AlohaSoft for the iPhone
January 19, 2009
Welcome to AlohaSoft
the home of Aqwoah for the iPhone
http://web.mac.com/reinholdpenner/alohasoft/AlohaSoft.html
RemindYou® for the iPhone
January 19, 2009
Your day, at your ?nger tips - all day long.
RemindYou® is a simple, yet powerful application which turns your iPhone into a time management dynamo!
RemindYou syncs the lock screen of your iPhone with iCal, Outlook, or Entourage and displays pending appointments and events every time you answer your phone.Â
RemindYou ?lters through all the email, phone calls, text messages and other distractions and delivers YOU right on time for your next commitment! Never miss another appointment due to dismissed alarms or information overload with RemindYou.
RemindYou is available as an fully-functional 14-day free trial and a life-time license can be purchased at any time for only .95.
RemindYou Preferences will allow you to adjust basic display features for various wallpapers, backgrounds, or pictures.
Upon purchase of a lifetime license, your unique 5 digit code will be entered in
the Registration screen:
http://www.makeyourdaymedia.com/MoreInfo.htm
Link to your repository is http://iappcat.com/r/12813
All packages are in category MobileKUB_Repo.
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IntelliScreenâ„¢ for the iPhone
January 19, 2009
Need to know where your next meeting is? Do you have any new email? What about a quick glimpse at your SMS/Text messages or weather? Want to catch the latest news, but Safari is too slow? IntelliScreenâ„¢ allows you to glimpse at your critical data on your iPhone “Slide to Unlock” screen!
View Calendar, Email, Text Messages, News, Sports, and Weather from your iPhone “Slide To Unlock” screenTaskbar Icons for Missed Email, SMS, and Phone callsCustomizable Alert Reminders - Don’t forget about a missed call, unread email, or unread SMSVibrate, Sound, or Flash Alerting with Alert Quiet TimeSmooth scrolling across each item to quickly glimpse at your dataAuto-Checks Email when you view the unlock screen - no need to “Refresh” from Mail.app or wait 15 minutesGo directly to the application of your choice with a “Swipe”Precise International Weather (by Zip) provided by Weather Underground.comNews Feeds include Yahoo!, CNN, BBC Fox News, and ReutersAdd your own Custom RSS FeedESPN Sports Feeds include MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA Men’s Football and NCAA Women’s BasketballCustomizing your IntelliScreenâ„¢ is easy! Choose which content you want to view and whereMail and Text Messages can be shown only if new items are availableSkinnable - Customize to the way you want IntelliScreen to look
 IntelliScreen™ for the iPhone
To install IntelliScreen:
* In Installer.app, choose the Sources tab
* Choose “Edit” and then add http://intelliborn.com/repo.
* Goto Install tab, and choose the Intelliborn category, and Install IntelliScreen
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Ustream announces live Obama inauguration on iPhone
January 19, 2009
Ustream has developed an iPhone app for the iPhone 3G that allows you to watch Ustream video streams anywhere and share them with anyone, according to this announcement on their Web site.
According to John Ham, the founder of the live-streaming video site Ustream, the application, which will be released soon will let you view live streaming videos from their Web site directly on the iPhone. Additionally, while viewing the video on your iPhone you can
participate with everyone else viewing the video feed in a live chat.
This innovative way of watching the inauguration is in alignment with the first President-elect who many see as the most connected presidential candidate
who applied a variety of Internet technologies, such as Facebook, MySpace, and others, to catapult him to the top of the polls. This includes two
other iPhone apps previously reported on CNET: Obama launches iPhone recruiting, campaign
tool and iPhone app navigates Obama inauguration.
We checked the iTunes App Store at press time, and the app is currently not available.
Updated App Store Rules include: iFarting in, iBoobs Out and more
January 18, 2009
The Apple iTunes App Store boasts over 10,000 applications and approximately 300 million downloads just six months after its launch, although App Store rules have been relaxed, the ecosystem is still more restrained than some would like.
We’ve written about many of the barred apps (here and here ). At issue has been Apple’s often inconsistent interpretation of the iPhone app approval rules. Acting in it’s own interest and those of it’s partner AT&T, Apple has blocked tethering and VoIP apps from the iTunes App Store, and taken other measures to protect the bandwidth on what many consider an already-overtaxed 3G network.
