Monthly Archives: July 2009
First Look: iDisk app
Filed under: iPhone, MobileMe, First Look, App Review
Apple’s long-awaited free iDisk (iTunes link) program brings some great new features that makes MobileMe more appealing. But, there are a few holes and the program certainly doesn’t do everything.
Basic layout
When you launch the iDisk app, you’ll see most of folders that you normally have access to in your iDisk, plus any other folders that you might have created. What you won’t see are the Backup, Sites, Software and Web folders that are normally in your iDisk. You can access these folders by enabling them through the software settings. Pressing the edit button will allow you to delete any user-made folders you’ve added to iDisk, but you can’t create new folders.
TUAW Poll: What would you do if an iPhone 4G rolled out on Verizon?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Wireless, Odds and ends, iPhone
Apparently yesterday’s poll about the release date of Mac OS X 10.5.8′s made some waves in the Apple swimming pool, since we’ve seen over 6,400 responses in about 15 hours. That poll also made TUAW reader Clinton hungry for a new poll. He wrote:
“Could you do a poll? There is so much speculation about Verizon and a 4G network and the possibility of iPhone going to that platform once it is up and running in 2010. I would like to see a poll to substantiate all the speculation that AT&T customer will leave for Verizon’s network if iPhone is available on Verizon’s new 4G.”
iDisk iPhone app arrives, there is much rejoicing
Filed under: Apple, iPhone, MobileMe
You have waited with varying degrees of patience, but your wait is over: the MobileMe iDisk app, in all its officialness, is now available on the App Store.
The iDisk app allows you to view the contents of your MobileMe iDisk straight from your iPhone, and offers some nice options, such as adjusting the amount of local storage used on the phone for recently viewed files.
Apple adds keywords to App Store additions
Filed under: Apple Corporate, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Earlier this week, Apple took a step towards making iPhone and iPod touch apps easier to find. Specifically, developers can now add comma-separated keywords to their apps, up to 255 characters.
Hopefully this will make it easier to find apps, because it’s certainly not easy now. The categories are so vast and each one so densely packed (there are 65,000+ apps in the store as of this writing), that finding the one app that will do what I want is a chore.
iPhone eBooks
When we look for iPhone downloads, we usually are looking for movies, TV shows, music, games etc. But it also include iPhone eBooks! And there is a growing interest in using our iPhones as a book reader! The recent launch of the Barnes & Noble site with an iPhone interface built in, demonstrates this dramatically.
What you may not know is that there is a way to read many of your favorite books on your iPhone for FREE!! Using a service called overdrive, books can be downloaded from libraries and read on our iPhone. And Overdrive make it easy for us to find out whether the book we want is available for download. The provide a search service which tells us whether the book we want is available in a library near us (pretty much anywhere in the world!)
As our iPhoneGizmo readers already know, one of our team is a Vince Flynn fan. So we will use his works as an illustration. All we need to do is type “Vince Flynn” into the “creator” bar at overdrive search and we will get a list of libraries from around the world that lend his books out in this format. An example result for one of the ten books listed, is shown below.