NPR’s iPhone app helps doctor recommend treatment for stroke patient

Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone

I have been a huge fan of NPR's News app [iTunes link] since it was initially released in August, and so seeing the following item was especially heartwarming. Right before Christmas, NPR published a story on how a Los Angeles doctor utilized the NPR app to obtain the information needed to get the right stroke treatment drug for his sister.

Tanya Gill, a Chicago art instructor, collapsed while shopping, and word went out to her family members that she had been rushed to the hospital. Her brother, Dr. Joe Hastings, told his wife about his sister's illness, who commented that it sounded like a story she heard about stroke treatment on NPR. Hastings accessed the story on the NPR app and e-mailed it to the rest of the family. He then contacted the doctors treating Gill and urged them to utilize the drug, tPA, mentioned in the story.

Gill has since made a complete recovery. While tPA is not a 'miracle drug' for stroke (it can only be used on a subset of patients, in a very narrow time window, and carries with it a substantial risk of severe bleeding), in this case it may have made a big difference.

How has 'the internet in your pocket' changed how you interact with family members and health professionals when it comes to medical issues? Let us know in the comments.

NPR's iPhone app helps doctor recommend treatment for stroke patient originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

NPR's iPhone app helps doctor recommend treatment for stroke patient originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia Increases Scope of Patent Complaints to Include ‘Virtually All’ Apple Products

The legal battle between Nokia and Apple has been ratcheted up another notch today with Nokia's announcement that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging infringement of Nokia-held patents by "virtually al...

Review: Minim for iPhone

Minim is an original, clever puzzler for the iPhone. The $2 game from Fishing Cactus excels because of its simplicity and its elegant ties to the iPhone's unique interface.

eBay Claims 1.5 Million Items Were Purchased via Mobile Site and iPhone App This Holiday Season

Time-lapse tips for your Mac and iPhone

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Video, iPhone

I've been messing around with more video lately, and considering doing some time-lapse work, so this post over at Macworld came at the exact right time for me. Heather Kelly walks you through some options, from expensive to free and complicated to simple, for creating time-lapse pictures and videos on your Mac and iPhone. Some of them we've already heard and written about, including iStopMotion 2 and the great open source Gawker, but there are a few new names in here for me as well. The $2.99 iTimeLapse Pro [iTunes link] and free GorillaCam [iTunes link] apps, both of which let you make some pretty amazing footage straight from your iPhone, are also mentioned.

Putting together interesting time-lapse photography is a great skill to have no matter what you're doing -- it can be used to show off your work online or just give you a look at visual trends in whatever space you tend to be studying. It's great that we've got lots and lots of different apps, on both Mac and the iPhone, that help make it easy to assemble this stuff.

Time-lapse tips for your Mac and iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Time-lapse tips for your Mac and iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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2009 in Review: The year in iPhone

With each passing year, the iPhone grows more mature. In 2009, the platform exploded into the mainstream, with the phrase "there's an app for that" on everybody's lips.

O2 Apologizes for Wireless Network Performance Issues in London

U.S. exclusive iPhone carrier AT&T has received significant criticism for its apparent difficulties in maintaining network performance under heavy demands from iPhone users, but it appears that it is not alone in its struggles. The Financial Times r...

iPhone reception issues plague O2… too

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/iPhone_reception_issues_plague_O2_too'; It would appear that AT&T isn't the only carrier in the world suffering from a horrible and nagging case of the iPhones. In an interview with the Financial Times, O2 head Ronan Dunne apologized to customers for the poor performance the network has been experiencing since the introduction of the iPhone 3GS to its airwaves this summer. Just as US customers (particularly those in dense, urban areas) have learned to struggle through dropped calls, the inability to make or receive calls, or weak data connections, our brethren on the other side of the pond have felt a similar sting. Says Dunne, "Where we haven't met our own high standards then there's no question, we apologise to customers for that fact," adding that the carrier had fixes at the ready and that the issues would be "more than addressed" shortly. Unlike the widespread problems here, the O2 mess seems to be relegated largely to London, though it's curious to know that AT&T isn't alone in being hamstrung by a network clearly not prepared for the onslaught of data being pushed up and down its virtual pipes. Also unlike the AT&T situation is the fact that O2 has solutions in mind (including the installation of 200 additional mobile base stations in London), and they're clearly taking ownership of the situation. Ahem, Ralph.

iPhone reception issues plague O2... too originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Groups urge FTC to block Google’s AdMob buyout

Two consumer groups urged U.S. regulators on Monday to block Google from acquiring mobile advertising provider AdMob.

