Control your presentations from the new apple earphones?

Well, according to macosxhints.  They have not tried it, nor have I, but it seems like it could work. Since the new MacBooks now receive input from the iPhone’s headphones, you can use those headphones as a remote for running a presentation in Keynote ’09: One click starts the presentation. Two clicks moves to the… Read More

iphone 3.0 to give us remote controllers? Yea.. or at least, it better

At GDC yesterday, I walked past a display showing the ‘Zeemote’.  They had it working with a verity of phones (from the site: major manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola, and, Samsung).  Missing of course?  The iPhone!  Why? Because it uses Bluetooth which the iPhone VERY poorly supports. However, times.. they are a chang’in..… Read More

Why tethering is critical at GDC, when you cannot wait for iphone 3.0

This is the first day at GDC, and in the press room, the interwebs connection was good, but in the middle of drafting another post, the thing went south on me.  Grr…  Worse yet, in the conference rooms (of which I’m in now learning about various coding techniques for graphics on mobile devices) does not… Read More

Eat local with your iphone using Locavore

How cool is this?  Read this in TC. First off, what is a Locavor? “Locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius.” I’ve been a kinda of locavore for awhile now.  Go to my local farmers market, try to only eat and shop in walking distance. Costs a… Read More

Buy an iphone without a 2 yr contract. But still locked to ATT

Are you kidding me?  Here is what came across the wire.. The Associated Press quoted an AT&T representative Thursday confirming plans to sell no-contract iPhones for $599 or $699 starting next Thursday, as first reported Wednesday by the Boy Genius Report. There’s a catch, however; those phones will still be locked to AT&T’s network. Ok.. … Read More

iphone 4G, Really? We are still in rumor control.. but…

{update} Well, seems like we WILL get a flash!  Wow. 🙂  Updated post on the iPhone4 here… Lots of chat about the 4G, each place I’ve checked out for info seems to read like rumor.  Lots of images out there too.  Here is one that was emailed to me.. Its pretty certain Verizon will be… Read More

Review of Stanza as an ebook reader for the iphone

I wrote about this last week, how I did not care much for the kindle reader, and cared less about amazon crashing on me. (still have not determined the problem yet… been busy). It felt slow and a touch klunky. It crashed the first time I loaded it.  From what I read, the time is… Read More

Yahoo’s Inquisitor search app is … actually pretty good

When I first saw the screen shots, I though, meh, too much screen space used up for the returns.  But I downloaded it and gave it shot anyway.  I still do not like how  much screen space is taken up by the dividers, however, this thing is FAST!  Very impressive.  The web browser is pretty… Read More

NPR on the iPhone using PublicRadio and NPR Mobile

I have been a iphone radio user since AOL radio first came out.  I tend to use the digital radio just as often as I use the iPod feature. Missing however was public radio from AOL.  Well, that has been sorted.  Now, NPR Mobile has been out for a bit, but it lacked live streaming.… Read More

iphone tip #29: fix extra icon issue with categories

If  you have categories on your iphone, you may have noticed that when you update an app, it creates a new icon on the iphone’s ‘desktop’.  The fix? Simply refresh categories.  Here are the steps… 1) Open categories 2) open any folder 3) click add.. You do NOT have to add anything 4) close and… Read More

iPhone a FAIL in Japan? Sayz who?

Like everyone else, I’m been seeing a string of articles (most based off the wired article) saying Japan hates the iphone. Now hate is a strong word, but I bought most of what I read.  Most..  The only thing that seemed odd to me was the ‘unfashionable’ bit.  Really?  I have my complaints about the… Read More

YouTube fail on the iphone getting fixed.. slowly

First off, I’m really surprised not more people raised a stink about this.  When I checked the boards and twitter, it was clear it was on many phones, but either few people seemed to care or the word got out to go through the web interface to play movies.  Perhaps I’m one of the few… Read More

How to make a skype call on the iphone using truphone

I use skype, not as much as in the past, but every now and again.  Now truphone has brought in skype support. I can call skype people, skype’rs can call me and I can do IM.  That’s all I need really. I’ve talked about truphone before (link) and VoiP in general for overseas calls (story… Read More

Cut and paste on the iphone. closer… closer..

I’ve written about Clippy before, however, its getting more and more interesting. Now whenever you press the .?123 button, it will read the current or top text field and offer to copy it. Plus, if you are in the email preview mode, and press and hold on a message, it will offer to copy the… Read More