Wednesday, April 8, 2009

iPhone News Of The Day [04/08/09]

  • Paper Breaker
    The New Sidekick Hits the FCC
    Google Updates Gmail and Calendar for iPhone and Android
    Treo Pro Smartphone Now Available at Telus in Canada
    BlackBerry Storm 2 Officially Confirmed for 2009
    DIRECTV DVR Scheduler for iPhone and iPod Touch Vaults to the Top
    Picoprojector Market Forecasted to Exceed $1 Billion
    Greystripe Wins “Mobile Applications and Widgets – Mobile Marketing/Mobile Advertising” [...]
    • Read It Later , the bookmarking meets productivity tool has a new iPhone app out . It lets you sync up with your desktop reading list and pick up stories while away from your computer. But the real reason to get it, is that like the desktop version it lets you save stories for offline reading, giving you a way to catch up on content even when you're away from a sturdy data connection. There's both a free and pro version. The pro version, which costs $2.99, adds in things like a bookmarklet for…
      • It's always nice to get an update on one of our favorite KIRFs as of late. Lenvo's Android-powered OPhone has popped up in a hands-on video, showing off its mock-iPhone OS interface and all the doppelganger apps / features -- weather, stock, calculator and even a near-identical push notification window. Surprisingly, it's actually pretty well put together and includes some things we wish our legit Apple phone would do, like on-screen widgets and an option to change backgrounds. It'll be a…
        • I remember when I was waiting for my iPhone, I turned my Windows Mobile smartphone to fake iPhone using theme. If you are waiting for the Palm Pre to be officially launched, you may want this theme. This can turn your iPhone to somehow like the Palm Pre webOS. Instructions are below, First off, download the [...]
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            If you think copying purchased legal CDs to MP3s for your iPhone, think again. It is considered as copyright infringement in Hong Kong. Take a look of the first sentence above or the original law at here, the answer is yes. Users have to ask the copyright owners before copying CDs to [...]
            • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/general/site-stuff-facebook-connect-now-working-for-comments/ . Hurrah!  It took a bit, but it looks like Facebook Connect for comments is working now.  This means that in addition to being able to login via Disqus – which is in use by more and more sites round the web all the time [...]
              • Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Steve Jobs , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch As my colleague Aron Trimble has pointed out today, Apple has launched a new series of iPhone ads. As they have done recently, these 3 new commercials talk about all the added functionality the iPhone gets from having many thousands of apps available. There are some ironies that cross my mind as I look at and enjoy the usual creativity from Apple. One of the apps highlighted is a point of sale system that runs on an iPhone. Most…
                • A new game for the iPhone and iPod has been released by Epic Tiles called Paper Breaker. It has a graphics palette that is so uncomplicated it looks like it was hand drawn with a crayon. The background texture is a “Davinci” style paper and suits the style wonderfully. The mechanics and animation are fantastic [...]
                  • Our friends at TouchArcade recently got a sneak peek at an Augmented Reality app, one of the possibilities that could become a reality with the addition of video recording and the use of magnetometers rumored to be finding their way into the next iPhone. Blair MacIntyre, an Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, demoed the app at GDC 2009.
                    • Survey results from comScore, a market research firm, indicate that Tapulous’ Tap Tap Revenge has been downloaded by one out of every three App Store users, making it the most popular application at the store.
                      Tap Tap Revenge has been installed by 32 percent of iPhone owners, followed by Stylem Media’s Backgrounds with 27 percent, and [...]
                      • Everyone knows that the future is in multitouch devices, but some may find it difficult to go cold turkey with their physical peripherals. Researchers believe that Slap Widgets might be a solution. A team from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and UC San Diego have been working together to develop Silicone Illuminated Active Peripherals, or "SLAP Widgets" to bring physical controls to multitouch in the form of plastic and silicone objects. It's kind of a middle ground between physical and…
                        • This fisheye lens from Japanese company Digital King is absurdly bulky and not at all practical. So we sort of love it. Attaching to the iPhone through a magnetic metal mount system (you'll need to mod your iPhone with a metal sticker, it seems), this $100 "extremely high quality lens" stretches your iPhone's field of view to epic proportions. If only the phone's integrated camera were of a decent resolution, all this fuss may be worth something. Until that day comes, we're just…
                          • Filed under: Accessories , Odds and ends I happened to catch this interesting hack on core77 and tried it for myself. You take four business cards, cut them up to interlock, leaving enough space for your earbuds to nestle inside, pop it open a bit and voila -- instant speaker cones for the tiny music makers. My MacBook Pro's headphone port recently became stuck in the line-out mode (the Cylon light is glowing and yes, I've tried to slide the little switch), and until I can get it to a shop…
                            • This generative music experience is gorgeous visually and an ideal source of ambient sounds for when you need to get some work done.
                              • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-software/novelty-iphone-apps-star-trek-phaser/ . Apparently there’s a new Star Trek film due to be released soon.  I’m not a huge fan, so I only learned that via the description page for a new iPhone novelty app – Star Trek Phaser. I guess the hype and promotion train for [...]
                                • Boy Genius Report has published several more iPhone 3.0 beta screenshots, saying they were given to them by one of their "trusty ninjas". The screenshots show a new videos category in what appears to be the Photo app, as well as a few more settings options, accessibility entry, and what could possibly be voice dialing. The source also shared a few newly discovered facts about the new software. Images after the break.
                                  • This is news to me, and scary news at that, but it seems as though firmware update 2.2.1 has been causing some problems with Wi-Fi for many iPhone users.
                                    I’ve not had any problems, but then again, I use Wi-Fi only sparingly, and even when I do, it’s never for an extended period. Also, I’ve updated [...]
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                                    • Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ. Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-accessories/wheres-the-iphone-soap/ . 
                                      Back when I lived in the UK there was a pretty lame old joke about two nuns in a bath and … well, no, not going to go there – I don’t think too many nuns probably own iPhones anyway but …
                                      If soap that looks [...]
                                      • Nicholas Woodhams, a 23 year-old scammer, has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering after defrauding Apple of 9,000 iPod Shuffles.
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                                            • Galaga has returned to the iPhone and iPod touch with a special "remix" version that combines the original arcade game with a new updated version.
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                                                • Between Cellphones and iPods and whatever else, a fair amount of wires are admittedly invading our cars. Enter Scosche's Recoil, an iPhone/iPod charger with a retractable, mess free wire. Neat freaks will rejoice at this retractability, because god forbid they stick their chargers in the glove box or something. The Recoil uses a magnetic docking mechanism to pull the cable back in place while not in use, but that's about where the feature set ends. No FM transmitter, no adapters for other gadgets.…
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