Review of TouchCopy to manage music on the iPhone without iTunes TouchCopy ( a paid app) has been around for awhile and its lived up to my expectations. Unlike DiskAid, (review here) which provides only rudimentary file access, or Files Lite (review here) which sandboxes access to the file system, TouchCopy gives a bit more control and a far more user friendly experience. The only downside… Read More
Review of DiskAid. Use your iPhone like an external disk I have been using TouchCopy (review here)for quite a while now to manage my files (images, music, etc..) It’s a paid service and worth it IMHO. I also really like Files lite (review here) because of the wifi access. Very cool. Well, there is now another option for accessing your iPhone like a USB drive,… Read More
Review of iPhone movie apps and tips for getting the most when your shooting. For those of you without jailbroken phones, just keeping moving along.. nothing to see here.. Ok, for the rest of you, there are 4 programs out there for taking video and for me, one that I cannot seem to get to work. Cycoder: This is a pretty good app with a very simple UI. Start… Read More
Review of MotionX-GPS Lite gps application. Not too useful, but looks great! MotionX is not like other gps loggers I have reviewed for biking or running, but I I thought I would have a look at it anyway. Sweeeett looking app! MotionX is more useful for motorcycling or driving in my opinion then biking unless you are on a long or particularly complicated ride. The cool feature… Read More
3 iPhone tools you should have for the election Well, one day to go. Tomorrow will be nuts with crowds and I will bet all kinds of odd things going on. What is different this year is social media and the tools, especially hand held remotely connected devices, that can record and report from anywhere at anytime. As such, there are three tools you… Read More
Quake on the iPhone, on a NON JAILBREAK! I never thought this would happen, but ZodTTD submitted his port of Quake to the Apple store yesterday. Now we still do not know if Apple is going to let this in or not (highly unlikely) but we will all be watching. I have Quake on my jailbroken iphone and its pretty good. It takes… Read More
SBSetting: The best wifi 3G switching application so far – jailbreak only I’ve been using BigBoss and it’s OK, and I don’t know if I’m the only one, but when I click on the icon it takes a few seconds to initialize. When I turn 3G on or off, I normally lose wifi. Odd bug. However, I found this on Cydia.. SBSettings! Its great! I swipe across… Read More
iPhone 2.2 .. worth losing jailbreak to get Google Street view? Rumers of iPhone2.2 are starting to get around and so have a few screenshots. Based on what I’ve read so far, there does not seem to be that much to get excited about short of street view. From the images I saw on iphoneyap, it looks pretty cool, but just not worth losing my jailbreak.… Read More
Google Earth for the iPhone is out.. And its almost fully cool I was pretty excited when I heard this was out. I downloaded, started exploring and … its ok. The functionality of streaming images, rotation and site marks are there, all very cool, but no buildings! That has always been my favorite part of google earth. Topo in 3D is there, but its somewhat difficult to… Read More
Review of iMapMyRide as a bicycle computer for the iPhone There seems to be a pattern here, I cannot seem to get enough GPS loggers. 🙂 This is the 5th GPS logger I’ve checked out, and with one exception, which I will cover in a second, I’m not really seeing anything significantly new here. iMapMyRide is a free GPS logger with a companion web site… Read More
Remember the game RISK? Now play it on the iPhone with Lux Touch I remember playing RISK as a kid and always wanted to play on it on my treo. Never did find a good version. Same with windows mobile. Finally, Lux Touch is just what I was looking for. The graphics are great, the interface for moving armies and attacking is easy and straight forward. To attack,… Read More
My top free iPhone digital radio apps As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a news junkie. I watch or listen to WAY more news then I should, but the news and especially politics is like a soap opera that you know is somewhat trashy, you just cant stop following. 🙂 Anyway, when I drive, I normally listen to a 24hr AM news station. Unfortunately, AM… Read More
intelliscreen seems more stable with version update 2.26 I’ve been having issues with intelliscreen off and on since 3G. I decided to give it another try after one of the updates mentioned improvements in performance (hopefully better memory garbage management). Well v2.26 seems to be working pretty well. At least for the last 5 days. If you run anything before 2.23, you may… Read More
PwnPlayer coming soon! Freedom from itunes!! Sweettt. Can’t wait for this. I would have to say my main complaint for playing music on the iPhone is having to type in a password just to advance a song. Well, looks like we have an app on the way to take care of that issue. I also do not care for itunes, freedom!!… Read More
Review of TrailGuru as a bicycle computer At last count, I think there are around 7 or 8 iphone applications you can use for GPS logging. I have not tried them all, but I did give TrailGuru a try. I tested TrailGuru on the ebike on a short ride to the grocery. Like Path Tracker (reviewed here) the iPhone takes a GPS samples and… Read More
Traveling overseas? Still want to use your iphone for calls? Enter Fring I just did a post when I first installed Fring, but it dawned on me, this could be quite useful for those traveling overseas. A friend just crossed the pond and was looking to still use his iPhone. I looked into various solutions, but short of a 3rd party SMS service via jailbreak, I… Read More
Fring – VoiP and IM chat on the iPhone About time. I downloaded this, singed into my skype account and give it a shot. The sound quality was not all that great, but usable. Fring is NOT a jailbreak app so that means anyone can use it. The app is free in the app store, so I would grab this if you ever use… Read More
iBowl on the iPhone – iphone vs. wii? ok, so I saw a few tweets about this and decided to give it a shot. And I have to agree, this is pretty cool. Kinda like the wii in a way. I like that I can curve the ball by twisting the iPhone towards the end of release. Now the only downside. I can… Read More
Politics and the iPhone – The new Obama app I was quite impressed with this application when I first loaded it up. Basically, it’s the perfect tool for any field organiser or volenteer to get involved with the campaign. But more importantly, it indicates an understanding of the way people (mostly 20 and 30 somethings) are interacting with information and each other. The iPhone… Read More
Review of Path Tracker as an iphone bike computer I did a survey of the various navigation apps out there and decided to give Path Tracker a try. It was only 99c. Path Tracker is not like TrackThing where you get a graph and stats on the iphone. Instead, data is uploaded to a website as with GPS Tracker. Except I never could get… Read More