SBSettings Offers Faster Method to Manage iPhone Settings

iPhone apps round-up: Future Apps roles out speech-based translators

The iSpeak line of iPhone apps translate phrases from English into other languages. But they offer text-to-speech features as well.

Apple Pushes Down iPhone Carrier Update

Apple today is pushing down a “Carrier Update” via iTunes. As usual, explanations are scant to none. Have you gotten it yet? What carrier are you on, and are you noticing any differences?

(Thanks to Earless Puppy for the head’s up!)

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Apple Pushes Down iPhone Carrier Update

Will Amazon bring Kindle to the iPhone?

Amazon says it's working on bringing Kindle e-books to mobile devices. Jason Snell says this could dramatically improve the e-book world.

Win a copy of Things for Mac and iPhone

Filed under: Software, iPhone, iPod touch

We've covered Things for Mac and the iPhone version before. Things is a slick task management tool with a ton of features, clean layout and powerful organization capabilities. Adding the iPhone version (works on the touch, of course) means you can take your tasks with you -- and sync wirelessly when you have to.

Thanks to Cultured Code we're giving away two "Things Packs" which include Things for Mac and Things for iPhone. The usual rules apply: US and Canada only (sorry!), must be 18, only one entry per person, and it's totally random. Enter by telling us how you currently keep track of your tasks, right there in the comments.

• Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
• To enter leave a comment telling us how you manage your tasks.
• The comment must be left before February 8, 11:59PM Eastern Time.
• You may enter only once.
• Two winners will be selected in a random drawing.
• Prize: Things Pack, including Things for Mac ($49.95) and Things for iPhone and iPod touch ($9.99).
• Click Here for complete Official Rules.

Win a copy of Things for Mac and iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Win a copy of Things for Mac and iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iTMP turns iPhone into heart monitor for workouts

iTMP Technology launched SMHeart Link, a wireless bridge that collects data such as your heart rate and other workout information and sends it to the iPhone or iPod touch via Wi-Fi.

Google and Amazon debut cellphone e-books, eye strain

Sure, we pretty much figured that the V-Book (which is actually not a book at all) would be the final nail in the coffin of what was once known as "literature," but it looks like both Google and Amazon have other plans. Not only have there been rumblings of a new Kindle, but Amazon has announced that it'll soon be making the popular e-reader's some 230,000 titles available for your cellphone. The company hasn't said when the titles will be available or exactly what phones would be supported -- but we're guessing that we'll be seeing handsets with nice, big screens like the G1 and the iPhone on the list. If that weren't enough, Google's Book Search holdings -- about 1.5 million public domain works -- will soon be available for cellphone-based e-readers like Stanza. This is good news for people who need access to data on the go -- and really good news for anyone who would like to curl up next to the fire with a nice glass of wine and their Curve 8900.

[Via Unwired View]

Filed under: Cellphones

Google and Amazon debut cellphone e-books, eye strain originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Hellfire for iPhone

Hellfire for iPhone and iPod touch is a 3D helicopter action game that has its roots on the Palm and PocketPC.

Amazon to Make Kindle iPhone App for e-Book Reading?

The techeratti love the Kindle — so what if it’s only available in the US, is selling half-as well as the Zune, Apple targeted “reading” in a recent commercial, and Google just optimized their Books service for the iPhone? It’s not like Amazon is making an iPhone reader too, is it?

Whoops! D - All Things Digital says Amazon may just be doing exactly that:

“We are excited to make Kindle books available on a range of mobile phones. We are working on that now,” an Amazon spokesman told the New York Times, while offering zero other details. [...] I’ve asked for more clarification, but I’m not hopeful–it’s difficult to get Amazon to acknowledge that the sun sets in the West. [UPDATE: Via email, an Amazon spokesman allows that "we are excited" but nothing else.] The big question is whether Amazon intends to sell titles that can be read on Apple’s (AAPL) handsets.

