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Monthly Archives: August 2007

iPhone Copy & Paste Demo: Worth Watching Again

This is old news by now, but the mock-up video of copy & paste on the iPhone is worth a revisit. If not for how right the method seems, then for the “I love you” at the end.

iPhone Copy and Paste from lonelysandwich and Vimeo.


New Art of the iPhone Sidebar Widget: Links to iPhone News

RSS

I spend a lot of time reading iPhone news from the vast reaches of the Internet. I’ve added a widget to the right sidebar featuring the latest news handpicked by Art of the iPhone. The widget features a headline and a link to the original content for each article. If you’d like to subscribe to an RSS feed of the handpicked news, click here and copy and paste the RSS url (the url that’ll appear in the address bar) into your RSS reader’s subscriptions. You can read all the latest iPhone news from across the web without having to search for it yourself.

And here’s a tip for iPhone owners: RSS is perfect for your iPhone because it turns web content into a very basic format, basically text and minimum graphics (if graphics at all). RSS is the best way to access content over AT&T’s EDGE network. Art of the iPhone recommends using Google Reader as your RSS reader. Bookmark Google Reader on your iPhone, and when you acess it, Google Reader will resize content you’ve subscribed to perfectly for the iPhone.


Update to World of iPhone Links

WorldTime for another update to A World of iPhone Links. Listed below are the newest additions. Click here for the entire AWOiL list.

Baffle - A puzzle tile game for the iPhone. Move tiles of different shapes and colors so that one of each color and shape appears in each row, column, and diagonal.

Bank of America mobile - Manage your bankruptcy while on the go with Bank of America’s mobile-friendly site.

Battlefleet - A Battleship clone with some cool animations and a great iPhone interface. You’ll be saying, “You sunk my battleship!” on your morning train ride.

Bejeweled - The official game from Popcap Games built for the iPhone. God bless’em.

Best Blackjack - A blackjack game for the iPhone.

Boroughs - information for NYC dwellers. Find local events, news, traffic, etc. Fully integrated with the iPhone’s Google Maps app, so functions like phoning business from numbers provided by Google maps work.

Box - Access your files anywhere.

Breakdown - Remember the game Breakout? Well, Breakdown is here to rock you now, dudes!

Carmadillo - It’s Frogger, only with an armadillo. Take on the unique challenge of struggling with touchscreen controls as cars splat your armadillo.

CCPark - Pay your parking tickets with your iPhone via Paypal or a credit card.

Chess Clock - Are you a speed chess junkie, but forgot your clock? No problem, man. You know the iPhone got you’s back.

Conspiracy - Plot your crazy math functions on an iPhone. Display the exactly tipping point of when mustaches will return to style.

Converter - Unit converter for the iPhone. How many nickels in a gallon again?

Demolition - Game. Touch blocks with the same color that are adjacent to at least one other blocks and demolish them. Clear away all the blocks to win. A little too much reloading for my taste.

Duck Hunt - The classic NES game comes to the iPhone. Strangely fascinating. The game looks really good on the iPhone’s screen.

Enophi - A RSS reader for the iPhone. Displays sample feeds with and the ability to register an account and customize your own feeds.

ESC Scriptures - The Bible and devotionals on your iPhone.

Facebook - The infamous Facebook is now on the iPhone. Lots of great reviews on the Internets for this one.

Golf Score Card - Keep of the golf scores while on the golf course. Keep score of up to 4 players. Your choice of either 9 or 18 holes. Wager your iPhone on a game of golf.

Guitar Tuner for iPhone - Tune your guitar. Site plays mp3s of guitar strings being plucked. You tune by ear from the sound coming out of the iPhone’s speakers.


Hunt’s Photo & Video - Browse the Hunt’s store in an iPhone-friendly way.

IBM Developer Works - Links for the IBM developer in all of us.

iDecisive - Can’t make up your mind? Let the iPhone do it for you. Coin flip, random number generator, and a random “option” chooser (input the number of options, and the iPhone chooses option 1, or option 2, etc). You’ll never have to think for yourself again. Tell me what to do, iPhone, you are the master now.

IONBowling - Bowling on the iPhone.

iPixelCheck - Another dead pixel test for the iPhone’s gorgeous display.

iPhoneWx - Weather for 20 different locations. Same as the Wx for the Mac.

iViewr - Information on popular attractions and events via iPhone. The info comes from Pod SnapShots.

Japanese to English Dictionary - iPhone-optimized.

MacMost - iPhone-optimized version of the MacMost site. Great for all Mac news.

MacMost iPhone Games - Nine iPhone games from MacMost. Some good games here.

MacRumors Mobile - iPhone edition of the MacRumors site.

MediaTemple Account Center - Reboot your server, buy a domain, get support, pay your bill, etc, all from your iPhone.

Minglets - Meet and chat with other iPhone users. Find each other by choosing categories of interest. Start mingling, my little iPhone cuckoos!

MLB Mobile - Baseball scores and complete game info displayed perfectlu for your iPhone. I like this one better than Pickleview.

iPhocal - Look for local businesses and attractions using a simple iPhone-optimized interface and the Yelp.com API. FYI, Google maps pulls info from Yelp, too.

iPhoneAtom - Read news from Google News site through an iPhone-optimized menu system. Pretty useful.

iRed 2 - Control iTunes from your iPhone and Safari.

Jacks or Better Video Poker - Jacks or Better rules. From Tic Tac Whoa!

Loan Calculator - Not sure of when you will go bankrupt because of your numerous loans. iPhone Loan Calculator to the rescue! Plan ahead for your homelessness.

Magic iEightBall - Ask the Magic iEightBall your magic question and magically get an iResponse.

MarbleJumper - Based on a classic peg-board game. Jump marbles over other marbles, removing them from the board. Goal is to have one marble left on the board, the hard part is setting up all the marbles so you can have that one last jump.

MobileWineList - Track, rate, and organize wines you come across on your journey through life


Outside.in - Discover news and opinion about your neighborhood. That’s right, news has been distilled down to those few blocks that surround your domicile.

Passvault - Store and encrypt data, and trust the owner of the site not to access it. Right?

Readdle - Store your files and view them on the iPhone.

Roami - Control iTunes on your home computer with Safari. A great tool for scaring your pets and loved ones when you leave the house. Have them asking, “Who……w-w-who’s there?”

Rocklighter - Simulate holding up a lighter at a rock concert with this iPhone app. Only works during the singing of the Bon Jovi lyrics, “Every rose has it thorns.”

Scrollbox - Read free books on your iPhone via a clean and simple interface. I couldn’t find Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I wonder why?

SexCal - Have sex on a certain date in order to get the desired gender for your baby via mathematical hocus pocus. Try it, it worked for me twenty times in a row! All boys! It’s crazyyyyyy!! Money-back guaranteeeeessss!

Skype for the iPhone - Use at your own risk.

Sun and Moon - Sunrise and Moonrise information for your zipcode. Enter in the date to find out sunrise/moon information for the future. Plan your astrology ahead of time.

Tetris for the iPhone - Another attempt to get Tetris to work on the iPhone. Features arrows that you tap to adjust the direction of the shapes.

Today’s Wine Picks - Get today’s top wines from WineLog.net. You can sort by your favorite type of wines, including such details as wine region.

Talking iPhone Translator - Plays mp3 files of foreign phrases while displaying both the English and foreign language phrase on the screen. Pretty neat. Features an iPhone menu system.

TV Forecast - Never miss your favorite TV show again. You can personalize your list of favorite shows and the date and time of the next airing will show. Tapping on the show will take you the show’s TV.com webpage.

US Mortgager - Calculate your mortgage to find out just how screwed you really are.

Quad Words - A word game. Adjust letters so they all create words. Read the instructions first, as it’s kind of confusing.

Yeah. No, Totally - Surprisingly useful startpage for the iPhone. An iPhone menu system displays general categories, and you can cull through and search via the Internet’s most useful sites, with just a couple of taps. With a dumb name like that, you know it’s got to be useful.

Vegas Solitaire - Klondike solitaire with Vegas rules. Cumulative scoring and statistics.



iPhone Video: Survival Test in Subzero Temperatures

How will the iPhone handle the cold of the coldest winters? Some random Finnish dudes put it to the test.