Posts Tagged with ‘iPhone’

Today a new service from Schmap is out of private beta to help webmasters optimize any of their websites for iPhone almost without efforts and completely for free as well. This optimization is only intended for the contact details so it will be most helpful for local businesses, like restaurants or coffee shops.
Actually the main service of Schmap is assembling online guides for various places around the world based on user-submitted information. It also allows downloading desktop guides for any [...]

I'm a texter.  I'm addicted.  I actually prefer texting to phone calls; you can talk to seven people at once as opposed to just one, and SMS messages tend to cut down on conversational fluff that saps your precious time.  Because most people aren't addicted like me, they don't care to shoot the breeze with their fingers.  In fact, that tends to mean they don't text me at all, but leave me voicemail after voicemail, in spite of the fact [...]

The iPhone has developed the same culture of Twitteritis that the rest of the Web has in the two-and-a-half weeks since the launch of the App Store and the iPhone 3G . Everyone wants to build the perfect Twitter application, but with so many to choose from, which one do you choose?
Twitterific would seem to be the odds-on favorite to win. Already established on the desktop, the blue bird's move to the iPhone was both logical and expected. Not [...]

Downloading iPhone apps on a budget? Don't have money to invest in Super Monkey Ball and Texas Hold 'Em? Still want something fun on your iPhone that will let you keep from getting bored in meetings and entertain the kids in the checkout line? Fear not; here are five completely useless iPhone apps you can download for free that should entertain even the most jaded child or cube denizen.
1. Tap Tap Revenge
Tap Tap Revenge is a game that should be [...]

You have the most successful touchscreen handset on the market, your brand image could sell contacts to the blind, and guess what?  You are largely responsible for a roadblock in the advancement of mobile social networking.  What I'm referring to is the fact that new iPhone applications are not allowed to run continuously as a background processes. 
Of course, I doubt Apple or its head man Steve Jobs directly intend to inhibit the advancement of mobile social media by [...]

"Android Developers Revolt." "Android Developers Flee to iPhone Platform."
The headlines on tech blogs lately are starting to read like supermarket tabloids, so I dug a little bit deeper to see if all the smoke has a fire behind it. What did I find?
Yes, there is a petition asking for more information from Google. Yes, I read it. But here's what it looks like to me: a vocal minority of Android Developers are frustrated and comparing the Android development process to [...]

One thing I quickly noticed when browsing the App Store, both in iTunes and on the iPhone, was that there seemed to be some bizarre method of listing the apps. I like finding things in neat categories and alphabetical order within the categories, but there seemed some anomalies in the sorting that placed apps out of order.
Apparently, some of the developers feel the same way that I do about success or failure being presence in the App Store, and also [...]

I think the very first icon I clicked on my iPhone was the one for the App Store. After all the hype for the App Store, I wanted to know exactly what ELSE I could be doing with the phone besides what Apple intended.
Available through both the iPhone as well as the iTunes Store, the apps are sorted into categories for easier browsing, as well as other lists such as most recently added and most downloaded. Prices are clearly marked, [...]

… and all I got was this bricked iPhone.
You may have heard something or other about a phone that got released today? I didn't even go stand in line, bad tech blogger that I am, but my husband gleefully stood in line for nearly four hours to get his phone, and surprised me with one (even after my well-documented complaints) as well thanks to the largesse of a gift certificate that had been planned for the pre-3G phone pricing.
A summary [...]