Sync Files Between Your Computer And iPhone With DropBox App

Review: NPR News for iPhone

If you want to stay informed while on the go, NPR's mobile news offering is a great solution. The broadcaster has done a great job of meshing online content with on-air material in a full-featured iPhone app.

WiFi-enabled bathroom scale slides into USA, overweight Yanks sluggishly back away

Oh sure, we Americans love our fast food. And we love our technology. But do we really love the latter? Withings has just announced that the world's first WiFi-enabled bathroom scale has made its way into the States after a few months abroad, and we have to say, this could change everything. When pouncing upon it, the scale automatically records the user's body weight, lean / fat mass and calculated body mass index (BMI) to his or her secure webpage, and if you're more the iPhone type, it can beam data to a Withings iPhone app as well. It's available now for $159, but you can certainly wait 'til your latest diet has had some sort of effect before bringing one home. A delightful demonstration video is waiting for you just past the break.

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Net Applications: 18% of Mac Users Have Upgraded to Snow Leopard

Online research firm Net Applications today released data charting the growth of Mac OS X Snow Leopard's operating system market share since its launch just over a month ago. The data suggests that approximately 1% of computer users are currently ru...

The Best Camera iPhone photo sharing app supports Twitter, Facebook, more

Our photography obsessed friend Chase Jarvis has been in touch to let us know about his new iPhone app, The Best Camera.  Intended to make taking, tweaking and sharing images more straightforward, The Best Camera offers a palette of on-device camera effects, and links in with an online community of ...

Pantone unveils color studio app

Designers who work with color a lot are very familiar with the Panton color chart. The company has unveiled a new iPhone app that puts the full range of Pantone colors onto the smartphone. The app is designed for graphic, digital, multimedia, and fashion designers needing color pallets wherever they go. ...

Clever iPhone app prevents calculator pR0n

Filed under: Humor, Software, Odds and ends, Developer, iPhone, App Store

A tweet earlier today pointed me to an iPhone calculator app that really got me laughing, as well as taking me on a trip down memory lane.

When I was in high school, calculators were expensive (US$200 for a six-function calculator with memory, for example) and just starting to make it into the hands of students. In those more naive times, anything that could be construed as even mildly suggestive got a lot of chuckles. One of the more amusing pastimes was to perform certain calculations that would come up with a result like 5318008 or 3104558 which, when the calculator was turned upside down, would spell a "dirty word."

Well, TLA Systems wants to make sure that its PCalc RPN [iTunes Link, US$9.99] and free PCalc Lite [iTunes Link] calculator apps for iPhone are used only for good purposes, so they've built in a special smut filter that will block these words when the calculator is turned upside down by displaying the word "CENSORED." Their blog entry is very tongue-in-cheek, asserting that they developed the filter to avoid getting a 17+ rating in the App Store.

Personally, I think TLA Systems developer James Thomson is just brilliant at getting blogs to write about his products. Well done, James!

Tip of the Tweet to @timhaines

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iPhone 3.1-Only Apps Getting iPhone 3GS Jailbreakers Down?

While Jailbreaking iPhone 3.1 on the original iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G has made some strides, there’s still no sign of an iPhone 3GS version. What there are signs of, however, are more and more apps taking advantage of iPhone 3.1-only APIs, meaning they can’t be run on iPhone 3.0, meaning they’re not available to iPhone 3GS Jailbreakers.

So far these iPhone 3.1-only apps are confined to a few camera-specific apps, but including the new features of the update, as augmented-reality functionality spreads, never mind whatever comes with the iPhone 3.2 beta when it appears, the number of incompatible apps is only going to grow.

So here’s our question for iPhone 3GS Jailbreakers — are you still content to wait for the Dev-Team to Jailbreak (and allow safe unlock of) 3.1, or are you getting tempted to restore to the plain vanilla OS? And how long will you wait?

Are you tempted to un-jailbreak your iPhone 3GS to get 3.1?(online surveys)

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iPhone, Android boost mobile Web usage

AdMob found that the share of mobile Internet customers using iPhones, Android phones and the Palm Pre is growing.

Quick WebApp Update: Google Wave Goes Beta

Google’s “Email 2.0″ service, called Google Wave was announced back at the I/O conference, and has now entered a limited beta (in terms of number of people invited, no telling how long the service itself will be in beta).

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Since Steve Jobs probably isn’t getting an invite anymore, if Google — or anyone else — has any to spare, please send them TiPb’s way and we’ll happily pick up the iPhone testing slack. (Shameless, yes. Joking, not one bit).

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Quick WebApp Update: Google Wave Goes Beta

Apple Now Own Google Maps Competitor Placebase

Back in July, Apple stealthily acquired Placebase, a mapping company that provides a service similar to Google Maps, but with more robust customizations and set of APIs, called Pushpin, for layering data sets over maps.

Google and Apple have been steadily moving from friends to frenemies of late, with the advent of Android and CloudOS, the whole Google Voice and Google Latitude rejection brouhaha, and Google’s CEO leaving Apple’s board. TiPb’s conjectured that Apple might see Google as trying to take over everyone else’s platform as well, so it makes a certain amount of sense (especially given their history with the Mac) to have in-house backups for all the services Google currently offers for the iPhone. A billion-dollar data center might factor into that as well…

Given that Apple wrote the iPhone Maps app themselves, and just used Google for the backend, a switch to Apple Maps might even be transparent to the end user. TiPb’s also discussed Apple’s philosophy that the interface is the app, which again shows why Apple might be hesitant to give UI over to Google through Google Voice or Latitude — they can’t swap that out as easily.

Regardless, it will be interesting to see what an Apple Maps might look like…

(via 9to5mac and Computerworld)

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Earth Vs. Moon for iPhone

Earth Vs. Moon doesn't shy away from the comparisons to old-school gaming; rather, it seems to relish and enjoy the campiness of arcade games long gone. It's not that deep of a game, but it's ideally shorted for short bursts of fun.

AT&T buys mobile development company Plusmo

AT&T has acquired mobile-application development company Plusmo and plans to use its technology to build applications and widgets for mobile phones.