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Filed under: Gaming, Software, Freeware, iPhone, iPod touch
Last week, Handmark announced the release of Astraware Solitaire [App Store] for iPhone and iPod touch. Solitaire features a dozen different games, including the classics Klondike, Free Cell, Canfield, and Pyramid. As with most of Astraware's games, the 12 solitaire games are nicely animated, easy to play, and hard to master. The game is currently on sale for just US$0.99, so grab it before it goes up to the normal price of US$4.99. Get Astraware Solitaire and some free fireworks originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Get Astraware Solitaire and some free fireworks originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Wireless, Odds and ends, Internet, iPhone, iPod touch
TUAW reader Troy sent an email the other day stating that he'd found one of our posts from last August to be very helpful. In Using your iPhone on a cruise ship we talked about Cellular At Sea and getting your iPhone to send and receive pricey calls from many cruise ships. How expensive are they? Last year, they were running about US$0.79 per minute. This year, they cost about the same.iPhones ahoy! Making calls on cruise ships, updated originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
iPhones ahoy! Making calls on cruise ships, updated originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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CNNMoney.com News, Stocks, and Video [free - iTunes link] for iPhone (and iPod touch) is the latest big name entrant into the App Store financial news and media space. Leveraging their brand and resources, it looks like CNN.com’s mobile site while working like an iPhone app. iPhone-likeness aficionados may take a few blinking moments to adjust, but it’s a deliberate design decision that will no doubt appeal to the massive user-base of CNN.com’s existing web services.
TiPb had a chance to test drive CNNMoney, and from a pure content standpoint it’s impressive. When you first launch, you’re greeted with the News dashboard. At the very top is a rotating stock-ticker, then a sampling of latest news, stocks, videos, etc. Users can easily check or uncheck specific content options, and drag them around to re-sequence them in whatever order they prefer. (I immediately put technology news at the top).
The content itself isn’t merely a feed. In an effort to give mobile users the best experience possible, both statistical measures like popularity and hand-picked curation on the part of CNN Money’s editors determine which stories and in what order they’re made available to the iPhone app. Also, stories loaded into the app are cached locally in case you need to go offline (i.e. on an airplane).
The free app is supported by advertising, but when there is no appropriate or available ad, rather than filler or “house ads”, CNN Money cuts users a much-appreciated break and removes the ad space completely.
My Stocks is pre-populated with a few high profile favorites but can be easily customized. Tapping a stock brings up a details and graph view. As is typical with online stock reporting, quotes are delayed roughly 15 min. Once you’ve viewed a stock quote, a new section pops up on your dashboard News tab called Last 3 Quotes, and as the title indicates, it keeps track of your most recently views stocks.
Videos shows thumbnails and a brief description of the story. CNN Money typically produces over a dozen unique video segments a day, and they load quickly and look good on the iPhone.
The Add/Remove tab lets you do the content re-arrangement mentioned previously.
It should be noted that while CNN Money is compatible with iPhone 3.0, and the system-wide Copy functionality works fine, it doesn’t yet support push notification alerts, or automatic HTTP video stream optimization. Hopefully we’ll see these in an update. Along with a good James Earl Jones rendition of “This is CNN”.
Screenshots after the break…
This is a story by the iPhone Blog. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
Quick App: CNNMoney.com News, Stocks, and Video for iPhone