Tapinoma SAS EasyContact Review

Have you ever needed a quick and easy way to transfer your contact information from your iPhone to another iPhone user? Well, EasyContact might just be the app you're looking for.Not only does EasyContact send your contact information to iPhone and iTouch devices, it can send your information (business ...

Skype for iPhone Appears in AppStore 1 Day Early

Loyal  Skype users rejoiced yesterday when the official Skype client for iPhone became available in the AppStore yesterday afternoon HST. Skype if you weren't aware is a Voice Over IP (VOIP) service that allows users to place phone calls for free over the internet.Although there were other iPhone apps that ...

CoreCase April Fools Day Sitewide Sale - Everything is $5

If you missed my review of the CoreCase Aluminum Slider for the iPhone 3G, take a look and if you like what you see and read, then today's sitewide $5 sale will blow you away.This is NOT an April Fool's joke...if you don't go now, the joke will be on ...

iPhone developers get Ivy League edu-mu-cation

Filed under: iTunes, Developer, iPhone, iPod touch

If you're an aspiring iPhone developer looking to hone your skills or a seasoned veteran who is willing to accept there is more to learn, then has Stanford University got a deal for you. Stanford and Apple have teamed up to offer course materials from Stanford's undergraduate program for iPhone developers.

The materials, available through Stanford's iTunes U page, include videos and PDFs to be made available every Wednesday and Friday during the 10-week course. Please bear in mind that while Stanford's course will be taught by Apple engineers, it is no substitute for the many great courses offered by Professor Bohon at TUAW-U.

Update: As a couple of you have pointed out, Stanford is not actually an Ivy League school. For a complete list of Ivy League members please see this article.

[via Engadget]

iPhone developers get Ivy League edu-mu-cation originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone OS 3.0: Receive and Play Videos over MMS

ShoveBox for Mac and iPhone

Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

One thing we don't lack for on the fairer platform is snippet / notes managers. Nonetheless, I always find myself curious about the new applications, perhaps because nothing ever quite gets everything just right. ShoveBox is one of the newer entries in the snippet sweepstakes, and while it has been out on the Mac for a while they've just recently released an companion iPhone app (iTunes link).

ShoveBox's main advantage is its very simple interface. The little ShoveBox icon sits in your menubar waiting for you to drop something on it: URL, text, images, etc. Without any fuss the box opens and accepts your newest shove, ready to be accessed at some later time. My impression is that ShoveBox is best not so much for things you want to keep in the long run (though it will do that), but perhaps more as a scratchpad or an updated and more advanced URLwell.

The iPhone companion app does exactly what you'd expect, giving you access to your notes, etc. on the go. One particularly nifty function is a bookmarklet that allows you to import a website on both the desktop version (from Safari) or the iPhone version (from mobile Safari). So if you're reading something on the go, but want to make sure you save it for later as well, this looks like a great feature.

ShoveBox for Mac is $24.95 and a demo is available; the iPhone version is $3.99 from the iTunes App Store.

ShoveBox for Mac and iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Brightkite for iPhone

By offering different privacy levels for posting your location and activity, the location-aware Brightkite is a compelling social networking app.

TUAW Exclusive: Darkness 2.0 First Look

Filed under: iPhone, First Look

Bjango, developer of the awesome iStat for iPhone, is readying the next version of one of its most successful iPhone apps, Darkness (iTunes link). TUAW got a chance to play with Darkness 2.0, which should be hitting the App Store in the next couple of days, and we explored what is new and improved.

Darkness is a world clock on steroids. Not only does it give you the current time for pretty much any city in the world, it also lets you know what time the sun rises and sets, alongside other specific information such as the the phase of the moon.

Darkness 2.0 is a complete rewrite, sporting a new interface and some enhanced features. For photographers, Darkness is a really, really useful tool because it tells you where the sun or moon will be at any given time. you can also find out the exact time that solar noon (the time of day when the sun appears its highest) will occur in your location, so you can help plan for the best time to take certain shots.

World Clock

Darkness offers up a nice way to quickly glance at what time it is in various places all over the world. Sure, the built in World Clock can do the same thing, but Darkness gives you more accessible information (the day for instance) and can access your current location, which is great if you happen to be traveling across timezones.

You can also easily choose to view the time in military or 12-hour intervals, and tell at a glance at what time sunrise and sunset is in any given city. You can add your own city from Bjango's large database (more than 8500 cities) or you can enter in your exact coordinates if you live off the grid or something.

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TUAW Exclusive: Darkness 2.0 First Look originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A Special Phone app helps visually-impaired use the iPhone

Visually-impaired iPhone users have one potential solution for simple dialing with a new iPhone app dubbed A Special Phone.

Grand Tour for the iPhone is a grand exploration of the solar system

Filed under: Cool tools, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

I admit I have a real love for astronomy and other science apps. Mike Smithwick, the creator of Distant Suns [App Store link] has come up with another winner for the space minded. Grand Tour [App Store link] is a $4.99US application that will let you tour the solar system in very smooth and realistic animations. Named after the NASA Voyager missions of the '70s that explored the outer planets, Grand Tour will let you move to Mars, explore its two moons, and then shuffle off to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. The program beautifully renders the starry background accurately, as well as presenting the Milky Way.

The app is loaded with information about the planets and moons, and with a flick of your finger you can rotate the planets and see their relationship to the sun and their satellites in real time. You can also speed up or reverse time, illustrating the orbits of the planets and their smaller companions.

Another nice touch is when you look at the earth, the images of the clouds are in real time (updated every 3 hours) so you are pretty much seeing the real thing in the palm of your hand.

I still marvel at how esoteric iPhone apps are getting. There is truly something for everyone, and the ability to hold a scale model of our solar system and interact with it would have seemed like science fiction a few years ago. Thank goodness Apple decided to bless real apps last year. The experience offered by programs like Grand Tour would really have been lame as a web app.

Grand Tour runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch with OS software 2.1 or greater.

Check out the gallery for some screen shots.

Grand Tour for the iPhone is a grand exploration of the solar system originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rumors suggest slew of new iPhone features

Have all those iPhone rumors left you scratching your head in confusion? You’ve come to the right place.

BeamME CV helps you job-hunt with your iPhone

BeamME CV helps you get a handle on getting in touch with people about jobs, using your iPhone or iPod touch.

Image of 2 TB Time Capsule Box?

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Yet another next-gen rumor: Video editing a part of the package?

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Apple Now Officially 1000x Smarter than RIM: Bono to Re-Design BlackBerrys

We previously mentioned that RIM was picking up Apple’s leftovers and sponsoring U2’s next tour under the BlackBerry brand. Seems even that wasn’t enough for Bono. Not considering this quote he dumped on Canada’s Globe & Mail (via BGR):

“I’m very excited about this. Research In Motion is going to give us what Apple wouldn’t — access to their labs and their people so we can do something really spectacular.”

Memo to Bono: you are not a product engineer. While you may also have a pseudo-Britannic accent, you’re certainly not Jonathan Ive. You’re a singer; and just lucky enough to live in a time when singers make tons of money rather than getting spoiled fruit thrown at them. Let’s try putting this in a context you might better understand:

“Steve Jobs said U2 is letting him do what John Mayer never would: go into the recording studio and solo on their new album…”

And RIM, what are you thinking? Bono pretty much owns most of Palm these days, and even they won’t let him in the labs. You’re making tons of money. Leave the cheap celebrity debacles to LG…

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Apple Now Officially 1000x Smarter than RIM: Bono to Re-Design BlackBerrys

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