Most iPhone users spend a long time hooked on their iPhone doing… well quite a lot. As addicted as you maybe to your iPhone, it will be nice to have a beautiful background to look at. I’ve collected 20 eye catching iPhone wallpapers. Be sure to explore other works these artists has to offer.
Trapster(R), your iPhone alerts you as you approach police speed traps, red light cameras, and other kinds of traps. It’s a high tech way to do the same thing people have been doing for years with CB radios and flashing headlights at other drivers to warn them of a speed trap ahead. It works using the GPS and WiFi location capabilities of your iPhone 3G.
Find the cheapest gasoline nearest to where you are, then map a route to where the cheap gas is. Cheap Gas features price timestamps, all grade prices displayed, sort by distance or by price, locate stations by device location or by postal code, interactively search by postal code, distance to station displayed, ability to refresh stations without restart, ability to update grade pricing, and ability to record new stations.
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The number of apps available for iPhone and iPod touch in iTunes store has exceeded 40,000 at the end of April 09. With every developer or company trying to get as many sales as possible, some will eventually drop price. There are already many available for free. This has been somehow backup by a recent report on App Store from Distimo, which is a new ducth company in the crowded mobile market. The report contains some interesting findings that seem to relate apps pricing and its ranking.
Distimo aims to release market-wide data on all Smartphones apps stores (Blackberry, Palm, Android..etc) on a monthly bases. There will be broad report on the US market for free and another one with more insight on worldwide markets for a charge. The first full report of Apple store is available for download here.
One month’s data may not be enough (more…)
What's your Top-Tens?
iPhone apps store has an app for almost anything that comes to mind, but does it have an app to keep track of them all? or maybe give the best ones per category? or perhaps the Top Ten news, music, video and other matters? frequently updated online? This is where the idea of Top-Ten app for iPhone and iPod touch was born.
Top-Tens allows users to track and monitor different types of Top 10 lists which are constantly updated, including Movies, Books, Music, Online Deals, Computer Viruses, Product Recalls, and many more.
A FREE version, Top-Tens LITE is now available for iTunes store. The full and paid version is available here.
Top-Tens LITE has the same feature set as the full version of Top-Tens. The only difference being that Top-Tens LITE only shows the Top 3 entries in each list instead of the Top 10.
Rod Cambridge, developer of Top-Tens says “Everyone has an interest or hobby that they like to keep tabs on (more…)
FreeBit Co.Ltd is a new Japanese company that recently released an iPhone app able to turn an iPhone into a web server. The app in question, named ServersMan, is being released to provide “Personal Data Center”. FeeBit also has video with additional information on server-enabling your iPhone. Once the app is installed, systems on the internet can access the iPhone to upload/download files using a brower through webDAV protocl. The app works as a Web server, storage with added “security” by Emotion Link Technology.
A PC can connect directly to the iPhone if both on the same network. If they are on separate networks, the FreeBit’s VPN software will initiate the connection.
Full features of ServersMan are available here.
I just stumbled across what looks like a cherry picked list of how you can make your iPhone a useful learning kit. The iPhone intruguing interface and features allowed for an extensive list of apps to be on-demand. I think the original idea came from Nintedo pushing for a gamer platform that can be used for self-learning, but it was inevitable that it will be on the iPhone too, only more apps!
The categories include Literature, Arts, Foreign Languages, Travel, Science, Medicine, Math, Nature, Christian Studies and Reference Materials. Full list if available here
Skype fpr iPhone
eBay CEO, John Donahoe speaking at a retail sector conference in Barcelona, reported on Wednesday that around 10% of all owners of an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch have downloaded the recently launched application that allows the popular gadgets to run Skype, EBay Inc.
Skype program was the largest application on the IPhone in 40 countries within 24 hours of it launch. Needless to say, why use up your minutes allowance (more…)
At&T free app
According to AppleInsider, The free application named myWireless Mobile, is intended to supplement its popular web-based myWireless portal that’s used by millions of subscribers looking to review their monthly statements, usage statistics and make changes to their plans.
The password-authenticated application can also be used to browse, change and easily add features to a wireless account, as well as update payment information and download monthly bills in PDF format.
“Our new AT&T myWireless Mobile app gives iPhone customers (more…)
