Other wins is a powerful search that lets you search. You can search, order by artist, album, or song, and view current playlists. To create playlists you simply flick a song to the right and to view more information on a song, flick to the left.  I also like the fact you can drill down from list, to artist, to album to song. Nice.

Below is from their site, which tells somewhat, but again, check out the video below.

PanAmp is on itunes for $2.99, worth it if you use your ipod quite a bit.

Overview

Power Search

Locate artists, tracks or albums quickly and efficiently using Power Search. Just swipe your finger over a song and the related artist and all their albums will be displayed.

Music Library

Organize your music as never before using Panamp’s resourceful cascade view. Arrange your music by artist, album, track or iTunes playlist, expanding and collapsing sections with a single tap.

Dynamic Queues

Browse your entire music catalogue by any method and add the tracks to your queue with a simple swipe. A seamless list of tracks is gathered in the background, allowing you to create the perfect soundtrack on the go.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=no4RTaV-g_U

* 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 are free, 4 costs 99c.
• This is not Flash10.  This is to create installed apps written in AS3. So even though its not a true browser plugin (so STILL no flash video) at least we can reuse assets and code from other projects to create iphone apps.  I would expect TONS of flash games to come to the iphone as well as Android and Palm Pre.
• Also, this is not a true flash player where you can include other .swf files.  The code is native coco, so many of the tricks we used in Flash do not work here.  Figures.
• However, since it native coco, I would expect the SDK will give us access to the hardware, camera, accelerometers, compass, etc.. So I expect to see some really cool AR apps in the near future.

Something else to consider.. Think of all the little games that are out there in flash already, especially the flood of new games that have been coming to facebook.   All of those games can now port over to the iphone (and android and palm) quite easily. And then add all the little flash games on tonnes of websites also making the port.  Since we are talking AS3, I would bet 30% of the games could be ported with a week of work or less (per game, not all the games.. sheesh).  Anyway, I expect a flood coming a month or so after the beta SDK comes out.  I have 2 apps in mind that I will port right off the bat!

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.*

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta starts.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/#divider

At the MAX 2009 show, they demoed a number of flash apps that are in the app store right now.  So, what are you waiting for? Download and test.  There are with the prerelease version of CS5, so do not expect to be blown away nor bug free, but still, its about time!!

This Boolean solution of gatekeepers saying either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is clearly not a solution. I think its time we explored using a rating system, similar to video games, music and movies. I would rather see a rating system and decide for myself if something is objectionable content or not instead of a small team of reviewers enforcing their own views.

BTW, the letters for the video industry are: CTM EA ‘RP’  I was trying to come up with some sort of cleaver spelling with these letters, but I aways did stink at scrabble.  Suggestions?  Perhaps use letters from other rating systems?

This is tasteless and offensive to be sure. But where is the line?  Some apps were pulled in the past because of sexual images or foul language. However, who are the guards here?  And who is guarding the guards? Much less offensive apps have been blocked before and yet this made it out.

I wonder if we need a rating system like we have with films.  Not sure if that is the answer, but we need something better then what we have now. I’ve always thought the rating system we use on games to be bit dodgy, but again, nothing better has been proposed, and its workable. Now how would the app store use such a rating system? Perhaps when a parent buys an iphone for their child they can set some sort of filter?

Course, the question is; a sick app like baby shaker.. what would it rate? One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I can see quite a few people who think this is hilarious.. A part of me thinks, well they should have this if they want it. … Mixed feelings.

From the site:

TUIO is a simple but powerful emerging protocol for multitouch control for live music and visuals, as used on the powerful live tangible synth reacTable. Apparently no one told Apple, however. While the App Store rubber-stamps useless toys like fake cigarette lighter flames, they bizarrely rejected a powerful application by a leading digital artist that would enable standardized TUIO control – for free. 

Get the full story here..

..and for you 420’s out there.  Enjoy the video.

MSAFluid for processing (Controlled by iPhone) from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

From the webware site:

Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a dedicated Hulu application is indeed on its way to the iPhone and should be here in just a few months.

SAI says the application will work over Wi-Fi and AT&T’s 3G network, meaning that users will be able to view programming anywhere with a fast data connection.

Rumors suggesting that an iPhone-friendly version of Hulu swirled around this time last year, however, they predated the launch of the App Store, and Hulu flat-out denied that one was being worked on.

From the QuickPwn site:

The Russian hacker Vortex has once again released an unofficial jailbreak at iPhoneApps.ru. I tried it on my iPod Touch with firmware 3.0 beta 2 and it works!

I have not tried it myself because I have not had the time to mess with 3.0, so I cannot confirm or deny it myself. However, Vortex is active and I’m usually inline to buy what comes from him. Normal warning in place of course, do this at your own risk, etc…  Also, remember, you have to reload everything when you do a fresh jailbreak.

Will be interesting when 3.0 is released how long a consumer friendly version will be out.

However, times.. they are a chang’in..

The iPhone 3.0 update is suppose to significantly improve Bluetooth compatibility. When I talked with the guys at Zeemote, they said they have already started looking into it.

What I expect to see very soon is iControlPad’s device gaining greater support.  Here is the video if you have not seen it..

Sweet eh? These are the guys I’m watching for game play, and zeemote for all other remote tasks. But like I said, Apple had BETTER insure this can be supported. Else, just one more reason for people to join the jailbreak ranks.

Now… where is that bluetooth keyboard we have been waiting for??

But I thought I would write a few quick words on what I do like.  The Stanza.

Whats great about this little app is .. well everything actually.  You can search, book, magazines, newspapers.   They have a great only library of over 100k books.  I was able to find ‘outliers’ for 9.99, although I was not able to find ‘The Difference Engine’. Read the Times, BBC, Wired etc.. and started reading ‘the time machine’ which is a sample book that comes with the app I believe.  Although I did find it odd finding the ‘tipping point’ in the category of Fictionwise.  Perhaps Fictionwise is not all fiction.

Navigation is simple enough..  The right side of the page advances, the left goes back a page and then center is the menu. Landscape/Portait switching is clean and pages load fast. Now, I cannot imagine there are as many books availble through Stanza as Amazon, but I can say this. I will check Stanza first, and then consider buying the book before I buy through kindle.  As least for now.