Cool Geekness with new NASA iphone app As an ex-NASA guy (seems way back to me now) I had to check this out when I saw the write up on CNET. Its pretty cool! Well designed and laid out, not trying to do too much but doing a good job with what it does do. The app give you updates on various… Read More
iphone app from Oracle that looks like its from a startup. Oracle has a new iphone app that looks ok. In the promotional animation, a business man is flying to Paris, France to give a presentation. Great. Often, and I can attest to this, you have to use cash for things because your card is not always accepted. So, this application called ‘iReceipts’ seems like any… Read More
A firefox browser in iphone? Perhaps not, but what if… Om Malik from GigaOm started a rumor (and I only say rumor to be safe) that Mozilla is planning something for the iphone. Now the first thought is; “Hey! Firefox on the iphone! ” Yeah. As sweet as that would be, and you bet it would be sweet because the browsing experience on the iphone… Read More
What is Augmented Reality on mobile devices? I wrote this as a companion piece for an article that may show up in the next issue of iphoneLife, but I thought I would include it here and now since AR is getting more relevant. Also, one of the things I said NEEDS to part of the AR toolkit for iphone (mobile) got a… Read More
Text message (SMS) to voice on the iphone My nephew Jared turned me on to this app. DriveSafe.ly is still in Alpha and only on jailbreak at the moment. At some point they will release it via the app store, but without backgrounder, I’m not sure how useful it is. The app is simple enough; every 5sec or 1min it checks for new… Read More
Augmented Reality app Layar is finally on the iPhone! Just saw this via a tweet. I’m going to load it play with it later, but here is the link. http://layar.com/layar-is-in-the-iphone-app-store/… Read More
New iPhones have current jailbreak exploit blocked So what does that mean? Well in short, the exploit that has been used in the rain series is now closed. Basically the new crop of iphones you get off the shelf cannot be jailbroken. This includes BlackRa1n if I understand the TechCrunch article correctly. (I still need to research this a bit more). If… Read More
Realtime collaboration on the iphone? Enter Adobe Connect mobile. This is great news, and WAY faster then I expected it. Right now, there is not a solution for real time collaboration for mobile devices, and given limitations of screen real estate , memory and CPU power, its not surprising. The great part about flash, is how easy it is to build modules and swap… Read More
Google search options spotted on the iphone Just showed up today, at least I noticed it today. When you do a google search on the iphone, you now get options like on the desktop. Its not full featured, meaning we still do not have an advanced option, but still, bit by bit, google is providing a rich experience through the mobile web… Read More
Photo editing with Photoshop on the iPhone This just came out today. Its pretty fun. You can edit a photo, crop, apply a filter, etc.. Pretty cool really. You can do the basics that you would expect: cropping, changing exposure, convert to black and white, change contrast. There are some basic filters too; sketching, blurring, image border, I like the rainbow filter,… Read More
Flash on the iphone! Its finally here!! Mostly Straight from the web site! I will update as I learn more. * I just tried one of the apps, and it works great. And that is not surprising because is coco, but still, anytime you go from one language to another there are risks. But so far, so good. 3 of the demo apps… Read More
Adversts in Google Maps on the iPhone? Great. Not I saw this in TC and have not seen it myself, but I will keep an eye out over the weekend. Basically, you could have a ad for beer or a bike shop or something based on the search. Also, it SEEMS uses can inject items into maps, but I think its more of where… Read More
More Augmented Reality apps for the iphone; Wikitude and Cyclopedia RWW broke a story with new AR apps for the iphone. I have not downloaded and played with them myself, but they look great, and its the next level of AR (for the iphone, since Android has had this for a bit) that we have been waiting for. This is a ‘killer app’ for AR… Read More
Stitcher, digital radio for the iphone, gets an update I use Stitcher anytime I’m on a long drive. Normally between SF and Sacramento. What I like about Stitcher is the number of offerings, but mostly because its the only place I can get BBC radio, short of downloading a podcast, which I will not do. So today I got a press release saying they… Read More
A new Uber iphone twitter app: Tweetie 2 I like Tweetie. I wrote an article for iphonelife on iphone twitter apps (it not out yet, but here is a short version) and of all the apps I tried, I used tweetie the most when I’m not using twittFilter. (twittFilter is a web app and my fave given that I wrote it). So Gizmodo,… Read More
Record Video on the Palm Pre! +1 to the hackers It always seem to be the way with smart phones isnt it? Just read in Gizmodo of a hack that will give you 320×480 resolution video at 30fps. Sweeet. And have a look at the video below. Nice. So what does this mean? Well, depending on the GPS abilities of the Pre we could (perhaps)… Read More
Bionic Eye: Another AR app for the iphone. This works in the US I just posted a few hours ago that we are going to see a rush of new augmented reality apps soon, and then I get an email for a new app that does the basics you would expect, and it looks pretty nice. This one will work on 3GS phones, but without the fancy AR… Read More
Augment Reality App for the iPhone powered by Bing Just saw this on Techcrunch. It looks pretty cool although I could not get it to work quite right. Could be a GPS issue. Anyway, I think this is just the beginning of a flood of location / orientation away apps that are on the way. And the fact this is using Bing is quiet… Read More
A semi truck that messes with your mind This is wrong! Just plain wrong. I don’t know if this is photoshop or not, but I love it though. 🙂… Read More
A challenger appears. MS enters the tablet war with Courier. We all know about Apples ‘Rumored’ tablet and the Archos Android Tablet, and even TechCrunch has one. Well, a new rumor from Gizmodo (images and video) has hit the interwebs. MicroSoft has a new tablet! Now this seems like a lot of vaperware, but assuming it runs Onenote, it could be pretty cool. I like… Read More