Okay, What’s iGuide — New iPhone/iSlate Tablet Service or Just More iNoise?

iSlate seems solid but might not (or never) be used, while apple.com/ichatmobile was a bust, so where does iGuide fit in? Says MacRumors:

iGuide Media, LLC. is another Delaware-based company whose sole purpose appears to be to obtain a trademark on behalf of Apple, Inc. In this case they have a single trademark application for the term “iGuide” that is currently pending. The application was first filed in December 2007. Again, we found Apple’s Senior Trademark Specialist Regina Porter’s signatures on the trademark documents linking iGuide Media, LLC to Apple, Inc. Meanwhile, the lawyer handling the paperwork for the iGuide trademark is the same lawyer who filed for the iPhone trademark under Ocean Telecom Services, also on behalf of Apple. Like iSlate, it seems clear that Apple created iGuide Media, LLC to obtain the iGuide trademark.

TechCrunch has also done another post-post dig but didn’t find any smoking apples.

Still, TiPb agrees iGuide sounds far more like a service than a product, and not even a very cool sounding one at that. Any ideas?

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Okay, What’s iGuide — New iPhone/iSlate Tablet Service or Just More iNoise?

Fix for Cydia Crashing Problem

Quick App: Pro HDR High Dynamic Range Photos for iPhone

Pro HDR [$1.99 -iTunes link] is a fantastic little app that brings <a href="“>high dynamic range photography to your iPhone. The way it works is simple; Pro HDR asks you to take a photo of a “dark” part of what you are taking a photograph of, then do the same for the “light” part. Next, the app takes the two images, aligns, straightens and blends them automatically to give you a final result; it is quite clever. You also have the ability to save the photo when done, email it and adjust the subject’s brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth.

If file size is important to you, you can change whether to save as full size or a lower resolution for your library or for email. Oh, and one more thing, you can take images from your library, you don’t need to take the pictures in real-time.

I was very pleased with the results of this $1.99 app and I am sure you will too. It is a lot easier than doing it yourself! To see some great examples of what this app can do, check out their gallery.

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Quick App: Pro HDR High Dynamic Range Photos for iPhone

Year End 10% Off Sale at TiPb iPhone Accessory Store!

Year End 10% Off Sale at TiPb iPhone Accessory Store!

To celebrate the end of 2009, we would like to give you 10% OFF all Accessories at The iPhone Blog Store. This is a great opportunity to save big before the New Year and get the Hot New Accessories you’ve been wanting!

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Review: ShakeItPhoto for iPhone

This photo app, which gives your images a Polaroid-like look, can be a lot of fun. But users longing for a more authentic instant photo look may be slightly disappointed with the end result.

Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac. The biggest advantage of this format might actually be behind the scenes, where the costs to publishers are drastically reduced by them having to only submit a PDF scan of their books, whose formatting remains unchanged in Blio. We'll be all over this at CES, but for now you'll find more pictures and early impressions over at Gizmodo.

Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Another Buried Apple Trademark - ‘iGuide’ as Another Name or Service for iSlate?

With the revelation that Apple had acquired the iSlate.com domain and iSlate trademarks, it seemed clear to us that iSlate was the likely name for Apple's upcoming tablet computer. While we agree with skeptics that these historic actions can't prov...

Another Buried Apple Trademark - ‘iGuide’ as an Another Name or Service for iSlate?

With the revelation that Apple had acquired the iSlate.com domain and iSlate trademarks, it seemed clear to us that iSlate was the likely name for Apple's upcoming tablet computer. While we agree with skeptics that these historic actions can't prov...

PosiMotion announces Helix gaming grip for iPhone / iPod touch

PosiMotion announces Helix gaming grip for iPhone / iPod touch originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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