[Review] Credit Card Transactions on your iPhone with iSwipe

If you've ever gone into the Apple Store (who hasn't?), you've seen that many of the employees have mobile checkout capability. Using a Windows Mobile based system, the Apple Store employee can charge your credit card and even email the receipt to you. I surmised that Apple has been forced ...

FileMaker launches Bento for iPhone

FileMaker launched the portable version of its personal database application for the Mac, Bento, for iPhone and iPod touch, allowing users to organize all the details of a busy schedule and activity. The new software [iTunes link] is now available for download for US$4.99 from the Apple App Store. With this ...

AT&T’s Mywireless Mobile for iPhone

AT&T customers now can manage bill payments directly from their iPhone. AT&T today announced the mobile edition of its popular service through www.att.com used today by millions of AT&T customers, AT&T myWireless Mobile application, on the Apple App Store. The app’s functions include: Bill and Pay: View monthly bill and make one-touch ...

100 best iPhone apps for self-learners

I was just discovering an amazing list of iPhone apps for serious self-learners. Thanks to the iPhone's great user interface and platform, the lovely device could be an exciting learning-mate and interactive tool. For the Literature and Art category, the Learn-gasm site picked some iPhone apps like [along with their iTunes ...

TiPb Birthday Bash: PCalc RPN Calculator for iPhone Give Away!

If the iPhone is king of the smartphone mountain, PCalc is what did all the complicated mathmagics to figure out just exactly how far and high it had to vector itself to get there. It’s not like the built-in calculator on steroids (how cliche!) it’s like the built-in calculator on Hulk serum! And the great folks over at TLA Systems are giving us four (4) copies of PCalc ($9.99 - iTunes link) to give to you!

PCalc is ideal for scientists, engineers, students, programmers, or indeed anybody looking for a feature-rich calculator for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It includes an extensive set of unit conversions, a paper tape, an RPN mode, engineering and scientific notation, as well as support for hexadecimal, octal and binary calculations.

How to get one? Just drop us a comment below and tell us the calculation you’d least like to see. What don’t you want to know? How much you’ve spent on iPhone apps? What that car repair’s going to cost? How much Apple will charge for the iTablet?

Give us your best comment, and we’ll give four (4) of you free copies of PCalc!

• US iTunes Store account required to redeem promo codes.
• One entry per person.
• Contest starts now and ends tonight, May 11, at 11:59pm.

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TiPb Birthday Bash: PCalc RPN Calculator for iPhone Give Away!

Review: iShred for iPhone

As long as you're willing to put in the time and effort to learn your way around it, iShred: Guitar + Effects is a terrific app.

University of Missouri School of Journalism: iPhone Required!

TUAW’s reporting that Brian Brooks, Dean of University of Missouri’s Journalism School is requiring that students have an iPhone or iPod touch. Why? So they can keep digital recordings of their lectures handy and listen to them more than once. Seems — shock and disbelief — repetition enhances learning.

Required is a key word, since it allows students to include the iPhone cost for their financial aid. They won’t insist students have one, however, or — apparently — give detention to anyone who shows up with a Zune instead…

Hey, maybe they should just record every lecture as a podcast and put it up on iTunes U? : )

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University of Missouri School of Journalism: iPhone Required!

QuickApp: Verisign Identity Protection for iPhone

Frequent user of sites like eBay, PayPal, AOL, or GEICO, paranoid about security, understand terms like multi-factor authentications, and don’t want to carry a football, card-based generator, or other extra dongle around with you? If you live in the US, VeriSign has an iPhone App for you.

Verisign iPhone (VIP) Access is available for free via the iTunes App Store. If you’re using it, let us know how it’s working for you…

[via Security Now!]

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QuickApp: Verisign Identity Protection for iPhone

What happens when your iPhone overheats

Filed under: Hardware, iPhone, iPod touch

The iPhone Blog has posted a screenshot of a warning screen that the iPhone 3G produces when it's over heated. According to Apple, it's totally legit. From the Knowledge Base:

"Operate iPhone 3G in a place where the temperature is between 0º and 35º C (32º to 95º F) ... If the interior temperature of iPhone 3G exceeds normal operating temperatures, you may experience [the] Temperature warning screen."

