David Chartier on June 29th, 2008
Best iPhone WordPress admin plug-in I’ve seen. Be sure to check out the rest of the screenshots. WPhone works across all the essential areas, but there’s no telling what it’ll do to plug-in-specific pages.
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AlwaysWatching has details on action figures for “The Big Lebowski,” easily one of the greatest cult films of our time. The only way these could be cooler is if Goodman’s figure had a button to say “Shut the fuck up Donnie!”
Comic-Con attendees will get a first shot at them this year, and they’re available for pre-order at EntertainmentEarth as well.
via my friend, David Zaffrann
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TypePad introduced Blog It back in April, a cool little multi-service web app that bizarrely manifested as a Facebook application, of all things. Now, TypePad has morphed Blog It into an iPhone web app, living at http://blogit.typepad.com.
I haven’t signed in yet because I’m a bit too busy, but it appears to offer much of the same functionality wrapped in standard iPhone UI and controls. It also defaults to letting users sign in via OpenID. Cool.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on June 12th, 2008
This is really great news, as the one thing I missed from NewsGator’s web-based iPhone reader was its ability to mail links via MobileMail. While I think I’ll still wind up back in NewsGator’s universe with NetNewsWire on the desktop and NetNewsWire for iPhone next month, Google Reader for iPhone is finally an awesome and complete iPhone web app in my book.
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Man, I sure hope the military doesn’t get ticked off that Jawbone ripped off their “military-grade audio processing technology” for the Jawbone 2. I hear those guys know how to kick ass.
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I’m in the basement about to shut down the Mac Pro that houses our entire iTunes library. Jessi is upstairs using the Apple TV to stream an album from the Mac Pro. So I don’t interrupt her music or grading, I put the album on a playlist in iTunes, synced the playlist to the Apple TV (while it was still streaming), then shut down the Mac Pro so I could swap out a hard drive (remember how much I love playing inside our Mac Pro?). The Apple TV, to my surprise, kept playing straight through the album without skipping a beat.
Jessi never knew or had to be bothered by the fact that I cut off the stream. The Apple TV just switched to the local copies of the songs I synced up and kept on playing.
Smart.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on May 12th, 2008
Announced on the Official Google Reader Blog, Google introduced a solid new version of what is already the best iPhone RSS experience hands-down:
If you’ve used list view, then it should be familiar to you. Scan the titles for an item that interests you, tap and it expands in place. Starring, sharing, and keeping unread are done in place, so you never have to leave the list view or refresh the page.
It’s surprisingly snappy over EDGE even though it seems to pre-fetch the current 15 posts you’re viewing (images don’t appear to be pre-fetched, but correct me if I’m wrong). Starring and sharing in place are fantastic ways to speed up navigation.
This new version is still missing a critical feature, though: the ability to send a link to a post via iPhone’s Mail app. I think it’s a safe bet that most iPhone users sync all their contacts with the iPhone (or at least the important ones), and e-mail is a vital way to share stories with both friends and coworkers.
Sending a story’s link to a Mail message is actually one experience that NewsGator nailed very well with its otherwise disappointing iPhone RSS reader. Google Reader iPhone team: please check out how NewsGator pulled this off and incorporate.
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iPhone and iPod touch: About backups demystifies iTunes’ backup process for iPhones and iPod touches. Nothing too ground-breaking here, though a portion covers how to delete a backup if you want to start fresh.
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My favorite task management service Remember The Milk (RTM) has launched MilkSync for BlackBerry, a dedicated application. I have an iPhone so I can’t test it out, but I can only assume that since RTM already offers a Windows Mobile app and an iPhone web app, a dedicated RTM iPhone app could appear in June, or shortly thereafter.
Sphere: Related Content David Chartier on April 20th, 2008
The clamoring for a 3G iPhone to arrive in June with Apple’s release of third-party installable software is nearly deafening, so I figured I’d look into exactly where 3G is up and running here in the US. It isn’t nearly as wide-spread as EDGE (the iPhone’s current data network besides WiFi), and I suspect a good portion of feature-lusters who are calling for this hardware upgrade may not even be able to take advantage of it (yet).
AT&T maintains an interactive map detailing 3G coverage, broken down by state and city. You can toggle 3G’s visibility on the map to get a better idea of where it is and isn’t. I suspect this map is fairly up-to-date as I was told late last summer that Denver was getting 3G in October, and that coverage is listed on this map.
As I understand it, 3G phones can still fall back on EDGE when 3G is unavailable, so if you aren’t a lucky winner of the AT&T 3G Lottery, you aren’t dead in the water.
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