I finally caved an picked up an iPod Touch this past weekend after learning about what to me is a killer app: Instapaper. Here’s what it does: You sign up for an account at Instapaper.com (free) then add a bookmarklet to your browser called “Read Later”. Then when you find yourself staring down a long [...]
Minneapolis, Minnesota based widget and mobile application developers, DoApp, is climbing the rankings of the Apple iPhone store with their myLite Color Strobe and Flashlight application. It’s quickly moved from 47th to 14th among free applications since Monday. Impressive. So, what is it? Here’s a video someone shared on YouTube showing off the application: DoApp’s [...]
Jesse O’Neill-Oine from Refactr presented on development for the iPhone at Minnebar (his slides can be found on the Refactr blog). O’Neill-Oine opened by explaining how he was turned onto iPhone development: “I’m into iPhone development because I frickin’ love my iPhone.” This seemed to be a shared perspective among the audience. Apple takes a [...]
Kiltak at Geeks are Sexy points to this iPhone advertisement and asks if the iPhone is the ultimate blogging tool. The girl in the video explains that the iPhone can be used to take pictures and blog them directly from the phone: But is it the ultimate blogging device? No. The Palm Treo is a [...]
I’ve been in Canada the past couple days, so it’s quite possible that I’ve lost touch with the nuances of the American retail system. For example, all I could do was scratch my head when I read this quote about the iPhone price reduction in the NY Times: IPhone Owners Crying Foul Over Price Cut [...]
At last week’s Inman Connect Conference in San Francisco, moderators including Curbed.com’s Lockhart Steele and Inman conference founder Brad Inman, took questions from the audience over SMS to their iPhones. This had mixed results. On the positive side, it allowed people to ask questions much more efficiently than they could using a mic since time [...]
We’re now living in day 11 of a world with iPhones, and are starting to find out that the beautiful device isn’t perfect. I’ve yet to hear of someone switching back to their previous phone, but for those who haven’t made the leap yet, here are a few things to consider before doing so: 1. [...]
This is quite possibly the most boring video ever published to the Internet. Unless you happen to be one of the people who waited in line for an iPhone at the Mall of America or know someone who did. The first iPhone customer managed to get in and out of the Apple store in under [...]
