Monthly Archives: April 2009
SlingPlayer for iPhone getting closer to release?
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
SlingMedia thinks so. In a brief note on the Sling website, the company notes: “We are in close contact with our partners at Apple and are optimistic that it will be approved soon. We hope the wait won’t be much longer.”
Hopefully the company knows something the pundits and rumor mongers don’t. It’s been a month of excitement followed by depression as lightly-sourced rumors spread that Apple would turn down the highly anticipated app at the request of AT&T, who worried about all the bandwidth the app would use. There was even a change in the AT&T Terms of Service, that the company later disowned and apologized for.
Birthdays under control on your iPhone
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review
I always have a problem with birthdays. I generally don’t make a big deal about my own, and sometimes that leads me to forget my friends’ big days. iCal helps me, and I have a few birthdays in there that have pop-ups a few days in advance. It works well, especially if I remember to make it a repeating alert from year to year.
Now, here’s another solution that plays well with the iPhone or iPod touch. It’s called Birthday Reminder [App Store link] and sells for $1.99US. It scours your contact list to pull birthday information, and shows you all the ones you have in a nice chronological list. You can also tap on anyone in the list and call or text them. It tells you when the birthday is coming up, and how old the person will be.
An iPhone accessories you MUST HAVE for summer!
Maybe its the balmy spring days reminding us of summer, maybe its because I am dreaming of my coming trip downunder where I plan to surf at real beaches and dive the coral reefs! So I admit to drooling over the images we captured for this post.
Now, if you search this blog you will discover that it’s a rare post that we do on iPhone accessories (we mostly post about free stuff – iPhone downloads and Apps). But we are making an exception for this one! And not just because one of our team (me) has just gone and got one of the armbands (and with holiday spirits souring, is wanting to wax lyrical on all things associated with it). But for two other darned solid good reasons:
Firstly – H2O has beautifully designed and executed pieces of
equipment (you can get waterproof headphones
and dive cases
as well) that allows us to take our iPhone and iPods with us while we are engaged in water sports – 100% guaranteed to be water proof (or they will replace our iPhone!). And that includes sports where water is likely to be hitting us at some speed – like wakeboarding.
Base Tent offers mobile access to Basecamp
Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch, App Review
I’ve been using 37signals’ Basecamp to manage projects large and small for almost a year now. It’s tremendously useful, and everyone I’ve shown it to falls in love. While the folks at 37signals have produced some great applications, they’ve left the extras to 3rd party developers.
I’ve been using Outpost for a bit, and this week I had a chance to try out Base Tent [App Store link]. While not as pretty as some of the others, it works very well.
Get 50% off iPhone in Action until April 30
Filed under: Books and Blogs, Developer, Deals, iPhone, SDK, iPod touch
Some time ago I reviewed iPhone in Action from Manning. While there are other “starter” books out there, if you know how to code and you want to get up-to-speed on everything from web apps to the SDK, this book is a great primer. Of course, the pending 3.0 update to the iPhone’s OS will add many new features, and the book’s authors are hard at work with an update that I’m told will be available as a downloadable e-chapter. The authors will first serialize it on their blog, so you can keep up there as well.
Until the update is ready the good folks at Manning have provided a code that’ll get you 50% off iPhone in Action until April 30, 2009. To get the discount, just go to the site and when you order use this code: tuaw50. Remember, this is only for the current edition of iPhone in Action.