Monthly Archives: March 2009
The Bad Decision Blocker prevents dialing mistakes
Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Enough of the fart apps — here’s an iPhone function we really need. The Bad Decision Blocker (BDB for short) is an iPhone app that will let you block any of your phone’s contacts for a predetermined set of time.
We’ve all been there — you go out Friday night, get a few drinks in you, and suddenly calling up your former friend, or a girl you’re trying to ask out, or a girl you used to go out with (who decided not to hang out with you any more thanks to all the drinking) becomes something you’re suprisingly willing to do. BDB, however, will say no, and keep that contact out of the contact list, until whatever time you’d said it was OK to let it back in. And, presumably, by that time you can be in a more sober state of mind, and realize that you don’t need any girl whose idea of a good time is keeping you from having fun. Take that, Susan!
First Look: Convertbot
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, First Look
Last October, we posted about another iPhone app — Weightbot — written by Mark Jardine and Paul Haddad at Tapbots. Now the company has shipped their second app, an iPhone conversion calculator called Convertbot (iTunes link).
Like Weightbot, Convertbot is a classy-looking and extremely functional iPhone app. Every detail of the user interface shows obvious thought, resulting in an app that is easy to use and look at. As with Weightbot, Convertbot also features sound effects that provide an extra level of fun.
iPhone Helping Us To Keep Politics Honest!
We have been promised – a lot!
And one of those promises has been “transparency” in government. Helping that to become a reality has been the establishment of transparent-gov.com. This site is fueled by the belief that:
Transparency is the essence of good government!
To help with the transmission of information so necessary for transparency, Transparent-gov has today released of a free iPhone App that will serve as a portal for revealing how the recovery budget will be spent – and where!
SlingPlayer for iPhone submitted to app store
Filed under: Peripherals, Video, iPhone, App Store
It’s something many iPhone owners have been waiting for since the iPhone first appeared 2 years ago. It was on again, off again, will they, won’t they?
Well, it seems they did. Sling has announced that SlingPlayer for iPhone has been submitted to the app store for approval. The company had previously said the app would be submitted this quarter, and it’s in just under the wire.
IbisMail take 2
Filed under: iPhone, MobileMe, App Store, iPod touch
This is my week to take a second look at some iPhone apps that were less than thrilling on their first appearance, but have been updated with fixes and enhancements. Earlier, I took a look at VoiceMail, and today I’m taking a fresh look at IbisMail, [App Store link] an email client for the iPhone and iPod touch that offers some features Apple does not. The app is U.S. $0.99.
Although the specs indicate that almost all mail protocols are supported, last time around I had no luck with a simple POP3 account, and a complete fail at working with MobileMe. I’m happy to say it now works with both types of mail, although setting up MobileMe mail is not automatic, and the defaults the program enters are not correct. You’ll have to do it manually, copying the same information you use on the Apple Mail app. I tried a couple of other IMAP mail accounts, and they worked OK.