November 19th, 2009
iphone News and Updates
Cross an outline with a flow chart, and you get a “mind map,” a visual sketch for capturing and organizing stream-of-consciousness ideas. iThoughts diagrams these brainstorm sessions on your iPhone. A bubble represents your topic; draw links to more bubbles for related ideas, which grow like tendrils across the screen. When you’re done, prune and organize branches into shape. Email or share maps online in several formats.
BRANCH OUT: start with a central idea starting a new career as a superhero, for example – and add branches for the concepts and tipics to consider. The diagram sprouts clouds and tentacles of topics and subtopics. iThroughts provides a big canvas for your mind map, about 100 iPhone screens.Swipe to move arround, pinch to make the map larger or smaller, or flip your iPhone or iPod on its side for landscape view.
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November 17th, 2009
iphone News and Updates
So you might’ve heard. There’s this company called Google that knows a thing or two about web search, and they’ve figured it out for iPhone, too, with best app for searching the Web. The secret ingredient is voice search. Just talk into your iPhone or microphone-enabled iPod Touch, and the app fetchs the results for your sopken keywords. Tap a result to launch Mobile Safari and you’re in business. Read the rest of this entry »
November 16th, 2009
iphone News and Updates
Turn your iPhone into a unfailing executive assistant, ready to remind you of calender items, notes, and to-dos. It’s almost magic Say “Meet Rich at 4:30 pm Tomorrow”. and reQall transcribes the text, creates a to-do, adds an event to your calender, and sends you a reminder before the meeting. It’s like an outboard memory for the overloaded modern mind. The app requires a fee account at reqall[dot]com. Read the rest of this entry »
November 13th, 2009
iphone News and Updates
November 12th, 2009
iphone News and Updates
Now that your iPhone is powered up, you may want to protect its beautiful look and feel to ensure your iPhone stays brand new inside as well as out.
The iPhone, in contrast to the iPod, has a brushed metal back, which doesn’t scratch or smudge easily, if at all. The front of the iPhone isn’t quite so durable. Basically you’ve got one gorgeous slab of glass lying atop your iPhone. This class is actually quite durable, and after logging hundreds of hours with my iPhone nestled in my pocket, I’ve yet to incur any scratches, nicks, dents, or anything else that could fall under the damage category. However, that’s me, and I admittedly handle my iPhone with kid gloves. Depending on what kind of an owner you are, you might want to consider one of many screen protectors available for the iPhone. Screen protectors provide a transparent shield of plastic between your gorgeous slab of glass and the larsh would of pointy things surrounding it
No matter how careful you are with your iPhone, the biggest danger is an unprotected drop onto a hard surface. The most compelling reason you might want to grab yourself some sort of iPhone case is to ward off – or at least partially protect against – the internal and external damage that dropping your iPhone could cause. Cosmetic damage is a bummer: Your iPhone won’t look as new and shiny. Internal damage can mean the end of your iPhone.
November 11th, 2009
iphone News and Updates
You’ve made the purchase and you made in home – with a quick stop at book store to pick up the book you’re currently holding – and you’re ready to start using the phone. Not so fast, hot shot. You’ve got some setting up to do. Your first step is activation. Instead of waiting inside a cell phone store, you actually set up teh iPhone yourself using Apple’s music management software called iTunes. Here’s how you do it.
- If you are already running an Apple OS X machine purchased in the last couple of years, you probably already have iTunes installed. Windows users may or may not have already installed iTunes. Never mind that, because you want to make sure you have the latest version anyway. Open up a web browser and type apple(dot)com/itunes/download into the address bar. Read the rest of this entry »
November 10th, 2009
iphone News and Updates
The iPhone is, first and foremost, a cell phone, However, as Apple Inc’s CEO Steve Jobs said when unveiling the iPhone at MacWorld 2009, it’s these three devices integrated together that makes the iPhone such a remarkable piece of hardware. More specifically, the thing that makes the iPhone as such so great isn’t even in the hardware itself – the secret sauce is in the software.
That’s right – it’s the software that makes the iPhone such a revolutionary phone. Not only does the iPhone have easy-to-access speed dial lists, call history, and contacts, but there’s a giant traditional dial pad as well. But most phones have this already, you say, so what’s different here? In one world: integration. It’s in the way that you can easily bring up your friends addresses in Google Maps, the flawles way they sync with Address Book on the Mac and Outlook on the PC, and the convenient way you can quickly assign unique ringtones and pictures to all your contacts. These functions are present to other phones, of course, but they require a Batman-like level of technical knowledge to get to.
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Don’t let the small things you’ve gotta do today make you forget your grand plans for tomorrow. Goal Tender is a little app about the big picture, a tidy complement to the nitty-gritty task managers of the last few pages. Tap in the goal to accomplish, and watch the progress bar surge as your wind your way to completion. The app optionally stores your goals online, too, letting you see you see them in your outlook 2007. iCal, or Google calender.
