iPhone Apps

iPhone App: ZKout

justin — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:59:04 +0000

ZKout is a mobile social network. It’s free to join and has a lot of pretty cool features, namely communicating with people in your immediate surroundings (both cool and creepy). In addition to that key feature (which is obviously impossible with non-mobile social networks), you also get all of “expected” functions: mapping, photo/video sharing, online interactions, etc. It got a nice review from Apple itself, so go get ZKout right now. It’s free!

Android

Alex — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:31:56 +0000

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know your iPhone is not running Android (the new Google platform) but I saw the article yesterday and for whatever strange reason thought it relevant. As a developer I had been hoping Apple would release a developer kit with 1.1.3 but that didn’t happen. I spend all day writing web applications so really the last thing I want to do on my free time is write another one when I could learn how to write a standalone. Who knows though, maybe one day the iPhone will run on Android…

Jail Breaking your iPhone

Alex — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:45:17 +0000

Practically every non-web iPhone app requires you to have jailbroken your iPhone. I’ve gotten some questions about it so I’m going to take today’s entry to tell you about jail breaking your iPhone. Essentially what jail break does is decimate all the OS security settings. Suddenly you go from being locked out to changing things to being able to treat your iPhone more like a personal computer–you can get rid of the Stocks option you never use or add a button for Contacts instead of having to go through the Phone section to get it. It’s remarkably easy to do and you can do it here.

Treasure My Text

Alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:23:31 +0000

A handy little stand-alone app is TreasureMyText; essentially an inbox center for your text messages. The application also allows you to delete individual messages from the iPhone (a feature missing from the built in SMS application). The best part? It works over your data connection so archiving messages is free. You can’t beat an app that both does something useful and is free can you?

You do need to have your phone jailbroken though (plus a treasuremytext account [also free]).

ReQall for the iPhone

Alex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:33:04 +0000

ReQall is not new and it is not just for the iPhone, however they did just release an iPhone-friendly (along with iPod Touch) version. The basic premise is that you have essentially a big voice mail center that you can call and leave reminders for yourself. I have been waiting patiently for Apple to build one of these into the iPhone itself but in the mean time you should probably check out ReQall if you’re as forgetful as I am.

PLIBA

Alex — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:45:24 +0000

I’m a jaded internet user. Because I spend all day programming there are few things that make me smile and even fewer that make me laugh. PLIBA’s name gave me a good laugh when I saw what it stood for. Maybe not inherently funny, I have certainly said “please let it be available” countless times while trying to book last-minute things. Granted I have inserted an extra consonant in between the B and the A (if you know what I’m saying, and I think you do). Anyway, PLIBA is a booking engine that’s definitely worth a bookmark if you’re a traveler and even more worth a bookmark if you’re not–because you’re probably going to be more desperate to find something.

Defining iPhone “App”

Alex — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:45:27 +0000

What exactly is an iPhone app? Think back in time–way back. Let’s go back to when this site was started in July of 2006 or when I took it over a few months later. This was a time before there was Jailbreak or the much-hyped iPhone carrier hack. There were no iPhone applications in the truest sense except for what Apple threw on there. The “applications” people built were essentially specialized sites built to work with the iPhone and have the look and feel of a traditional non-web application. Now that the first thing people do when they get their iPhone is Jailbreak it, you can now actually write full-blown apps for it. Most of these reviews are based on user submissions and if people would submit these stand-alone apps I’d be happy to review them.

I just wanted to hit that topic since I got a comment about it (and the commenter was totally right in asserting these were not true “apps”).

iPhone Games

Alex — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:48:52 +0000

As you know I try to stay away from games on here but since I’ve taken such a long break from writing at all I thought I’d ease my way back in my reviewing a very, very addictive game, Colour Match. Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s aggravating to play this game–not because of the concept or programming; both are great. It’s aggravating because you’re just simply wrong a lot of the time. The goal is, using the three colors, to “build” the target color. The challenge lies in that you don’t immediately understand that green, blue and red are capable of giving you a bright yellow. Yet they are. If you want to kill some time on a really addictive game, do it with Colour Match.

Hushie.com - MP3 Search Engine

Alex — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:08:50 +0000

Hushie.com is apparently ‘a frontend to Google’s complex searching abilities’. To you and me however this just means it finds music on the net, and does it really, really well. The owners tell me that theyre working on a more iPhone-friendly version of the site but ’til then, just check it out.
Hushie.com

iPhone Avatars

Alex — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:11:17 +0000

Display your personal avatar on your iPhone. Tilt your iPhone to show your avatar group - this could be your friends or family. Each time a member of your group updates their avatar, your group image will reflect their changes.

The site also supports cropped avatars which make great images to put next to your phone contacts. Check it out here! Thanks Andrew!