Now things are starting to change. However, there does not seem to be any rhyme or reason. On one hand, crass (to some) flatulence apps are being accepted, while other crass (to some) boob emulating apps are being rejected
The App Store now offers apps like iFart Mobile $.99 (iTunes Link) and Pull my Finger $.99 (iTunes Link).The powers that be at Apple might let things get a little stinky, but they are protecting us against porn and sexual content in the App Store.
Note: that at this time there are approximately 30 of these gaseous apps being offered in the iTunes App Store. Just how many of these the economy can support remains to be seen.
iBoobs: Perky Emulation Defeated by Apple Censor
iBoobs is an app that was created by Mystic Game Development and was rejected because it contains “objectionable content” along with the usual Apple rejection was a small ray of hope: “If you believe that you can make necessary changes so that iBoobs does not violate the Apple iPhone SDK we encourage you to do so.” You can see what the app does on the YouTube video below:
Basically the app does what anyone would expect it to do. It demonstrates Mystic Game Development’s character animation software. The iBoobs never make an appearance outside of their skillfully rendered blouse.
Gaseous Apps Boost Sales
The response by iTunes App Store customers to the sale of these flatulence apps has been astounding. So why is it that iBoobs loses out when it likely has potential sales that might exceed that of apps like iFart Mobile and Pull My Finger?
Initially sales numbers for iFart Mobile according to InfoMedia were exceptional, placing the $.99 flatulence app into the number one slot on the iTunes App Store Top 100 sales list. You can see some interesting sales stats here. Weeks after its initial release, the app is still posted, but at the number three slot–still placing it above apps like Crazy Tanks, Crash Bandicoot, Monopoly, Tetris, etc. While in the number one slot, iFart made over ,000 on its first day.
Pill My Finger is an app that is very similar to iFart Mobile, but it was written and designed differently. This app was very controversial since it was banned initially by Apple because it was of “limited utility.”
Application Programming Interface Rules Broken
Tom Krazit reported, that “Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple’s iPhone software development kit(SDK) which it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge.”
“A Google spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Google Mobile uses undocumented APIs (application programming interfaces) in order to use the iPhone’s proximity sensor to prompt a verbal search. iPhone developers were only supposed to use the APIs that Apple published in its SDK when they create their applications under the terms of that agreement.
Google has denied, however, a more serious charge that it was linking to private or dynamic frameworks in the Google Mobile application. That’s considered a big no-no in the development community. “
The problem with this whole situation is that using the undocumented API’s in your application can put it at the risk of failing in the future if Apple does any software updates that affect it. However, it might be risk that is worthwhile for some developers seeking to bring otherwise impossible features to their appilcations, e.g. Google’s verbal search prompt.
Peeps .99 (iTunes Link) made by Plausible Labs, is famous because Apple went after the developer for what appeared to be the use of Private APIs that facilitate the use of Coverflow in their app. So the app was rejected by Apple. The developer, however, explained that he came up with his own version of Coverflow using his own code. Apple subsequently accepted the app into the App Store.
What is Missing from the App Store?
It’s clear that practically anyone would welcome apps like Nullriver’s phone-as-modem app NetShare, and Apple has already started accepting third-party Web browsers. What’s missing for the App Store, however, are rules that the developer community can trust.
Lets hope that by the time the iTunes App Store reaches it’s first anniversary that Apple will be able to find the balance that iPhone users and developers need, and that the App Store rules will bend a little bit more even though it is clear from this story that that is already happening. Apple is showing some signs of listening, learning and effecting change.
3rd-Party iPhone Web Browsers: What’s Useful, What’s not
January 18, 2009
Apple’s decision to allow third-party Web browsers into the iTunes App Store has been met with developer enthusiasm. Coders, elated that Apple has reversed it’s previous, anti-competitive stance with regard to at least one application sector (mail clients and SMS applications still appear to be off limits) have pushed through a series of Web browsers ranging from the valuable to the useless, and the promising to the devoid of potential.
We’ve put a few of the available browsers through their paces, and tagged them according to their usefulness and potential for significant improvement.