Here in New England, we don't see temperatures above 95º F often. Still, I have felt it heat up pretty good after playing music for two hours straight during a summertime commute. It does get cold, however, and two weeks ago we saw a frozen iPod come back to life. It's nice to know that these devices can survive (or protect themselves from) temperature extremes.

[Via Macenstein]

What happens when your iPhone overheats originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 11 May 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

What happens when your iPhone overheats originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 11 May 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon optimizes Kindle Store for iPhone

Amazon.com's Kindle Store has now been optimized for Safari on the iPhone and iPod touch.

iPod touch, iPhone required for journalism students

Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch

Brian Brooks, associate dean of the University of Missouri's Journalism School, knows how his students learn. "Lectures are the worst possible learning format," he told Columbia Missourian. "There's been some research done that shows if a student can hear that lecture a second time, they retain three times as much of that lecture."

I can distinctly remember a former French instructor giving us cassette tapes of lessons from week to week (this was long before iPods, kids), and walking around with the voices of Mireille and Robert in my ears. Even all these years later, I can still manage marginally useless phrases like, "The red shirt of my brother is on the dresser."

The point is repetition increases retention, and that's why Mizzou is requiring incoming journalism students to have iPod touches or iPhones to carry audio versions of class lectures. Mr. Brooks points out that students who lack an iPhone or iPod touch won't be punished or miss out on anything, but they've described them as "required" so that students with financial need can include their cost in aid.

Apple has historically offered a laptop/iPod combo as a back-to-school special that these students could potentially take part in, provided that the touch is included (the iPod is typically a nano in the bundle).

The good news is, if you're going to Mizzou next year for journalism, you've got an excuse to buy a shiny new gadget.

iPod touch, iPhone required for journalism students originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 11 May 2009 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TiPb Birthday Bash: Tweetie for iPhone + Case-Mate Fuel Rechargeable Battery Pack Give-Away

We know how it is. Twitter is so addictive, and the iPhone such a perfect device for it, that you’re afraid to really get into it in case it wears your battery down in no time flat. Well good news on all fronts!

First, the awesome Atebits has provided five (5) promo codes for Tweetie ($2.99 - iTunes link), the most iPhone-like Twitter client on the market.

Tweetie is a fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch. It offers everything you’d expect - from your timeline to trends - all with an incredibly polished user interface, fantastic performance, and unparalleled ease-of-use.

And to help you out with the battery issue, TiPb’s iPhone Store is kicking in a Case-Mate iPhone 3G Fuel Rechargeable Battery Pack!

The iPhone 3G FUEL. It’s a protective case, carrying solution, and extended battery life all in one. So from here on out you’re good to charge on the go. So the next time you’re rushing to get to the airport at 6am and you forget your charger…relax, your iPhone 3G is taken care of. Now you can focus on hitting up Starbucks and get to recharging yourself.

How can you win this epic combo? Just head on over to Twitter and let everyone know it’s TiPb’s birthday and we’re giving away an UNLOCKED ColorWare iPhone 3G! To make sure we can track your entry, be sure to include our username: @theiphoneblog and our Birthday Bash URL: http://bit.ly/JCbHZ.

No spamming please, just one entry per Twitter account. (But, hey, if you get re-tweeted (RT) or Via love from your tweeps, we’ll give you additional entries, b’okay?). So what are you waiting for? Get thee a-tweeting!

• US App Store account required to redeem promo codes.
• US mailing address required to receive accessory prizes (sorry, no international shipping).
• Contest starts now and ends tonight, May 11, at 11:59pm
• One entry per twitter account (no spamming)
• One additional entry per credited re-tweet (RT) or Via (tagged with your Twitter ID)
• One (1) big prize: Tweetie for iPhone + Case-Mate Fuel Case
• Four (4) secondary prizes: Tweetie for iPhone promo code

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TiPb Birthday Bash: Tweetie for iPhone + Case-Mate Fuel Rechargeable Battery Pack Give-Away

State of the iPhone 3.0 Jailbreak

The iPhone Dev-Team has posted a few words regarding Jailbreaking the 3.0 software:

Because there are so many beta releases, we couldn’t possible refine, test, and release both PwnageTool and QuickPwn for each of them. That’s why we’re waiting until the final release. You may have seen other “hijacked” versions of QuickPwn out there, but all of them are buggy, none of them work on OSX, and almost everyone who uses them reverts back to 2.2.1 (because none of the useful jailbroken apps (Qik, Cycorder, and others) work on 3.0 yet).

