Posted on Nov 21st, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone Tips |
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As you’ve probably heard by now, Apple released the much awaited 2.2 firmware update for both the iPhone and iPod touch. This new firmware brings several impressive new features.
Downloading and Installing the new Firmware
First, you’ll need to get the new version of iTunes that was released last night. Next, launch iTunes, and connect your iPhone or iPod touch. Click on your device and select the “Summary” tab and then click “Update.” The update will then take a few minutes to download and install.
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Posted on Nov 21st, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone Tips |
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Subscribers to Sirius XM satellite radio have reasons to be thankful on Thanksgiving Day next week: it appears that an iPhone app called "StarPlayr" will be coming soon.
There's a thread in the SternFanNetwork forums about receiving Sirius XM on the iPhone, and forum member JJRousseau, who is apparently an employee of developer NiceMac, LLC, pointed everyone to the StarPlayr website. StarPlayr currently makes a Mac player and is hard at work on the iPhone app. JJRousseau noted in the forum that "[t]he iPhone is our first priority, but it has taken longer than expected getting licensing worked out for the iPhone Client. As soon as the business side of iPhone version is worked out, you'll be able to purchase StarPlayr for iPhone at the App Store."
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Posted on Nov 21st, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone Tips |
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Do you like keeping up with friends on social networks? Do you have an iPhone? If so, you might be interested in a new social networking application for the iPhone called Ziibii. Ziibii [iTunes link] brings an innovative approach to viewing your social networking sites and RSS feeds -- without ever leaving this one app. Ziibii allows you to see friend updates, videos, and photos from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube.
Ziibii's killer feature is its "River" feature, which depicts friend updates, photos, videos, and RSS feed headlines "floating" down a river on tiny rafts. You can interact with the river and rafts with gestures. Moving too fast? Move your finger left or right on the screen. You can even make the river flow in the opposite direction by swiping your finger against flow.
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Posted on Nov 21st, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone rumors |
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Odessa, Ukraine - Readdle today rebrands its A.I.Disk application as OneDisk to reflect its wide usage as iPhone and iPod Touch connection link to multiple online file storage services at once. Also, OneDisk improves iWork documents support and provides new file management capabilities.
The OneDisk is an iPhone application that lets people access documents on the MobileMe iDisk and other online storage services, transfer them to iPhones and iPod Touches, view on the go and even share with friends and colleagues. OneDisk has a built-in file viewer that supports a number of formats including MS Office and iWork documents, PDF, TXT, HTML and others making OneDisk extremely versatile. Also, any document that is stored in OneDisk can be sent by email to anyone in the world.
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Posted on Nov 21st, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone Tips |
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My buddy Gavin Baker, CEO of Abunga, took three iPhone cases from Marware for a spin. He took a look at the SportGrip ($14.99), C.E.O. Glide ($24.99) and the C.E.O. Premiere ($34.99). Which best suited this CEO on the go? Read his take below for the answer...
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Posted on Nov 21st, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone rumors |
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Vancouver, BC Canada - Bad Dog Apps is a Mac OS X Software house with over 10 years of Mac OS X experience. Today, we are proud to announce the availability of BdEmailer for the iPhone and iTouch on Apple’s App Store. This extends our already shipping iPhone apps lineup of BdCraigzList, BdSave$ and BdTranslator.
The upgrade to BdEmailer brings even more functionality to the power user’s iPhone or iTouch. Want to send a Quick Response directly from BdEmailer, now you can. Tired of struggling to type on the iPhone’s tiny keyboard? Why isn’t there a landscape option for working with emails? Why can’t you save emails in progress or see your sent history?
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Posted on Nov 20th, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone Tips |
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The long awaited iPhone firmware version 2.2 has appeared in iTunes and is ready for download. You can grab it now by clicking the "Check for Update" button in your iPhone Summary panel. Once you download and install it let us know how it goes.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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Posted on Nov 20th, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone rumors |
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Berkeley, California - Vela Design Group announces VelaClock 1.3 for iPhone 3G, the original iPhone, and iPod touch. VelaClock is a world clock with an easily configurable user interface. Users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, and three kinds of twilight (civil, nautical, astronomical) for both dawn and dusk, duration of daylight, moonrise, moonset, moon phase and tilt and more. VelaClock is especially popular among photographers looking for the magic hour.
VelaClock displays a list of cities and corresponding local times. The rows in the city list can show a daylight bar that gives the user a picture of 24 hours of natural light (bright daylight, three kinds of twilight and night). The daylight bar (24 hours of light) may be centered at noon or the current time. A thin white bar indicates when the moon is visible.
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Posted on Nov 20th, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone Tips |
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Santa Claus has decided that he'd like all good little boys and girls to check in on what he's doing at the North Pole, so he's set up a special webcam network at his workshops. The webcams can only be viewed through a special iPhone app called SantaLive 2008. Starting on Thanksgiving Day and for 30 days after, you can get a daily update on your iPhone or iPod touch as Santa trains his elves to make toys, feeds Rudolph and the other reindeer, and prepares for worldwide toy deliveries during the evening of December 24th - 25th.
On Christmas Eve, he'll be providing a special report. Santa's cyber-helpers warn that the Christmas Eve report might take a while to download.
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Posted on Nov 20th, 2008 under All, iPhone News, iPhone Tips |
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Oh man -- finally, we're getting an app that fulfills the promise of the iPhone. Ever since we knew the iPhone would have a camera and an internet connection, we've been waiting for SnapTell Explorer, and now it's here and free. Download and install it on the iPhone, and then snap a picture of any book, CD, movie, or videogame, and bingo, you've got links to listings for it (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Wikipedia, Google, etc.) around the Internet. I have no idea how it works (some type of picture comparison script hooked up to a database, surely, though it's amazing that it works that well with just the iPhone's camera), but that's fine, because it makes it all the more indistinguishable from magic.
The main drawback is that it takes a bit to search their database -- while wifi or 3G are much faster (obviously), Edge will have you waiting a few minutes for a find. And at this point, all they have are links to pages -- it would be nice to see a price comparison right away and/or a quick rating (to see instantly what people think of a movie if you happen to be standing in a video store making your choice). Finally, it would be nice to see this extended to all sorts of items -- I tried scanning a few groceries that I might be price shopping, but for now it's just books, movies, and music.
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