycled information for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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