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We like to help our are readers whenever we can, especially those that contribute interesting comments for everyone else. So today we are highlighting an Apple iPhone Web App that one of our readers, Chuck, just mentioned in a comment on a previous post about the iGolfScorecard app.
Chuck’s company, oobgolf, just submitted the smartSCORECARD iPhone application to the Apple Web Apps store, and it’s clearly much more than a web-based scorecard. It leverages their database of courses from around the country, and it helps keep track of just how many drives you are slicing off to the right.
You can find out more about it here. Good luck Chuck!
The Big G released its first ever mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch last week. Dubbed the Google Mobile App, the application lets you search the web or your iPhone contacts, and includes many features you’d find within Google desktop search products (one of my favorites is Google Suggest).
The Google team released this video highlighting the Google Mobile App features:
It’s interesting to see Google’s investment in the iPhone platform, considering the Google Android phones are just a few months away from reality. Still, even Google knows it will take quite a while for the Android phones to knock the iPhone off it’s perch.
Rumors are a flyin’ about the highly anticipated announcement of a 3G iPhone today at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco today. We’re also geeked up about the iTunes App Store launch.
Have an iPhone but never bothered to set up your Yahoo! and Gmail accounts on it just yet? Take a look at this brief, yet informative video from Apple themselves on how to set your iPhone to access your web email on the go. Enjoy!
Apple now claims over 600 web apps are now available for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. Without further a due, here are Apple’s top 10 most popular web apps (app descriptions below are from the Apple website).
Last Fall, we talked about Dadnab, a service that sends schedules of various forms of public transportation across the country.
Today, we are introducing iCaltrain, a service similar to Dadnab, yet is focused exclusively on the San Francisco Bay Area transit system. The service lets you view depart/arrival times for various routes in and around Silicon Valley. It’s even highlighted on the Apple site, which I’m sure helps exposure.
To try it out yourself, point your mobile browser over to m.icaltrain.com, or if you’re using an iPhone, simply go to icaltrain.com.
Yes, the Times has a mobile version, and has had it since September of 2006. For all the NY Times readers out there without an iPhone, take a look at their mobile website if you haven’t already.
And if you have an iPhone and don’t know what I’m talking about, here is their commercial to remind you just how special the iPhone is…
Mobile Website:
http://mobile.nytimes.com
To have the link sent to you via text message, go here, and enter your mobile phone number.
Don’t know what a Webkin is? Ask anyone who has kids between the ages of four and ten, and they will tell you. And if you have anyone at that age on your Christmas list this year, buying them a Webkin is a no-brainer. These plush toys which have a life of their own on the web are extremely popular right now, and the craze at elementary and middle schools across the country shows no signs of slowing down.
On a seemingly unrelated note, most of our readers are well aware of the snazzy web browser on the Apple iPhone, which is unlike other mobile browsers in that it displays the same version of websites you would see from your PC (or close to it).
So what in the world do these two have to do with each other? Well, at last check, the Webkinz World website does not display on the iPhone browser. This is because Webkins World uses Flash, which the iPhone does not seem to like. The Webkinz folks have yet to develop a mobile website, but surely that cannot be too far off in the future.
So now you have the knowledge to be ultra hip in the eyes of your spoiled rich neice — Get her a Webkin for Christmas, Hanukkah, or fill-in-your-favorite-holiday-here, and then warn her that she cannot check up on it from her iPhone. The fact that you know this will convince them that you are all-knowing, even if we all-know that is far from the truth. Please use this knowledge responsibly.
Thinking of getting someone a cell phone as a gift for Christmas or Hanukkah this year, but not sure what’s popular? There are quite a few models to choose from, and it’s not easy to tell which phones are hot and which are last years news. To offer a little help, we thought we’d offer up the cell phone models getting the most buzz so far in 2007 (yes, we’ve included the iPhone).
But we want your opinion. What cell phone model would you like to receive as a holiday gift this year? Cast your vote below!
Which mobile phone would YOU like to get as a Holiday gift this year?
Or “iDay”, as they called it in Boston last night, as several gadget enthusiasts waited in line for today’s 6pm ET launch of the Apple iPhone. And so it was around the country, and around the web, as the iPhone hype came to a fever pitch rarely seen for a single product.
After several rumors about stores setting a limit of one iPhone per person, Apple officially announced they would allow buyers to purchase up to two iPhones each. Steve Jobs also announced today that every Apple employee would receive a free iPhone. No word yet on whether Jobs and friends are also picking up the tab for the AT&T service plan.
Here is a roundup of the coverage of the insanity about the new Apple iPhone:
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Don’t know what a Webkin is? Ask anyone who has kids between the ages of four and ten, and they will tell you. And if you have anyone at that age on your Christmas list this year, buying them a Webkin is a no-brainer. These plush toys which have a life of their own on the web are extremely popular right now, and the craze at elementary and middle schools across the country shows no signs of slowing down.
But we want your opinion. What cell phone model would you like to receive as a holiday gift this year? Cast your vote below!