Tuesday, April 21, 2009

iPhone News Of The Day [04/21/09]

  • App Store: Coming Soon       Price: ??   Ok, so I posted on Twitter last night about a really sweet app that I said may be right up there with my favorite game, Fieldrunners. It’s nothing like it, but it’s fun, addicting, good graphics and even better, it’s customizable. The best way to explain it is to show you [...]
    • Getting a little drowsy at work after a long night and need a quick power nap to restore your creative juices? The iNap@Work iPhone app sounds off with a series of keyboard, mouse, paper crumbling, staples, pencil sharpeners, napkins and other work related sounds to cover your dozing sessions while at work. There are [...]
      • Mophie is a name you will remember whenever your iPhone’s battery will die on you. The company has released a new accessory for the iPhone 3G, the Juice Pack Air which is supposed to be the thinnest Apple external battery available right now. The 1200 mAh external battery is also a very slim case which [...]
        • Available In: App Store       Price: $0.99   If you like games that challenge your thinking skills then you will like Nintaii. In this game you navigate a rectangular block through a maze until you get it to fall in a hole on the other side of the map. You can use you finger to roll the block [...]
          • Angelina Jolie certainly knows her tech and gadgets. And apparently she has made up her mind! The Pre is better than the rest and by the rest she means the iPhone. The Examiner says that Jolie already owns a Pre and she talked about it on the set of Salt, her latest movie. One of [...]
            • Available In: App Store       Price: $0.99   iAnonymize is an app that allows you to hide or blur parts of photos that you don’t want other people to see. So if you took a picture of your car and don’t want to broadcast your license plate number or you or one of your friends are soon to [...]
              • Just when you thought it was safe to submit an update to the App Store, there comes word from the developer of Instapaper, a popular, easy to use offline web page viewer for the iPhone and iPod touch, that an update to his application has been rejected because of “trademark infringement” for the use of [...]
                • If you don't work at home where you can permanently doze or beat off undetected, iNap@Work provides audio camouflage of papers shuffling and click-clack typing—too bad the iPhone's crappy speaker sounds like a liability. [ iTunes ]
                  • This wooden phone tablet is a prop for mocking those who play with their smartphones instead of listening to meatbag blather. Nyah Nyah Nyah! I'd guess that most smartphones get whipped out when the conversation starts to get so stale. In my case, when a conversation takes up less than 10% of my clock cycles. Mr luddite, I don't care about the weather; you could just provide more interesting conversation and I'd snap back to attention. Look! Someone's talking about pork rinds on twitter!…
                    • Apple will sell 1 Billion iPhone/touch apps this Friday. Or at least, that is what they think. We saw how their web site will look on Friday 24, including their lists of all-time top apps: Here you have them. Just set your computer's clock to Friday 24 and you will be able to see them yourself. Not surprisingly, Facebook is the number one top free app ever, while Crash Bandicoot wins on the paid category—which apparently it's all about games and toys and games. [ Mac Magazine (Portuguese) via The…
                      • My Hulu may not be the official Hulu application you were hoping for, but at least it offers iPhone and iPod touch users some Hulu manipulating abilities. My Hulu is a brand new application just released today that allows you to basically do everything that you can normally do on Hulu.com, except watch videos. With My [...]
                        • Quickoffice for iPhone lets users edit Word and Excel documents. Macworld spoke with Quickoffice, Inc.'s VP of Engineering and Product Development about working on the iPhone and what features are still in store.
                          • The App Store contains tons of conversion applications, some of which are not too shabby, but if you are looking for a conversion application with a really intuitive user interface and all the trimmings, Convertbot is the application for you. Convertbot was developed by Tapbots, the same company who brought you the extremely successful Weightbot. That’s [...]
                            • Couple of patents filed by Apple at US Patent Office had revealed that their research team is working on how to further improve iPhone's user interface based on "User Movements". In addition to user movements to improve iPhone's user interface, it looks like Apple is also working on voice control...
                              • Who knows when the happy moment will come, but when it does, Apple is ready to trumpet the news that a billion apps have been downloaded from the iTunes AppStore.
                                So says the Brazilian website Mac Magazine, anyway. A reader, identified only as JOSZĂ© claims to have discovered a counter embedded in Apple’s website that, when [...] This article is copyright Cultomedia Corp .
                                • When alien archeologists dig up the remains of 2009, they will discover one accomplishment that stands above all others. It won't be some new iPhone or even the LHC. It will be the Nerf Tank . What started as a stock Nerf Vulcan —more than enough foam killage for most of us—was modified with four wheels, a turret, webcam and laser sight. And then, as you see in this clip, the tank turned on humans, hunting modders' girlfriends everywhere as if the violence were some sort of game. It's with…
                                • Underworlds looks and plays like classic computer action RPGs of yore, like Diablo, Ultima and Wizardry.
                                  • If you've ever been to Coachella , you know cell service isn't great. You'd think that AT&T, being a major event sponsor, would make sure their service worked in support of Coachella's iPhone app , right? Wrong . According to the Twitter masses AT&T's voice and data we're down for the large majority of this past weekend's event, with many of the complaints coming from AT&T and iPhone users. Searching around for tales of poor Sprint or Verizon coverage yielded next to…
                                    • ICE Lite puts your emergency info in app form. But will anyone find it? By now you've heard of "ICE," right? The idea is to add an "In Case of Emergency" entry to your phone's address book and fill it with emergency contacts, important medical info, and the like. That's so rescue workers have an easier time helping you should the unfortunate need arise. ICE Lite is ICE in app form. It contains just two screens: one with personal info (name, address, phone number, etc.), and…
                                      • A leading provider of productivity software for smartphones, Splash Data, announced its SplashPhoto and SplashNotes applications are now available. Both work on iPod touch and iPhone and both offer wireless synchronization with Windows and Mac OS X desktop applications however they are available separately. SplashPhoto offers iPhone and iPod touch users a quick and easy-to-use [...]
                                        • This free dictionary and thesaurus from Dictionary.com works as advertised, with more than a quarter-million word definitions. But some features require a network connection, and sometimes, it feels like looking up a word online would be faster.
                                          • Filed under: iPhone Some people may not be happy with the iPhone running on the AT&T 3G network, but at least it appears that network will be running faster. AT&T is already in advanced testing of its new faster 3G network, which was first revealed by Scott McElroy, AT&T VP of Technology Realization, in an interview with Telephony Online. AT&T says it is going to increase the downlink capacity on its high speed packet access (HSPA) from 3.6 megabits per second to 7.2 megabits per second by…
                                            • On Stage 400P is part of a 2008-vintage family of JBL speaker designs that all bore the same shape—think of the base of a thinner, gently curved pyramid with the top point and middle cut off—but differed in components. All were made from black plastic with silver fabric speaker grilles and silver top buttons. The least expensive model, Duet 200, was identical to the On Stage 200ID save for On Stage’s centrally-mounted iPod and iPhone…
                                              • If you are interested in saving a little paper in an attempt to do your part in saving the environment, developer rmbrME has a great deal for you. beamME Pro vCard exchange, one of the more popular applications that I referenced in my most recent column regarding Earth Day applications, is now on sale [...]
                                                • My friends over at Crossfit Virtuosity recently posted a 100-day six-pack challenge. After I committed to the program, it only took me a few minutes to set up a way to track my progress and have a new workout sent to me everyday. Oh, and it only cost me 99 cents and can all be [...]
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