The developer of Diamenty had ported a version of PopCap’s popular Bejeweled game for the iPhone browser, and it is now the official version of PopCap’s Bejeweled game. To play, point your browser to popcap.com in your iPhone browser. If reading press releases is your thing, there’s a link. [via]
July 2007: Monthly Archive
The inaugural voyage of our iPhone-centric podcast, by the same folks that gave you the #1 Palm Treo podcast, the TreoCentral Treocast.
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Chapura has added a new application to its product lineup, called FoldedMirror. What this application does is enable iPhone users to connect with Outlook Calendar and Contacts folders right from their device, by mirroring data created on a PC running Microsoft Outlook. A host PC is required, with Outlook running at all times, in order for this process to work. FoldedMirror doesn’t come cheap, however. A single user license will set you back $49.95. Ouch!
I haven’t yet put this software to the test since I already use a hosted Exchange account but it looks very promising. You can read the full press release here.
You can sneak supported audio on to the iPhone from any computer by using a utility called Typecast from Red Sweater. Apparently, if you have your iPhone set up sync podcasts from a separate computer, you can typecast your audio as a podcast, and sync it from that foreign computer. It’s a clever idea, coming from Jason Snell of MacWorld. You can read about it on the Red Sweater Blog. This is better in some ways than disk mode; you’ll be able to play the audio immediately. Granted, I’d rather be able to sync audio from every computer and do it, but the law-talkin’ guys probably wouldn’t let it work that way.
Over the years, NewsGator Go! has remained one of my all time favorite mobile RSS feed readers. The mobile client app to NewsGator’s popular RSS aggregation service was been available for Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Blackberry for some time now. And while the iPhone may not support third party software, yet, Newsgator provides a mobile web accessible service that supports iPhone. Just point Safari (via iPhone) to m.newsgator.com and login to your NewsGator account. From there you can access your feed through a simplified web interface optimized for iPhone. Enjoy!
Earthcomber is an interesting location-based service that bills itself as a “personal radar”, providing an organized list of events and entertainment in relation to where you are. Just type mobile.earthcomber.com on your iPhone (Earthcomber will work with ANY web capable mobile phone) and Earthcomber’s server will detect your locale. From there you are provided with category-based list of services such as Food, Music, Movies, Recreation & Sports, Adult Entertainment, etc.
The service works really well, based on my own testing. Not only did it correctly identify various entertainment venues in my area, I was even provided with basic mapping and driving instructions as well.
Are you sick of staring at that annoying AT&T logo? Do you hate the default arrangement of icons on the home screen? Is the incessant percussion sound of the Marimba ringtone making you wince with every incoming call? Well fret no more, with iFuntastic you can say goodbye to those walled-garden blues.
iFuntastic enables users to easily create custom ringtones and make various tweaks and changes to the iPhones settings and GUI, right from within from within a very simple interface.
Today iPhone is one step closer to gaining third party software support, unofficially of course. Hackers from the #iPhone IRC channel managed dissect embedded OSX’s source libraries and create a basic proof of concept application that does nothing more than display the words “Hello World”. The devs have now released these source binary files on public servers, available for anyone to download.
This is by no means the final solution in opening iPhone to software developers (that will come only through Apple), but I’ll take third party software any way I can get it. Even it is the result of a raped and violated hack ‘n slash effort.
Not everyone loves their iPhone, it seems. Jose Trujillo, whoever the hell that is, has begun a class action suit against both Apple and AT&T, claiming damages as a result of the iPhone’s non-replaceable battery that, according to Jose, can only be charged 300 times. Apparently he didn’t check facts before filing. Had he done so he would have known that the battery is in fact good for 400 charges and beyond. Even at that point the battery DOES NOT need serviced - it simply won’t hold a full charge.
Still, I blame Apple for unnecessarily creating this issue in the first place by bolting down the hood, so to speak, and failing to clearly disclose the battery’s true lifespan and performance.
Jose, if you read this, I refer you to my attorneys from the law firm of Dewey, Screwem, and Howe. They’ll work hard to steal win your money.
Also, good things for those who sign up for our newsletter. All you have to do is sacrifice an email address for our newsletter. That’s it! Doing that nets you the chance of winning a $25 coupon for the store for the next month or so. I’ll be writing content for the newsletter; who can say in dropping that tidbit if that will either entice or repulse you.
So back to the “good news for those who wait,” I don’t have news posts for this morning, as I’m working on a surprise for Monday. Suffice to say, I think you’ll like it. If you don’t, I’ll have some posts up this afternoon.