Shaking Web (iTunes Link) .99. Largely useless, Some potential. Uses an algorithm that compensates for any movement of the iPhone: shaking hands, bumps on a bus or train, or footsteps. In practice, the result of the accelerometer functionality is generally without utility. The browser is usually either overcompensating or under-compensating, and the effect is more jarring then soothing when walking with a page open, i.e. readability is not enhanced. If future versions can improve responsiveness and become more image stabilizer and less ship deck, the price might justifiable.
SafeEyes Mobile Site Link (not yet available in iTunes)). No price yet. Looks Useful. Potential uncertain. We haven’t yet had a chance to play with SafeEyes Mobile, but its purpose seems solid. Rather than parents blocking Safari completely on their young ones’ iPhones, SafeEyes uses the traditional “blocked-site database” method to bar entry to specific sites. The app’s developers say it should be available soon, and we’ll report back with further information when it debuts.
WebMate: “Tabbed” Browser (iTunes Link) $.99. Useful. Some potential This browser simulates tabbing by queuing up websites inside a browser that uses backward and forward buttons to sift through the websites one at a time. The utility of this browser lies not in its navigation mechanism, but rather in its ability to load and store pages. Whereas MobileSafari must reload pages when the application is closed and reopened, WebMate can keep pages for later viewing and freely switch between pages without reloads. The current potential in this application relates to bugs. For instance, if a link is set to open in a new page using the _blank tag, it won’t work. Some spit an polish could make this a no-brainer.
Edge Browser (iTunes Link) Free. Largely useless. Some potential View web page or web apps in a full screen Safari Browser. No Address or navigation bars–’nuff said. If you find the Safari interface elements irritating, then the price is right for this application. However, the lack of a back button and the apparent inability to enter URLs (seriously?) make this an unusable browser. Check back when some significant feature enhancements have been made.
Incognito (iTunes Link) .99. Useful. Significant potential. Priviate browsing on the iPhone, allowing you to browse without leaving any history behind. Great for avoiding embarassing search and URL auto-suggestions after browsing… ahem… questionable content. The interface is somewhat shoddy for the time being, but could be easily enhanced.
Feedback? iphoneatlas@cnet.com.
One iPhone, Two Computers, Many Solutions
January 18, 2009
It’s a common dilemma: you have two computers–perhaps one at work, one at home–but only one iPhone, to which you’d like to sync music and other data from both systems. By default, Apple doesn’t allow for this scenario in iTunes. When an iPhone is synced with one computer’s iTunes library then connected to another’s, all music is grayed out and cannot be synced. Other data are also inaccessible. There are a number of solutions to this problem, some easy but fraught with issues, others more complicated but with more pleasing results.
Trick the library One option is to trick your iPhone into thinking that it’s connecting with the same library on both computers.
The easiest way to do this on two Macs is to copy the files
- iTunes Music Library.xml
- “iTunes Library”
from /Users/[your username]/Music on the Mac your iPhone is synced with to the same folder on the secondary Mac (the one on which the music is greyed out).
On two Windows systems, copy the files
- tt>iTunes Music Library.xml
- iTunes Library.itl
from \Documents and Settings\[your username]\My Documents\My Music\ under Windows XP or 2000, or \Users\[your username]\Music\ under Windows Vista on the primary synced machine to the respective (same-named) folders on the secondary systems.
This is a simple fix that works for many users, but it can cause other issues down the road. If you run into any issus after applying this procedure, you can rebuild your iTunes library via the instructions in this article.
Third-party transfer Another option is to use third-party software like TouchCopy. This tool, and others, can transfer music, playlists, album art and more from multiple computers to a single iPhone or iPod touch. It’s available for both Mac OS X and Windows–a major boon for dual-platform users.
Deeper modification Finally, if you’re willing to dig into text files and modify the iTunes libraries on your two systems, you can follow this procedure from Andrew Grant. The process will modify any iTunes Library so it can also be synced with the iPhone. Per Andrew “You can then either manually manage your iPhone on a second computer, or sync different data on different machines.”
‘Mew Mew Tower’: iPhone gets greatest cat game ever
January 14, 2009
Mew Mew: stacking cats was never so much fun.
(Credit: B3 United)
Build a tower of Japanese cats of varying sizes, while using the iPhone’s accelerometer to ensure they don’t topple to their demise. Game concepts don’t come much simpler, more cute, or more addictive.
