PrecisePDA is a capable news headline feeder. It loads quickly but was slightly too wide for my screen. It does exactly what you would expect to do and for that it’s worth looking at. You can’t sort by category or select topics so it’s kind of limiting in that regard but it […]
Posted on September 13th, 2007 by Alex
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Built off the Fandango API, goMovies does exactly what you probably think it does: return showtimes and locations for movies. The input is a breeze–pop in your zip code and let it do the work. I would have thought by now there would a ton of these sites, as they’re relatively easy to […]
Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Alex
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This is probably one of the most wanted apps for iPhone - some sort of Google Reader interface. One slight problem though, the iPod doesn’t have javascript support as far as we know. Still though, good effort.
Google Reader iPhone Skin uses the Greasemonkey concept of modifying the look and feel of a web application through […]
Posted on June 30th, 2007 by Alex
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iActu is an awesome little app that displays feeds from 6 of the most read US papers.
iActu pulls news feeds from six American Newspapers. You can read the news of
the day, view the today front page, purchase a subscription, and more… All
this features in your iPhone! iActu is also available in Dashboard version.
Try it […]
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Alex
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iPhone news search allows users to search Yahoo! and Google news and provides the results in an iPhone optimised fashion. This is a great start, I’d love to see some more work go into this and perhaps jazz up the interface a bit but still the more apps, the better.
Launch iPhone iNews
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Alex
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Google Reader for iPhone is a much wanted application but until then you have this excellent RSS reader, iFeeds. iFeeds makes good use of modern web technologies to proivde a flawless user interface experience.
Launch iFeeds
Posted on June 18th, 2007 by Alex
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This is an app I have written myself to display the latest BBC News headlines from across the world in a very simple format suitable for the iPhone. This is very much a work in progress, I am soon to add iChat like speech bubbles for each headline and other rad stuff.
Check it out here….
Posted on June 15th, 2007 by Alex
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Digg throws up some useful stuff sometimes including this iPhone Javascript Interface by David Cann. This open source set of files uses PHP and the Yahoo! UI library to create an application that has a very similar look and feel to native Apple apps on the iPhone - definitely a must to check out for […]
Posted on June 14th, 2007 by Alex
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