With the recent spike in popularity and press coverage of a popular cryptocurrency, we are now accepting Bitcoin donations as well as the ability to pay for advertisements in Bitcoin. This presents a few bonuses — transactions are almost instant, anonymity, and very little fees for transferring the Bitcoin currency. For some of you this may be your first time even hearing about Bitcoin, but no need to worry we’ve got you covered. For starters, we recommend you check out this Wiki page, this website, this Youtube video, and the subreddit over at Reddit. If you’ve already heard of Bitcoin and are familiar with it, then awesome! Looking towards the future, we may even start to giveaway small amounts of Bitcoins to those who are lucky to win. If you’re looking to trade Bitcoin on an exchange, here’s a pretty good list to get you going.

Address: 1L6nAtWCW5XM9jXaGyzUEpzXN24LTWQewE

Over the years, PocketFullOfApps has had tremendous growth and has gone through a lot of changes as well. The website first started in June of 2009 as a small blog that only got a minuscule 100 pageviews a day. Fast forward almost four years later and PocketFullOfApps now serves over half a million page views a month along with 150,000 unique visits. With all that traffic and growth we had to switch from a shared hosting to something with a little more power. So with that said, through process of elimination we ended up switching to a fantastic hosting company called The Temple Host that we’ll have a follow up review on later today.

Freebies!

Want to win some free iOS games, money, or PocketFullOfApps apparel? Awesome! If you find anything wrong with the site, let us know and you can win some cool prizes. In order to get your prize, we must be able to verify and replicate the problem from our end. What can the errors/problems include? Well it can include a whole range of things, but most notably broken links, missing images, and the website not displaying properly would be most common. We’ve done our best to do what we can and offer a great viewing experience, but maybe we overlooked something. So basically if you come across something you think may not be normal or right, let us know and we’ll back in contact with you.

Had a busy day and running low on time but still want to get your fill of iOS news for the day? Well no problem about that! Here at PocketFullOfApps we’ve got a brand new addition to the website that’s all about highlighting some of the more popular articles. It’s pretty straight forward — we’ve got a 3 by 3 grid setup that each have a picture representing that particular post. See an article you’re interested in? Awesome! Click on the image or title and it will automatically redirect you to that selected article. It get’s better though — you can sort each featured article by various categories with a cool animation.

So, why not give it a try? Let us know what you think in the comments or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear them!

If you don’t know by now, PocketFullOfApps will be at MacWorld 2013 bringing you coverage and photos of the events, tech talks, and everything else. So with that said, here is the one stop location for all of our updates that we’ll be bringing you from the event. Below we have it sectioned off for each day plus a section for any pre-MacWorld updates due to the fact we’ll be there a day before it starts.

Are you a fan or reader of PocketFullOfApps? How about a developer or renting out a booth at MacWorld? Awesome! Contact us and we’d love to stop by and say hi!

Note: Be sure to click on the images see view at a bigger resolution. All times are PST.

Pre-MacWorld Updates

We’ll be arriving in San Francisco January 30th, and we’ll post any updates and photos here. Check back!

12:38 PM: Arrived and checked in.  Various preview showcases were on the mainfloor. Pictures below!

Day 1 (January 31st)

We went to the Ashton Kutcher MacWorld talk. We couldn’t take photos or videos, but we’ll be able to cover it more later today as MacWorld sends us official images and videos that we can use. Check the talk out here.

We also went to the will.i.am Tech Talk here at MacWorld. You can see the updates here.

In addition to that, we also went to the Power Panel that included John Grubber, Rene Ritchie, and more! You can see the updates here. Now for pictures!

Day 2 (February 1st)

We weren’t at MacWorld the second day. But! We’ve got some cool pictures from Apple’s HQ Campus at Cupertino along with a few pictures of Steve Job’s home.

Day 3 (February 2nd)

Yes, that’s right! PocketFullOfApps will be attending MacWorld — one of the biggest Apple, Mac, and iOS related events ever (besides Apple’s WWDC, of course). From January 31st to February 2nd, 2013 you can expect to see us there, live on the expo floor along with the Tech Talks.

Want to hang out, show us your latest/upcoming game, or show off your product to us? Awesome! How about grab coffee, lunch, breakfast, dinner, or anything else in between? That’s fine too! Just want to stop by and say hi (little side note: we love getting to meet our readers)? Absolutely! Basically, we’re cool with whatever.

Anyways, if you want to do something with PocketFullOfApps you can contact us here or shoot us a message via Twitter.

Also, here’s a fun fact: the very first iPhone was announced at MacWorld in 2007.

We hope to see you there!