July 27, 2008 at 11:39 am
· Filed under Apple, iPhone
Have you tried the NetNewsWire application for the iPhone?
It’s awesome.
Subscribe to your favorite sites using RSS through an online (free) version at Newsgator.com, use the (Recently) Free Mac Desktop version of NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire on the iPhone will synchronize your subscription list and pull all those stories from all those sites (my iPhone is currently displaying 2367 stories unread!) to your iPhone for local reading, you can switch off all your wireless functions, put the iPhone in Airplane Mode and go into a nuclear bunker, the playa, or an airplane, and all those stories are there in full glory waiting to be read.
If you’re new to RSS here are some great RSS feeds to begin with:
Why did I feature these feeds? One very big reason, all three offer ‘Full’ Syndication, the posts that come through the RSS feed are the entire subject, uncut! Other Rss feeds like the Nytimes, BBC and even our own SFgate offer only short clips of stories in the RSS feed, avoid those, stick with good full feeds and embrace papers and journals that offer such RSS feeds, my favorite paper and electronic journal: Wired
P.S. When you start getting too many feeds to handle on your iPhone, go to the newsgator website. Settings->Edit Locations->NetNewsWire iPhone/iPod-Touch — you can edit the feeds you get there! (thanks to davidbro)
July 22, 2008 at 10:42 am
· Filed under Apple, iPhone
Thanks to a tweet by jaxmac, a mac Sysadmin from Florida, I’ve been trying out the new free wordpress application for the iPhone and iPod touch.
You can post to multiple different wordpress blogs, write posts while offline! And it’s pretty simple to use, even easier than the actual wordpress web browser interface, and leaves just one question, when will we get a foldable portable bluetooth keyboard for the iPhone, which is rapidly becoming the one device to rule them all!
A lot of folks love Google Talk over any other instan messanger, even Adium or iChat, because of a couple of features,
one, it works in your browser with no extra software,
two, it saves all your chats, and includes their text when you search through your emails
three, it has a neat “off the record” feature that disables item two, other software like ichat is either in “always record conversations” or “never record conversations”
Well, starting today, Google talk has a slick new webapp for the iphone that gives you all your Google talk benefits right to your iPhone or iPod touch, try it out here: google.com/talk
June 23, 2008 at 7:34 pm
· Filed under Apple, iPhone
Well, grab NetNewsWire, always was the best Newsreader, then it graduated to V3.0 and became free! in two weeks, ther’ll be a free version for the iPhone that’ll sync up pretty ducking well.
Existing iPhone customers can upgrade early to the new 3G iPhone for free*To thank you for being an iPhone fan, we’re offering you an early upgrade to the brand new version when it launches on 11th July 2008. You won’t have to wait until the end of your existing contract, all you’ll need to do is agree to a new 18-month minimum term contract.*Best of all, the new 8GB iPhone won’t cost you a penny on our £45 and £75 Pay Monthly tariffs for iPhone. And it’s just £99 on our £35 tariff and new £30 tariff. This special early upgrade offer is only available online at o2.co.uk anytime from 11th July until 11th October 2008.Take a look at our new Pay Monthly tariffs for iPhone.Then just register your interest opposite and we’ll drop you a line in early July to tell you what you need to do to be one of the first to get your hands on the new 3G iPhone.Don’t need 2 iPhones!We want to make sure you find a good home for your existing iPhone once you upgrade. If you’ve a friend or family member already on an eligible O2 tariff, they’ll be able to transfer to one of our new tariffs for iPhone. If they’re not already with O2 or on an eligible O2 tariff, they could get one of our new iPhone Pay & Go SIM cards.
This is so amazingly brilliant for customers, Apple and O2, the new phone is free, and, O2 will help you setup your old one for a friend really simply. Has there been a greener easier upgrade path ever before? Generally, it’s “toss your old phone in that ‘recycle’ can on your way out with your new Nokia, this is unprecedented, Congrats UK users, and I can see Irish, German and French users getting similar care…
Starting with today’s update to MAC OS X Leopard, 10.5.3, which should come down to your Mac automatically in the next week.
You’ll see an option in Address Book to sync your contacts with Google Contacts, this is really good news, as many client’s already are using a combination of Gmail’s great IMAP and Spam filtering combined with Apple Mail, the big issue was that Apple Mail, and your iPhone/iPod uses Mac’s own ‘Address Book’ (not to mention your iPhone and/or iPod’s contact list), wheras GMail relies on it’s own Contact database.
Well rejoice, you can now synce the two of them up and have one unified list of your contacts accessible inside a browsear window, Apple Mail, your iPhone, iPod Touch or any other device that syncs with your Mac, Moto RazR springs to mind.
April 28, 2008 at 5:03 pm
· Filed under Apple, iPhone
A former Apple executive has been appointed CEO of the premier Haptic technology developer Immersion Technology, this, and their board talking about how they’re in talks with Apple, is fueling talk of Haptic Technology coming to the iPhone.
Wanna know more about what this is? Check out the Youtube video with the lovely Veronica Belmont below:
February 21, 2008 at 7:08 am
· Filed under Apple, iPhone, iPod
On Lewis Blacks excellent Carnegie Hall Performance (available from Amazon on CD or downloadable MP3!), jokes that while iPods are the size of credit cards and play music, they still haven’t created a good method to harness solar power, he jests “iPods are geting so small, pretty soon, you’ll just be wearing underwear and hear music playing in your ears!”And now, reports in MacWorld now say your clothing will soon be powering your electronics: ”Professor explains Nanotech power for iPods“From the article:
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could walk down the street listening to your iPod or using your smartphone without ever worrying about the battery dying?Zhong Lin Wang, a professor and nanotechnology researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that within five years, you might be able to do just that. According to Wang, instead of using a battery to power phones, MP3 players and other portable devices, you could harvest the energy generated by the movement of your shirt. Yup, you read that right - a “power shirt,” which would provide users with a flexible, foldable and wearable power source.”
Well, starting today, Google talk has a slick new webapp for the iphone that gives you all your Google talk benefits right to your iPhone or iPod touch, try it out here: 
Well rejoice, you can now synce the two of them up and have one unified list of your contacts accessible inside a browsear window, Apple Mail, your iPhone, iPod Touch or any other device that syncs with your Mac, Moto RazR springs to mind.