Mew Mew Tower (iTunes link) from B3 United is the latest cat-themed game to hit the iTunes App Store, and for .70 it might well be the best money you’ll spend in January. We’ve been playing it for the last 24 hours, gleefully cheering as the ever-growing tower of cats meow in delight as another chubby puss is piled on to the apex.
Using your finger, it’s simply a case of pulling a cat from a hot air balloon, strategically placing it atop your cat tower, then returning to the balloon for a fresh cat. Our record is currently a tower of cats about 23 feet high.
It’s like Jenga, only with cats. The kitten physics leave something to be desired, but as stacking 20 cats on top of each other is as good as impossible in real life, you’d have to be a buffoon to complain that Moggy McFat-Paws didn’t plummet to his doom quite realistically enough. What are you, a sadist? Get off our Web site!
You can buy the game from the App Store now for .70, for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and you really, really should–even if just for the insanely awesome sound effects and hand-drawn kitties. Once you play, let us know what you think of the game in the comments below.
(Via Crave UK)
Slacker Radio slides onto the iPhone
January 14, 2009
(Credit: CNET)Leave it to Apple to make Slacker look like a…you know.
Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, streaming Internet radio company Slacker Radio released Slacker Radio for BlackBerry (download), and announced that an iPhone cousin was coming out as soon as Apple approved it.
Announced on Tuesday, Slacker Radio for the iPhone and iPod Touch is just as lip-smacking good as anticipated, and is primed to give other streaming music apps like Pandora, Last.fm, and Tuner Internet Radio a beating.
The app makes the most of Slacker Internet Radio’s customary dark, good looks on the iPhone’s tall display. The album art is much more prominently displayed here than on the BlackBerry, and the controls take center stage. You’ll be able to fine-tune a station while it plays, and pick a new station without terminating the current song.
Choosing the next station is incredibly easy–your favorite and custom stations are at the top of a vertically scrolling list, with a search option, top stations, and the Slacker spotlight just below. Keep scrolling down to flick through the genres.
The songs sounded great through the Wi-Fi connection, and fairly good through 3G. We’re bummed you can’t build a new station on the iPhone, and for more flexibility, Slacker Radio ought to flip over to landscape mode.
Also, though it’s Apple’s doing and not Slacker’s, we miss the app’s ability to cache songs onto a Micro SD card as on the BlackBerry, and furthermore its ability to play songs in the background while you work on other tasks.
The next best thing Slacker can offer is to resume playing your station when you reopen the app.
Slacker Radio is free and available now from the iTunes Store. Like other streaming music services born of the Web, you’ll need to register to begin.
Note: Last.fm is owned by CNET’s parent company, CBS.
iPhone Nano on the way to China first?
January 14, 2009
A smaller, cheaper iPhone could hit China later this year, now that two companies appear to have gotten contracts to make its chips.
(Credit: Apple)
More iPhone Nano rumors are surfacing out of China, as some are starting to wonder whether the much-rumored diminutive iPhone will ship in that region only.
Digitimes picked up on a report from the Economic Daily News that chip makers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) are set to get the contract to make chips for an iPhone Nano, which was described as a “low-cost entry-level” iPhone. TSMC and UMC are perhaps the two most well-known chip foundries in the business, and are perhaps getting ready to execute Apple’s first iPhone chip design put together by the P.A. Semi team.
No other details were reported. But what of the iPhone Nano itself? Rumors first appeared about such a device in 2007, shortly after the launch of the original iPhone, but quickly died. They were revived late last year when an iPhone case manufacturer added an “iPhone Nano” category to its products.
There’s a theory that the real iPhone Nano is merely the knock-off versions sold in markets in China and other places in Asia, which has proven so popular that demand has grown for cases. But Brian Marshal of Broadpoint AmTech expects Apple to launch such a device at some point this year, and thinks Asia might be the first place it arrives.
Marshal said his checks with suppliers show that AT&T has not received the device yet for testing, which he believes indicates that China could be the likely launch venue for the iPhone Nano and a new Apple relationship with China Mobile or another carrier. If this iPhone really does exist, a June launch would make sense given the pattern set in 2007 and 2008.