Perfect RSS Reader, by Connect Technology Co, is a Google Reader client for the iPad – and it claims to the be the best.

I am loving Perfect RSS Reader! The UI is beautiful and the use of popups is perfectly integrated. I definitely agree with their claim and Perfect RSS Reader has taken a place on my dock.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[App Store link]

The best RSS client for Google Reader.

• Best reading experience
• Sync with Google Reader
• Unique photo browsing mode
• Offline browsing with fast image caching
• Manage subscriptions and folders
• Sharing with Instapaper, ReadItLater, Delicious, Evernote, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.

Perfect RSS Reader is available on the iPad for $1.99.

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ArrangeStatusBar is a simple little tweak that allows you to rearrange your status bar icons to whatever your liking may be. This may be great for users that currently migrated from another OS and are used to a different configuration. Maybe you’re used to the signal bars being on the right of the screen like they are in Blackberry OS.

Once installed, just hold down on a status bar icon and move it in whatever position you’d like. And if you ever want to restore to the default arrangement again just go into Settings followed by ArrangeStatusBar and tap Reset StatusBar and your status bar icons will fly back to the normal positioning.

One update I’d like to see made is an option to completely remove icons from the status bar. I really have no need to see the iPod or carrier banner. I’d rather replace it with something more useful.

Any other updates you’d like to see?

Mark Gurman from 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple currently plans to start iPhone 5 pre-orders on September 30, and further that their independent sources match what TiPb heard about the actual launch date currently being scheduled for October 7. (They also heard, like we did, that this was moved up from a previous October 14 date).

Apple currently plans to begin pre-orders for their next-generation smartphone in the final days of September. The company has still not finalized the pre-order start date, but is debating between Thursday, September 29th and Friday, September 30th. The 30th seems more likely at this point according to one of our sources. Pre-orders for the new iPhone starting in late September will also mean that Apple's fall event will take place in September; which would seem to counter NewsCorp's Kara Swisher's combative insistence of an October iPhone 5 event.

It’s once again worth noting that since Apple is so secretive, they can and will change launch dates up until the last possible minute in order to best meet production and marketing needs. So don’t go engraving these dates in aluminum just yet — just jot them down in Calendar for now.

[9to5Mac]

LinkedIn for iPhone has been completely rewritten with a new look. It’s now faster and simpler to access your groups and stay up to date with your networks.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[App Store link]

Get on-the-go access to your professional network with LinkedIn for iPhone. Find and connect with more than 120M members worldwide, read the latest industry news, keep up-to-date with your groups, and share content with your network from anywhere.

• Brand new app completely rewritten for speed and simplicity.
• Get access to your LinkedIn Groups anywhere, anytime.
• Stay up-to-date with your network and read professional news from LinkedIn Today.

LinkedIn is available on the iPhone for free.

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A while back TiPb heard something that sounded so outlandish, so beyond the realm of possibility, that we decided not to publish it — that AT&T’s 4G LTE launch hero device could, in fact, be the iPhone. It still sounds outlandish, even though there hasn’t been word one about which phone AT&T will launch with, but given the availability of the logical Qualcomm LTE chipset, it still seems beyond the realm of possibility.

But BGR recently caught glimpse of LTE references in a carrier-test build of iOS firmware, and now Engadget has heard that LTE equipment in the 700MHz and AWS frequencies is being installed in major Apple Stores in the US… by AT&T.

I’m not getting my hopes up, nor should you. AT&T could still launch an Android device and Apple could still wait for 2012 for an LTE powered iPhone 6. But as Hans Gruber said in Die Hard, Christmas is the time for miracles.

UPDATE: 9to5Mac says Verizon is also installing LTE equipment at Apple Stores. [9to5Mac]

[Engadget

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Tweetbot: Now with mute filters! [$2.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Pocket Budget: Tracking of expenses & incomes has never been easier. Just few clicks and you know where your money is spent and how you can improve your cash-flow. Now with password protection with hint feature to keep your data secured. [$2.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• 2 Sugars: A lovingly crafted list maker that makes noting down your co-workers’ drink requests quick and easy. [$0.99 for iPhone App Store link]

• xDownload: A useful, easy-to-use application that gives you the power to pull all you want into a background-downloading queue. [$2.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Vertex Blaster: Blast your way through a never-ending onslaught of relentless enemies in this addicting, action-packed arcade shooter! [$0.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Google has released their newest app, Google Catalogs, for the iPad. It features digital versions of catalogs across many popular categories, including fashion and apparel, beauty, jewelry, home, kids and gifts.

Details, screenshots, and video after the break.

[App Store link]

A new, rich, and engaging way to interact with all your favorite catalogs. Flip through pages of beautiful catalogs, discover inspiring photos and videos, save products that catch your eye, and create collages to share with your friends.

• Catalogs for everyone: Apparel & fashion for men, women, and children; beauty; jewelry; home goods; gifts; and more to come!
• Rich media: View products up close, tap tags for price and details, view additional product photos and videos.
• Easy purchasing: A single tap lets you find a product nearby or visit a merchant’s website to make a purchase.
• Get notified of new issues: Favorite the catalogs you love and get notified when new issues arrive.
• Get creative: Create collages of products you’ve saved from different catalogs. View other collages for inspiration.
• Share with friends: Email a product or collage to your friends.

Some of the names you’ll find are: Anthropologie, Bare Escentuals, Bergdorf Goodman, Crate and Barrel, L.L. Bean, Lands' End, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Pottery Barn, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sephora, Sundance, Tea Collection, Urban Outfitters and Williams-Sonoma.

Google Catalogs is available on the iPad for free.

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Apple sued HTC, HTC counter-sued Apple, and now HTC has sued Apple, again over 3 additional patents in both Mac, and iPhone/iPad platforms. (HTC currently pays Microsoft a reported $5 per Android device licensing fee.)

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware seeks to halt Apple’s importation and sale of infringing products in the United States. It also seeks compensatory damages, triple damages for willful infringement and other remedies.

It comes a day after Google announced its intent to purchase Motorola Mobility and their 17,000 and growing patent portfolio.

Time to flex a little green robot muscle, is it?

[Reuters]

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Simple question: is your iPhone home button still working as it should? Ever since iOS 4 and the reassignment of double click to the fast app switcher, it seems like we’re click, click, clicking the home button more than ever, and that seems to be creating problems more and more often.

A lot of you have written in, or posted in our iPhone Forum to tell us your home button is causing you problems, and even more of you are hitting our how-to fix home button problems, and how to use Activator to get around home button problems daily tips in search of solutions. Even our illustrious editor, Rene, had to get his original iPhone 4 swapped out at the Apple Store because the home button was causing him grief.

Apple has been experimenting with multitasking gestures for iPad, and we’ve even seen rumors that they’ll do away with the home button completely.

Is you home button not working the way it should? Is it a hardware problem that’s just not registering clicks, or a software issue that’s misreading the number of clicks? Let us know in the poll above and then give us the details in the comments!