News tagged ‘Google’

Google announced the release of an iPhone native version of their Google Earth application. The application is free, avaliable from the AppStore (iTunes Link).

Apple has seeded iPhone 2.2 Firmware Beta 2 and has fully enabled Google Street View. Beta 1 of iPhone 2.2 had hidden APIs related to the Street View for Google Maps, but was not enabled.

The seed notes also indicated that Line-in audio accessories are now supported in the SDK.

via theiphoneblog and macrumors

LiveJournal.app allows you to post new entries to your blog at LiveJournal.com with photos (as much as you want) or images (uploaded to LiveJournal Scrapbook) and receive and send personal messages.

This application is free, avaliable via AppStore (link).

The above message is shown at freechromethemes.com. Our guess is that Apple will never allow Chrome to make it to AppStore. However it will probably be avaliable via Cydia for jailbreaked iPhones.

Apple released firmware version 2.2 beta 1 a bit more than a week ago. Couple more features were hiden there.

First of all Apple has addressed one common request within the iPhone's Keyboard settings, allowing users to disable the iPhone's auto-correction.

The other feature is for Japanese market - Japanese emoji icons. The lack of emoji support has been blamed as part of the reason for slow iPhone adoption in Japan.

The third new feature is Street View. It allows users to view panoramic street level photographs in select cities within the Google Maps application.

Hopefully we will see more new features in this and next beta's of 2.2 firmware.

via macrumors

Related articles:

• Firmware 2.2 - new Safari interface
• Jailbreak on firmware 2.2 beta 1
• Auto-correction - solution to turn it off

Fring allows you to chat and interact with others on a variety of networks including Skype, MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, ICQ.

In addition, Fring offers voice over ip (VoIP) using the iPhone's WiFi connection. Features listed include:

• VoIP Calls over WiFi
• Instant Messaging
• Integrated dynamic contact list 
with real-time contact availability
• SIP integration
• Multiple Connection types

Fring supports SkypeOut and SIP which allows you to make calls to landline and mobile phones. Available for free via App Store. (link)

via macrumors

This is a Safari replacement browser for iPhone. It is avaliable via Cydia (Networking category).

• Full Screen Browsing
• Turn Landscape Mode switch on and off
• Bookmarks
• URL Recovery
• Home Page
• Google Search
• Mail Link

It is still in development stage, so more features will be quite soon.

IM+ is a very popular messanger among WindowsMobile users. Now it is avaliable for iPhone throught AppStore (link). It supports AIM/iChat, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk and MySpaceIM. And it is FREE.

Both ApolloIM and MobileChat were jailbreak applications for chatting on the go with your iPhone/iPod touch. Alex Schaefer, ApolloIM's founder, has recently joined the MobileChat development team. In a blog posting by the developer of MobileChat, he said that both applications underwent "friendly competition" and that, while there was no clear winner in the iPhone IM business, users got the benefit from the ongoing competition.

Now that Alex has joined the other team, you can expect that MobileChat will only get better. The post goes on to mention that Alex will be working on stability and user experience for the application.

via tuaw

PS: As for me, I like Agile Messanger much better.

Garafa's GPSKit for iPhone provides you with more advanced GPS functionality and tracking for your iPhone:

• Dashboard - see real time information (speed, direction, coordinates, etc)
• Tracks - save your path, view in Google Earth or Maps
• Waypoints - Save points of interest

While GPSKit's solution is $9.99, there are other applications on the App Store that provide portions of similar functionality:

• GPS Tracker - real-time tracking service
• Speed - real time speedometer
• PathTracker - real time stats, save your path, also for runners/bikers
• Speedster GPS - speed and altitude in real time
• gpsCompass - real time stats
• Distance Meter - distance tracker
• iTrail - distance and path tracker for runners/bikers
• RunKeeper - track running/biking paths and stats

via iphone-chat

Good news everyone. Thanks to Google you can now use search on Java4iPhone. Use the form in the right top corner.

Digital Daily notes that Apple's market capitalization at $159.37 billion is now worth more than Google's which is at $157.56 billion. Apple's market cap first exceeded $100 billion in May of 2007. Apple was included into the S&P 100 index at that time. For interest, MacDailyNews compiled a list of the market values of other notable companies:

• Microsoft (MSFT) - $255,648,204,000
• IBM (IBM) - $169,964,678,000
• Apple (AAPL) - $157,012,662,240
• Google (GOOG) - $156,392,862,560
• Cisco (CSCO) - $142,125,692,160
• Intel (INTC) - $135,658,860,000
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) - $111,866,423,760
• Nokia (NOK) - $97,746,699,520
• Research In Motion (RIMM) - $71,143,935,000
• Disney (DIS) - $59,257,501,500
• Dell (DELL) - $50,483,256,060

via macrumors

Today Twenty08 released a new instant messaging client for the iPhone/iPod touch. MobileChat (iTunes Link) allows you to connect to multiple IM services, including:

• AIM/ICQ/.Mac/MobileMe
• Windows Live/MSN
• Yahoo
• GTalk
• Jabber

This application is well known to many iPhone users. This application is feature rich, allowing you to take and send images or IM a phone number from any of your 10 supported IM accounts. Application cost is $2.99.

Walkthrough video from developers:

PS: I personaly like Agile much better.

We all saw iPhone 3G "twice as fast" adv video. The funny thing is that in real world everything is much slower than in advertising.

However new iphone 3G is really faster than the old one: EDGE vs 3G.

The main purpose is bug fixing. Many applications work faster. Here is the list of changes:

• Drag an app icon across multiple pages in one motion, rather than having to drag it, drop it, pick it up again and drag it over to next page, and repeat.
• Contacts are now more responsive.
• Backup is much faster.
• Apple may have changed the calibration of the iPhone's reception "bars" while connected to a 3G network to reflect a stronger signal than before.
• Keypad loads quicker.
• Screen rotation in Safari appears to be smoother.
• Some apps may ask to be updated after the firmware upgrade.
• SMS typing faster.
• Google Apps works faster.
• Netshare still works (for those who use it).
• Works with iPod.
• Multimedia content is kept after update.
• No Support from Pwnage and WinPwn. If you update you'll loose unlock and jailbreak.