Posts Tagged with ‘iPhone’

Schmap Enables Any Website for iPhone Starting Today

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

YouMail — Visual Voicemail for the iPhone-Free Masses

Triston McIntyre

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 [...]

Twitter on the iPhone: Which App Will Rule Them All?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

5 Free Useless iPhone Apps All the Cool Kids Are Downloading

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

Apple’s iPhone Apps Stunt Mobile Social Growth

Triston McIntyre

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 [...]

As the GOOG Turns: the Android Soap Opera

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

"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 [...]

Advantage App Store: Two Paths to iPhone User Adoption

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

iPhone App Store: Eliminating the Competition

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

My Husband Went to the Apple Store…

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

… 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 [...]

New Facebook App for iPhones Takes Cues from Twitter

Triston McIntyre

There's nothing quite like the smell of a copy-cat early in the morning.  But then, what else would we expect of our trusty social network Facebook?  Aside from the many other cues Facebook has taken from different social platforms, when the Facebook app rolled out this morning as part of the iPhone Apps store, there [...]