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Get a chuckle out of the latest Paris Hilton video on FunnyOrDie.com? (If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s rated G). So did a lot of people. Now you can get your funny video fix right from your iPhone, or even your Verizon phone!
Here’s how, according to the folks at FunnyOrDie.com:
FunnyOrDie.com, iPhone Style
1. Open your Safari mobile browser on your iPhone.
2. Enter the regular URL - www.funnyordie.com - into the address bar.
3. Add to your Safari bookmarks by pushing the “+” in Safari, then select ‘Add to Home Screen’.
Enjoy! The 3G network will no doubt increase video speeds.
FunnyOrDie.com on the Trusty Verizon Network
1. You must have a V-CAST phone in a V-CAST coverage area.
2. Press the right navigation key to open the ‘Get It Now’ menu.
3. Press the down navigation key to highlight “Picture & Video”, then press the OK button.
4. Next, select “V-CAST Videos” to launch the service.
5. Select the ‘Comedy’ category and then select ‘Funny or Die’ to launch the channel.
Apparently Paris planned for this video to get released. If you somehow missed it, you can view it here (We spared everyone from embedding the video here - sorry, but it’s just not relevant enough).
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!
We have covered severalmobileTwitter interfaces over the past year or so, and some of them have already caught on in a big way.
The reality is that we’re still in the top of the second inning in this battle over mobile Twitter clients, with more entrants still to enter the game. The latest is called iTwtr, and creator Dan Phiffer has certainly set it apart from other Twitter clients in a number of ways.
First, it starts downloading your data from your Twitter account in the background upon login. This is slick.
Second, you can download the source code and run the Twitter service from your own box.
Third, the robust configuration options allows you to access just about any combination of Twitter feeds and replies you are interested in.
Finally, the About page is fantastic. Ridiculously simple and easy to read, yet informative.
Go play around with it yourself and see what you think. Thanks for sharing Dan!
We set up our Twitter account only a few months ago after avoiding it for over a year. One of the reasons I’m glad we finally caved is that we’ve found that many people post real useful stuff exclusively through their Twitter feed, even when it’s not necessarily on their site or blog.
One person that recently did just that is the very widely followed Steve Rubel. Steve’s insanely popular blog, Micro Persuasion is a must-read for anyone interested in how technology is impacting business, marketing, and life in general.
Steve made a quick Twitter post about an RSS Feed covering iPhone applications. A few of the recent iPhone apps profiled in the feed include GarageBuy (connect to eBay sites worldwide), Gratuity (tip calculator), and Salesforce Mobile, to name a few.
Needless to say, we have subscribed. So where’s your favorite place to find good iPhone apps?
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.
Yes, the official U.S. release of the new Apple iPhone 3G has arrived! For all you that waited in line this morning and shelled out some cash for your shiny new toy, let us know how it went (and how you like the 3G)!
For those that missed this morning’s iPhone festivities, here’s a video from the AT&T store in San Antonio showing what you missed out on!
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!
iGolfScorecard is a simple mobile web app for the iPhone or iTouch that acts as an electronic scorecard, allowing you to enter and track your scores on the golf course.
This mobile application includes a simple, intuitive interface, which is absolutely key for golfers that want to concentrate on their swing rather than some complicated application on their phone. There are plenty of other golf apps or mobile websites for the phone that include more complex features, but at some point it starts to become less about the game itself and more about how to use all the complex features.
I’m a golfer myself. In my mind, the iGolfScorecard could be a big hit among the technologically aware golfers that still want to concentrate on the game itself.