Makes sense. Amazon is essentially a software and services company, books for your shelves, movies for your player, even food for your fridge. They’re not a consumer electronics manufacturer like Apple. Kindle-style E-Books would be a much better revenue generator for them if they — like audio books — could play on a variety of platforms. (We don’t see Audible making their own proprietary MP3 player, do we?)

I’d love to see the Kindle’s market place opened up to the iPhone. How about you? Want the latest best sellers, this term’s text books, and the WSJ all beamed directly to your iPhone?

(Thanks to The Reptile for sending this in!)

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Amazon to Make Kindle iPhone App for e-Book Reading?

Tiffen Photo fx, image editor for iPhone

So you're on the go and want to share your photos, but you need to make some adjustments, might be you can try this software.  The idea is you don't need your computer just to fix your image before sending it from your iPhone or iPod Touch to your friends ...

Who Knew? Porn Stars Love the iPhone and Twitter Too!

File this under frivolous Friday fun — or just shake your head, think less of us, and move along. Either way, if celebrities on Twitter (like Ashton and Demi) is the new black, this must be the new… flashing neon hidden away beneath a plain brown wrapper?

In any (every?) event, COED Magazine has compiled a list of 10 Ten Porn Stars Who Twitter, and a surprising number of them seem be doing so using the iPhone and Twitterrific. (No little blue bird jokes, we swear!)

Is it the trendiness? The ease of use? The multimedia (or multitouch!) functionality? Adult industry adoption is often seen as a technology bell-weather…

(Via @LeoLaporte)

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Who Knew? Porn Stars Love the iPhone and Twitter Too!

Review: Nimbuzz for iPhone

Nimbuzz is a versatile text and audio chat application for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

Google brings Shakespeare and Twain to your iPhone

Google has adapted its Book Search for the iPhone and its own Android platform.

Apps for Less: iShoot, Golf Scores, ACTSudoku FREE, Touch Dial Emoji

The number one paid app for the past few weeks has just gone on a limited time sale. iShoot [iTunes Link] can now be purchased for the low price of $1.99. Keep in mind this is a limited time sale, so don’t let this one pass by!

iShoot is an artillery combat game in which tanks blast each other with a wide range of high-powered weapons, from basic shells and cluster bombs to the world-destroying Shiva Bomb. The full version of iShoot includes 25 weapons, photorealistic landscapes, drivable tanks, and more money with which to buy weapons.

This one is for all of our Golfing readers out there, Golf Scores [iTunes Link] has just dropped $3.00 in price to $4.99. Some of the features of this app are as follows:

• Store as many courses as you wish
• Store details (Distance,Par, Handicap) for as many holes as you wich per course.
• Store scores for as many rounds as you wish per course.
• Assign any number of holes per round - Set the first and last hole you play for the round.
• Unlimited number of players per round.
• Store player’s handicap.
• Scorecard in portrait and landscape mode.
• Stroke play and Stableford* scoring system (Net and Gross).
• Autocalculated GIR.

Next up we have a gem for all of the Sudoku players out there, and it’s a freebie! ACTSudoku FREE. [iTunes Link]

With ACTSudoku, Houdah Software brings the popular Sudoku game to the iPhone and the iPod Touch. ACTSudoku allows you to solve 3 levels (easy, medium, hard) of Sudoku games. Its intuitive touch interface allows you to quickly set positive (green) and negative (red) markers to indicate which digits you still deem possible for a given cell. ACTSudoku may help you by blocking digits which are obviously no longer available and by setting positive markers for the remaining ones. You should further narrow down the possible digits by setting negative markers.

If you missed out on the FrostyPlace Emoji hack that Rene mentioned a few weeks back, and have since upgraded to 2.2.1 (which FrostyPlace doesn’t support), Touch Dial Emoji [iTunes Link] has you covered! And it’s on sale now for only $.99!

If you spot any app in the App Store that you think is a super deal be sure drop us a line to let us know!