Now this does not mean you currently can not Jailbreak 3.0 because you can, it’s just that the Dev-Teams software is not fine-tuned for the iPhone beta software. If you do decide to Jailbreak the 3.0 beta you will run into some issues. The biggest issue, as stated above, being a lot of the applications available via Cydia will not be compatible with 3.0. It is also important to note that if you ever want to unlock your iPhone 3G, you need to avoid the 3.0 software altogether unless and until the Dev-Team provides a safe jailbreak path.

So our advice to the Jailbreakers of the world: have some patience. When the final build of 3.0 drops sometime this summer you will be able to Jailbreak your iPhone 3G.

(The only way Apple could prevent a Jailbreak does not rest within the software, rather the hardware. As for Jailbreaking the next generation of iPhone, only time will tell, we are sure Apple will make it interesting…)

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State of the iPhone 3.0 Jailbreak

The iPhone Blog Week in Review for May 11, 2009

Every week I will be bringing you what I think are the week’s biggest stories and articles. Let’s get started, after the break!

TiPb’s 2009 BIRTHDAY BASH!!!!!!

That is right folks, here is a link for all of this weeks birthday madness. It isn’t too late to win the ColorWare unlocked iPhone 3G!!! Click here to find all of the birthday posts!

Star Defense: Rene is a playa!

Our very own Rene Ritchie recruited for ngmoco:)’s Star Defense Challenge… for the record, I think Rene came in ninth. I don’t think tower defense games are his strong suite.

Quick App: Bento 2 for iPhone

I like Bento 2. It is a simple Mac database app. Now you can can take that data with you. You can even use Bento for iPhone as a stand-alone app. It has multiple “libraries” to choose from. Event planning to Inventory management.

Quick App: My Wireless from AT&T

Add this to the “What took so long question” of the day. Basically, you can log in and check all of your minutes and even change your plan. Pretty cool.

Microsoft’s App Store= Apple’s App store?

Looks that way. Take a look at some of the restrictions they have posted!

Review: Case-Mate Vroom for iPhone 3G

If you like your case to look like tire tread, check this one out! Casey seems to like it!

$1.29 for music still not popular with consumers? What, really?

Like, um, we didn’t see this coming. So the greedy music industry STILL doesn’t get it. Will they ever learn?

Phone Different Podcast #38

The latest one is up! Listen on the web or download in iTunes for the latest news round up from Dieter and Mike!

Whoa! That was fast, the latest iPhone Beta is out, Beta 5!

Man, Cupertino sure doesn’t wait long do they! For our full coverage of iPhone 3.0, be sure to click the link!

iPhone apps must be 3.0 compliant!

Looks like iPhone 3.0 will be here soon! All new apps submited to the App Store must be 3.0 compliant! This is very exciting news!

Rumor: iPhone plan to drop by $10?

That would be nice, wouldn’t it? Well, that is what the Internets are saying. Well, the analysts are anyway.

Twiterrific 2.0 for iPhone

It is finally out. Personally, I think it is a little busy; too many feature. I am a Tweetie guy myself. So what does Rene think?

Do you want to legally rip your DVD’s to iTunes? I know I do!

But since DVDs are kinda… um… old school now, should Apple even bother?

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The iPhone Blog Week in Review for May 11, 2009

Review: ShoveBox Mobile for iPhone

Wonder Warp, makers of the ShoveBox data-management application for the Mac, have come out with a mobile app that lets you collect, organize, and sync data when you're out and about. ShoveBox Mobile is a strong and viable app.

Citrix Demos of a New Kind of Virtual Machine for Mac

Citrix made a number of announcements last week related to Mac and iPhone. While most of these announcements were targeted specifically towards IT/enterprise customers, one announcement has more potential mainstream significance.

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