Archive for October, 2008

Take a look at appsamuck.com. They create sample lessons for each of 31 days. Now 13 lessons are avaliable. Eant to make fire or get familiar with GPS? I recommend all potential iPhone developers to take a look.

The key here is simple: "Taking baby steps is better than taking no steps at all!" We plan on writing 31 iPhone applications in the next 31 days. We will publish both the executable and the source code for each application. Our goal is for each of these applications to be useful, interesting, and straight-forward. Someone considering writing their first iPhone application should be able to look at these applications and "get it".

This is a video from myPhoine 2008 conference. Young developer Erik created Boot Camp for iPhone.

MobiFrance points us to this intriguing company: http://olo-computer.com/. It looks like they’re intending on developing a low-cost sort of Netbook, but with a difference — it will be powered by the iPhone. The idea is you plug your iPhone into the bottom and it not only becomes the touchpad for the Netbook, it also powers the thing entirely, the rest of the hardware is simply a keyboard, screen, and a few other bits to make it all run.

The idea is nice but very far from being implemented.

via theiphoneblog

This game will show up next week in AppStore. Approximate price will be $1.99

Categories updated to 2.21. The only change is that the Backgrounder app is now optional so that those of you that didn’t like having this app could uninstall it without uninstalling categories as well. Of course, if you uninstall it, the backgrounding option inside categories will be ignored.

Related: Categories and Backgrounder

iDicto (AppSore link) is a the most simple and easy-to-use powerful sound and voice recorder. Now you can enjoy this application free for limited time.

Other features supported by iDicto are:

• Record, replay your ideas, notes, reminders on-the-go
• Adjustable recording quality: Best (44.1kHz), Good (22.05kHz) and Low (8kHz).
• Unlimited record time
• Wi-Fi sync
• Rewind during playback
• Pause and continue during playback or recording
• Rename recordings at any time
• Group and sort your recordings
• Show the date, time, recording length directly in the recordings list
• Volume control
• Auto saving
• While transferring files you can select the time period during which auto-lock will be disabled.

This is a game for children. You need to spin 3D objects to fit 2D pattern. It will be avaliable soon in AppStore.

This is a very nice 2D racing game. Already avaliable via AppStore (link) for $3.99. Watch the video:

You can name it as one more iPhone clone or iPhone killer. Anyway, this is going to be a nice phone.

Related articles:

• Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic - iPhone clone?
• T-Mobile G1 vs AT&T Apple iPhone

This is one more iPhone file manager. Quite good. I use iFunBox, and I like this one. I'll definitely try it.

Download:

• DiskAid 1.5 for Windows
• DiskAid 1.5 for MacOS

The South Park guys have cooked up a killer iPhone application. It's not yet available in the iTunes App Store.

There is ability to stream clips, grab wallpapers for your device, read news, and browse the complete episode index. Also: choose character likenesses as "contact images" for your iPhone -- assign a face to the phone book entry of your choice. An incoming call from best friend displays Kyle or Cartman and more.

Here are couple screenshots:

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TouchType (iTunes Link) is a new app available now in the App Store for the low price of $.99. Now all that is left is some SMS landscape love.

Here’s a brief overview of how it works: Open the application and you get a landscape mode keypad, get your email groove on, tap the send button and it automatically sends it to the email application. Type in the email addresses and you’re all set.

This is all great. But it would be much much better to see this kind of functionality in Mail. app, rather than separate standalnone application.

Update: Four landscape email front-ends popped up on the App Store last night, including this one:

- Wide Email - $0.99
- Sideways - $1.99
- Touchtype (Landscape Email) - $0.99
- Compose - $4.99

via theiphoneblog and macrumors

SwirlyMMS allows users to send MMS messages. It is updated to 1.2.6. In several days it jumped from v1.2.3 to v1.2.6. Here is a changelog:

This application is avaliable via Cydia Installer.

Categories updated to 2.20. Here is a changelog:

Launcher: Folders instant loading! Integrated with backgrounder for folders. There is now an option in the settings to "keep resident". When set, the folder only loads once per respring. After that, it stays running in the background (uses no CPU but uses some RAM) to provide instant loading (no load times). Note that this does use more memory so use it sparingly. I suggest that it is ok for 1 - 4 folders but I would not background 20 folders. If you do and have problems, just go back to settings and disable this option on some of the folders you don't use as often.

Sounds like we should use Categories + Backgrounder. In this case folders will open very very quickly.

Avaliable in Cydia Installer.

This application adds speach recognition to iPhone. The good part it works, it is avaliable right now in AppStore and it is free (link).

Take a look at the video to see how it works: