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Update to the A World of iPhone Links Page

Jun 18

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Art of the iPhone

Native apps are coming to the iPhone next month. The iPhone is becoming a platform, but that doesn’t mean the Internet, the greatest platform of all, is going anywhere.  And so, here are the latest webapp additions to the A World of iPhone Links page. I rummage through the hundreds of  iPhone webapps released every month to deliver you only the most choice morsels. All are optimized for use on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

iWhois – Simple domain lookup for the iPhone. Want to register a name like DaringFireball.net? Check to see if it’s taken, or see who owns it.

Moviephone for iPhone – Movie times on your iPhone. Enter your zip code and you can begin browsing by movies near you, theaters near you, top 20 movies, or even movie trailers.

NPR Mobile -  Get NPR news stories, or even listen to the hourly news via a downloadable mp3 that will play in your iPhone’s browser. Awesome for NPR junkies.

Pimp My News – Have the news and your favorite blogs read to you over the Internets. Free your eyeballs from the iPhone’s screen and have content read to you by a pleasant and only sometimes awkward computerized voice. Posts are played in a mp3 file inside your iPhone’s browser. Can be personalized so that news from multiple sites can be read together and turned into your own little podcast.

Powerset Wikipedia search – A search engine for Wikipedia articles that, supposedly, works better than Wikipedia’s own draconian search tool.

Pro Baseball – Baseball scores on your iPhone. Good looking, lots of information. Kind of buggy though–players do no appear in the correct order in box scores.

Yahoo! Maps for iPhone – Use Yahoo! Maps to find the dopest route to your destination. Google Maps is still the best. Double true.

iPhone Headphone Roundup: Full-Featured Earphones

May 25

Posted by Alan in Apple iPhone, Earbuds, Earphones, Headphones, In-Ears, iPhone Accessories, iPhone Links | 1 Comment

VMODA iPhone with Microphone

*Updated Feb 2009*

Looking to replace your iPhone headphones? Do you also want a pair with a built-in microphone and play/pause/answer features? They may be tougher to find than you think. Third-party headphone makers have been slow to market with their full-featured earphones. Some sell extension-cord dongles that add the microphone/button control to regular earphones. But many people find that solution unsatisfactory. Here’s what your selection looks like right now for full-featured earphones:

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More Webapps Added to A World of iPhone Links

May 21

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Art of the iPhone

It’s that time again. More iPhone and iPod Touch webapps have been added to the A World of iPhone Links page. I scan through the hundreds of iPhone webapps so you don’t have to, presenting you with only the choice morsels, flambé style.

AOL Horoscopes – iPhone-optimized horoscopes. Interface is very quick and clean.

Deviantart – The Internet’s best art site now with an iPhone interface. Browse and become inspired. This site will be especially cool with 2.0’s upcoming feature to save pictures.

GravitySwarm – Asteroids for the iPhone. Neat feature that tracks where you tapped in order to direct your fire.

Modguitars – Guitar chord reference guide. Very cool site. Features a graphic of a fretboard with blue dots to show you where to put your fingers to form guitar chords. Very quick to select and show new chords. Slick.

Revision3 Mobile – Revision3 brings its online video content to the iPhone with very highly compressed video designed for transmitting wirelessly. It’s even Edge friendly.

Tankbuster – Game. Drop bombs from a great height on tanks below. Get your timing right, or your ordnance has been wasted.

Wordfind – Classic word-finding game. Find the words among a grid of letters. Words can appear horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

ZooVision CBS Mobile News -  CBS News video clips highly compressed for mobile viewing.

Collection of iPhone-Friendly News Sites

May 8

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iPhone AP News 2Whether you’re waiting in a dentist’s office or standing in line for Hannah Montana tickets, you need to stay in touch with the world around you. I suppose you could ask another human being what’s the latest news, but come on, this is the 21st century. This is where your iPhone comes in.

Here are the best news sites that have been optimized for your iPhone:

AP News – Legendary news service gets optimized for the iPhone. Get the latest news, or customize for local news and other categories such as Sports, Business, and Entertainment.

CBS News – All the news that’s fit to print…err…view on your 480X320 dpi screen with high-grade optical glass.

Chicago Sun Times -  All of Chicago’s news on your iPhone.

SmallStarChicago Tribune – Chicago’s greatest newspaper in an iPhone-optimized format. Very well done. Read about the Cubs losing the pennant, again.

CNN.com – World’s most popular online news site now in mobile form.

Fox News – Fair. Balanced. Use the iPhone’s accelerometer to balance the news.


Google News – Google’s news site joins their suite of iPhone-optimized services. Only downside is Google News only presents a blurb from the source. Tapping on the stories more often than not lead to a site that is not iPhone optimized.

Los Angeles Times – The newspaper for the biggest city in California is now on the iPhone. I’m so stoked, dude.

New York Times Mobile – America’s greatest metropolitan newspaper in a friendly format for mobile phones.

NYTimesRiver.com – A twist on the New York Times site. News stories are presented based on the time they were published to NYTimes.com.

Reuters Mobile – Reuter’ news service available in a very simple mobile format.

Time – The classic Time Magazine on your iPhone. Beautiful photographs. Very well done.

Catch all of our iPhone-optimized links on the A World of iPhone Links page.

Update to A World of iPhone Links

Apr 27

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Time for another update to A World of iPhone Links. I sort through the hundreds of iPhone-friendly sites so you don’t have to, giving you only the best. A star represents an Art of the iPhone favorite.

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SmallStarAOL TV Listings – Terrific TV guide site for your iPhone. One time set up. Enter in your zip code and your cable company (or local broadcast), and whenever you revisit the site, it shows what’s on tonight. Very well done. A definite bookmark.

Astrotruth – Astrology romance compatibility site. Find out if your sign is compatible with your significant other’s. If not, break up. The iPhone commands it.

IMDb.com (unofficial) – Movie database optimized for the iPhone.

iNascar – Nascar race results, news, track stats, etc. Gentlemen, start your iPhones.

Internet Speed Test – Test your iPhone’s download speeds. Does it feel like you’re living in the days of dial up? Find out for sure.

Mineral Database – Got rocks on your brain? Turn your iPhone into the ultimate geology tool. Tons of information for geologists and students of the earth sciences.

MyNetDiary Food and Excercise Log – Keep a health diary. Track your calories and excercise with information stored in the cloud. Lose weight with your iPhone.

Pubget – Search engine for medical journal and science articles. Medical researchers know about Pubmed. Well, Pubget is a refined version of Pubmed’s search engine. Whereas Pubmed leads you through a maze to get to source material, Pubget leads you straight to a pdf of the article–if it’s publicly available. Very cool and useful for the medically inclined.

RiddlerX – Riddle me this: what website features random riddles and too many ads? Tap to find out.

Update to A World of iPhone Links

Apr 13

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Small Earth

A small update to A World of iPhone Links page today. It’s good to see the major online news sites finally making mobile-friendly versions of their sites.

CNN.com – World’s most popular online news site now in mobile form.

Podcaster – Find and play podcasts (audio and video) straight from Safari mobile. Watch NBC Nightly News without synching to iTunes.

Rubik’s Cube – 3D puzzle game. The classic Rubik’s Cube mind puzzle is brought to the iPhone. Very clean interface. Neat.

SmallStarTime.com – Magazine journalism on your iPhone. Very well done.

Update to A World of iPhone Links

Apr 5

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Small Earth

 

Another update to the A World of iPhone Links page. All links are iPhone- and iPod Touch-friendly or generally designed to be accessed on a mobile phone. Enjoy.

American Airlines – Check on your reservation, check-in status, or flight status. Book or change flights, find specials on fares, view your Miles, request upgrades. Basically, everything you’d need for traveling on AA in a well-done iPhone-friendly site.

The Beatles (fan site) – Anything and everything about the Beatles. They’re not on iTunes yet, but they’re on the iPhone.

CBS News – All the news that’s fit to print…err…view on your 480X320 dpi screen with high-grade optical glass.

Food Information Database – Food information site featuring calorie, fat, carbs, etc. Features all the major fast food chains and restaurants. Barebones site, but useful.

Fox News – Fair. Balanced. Use the iPhone’s accelerometer to balance the news.

iZodiac – Horoscopes for the iPhone inclined. Simple, sweet, good-looking site. Discover your tomorrow today. Will the iPhone be your Cassandra?

Tittr – Fun little photo microblogging site. It’s simple to use: snap a picture with your iPhone and email it to Tittr.com at geemail (as in Google), and it shows up on the site, tagged by whatever you enter in the subject line. Fun to see where people are using their iPhone. Important caveat: the name you use with your email shows up next to your photo, but your email address is hidden.

SmallStarWikipedia – The best iPhone Wikipedia site yet (there have been some bad ones). Features full Wikipedia posts. Definite bookmark.

iPhone-Optimized Baseball Scores and Stats

Mar 31

Posted by Alan in iPhone Links, iPhone Sports, iPhone Tips, iPhone Tricks, iPhone Websites | 1 Comment

*Update 8/9/2009* This post is outdated, as there are now plenty of apps that do a better job of delivering sports scores on the iPhone. Check out Sportacular, our current favorite.

Pickleview featuring MLB ScoresIt’s baseball season again, and we all need a way to get the latest scores and stats on our iPhones. Here are some iPhone- and iPod Touch-optimized ways of getting baseball info. Our featured site is Pickleview, but we’ve also listed our entire collection, so you can choose one that’s right for you.

SmallStarPickleview – Follow your favorite team pitch by pitch. Shows small pictures and stats of players on the base path when they’re at bat or when they reach a base. The bottom of the screen features play-by-play text descriptions, or you can choose to Twitter about the game with your friends.

Others:

ESPN Mobile MLB – Scores and that’s about it. Very limited information.

Live Stats Tracker – Keep track of your fantasy players. One-time set up. Add your individual players, and each time you revisit the site, your players’ latest stats will appear.

MLB.com Mobile – Official site of Major League Baseball in mobile form. Very ugly but offers the most information (particularly, individual stats) of all the links.

Pro Baseball – Baseball scores on your iPhone. Good looking, lots of information, but a little buggy (pitchers currently appear in incorrect order in box scores).

ScoreMobile MLB – Clean interface, but features only scores and limited stats.

SmallStarSportsTap MLB – Scores, stats, standings, and transactions. Displays full box scores. Good looking site.

Yahoo Mobile MLB Scores – News and scores from Yahoo.

There are also a few alternative methods to get baseball scores on your iPhone. One is to send an SMS text message with the words score and Red Sox (or your favorite team) to Google at 46645, and they will send back a score. You can also have Yahoo Alerts send you a text message when a game featuring your favorite team starts, every 3 innings, or when the game ends.

Check out all of our iPhone Tips here.

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Update to A World of iPhone Links

Mar 30

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Small Earth

A small update to the A World of iPhone Links page today. There’s a lot of awful iPhone-optimized sites out there, so I try to cull through the trash for the relatively useful. Enjoy.

Cnet – One of the best sites for reviews of HDTVS and other gadgets, now optimized for the iPhone.

Dice – Forget the dice? Whip out your iPhone and roll baby. Grab some malt liquor and a cardboard box and start random games of dice in alleys. Bet your iPhone.

SmallStarFatwallet.com – Get the 411 on hot deals in an iPhone-friendly format. See, you can save money by spending $400 on a phone.

iHang – Classic game of hangman.

Kingdom Game – Online strategy game. Play against hundreds of others and conquer the world. Requires sign up and log in.

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A World of iPhone Links Update

Mar 23

Posted by Alan in Apple iPhone, Safari, iPhone Games, iPhone Links, iPhone Webapps, iPhone Websites, iPod Touch | No Comments

Small Earth

Another new batch of web apps have been added to the A World of iPhone Links page. A start SmallStar means the app is worth a bookmark. Don’t forget about the iPhone Games page either. Enjoy!

Apps added:

Bio Dictionary – Dictionary of general biology terms featuring definitions in text and in audio form (mp3 files) read by a crisp British narrator.

SmallStarChicago Tribune – Chicago’s greatest newspaper in an iPhone-optimized format. Very well done. Read about the Cubs losing the pennant, again.

iScramble - A simple game of unscramble the letters to form a word.

Millionaire Calculator – A calculator that tells you when you will become a millionaire. Compound interest is your friend.

Ninja Rope Extreme – Ninja game. Swing your ninja across the screen by placing your ropes strategically.

Political Punch Out – Game of polical boxing. Take control of Obama, Hillary, or McCain. FIGHT!

SeaWorld Orlando Interactive Map – Map of Seaworld for your iPhone. Click on the picture for more information about various attractions.

Universal Studios Interactive Map – Know where you’re going with your iPhone at Universal Studios.