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Apps for Less: iShoot, Golf Scores, ACTSudoku FREE, Touch Dial Emoji

WebKit Tells Flash to Kiss Their Apps: CSS Animation and 3D Already in iPhone Safari Browser

WebKit is Apple’s open source evolution of the old Linux Konquerer KHTML browser, and it forms the foundation of Safari on both the desktop and the iPhone (and Google Android, Palm Pre, Nokia tablets, etc.). Their Surfin’ Safari blog has just announced CSS animation support, but the better news (via MacRumors), is that iPhone (and iPod touch) Safari already supports both CSS animation and 3D.

Want to check it out? Just hit up this awesome animated falling leaf demo on your iPhone!

Overly provocative headline not withstanding, and while this doesn’t address the ubiquity of Flash video, it should go a long way towards enabling more scalable and open interactivity on the web. (Flash sites don’t always scale well to small screens, after all).

Okay, I’m a web geek, I admit it, but is anyone else excited? Or do we just fear that it will all-too-quickly be perverted into iPhone optimized punch-the-monkey banner ads?

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WebKit Tells Flash to Kiss Their Apps: CSS Animation and 3D Already in iPhone Safari Browser

Review: SimCity for iPhone

SimCity is available for the iPhone, true to the series and a solid strategy game, though experienced fans of the series will take some time adjusting to the controls.

EA to Unleash Sims 3 for the iPhone this Summer!

Hey iPhone users, not enough excuses yet to abandon real life and run down your battery? Never fear, EA is here! Seems the uber-developer is readying a release of Sims 3 for the iPhone (and iPod Touch). Says TUAW:

it’s set for an almost simultaneous release on PC, Mac, the iPhone and the iPod touch. The popularity of iPhone apps may have done what Mac gamers couldn’t do for years: convince developers that releasing their games simultaneously on Mac and PC was worth it.

PC version set to ship June 2. No release date for the iPhone version yet, but EA claims Summer 2009.

Anyone here eager to get their Sims on?

(In response to llofte)

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EA to Unleash Sims 3 for the iPhone this Summer!

CSS Animation Coming to Safari, Already in iPhone. Less Dependence on Flash?

The Webkit blog reports that the latest WebKit builds now support explicit animations in CSS.

CSS Animations is one of the enhancements to CSS proposed by the WebKit project that we’ve been calling CSS Effects (eg. gradients, masks, t...

Patent Watch: iPhone Dock and Battery Swaps?

Apple patents are strange and mysterious things. Like sums over futures, they give us a peek at thousands of strands of potentiality, but no clue about eventuality. In other words, Apple patents tons of stuff, most of which we never see in actual consumer products. Some of these, however, are pretty interesting looking. The Register says:

One of the applications describes a “host machine” - looking much like an iMac in the accompanying drawings - that has battery-charging slots built into its body.

A second describes how the host machine could communicate wirelessly with mobile devices to monitor their battery power, notify users when it was time for a charge, and talk with other host machines about the state of the batteries it’s servicing.

A third describes a “intelligent universal rechargeable batteries” with pop-off end-caps that allow “battery chemicals” to be swapped out when they’ve reached the end of their productive lives.

The Black&Decker approach of one-battery-to-charge-them-all seems so un-Apple, but it would be convenient to a large segment of handy consumers. TiPb also recalls a previous patent that showed a MacBook docking into an iMac, so why not go from broke, Apple, and give us the iPhone to MacBook to iMac “Russian Doll” gadget? Check out the full article, linked above, for all the details, and let us know which, if any, tempt you.

(Thanks to Phil, news editor over at sibling site WMExperts for the tip!)

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Patent Watch: iPhone Dock and Battery Swaps?

Apple’s iPhone TV Ads Boost Individual App Sales

It's long been observed that songs featured prominently in Apple's ads have seen a sudden boost in popularity. Lesser known artists such as Feist and Yael Naim have seen instant fame following the airing of Apple's iPod Nano (1234) and MacBook Air ...