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Swearch.me combines swiping and searching for your iPhone

Swearch.me is a clean homepage for your iPhone that allows you to pick from four different search engines just by swiping. You can bookmark this page or even make it an icon on a homepage on your iPhone for quick and easy searching of the web with four of the most commonly used search engines. Swearch.me was clearly created with mobile Safari in mind. Actually, the site is optimized for the Retina Display. After visiting Swearch.me, you’ll be presented with a clean search page for Google. But you can swipe the screen to change to another. Currently, you can swipe between Google, Twitter, Wikipedia and Flickr. That’s not to say that more won’t be added later.

More free apps from the App Store – August 22, 2008

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had to cut back on the amount of apps I sync to my iPhone. It’s getting a little painful to have all these pages full of apps. But when there are all these great ones coming out, what’s a guy to do? I’m thinking Apple will have to come up with a better way to organize the home screen. Maybe we could have two dimensions of pages to swipe through? How about just one big page that you can scroll and zoom? Perhaps a folder structure to pages? I really don’t know what the best answer is, but I’d like to see some improvements to app management. That said, here’s this week’s list to help solidify that there really is a problem in the first place.

The clutter-inducing list is right after the break.

Online iPhone app simplifies Wikipedia searches

Powerset has a new optimized-for-iPhone version of its search and browse experience for Wikipedia. Now that Apple has lowered iPhone prices, more and more consumers are poised to be using their iPhone to search Wikipedia. According to Powerset, the feature set for on-the-go browsing makes it “…the best way to currently search and read Wikipedia more »