Category Archives: iPhone Apps
Email More Than Five Images At Once From The Stock Photos App On iPhone Using ‘Mail More Photos’
The photos application that comes as stock on Apple iOS devices is probably one of my favorite apps on my iPhone and iPad.
I know, it seems like a bizarre statement to make considering the amount of amazingly innovative and beautiful applications that exist amongst the 543,000 on the App Store. However, the simple nature of Photos App, mixed with its functionality and deep integration into the operating system has made me fall in love with it.
But, as we all know, falling in love is easy, it is human nature after all, but the difficult part is remaining in love. I am now onto my fourth iPhone and second iPad and there is a consistent, niggling little gripe that I have with the Photos App that could have produced a ripple in our otherwise perfect relationship. I am far from being an accomplished photographer, but I do love taking photographs.
Whether it is a shot of a loved one (usually my dog), or a quick snap of a shop window when I am out and about, my Photos App is full of a random collection of images. Imagine my distress when I was out of the country, trying to email some photographs home and my beloved Photos Application let me down by refusing to allow more than five images to be selected for emailing.
Why can’t navigation apps be fun?
With all the holidays, many of us TUAWians spent more time on the road over the past few weeks than we normally do.
And when it comes to tech-savvy bloggers, more time on the road means more time with navigation apps. And more time with navigation apps made us ever more aware of our lingering frustrations with the most popular apps.
Sure Navigon and TomTom will get us from here to there, but they represent not just the lower end of design possibility, but the most Windows NT-like user experience. (We say that as an insult. We’re Apple bloggers.) We’re talking Soviet-era usability.
On a platform that sports such shining examples of beauty and design, including Omni’s suite of tools, Apple’s brilliant in-house offerings, and so forth, why does utilitarian nonsense dominate the navigation market?
Find My Car Smarter uses Bluetooth Smart to locate your car
One time, I spent hours wandering the parking lot after a concert.
I really wish I had marked the location of my car and not relied on my memory to navigate. Next time I find myself in that situation, I’m going to use Find My Car Smarter. It’s a Kickstarter project from FMC Smart which automatically marks your location every time you park your car.
The system uses a low-power Bluetooth Smart device (shown below), an iOS app and a Bluetooth 4.0 compatible phone like the iPhone 4S. The Bluetooth Smart device is a small USB dongle that fits in a standard car charger.
It plugs into your car’s 12V accessory charging port and stays there. The iOS app, Find My Car Smarter, connects to the Bluetooth Smart device and runs in the background. The app stays connected to the dongle until you power down the device by turning off your car. If your car doesn’t power down the accessory port, then the app will disconnect when you walk away and get outside the dongle’s 10-foot range.
Boston schools producing iPhone apps
Readers who went to college in the pre-App Store days will likely remember what it was like to receive a college brochure when they were shopping for schools.
It was so exciting to thumb through the pages of a bright and colorful brochure which was printed on thick, glossy paper. In the next several years, these brochures will become obsolete. Gradually, schools will use an iOS app or other digital media to both compete for prospective students and engage current students.
BostInno, an online blog covering the city of Boston, took a look at iOS apps for several Bean Town colleges and universities including MIT, Babson, Berklee College of Music, Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, and Northeastern. We won’t spoil the fun and tell you which one BostInno likes best, but we will share their conclusion that many schools have a long way to go with their apps.
What was GameStore? Looks like sample code
Earlier today, Kelly posted about GameStore, a new Apple app that appeared on the App Store right before the New Year and was pulled several minutes ago.
I forked over my dollar and downloaded a copy to see what the app was all about.
It turns out, that there wasn’t a lot of there there, and what there was looked an awful lot like…sample code. Specifically, sample code that demonstrates how to perform in-app purchases.
The application’s identifier was com.apple.iphonesdk.GameStore. Compare this with com.apple.Cards, the identifier for Apple’s Cards app. “iphonesdk” hints that the application was meant for developer audiences, i.e. users of the iOS Software Development Kit.
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