If I had a vuvuzela … Or at least download the iphone app Or not. I actually find the bloody things annoying. Since they are not going to be banned, what the heck, download the Vuvuzela app and be hated by people here too. Want to go to a pub and get free beer? Get this free app and blast it at the next futbal game. People will… Read More
Update to Iphone App twittelator approved in 7 hours! My how things have changed. I just got a tweet from Andrew Stone that his app Twittelator got approved in 7 hours!! Wow, a new record. Well, ok, perhaps not a gold metal type new record, but that is still pretty fast. So the question is; how? Well lets think about it. What if Apple… Read More
Turn by Turn Nav on your Mobile via Google. GPS device stocks plunge Now unless you have been living under a rock, or you are a rock, in which you are fully excuse from knowing about this game changer. Google is now providing turn by turn navigation on enabled mobile devices for free. That means any smart phone that has GPS and Interwebs connection will most likely be… Read More
Cool Geekness with new NASA iphone app As an ex-NASA guy (seems way back to me now) I had to check this out when I saw the write up on CNET. Its pretty cool! Well designed and laid out, not trying to do too much but doing a good job with what it does do. The app give you updates on various… Read More
iphone app from Oracle that looks like its from a startup. Oracle has a new iphone app that looks ok. In the promotional animation, a business man is flying to Paris, France to give a presentation. Great. Often, and I can attest to this, you have to use cash for things because your card is not always accepted. So, this application called ‘iReceipts’ seems like any… Read More
Text message (SMS) to voice on the iphone My nephew Jared turned me on to this app. DriveSafe.ly is still in Alpha and only on jailbreak at the moment. At some point they will release it via the app store, but without backgrounder, I’m not sure how useful it is. The app is simple enough; every 5sec or 1min it checks for new… Read More
Augmented Reality app Layar is finally on the iPhone! Just saw this via a tweet. I’m going to load it play with it later, but here is the link. http://layar.com/layar-is-in-the-iphone-app-store/… Read More
Realtime collaboration on the iphone? Enter Adobe Connect mobile. This is great news, and WAY faster then I expected it. Right now, there is not a solution for real time collaboration for mobile devices, and given limitations of screen real estate , memory and CPU power, its not surprising. The great part about flash, is how easy it is to build modules and swap… Read More
Google search options spotted on the iphone Just showed up today, at least I noticed it today. When you do a google search on the iphone, you now get options like on the desktop. Its not full featured, meaning we still do not have an advanced option, but still, bit by bit, google is providing a rich experience through the mobile web… Read More
Photo editing with Photoshop on the iPhone This just came out today. Its pretty fun. You can edit a photo, crop, apply a filter, etc.. Pretty cool really. You can do the basics that you would expect: cropping, changing exposure, convert to black and white, change contrast. There are some basic filters too; sketching, blurring, image border, I like the rainbow filter,… Read More
Flash on the iphone! Its finally here!! Mostly Straight from the web site! I will update as I learn more. * I just tried one of the apps, and it works great. And that is not surprising because is coco, but still, anytime you go from one language to another there are risks. But so far, so good. 3 of the demo apps… Read More
Adversts in Google Maps on the iPhone? Great. Not I saw this in TC and have not seen it myself, but I will keep an eye out over the weekend. Basically, you could have a ad for beer or a bike shop or something based on the search. Also, it SEEMS uses can inject items into maps, but I think its more of where… Read More
More Augmented Reality apps for the iphone; Wikitude and Cyclopedia RWW broke a story with new AR apps for the iphone. I have not downloaded and played with them myself, but they look great, and its the next level of AR (for the iphone, since Android has had this for a bit) that we have been waiting for. This is a ‘killer app’ for AR… Read More
Stitcher, digital radio for the iphone, gets an update I use Stitcher anytime I’m on a long drive. Normally between SF and Sacramento. What I like about Stitcher is the number of offerings, but mostly because its the only place I can get BBC radio, short of downloading a podcast, which I will not do. So today I got a press release saying they… Read More
A new Uber iphone twitter app: Tweetie 2 I like Tweetie. I wrote an article for iphonelife on iphone twitter apps (it not out yet, but here is a short version) and of all the apps I tried, I used tweetie the most when I’m not using twittFilter. (twittFilter is a web app and my fave given that I wrote it). So Gizmodo,… Read More
Record Video on the Palm Pre! +1 to the hackers It always seem to be the way with smart phones isnt it? Just read in Gizmodo of a hack that will give you 320×480 resolution video at 30fps. Sweeet. And have a look at the video below. Nice. So what does this mean? Well, depending on the GPS abilities of the Pre we could (perhaps)… Read More
Bionic Eye: Another AR app for the iphone. This works in the US I just posted a few hours ago that we are going to see a rush of new augmented reality apps soon, and then I get an email for a new app that does the basics you would expect, and it looks pretty nice. This one will work on 3GS phones, but without the fancy AR… Read More
Augment Reality App for the iPhone powered by Bing Just saw this on Techcrunch. It looks pretty cool although I could not get it to work quite right. Could be a GPS issue. Anyway, I think this is just the beginning of a flood of location / orientation away apps that are on the way. And the fact this is using Bing is quiet… Read More
Review of FourSquare 1.4 for the iPhone – Sweet I got the email telling me FourSquare 1.4 is out. I ran outside (because my iphone does not work in my office) updated the app, played with it, took a few screen shots, and then sat down to write about it. And then I took a quick look at the email again and techcrunch did… Read More
Realtime GPS updates via the iPhone using Loopt. Kinda.. and for a price I’ve been thinking about writing a post on how silly is to get AT&T’s GPS driving directions app/service at 9.99 a month when you can buy a turn-by-turn apps for around $50. That’s another post. But now I just read on AppleInsider that Loopt has an agreement with AT&T to provide constant location updates for… Read More