For business users of the iPhone, email is crucial. The computer in your pocket is only as good as its ability to help you conduct business on the run. As such, fast and efficient email search can mean the difference between finding an important yet buried email before heading into a meeting, and going in unprepared, or locating directions to your dinner date when Internet access is unavailable. And yet, the iPhone’s native email search leaves much to be desired. reMail, (itunes link) a new... Read more...
Two weeks ago, restaurant chain Pizza Hut has launched an iPhone application (iTunes link) a lot of bells and whistles, and apparently users, hungry for it. Download the application for the iPhone and iPod Touch have over 100,000 downloads just before the weekend, the company says. Good for them, and Pizza Hut that really made an effort with the program, which amusingly referred to as a "murderer of enforcement for the appetite." Apart from the ability to order food, the application... Read more...
Yahoo has been busy. Last week, announced a new personalized home page, you can customize by adding favorite services of Yahoo and social networking modules. Tuesday, Yahoo unveiled a new iPhone-optimized design for the iPhone Safari browser, which offers modules for synchronization between your PC and your iPhone. Here's how it works on the desktop. When you navigate to your browser from Yahoo.com, you can click a link at the top of the page to try the new home page. You will then... Read more...
As summer draws to a close for much of the northern hemisphere, try to go out for some (hopefully) clear skies and a bit of stargazing. We had a good look at many of the stars looking applications available for Mac and iPhone, and I thought it would be fun to do the "next step", an application for the iPhone that is going on satellites and the International Space Station. There are plenty of websites providing this information, but having it in an application is even more enjoyable. ... Read more...
Pro Football (NFL news, scores, and stats) Zumobi keeps adding new iPhone applications to the AppStore. Their latest work is Sporting News Pro Football, which they created in partnership with (guess) Sporting News. The free app offers breaking news, detailed stats, photos, expert analysis and articles, and other things NFL. Moreover, it can be customized with favorite team colors and content for quick access later on. Zumobi used its ZoomCanvas interface, which makes Sporting News Pro... Read more...
If you are a budding artist iPhone Livelli then the application could be for you. This is about a finger painting, a little 'like a brush, the iPhone app used to paint the cover of a recent edition of The New Yorker. As the name suggests, however, the characteristic of this application are separate layers within each image, which you can draw on. Five separate layers means you can add more depth to your paintings before - and this is the best bit - exporting as a JPG, or PSD layers. It... Read more...
Need an excuse to get away from a awkward blind date or a boring meeting? Want somebody to call you in a certain time? Callme is what you’re looking for! Highly emulate all the details when you have a call on iphone: Pick a wallpaper or ringtone from iPhone library, automatically entering sleep mode when there’s no call, start calling when timer ends. You can design your “escape plan” or make a “call” on ipod touch. Just run the app, slide to unlock, you can see all the settings you... Read more...
Let's face it, one of the few reasons why many of us to get a subscription to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is. One can say that can only be for the items, but the rest of us know your real reasons.SI announced a new iPhone app that puts the HOTNESS edition of the costume on your iPhone. The Si Swimsuit 2009 is the application and SI is called the "sexiest app in the world with hundreds of photos. In addition to photos of models of costume, the application provides information for... Read more...
A few artists have released iPhone Apps now give fans access to their music. Some of the more advanced also allow you to change tracks. But now Universal Music Group (in particular, Interscope Geffen A & M) is apparently planning to open for its launch of these artists on a regular basis. E 'launching a new platform called App Romplr in conjunction with the digital entertainment studio, Moderati. The first app built on the platform, released today, allows you to remix tracks... Read more...
College text is too expensive, too heavy and too consuming tree. Electronic text, on the other hand, cost less, weigh nothing, and leave only the forests.You'd think Amazon's switch would be the logical place for e-textbooks to make their mobile debut, but CourseSmart's new eTextbooks app brings the iPhone and iPod Touch instead. In particular, there is a companion tool for eTextbooks textbook CourseSmart subscription service, which makes more than 7,000 titles available for download... Read more...
There’s a very easy way to sum-up Photo Forge: This application is Photoshop on the iPhone. Although it is essentially a rotation in the different features that I have seen in a simple application for über-app, photo Forge feels like a real leap forward for image editing and processing on the iPhone.
